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Thanks for the screensaver, it is now installed on my computer and looks great!

Yes, when shaders aren't available the fallback is the material without the shader. So you can test this by temporarily clearing the Shader-property of the material you use and run the program.

Fixed problem with changing XCount and YCount on RenderNet, zip-file is updated with new version.

Another good use of arrays, Kjell! I really wasn't sure if the arrays would be useful but you've shown several cool ideas already.

I love the style and and animation of "Filaments". Do you use a shader to get that grainy look?

This version is released as 1.9.4 --------------- Hi, Here is beta version 1.9.4b ( updated Nov 7 ) http://www.zgameeditor.org/files/ZGameEditor_beta.zip NOTE : Linux and Mac runtime builds not included. You cannot use the binaries from the previous version, it won't work. NOTE : If you use this ver...

I just checked the code. Here is the current order, from ZApplication.pas (stripped away irrelevant lines): Models.Update; Collisions.Update; UpdateScreen; Models.Update both call OnUpdate on each model and updates properties based on velocities. UpdateScreen calls OnRender for every model. Collisio...

As far as I can remember there is no real reason for this and it's just a coincidence it was implemented in that order. But I could be wrong.

The problem with the current File-solution is that it is Component-based which is not very intuitive to use if you are used to writing code for accessing files. However if I add support for writing it is good enough for saving small stuff like highest score, optionsettings, and even whole arrays of ...

Hey Kjell, I've said it before: you really push zge to it's limits all the time :) I just wonder what kind of advanced stuff you are working on. The reason it works the way it does right now is of course because it was the easiest way to implement. And as it only requires a single loop through the m...

That's a clever technique of using arrays Kjell. What about the CheckCollision-component you mentioned, can you tell me more on how you would like it to work?

Here is the OpenGL documentation for texgen:

http://www.opengl.org/sdk/docs/man/xhtml/glTexGen.xml

The one used in ZGE now is: GL_OBJECT_LINEAR

Here are some comments I have on Kattle's suggestion: The NewBitmapProducer-component is probably unnecessary. Instead we could introduce a "IgnorePrevious" property on producers that optionally works on the bitmap on the stack if it's present. Such as BitmapExpression and BitmapRect. If I...

Kattle PM'd me an idea of how to build a "stacking" gui (used in tools such as werkkzeug and tg) for building bitmaps. I post it here so that we can all discuss it. Kattle wrote: Ok: this is the pseudocode for the operator stacking. I have no idea of how one should create the GUI with a gr...

This looks promising Kjell. How does it work? How do you send data between the surface and the clones? I definitely consider inter-clone communication to be the highest priority feature for ZGE, and the largest hurdle for making more advanced games. So I always have that in mind while working on ZGE...

You are right, RenderNet and MeshExpression have become more and more similar. Especially since the Grid2DOnly property on MeshBox was introduced for making "net" meshes. However RenderNet is meant to be used in realtime, while MeshExpression is meant to be part of a potentially complex li...

The built-in functions are so small so I don't think it would save much. But definitely for future functions we should try to make them as user functions in ZLibraries. And some easy way of including them in new projects so that they will be as simple to use as built-ins.