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Hi guys, My primary reason for working with & on ZGE is the real-time preview. This saves heaps of time compared to libraries that need to be compiled every time you want view any changes. As Ville mentioned, the only sane way of pulling this off is through interpretation. + Slightly off-topic, ...

Hej Ville, This is not meant for the public build ( hence a PM ). It could have, if the mesh renderer would have been a little less hard coded to work solely with GL_TRIANGLES. So for my needs ( one specific project ) it was most convenient to just convert the whole renderer / mesh generation proced...

Hej Ville,

Yea that was me, I was having some memory related issues with my Quad-based conversion of ZGE ( opposed to Triangle-based ), but actually managed to solve it myself already

Good to know that there's space in your mailbox again though

Regards,
Kjell

Hi,

Added a Filter property ( List ) to the Bitmap Component which enables you to choose between Linear ( default ) and Nearest.

K

Hello, I've changed my Material component's TextureScale property to a TZVector3f ( TZVector2f would be nice still 8) ) in order to scale Textures over each axis individually. This does break backward compatibility somewhat as values entered directly in the Material component of current projects wil...

Hey Boris, Nice start! Some suggestions. - Use a floor state in which the player follows moving platforms he's standing on until a certain velocity threshold. This makes the player able to stand on platforms while they're going down as well. - Let the camera target be somewhat dependant on the playe...

Hi Boris, The simplest solution would be to stick to a single File loading procedure until you've implemented all of the features that you want. This approach is actually not all that uncommon among developers. During this development stage a sandbox / white-room level is used to explore / tweak all...

Hi Chupacapra,

Hmm, I wonder if it's a hardware problem. Can you try out the attached example ( exe + source )? What you should be seeing is a rotating ( double-sided ) cube fading in and out in front of a colorful background.

Regards,
K

Hi Chupacapra,

Sorry, I forgot to mention that you need to set the Blend property to for example "Alpha/One" for it to work When Blend is set to None, the Alpha value is not taken in consideration.

Good luck ~
K

Hello Chupacapra, Right click on the color property of a Material to open up the Alpha dialogue. Alternatively you can use a ZExpression component to set the Alpha value with the following script. MyMaterial.Color.A = 128/256; In this example the name of the Material is "MyMaterial", and I...

Hi slobu, It all depends on how many variables you want / need to store. One of the things I could suggest is to make the "reverse" methods of individual variables dependant on others. For example, you could multiply the lives variable with 2, and subtract the stage variable with that valu...

Hello Francesco, Congratulazioni! Looking forward seeing you pop by the IRC channel ( #ZGameEditor on irc.esper.net ) even more frequently :wink: And perhaps Ville could add a Off-Topic category to the Forum so that the General Discussion section doesn't get polluted with non-ZGE related posts? K Ed...

:( RSI is a injury not to be taken lightly, take some well deserved time off and hopefully you'll have a swift recovery. *When I was working in Sweden some organization came by to measure our desks & chairs and inform us on RSI. Turned out that practically everybody was working in a wrong postur...

Hey jph,

Have a go at the Brush halfway down the toolbar on the lefthand side ( use space to empty a cell in the Brush Options )

K

Hej jph,

Try Java Ascii Versatile Editor.

K