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Hej Ville,

By the way, not sure if I did ask you this before or not .. but why is OnCollision executed before OnUpdate in the first place?

*Incorrect statement

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Hej Ville, Well, basically a component that triggers the OnCollision check to occur again by request. It's probably most convenient if the Component itself has a OnCollision Event then just like Model / AppState and such have. Going off-topic now 8) However, this is more or less just a work-around o...

Hi Slobu, As Francesco mentioned, File reading is already available .. one of the major problems however is that the only variable format ZGE can currently handle is of the type Float. You cannot use Strings or Integers dynamically .. yet. Even if String were supported, you still need a substring fu...

Hej Ville, MeshExpression could also be used for real-time use when using RefreshContent on the Mesh obviously. Anyway, I was just surprised that code wise they don't tap into the same method / function. By the way, the other way around MeshExpression is missing TexCoords. And perhaps somewhat unrel...

Hej Ville, In short, a Parameters, Result and Index Array. Since Collisions are handled in the order that Clones are Spawned, you can just write off any Parameters you want to use in the OnCollision Event, increase the Index specific to that Collision Category combination and fetch the Parameters on...

:?: How come the RenderVertexExpression is a separate entity ( or is it .. ) from the MeshExpression functionality? Don't they do practically the same thing ( minus the new Vertex Color feature )? With the exception of MeshExpression being applied to it's Owner Mesh and RenderNet always using the ge...

Hi guys, So close .. but not quite yet :evil: In another attempt to create a collision system that communicates directly with Clones and their properties I managed to set up a pretty solid solution .. as long as you don't use the build in Position, Rotation and other property's you want to consider ...

Hi jph,

Pause should not be a AppState but a Global variable. Having a pause button can get quite a bit more complicated then you would expect. This is why most games usually only let you pause during game-play and not for example while a cut-scene is being played.

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Hi Francesco,

App.Time isn't being reset before starting a preview in the Editor causing the first value to be the duration of your last session ( this bug doesn't occur in executables though ).

K

Hey jph, Depending on what you want to do, your solution of having the Timer in a Spawned Model might be the best way to go. A alternative route would be a do-it-yourself Timer. I've attached a example that renders a sprite at 2 seconds and restarts the AppState at 4 seconds. The benefit of this app...

Hej Ville, You're right .. after restarting ZGE it worked again. I managed to reproduce the bug though. First enter a expression that makes use of a Array, for example "return Array[0,0,this.Iteration] != 0;" .. which doesn't work correctly when you haven't filled the Array properly, then ...

Hej Ville, Something appears to have broken the Expression property of the Repeat Component. It seems to always loop forever, no matter what expression you use. A bug-fix would be nice 8) Also, the Array-out-of-bounds checking seems to use the incorrect Dimensions. When for example using 3 dimension...

:shock: Mipmaps already? That was fast! What exactly happens now when a Bitmap uses Mipmap? It seems to be using Linear filtering when scaling up and Nearest when scaling down / using down-sampled textures? That might explain the difference with the checkered mipmap example on Flipcode. Perhaps it w...

Hi everybody,

Just curious. Please comment when choosing "Other" ( Hexagon / Milkshape 3D / Modo / Rhino / Silo / Wings3d / ??? ).

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Hej Ville, It used to be the industry standard, and it never was a bad format to begin with, so I can understand your decision .. but I guess using 3D software ( XSI ) that can't export .3ds files to begin with makes the process of getting content into ZGE a little more painful :wink: By the way, so...