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Hej Ville, What kind of compression ratio do you get for the included images? It varies from situation to situation, but in this case the original PNG images were 59228 bytes total, while the QOI images are only 36970 bytes. Due to the limited color palette & large number of masked pixels most o...

8) Attached is a QOI decoder including a simple demo that loads a external QOI image containing a single frame of the selected fighter into a texture. Obviously this makes more sense when the images you're loading are a lot bigger than in this example, but the approach would remain the exact same. h...

Hi jinxtengu, I wanted to create a model that has 8 directions of animation depending on it's movements, so the most obvious comparison to what I want to implement would be the ghosts from a game like the arcade version of gauntlet. I understand the reference, but do keep in mind that Gauntlet doesn...

Hi rrTea, Is this possible to do in ZGE without using OpenGL calls? Sure. The only thing that is a little cumbersome is the fact that you can't access image data directly, so you need to copy the alpha channel of your image / spritesheet to a array ( using a BitmapExpression ) .. and if you want to ...

Hi Ats, I'm using Chanel 2 and 3, but when I save the project, leave ZGE, and come back to it later, extra channels 2 and 3 are deactivated. Strange .. i just tried this to double-check and it works just fine for me. I can't set all manually at the start of the game either Also weird .. i initially ...

Hi Ats, Maybe it can be optimized, as I didn't know any another way to store the magical sentence as bytes at the end of the file. You could do something like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?> <ZApplication Name="App" Caption="ZGameEditor applicati...

Hi Ats, I tried to send the Y position of the model to the shader, using gl_Position.y -= modelPosition[0][1] , but it's not working. That doesn't work because you're transforming screen-space coordinates. You need to transform the vertices before applying the view & projection matrices. Is it p...

Hi Zakk, I am trying a very simple exercise of placing a numerical figure in a txt file, say 10. Then I just need to get this file read and the number be displayed on screen. Since there's no way to write a string to a file i'd recommend using a byte array instead ( and do the string conversion your...

Hi Andreas, Sorry that I experiment with it .. probably with to few understanding .. but why in this project gets the Light Color overwritten by the Scene-Material Color? It doesn't. When you for example change SceneMaterial.Color from white into yellow the scene ( box & floor ) appears yellow b...

Hi Andreas, So lights by itself are invisible objects and the in the example attached nodes can be used to visualize them. Yea, i just added the "nodes" so it's easier to understand what's going on. Can a spot-light effect like in a theatre with a sharp radial illumnination on an object be...

Hi Andreas, Can someone demonstrate the usage? Here's a simple demonstration of a white cube being lit by 3 differently colored point lights ( red, green and blue ). <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?> <ZApplication Name="App" Caption="ZGameEditor applicat...

Hi Ats, I was wondering if it is worth keeping track of the current material in order to avoid @UseMaterial if it hasn't changed. No need for that. When you call UseMaterial it automatically checks whether the material is already active or not .. you can see the code for this here . What helps in te...

Hi Ats, I didn't understand that creating the temporary model would spawn it right away, all while creating its physics and collisions before setting its position, resulting in weird bugs from time to time. It's important to be aware of the order in which things get executed yes. Here's a simple exa...

Hi Ats, One last thing, you are using an Array for DummyColor instead of a Vector3. Is it better, or faster? I don't think it makes a big difference, here's the same thing using a vec3 instead of a array: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?> <ZApplication Name="App&q...

Hi Ats, Is this possible to do? Yup, i recommend doing it like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?> <ZApplication Name="App" Caption="ZGameEditor application" ClearColor="0.7529 0.7529 0.7529 1" FileVersion="2"> <OnLoaded> <ZE...