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Hi Ats, Mostly, having to deploy the component tree in order to select the right thing to display a lot of lines of code into the little ZGE code editor. Gotcha .. would be convenient if there was the option to use a external file with ZExpression / ZLibrary / BitmapFromFile / MeshImport etc. just l...

Hi Ats, My game is slowly becoming huge for only one file, even if I comment everything in order to find what and where things are... Can you elaborate on what difficulties you're experiencing because your project is so huge? Something like: ZGameEditor.exe -b pathTo/myProject.zgeproject pathTo/myPr...

Hi jinxtengu, I seem to recall that this used to be a feature, but maybe I am mis-remembering. You're correct, simply enable the "Bounds" checkbox when previewing a model. https://i.imgur.com/F7FU1na.png And if you leave the checkbox enabled, it will show collision bounds while previewing ...

Hi jinxtengu, I was wondering if anyone knows an easy way to do this? Sure, you can simply use glEnable(GL_FOG) / glDisable(GL_FOG) :) Below is a simple example of a scene that contains a bunch of boxes ( that have fog enabled ) and a sky-box ( that has fog disabled ). The sky-box doesn't follow the...

Hi Ats, As I was merging all my FX into only one Model, I realized that some FX have a different RenderOrder or Category number, in order to display them correctly. Can I simply change those settings in the ModelStates, or will it change all the FX models in game, regardless of their ModelState? Nev...

Hi Ats, So I made a little working example, but I'm not happy with setting the Thing parameters in the general activateThing function. I would prefer them to be set in the model, so I don't have to search everywhere for that bit of code. But I can't seem to find how to simply do that :? If you only ...

Hi Ats, So, do you guys think it is worth doing that, or is it just a waste of time? If you're experiencing hiccups during gameplay due to models being spawned, recycling models can certainly be a relatively easy remedy. However, if your game already runs completely smooth at the desired framerate o...

Hi Ats, I don't find any other way to retrieve the collided object, as every other ZgeBullet functions returns an int or a void. For those kind of situations i think zbtGetNumOverlappingObjects and zbtGetOverlappingObject ( which returns a btCollisionObject ) are intended. But that's the beauty of o...

Hi Ats, I was expecting ZgeBullet to be capable of retrieving what objects are simply colliding, since it can do that with a zbtRayTest followed by zbtGetUserModel. Bullet can tell you which objects / bodies have collided, but that's not very helpful in most circumstances. ZGE doesn't know what Bull...

Hi Ats, Since it's an external library, I didn't expect the zbtIsCollidedWith function to only work with reference model. No no, it works with clones as well. The mistake you made doesn't have anything to do with external libraries, it's a regular ZGE mistake. What i tried to explain is that in your...

Hi Ats, So with models spawned as reference, the test is running correctly. It's good to know, as it isn't explained in the doc. Not sure if you're referring to the ZgeBullet docs or the ZGameEditor docs, but this should be common knowledge in ZGE. Take a look at the example below. It spawns a blue ...

Hi Ats, Had a quick look at the Sphere VS Cylinder example you posted ( should have done that sooner ). You're using the Body xptr of ObjectModel in the ZExpression of SphereModel. You can only do that when ObjectModel is spawned as a reference. But since you're spawning it as a clone, that basicall...

Hi Ats, Do I do something wrong, or do you think there is a problem in ZgeBullet source code ? At the very least, the code that is commented out in zbtIsCollidedWith shouldn't be commented out. As previously established, using validContactDistance might appear superfluous when testing with only axis...

Hi jinxtengu, So I need a shader code that can be applied to a single surface, that either blurs the texture, or fades it to a set color, when it is far away from the player. You don't necessarily need a shader to do that. In some cases you might be able to get away with simply manipulating the text...

Hi Ats, I could augment MAX_AXES or simply remove the test, but I wonder why there is this test in the first place. Since we pass the JoyId and Axis manually to the function, why limiting this number? Because ZGE allocates a block of memory to hold the values for MAX_AXES amount of axes. If you'd re...