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Characters that can both be Animated & Cloned are a piece of cake to create when (re)building their skeleton / hierarchy using the RenderTransformGroup component. Here's a basic example.



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Hi Yilmaz,

Use the RefreshContent component. However, keep in mind that updating ( large ) Bitmaps every frame can get quite heavy on your CPU. Always try to look for a solution using Material:TextureX/Y first.

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Hi kattle87, As rendering Sprites in Screen space is currently not possible, there are 2 good alternatives. One is to set and orient GUI elements to the camera yourself so that they appear to stay in the same place ( FOV ), the other is to use the Font and RenderText Components using a bitmap that h...

Hi kattle87, Key:OnPressed/OnReleased would be handy indeed yes. However, you can do-it-yourself very easily too. Define 2 variables per Key, one holding the current value, one holding the value as it was the last frame ( before setting the current value, set the last-frame value from the current )....

Hi Yilmaz, No offence .. but I believe this is what groups are for. As soon as you need to start searching for models / scripts / etc. it basically means that you're not structuring your project sufficiently. And I share your concern towards page deforming images :) Perhaps there is a phpbb setting ...

Hej nikkk,

I'm no programmer either However, any collision problem can be solved using basic Trigonometry ( high school math ). It's just a matter of getting the variables passed around in ZGE ( which is the tedious part ).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigonometry

Good luck,
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Hi nikkk, As mentioned before, there is no CollisionStyle:Mesh or anything similar at the moment, so you need to come up with a alternative. The easiest is to recreate your environment with Models that make use of Box3D / Rect2D_OBB CollisionStyles. It does get quite tedious when you have complex en...

Hi nikkk, The UV map in your new 3ds file seems to be identical to the old one. http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/8042/uvba3.jpg As you can see the majority of faces are overlapping each other, which can't be right. Could you please post a screenshot of the UV Map in 3DMax ( Edit UVW )? *By the way...

Hi, I've imported your 3ds file into ZGE and there seems to be a UV problem. http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/7740/uvim2.jpg Make sure to collapse your stack before exporting so that any Rendermap Generator data is baked into your mesh. *I'm no 3DMax user so I cannot inspect your .max file. Good l...

Font:Proportional ( boolean )
- Support for Fonts using proportional letter spacing.

Font:Ratio ( float )
- Width VS Height Rendering Ratio.

RenderText:CharASCII
- Useful for applying individual expressions to specific characters.

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Hi guys, jph: It's probably more useful to add a Expression field to the Animator Component instead, so users could define the exact curve calculation one wishes to use themselves. nikkk: CollisionStyle:Mesh should be top priority on the to-be-implemented list indeed :wink: Doom however is already v...

Hej guys, Well, it's not so much of a problem with single instances ( since you can calculate the values yourself using the parents as reference ), but for multi-model characters / animated groups of objects that you want to clone, there is no easy workaround ( that I can think of ). I hope the brea...

SpawnModel:Inherit
- Spawned children inherit parents' translations ( position, rotation, scale ) each frame. See example image

SpawnModel:UseSpawnerPosition
- On True use SpawnModel:Position as offset value to the parents' position.

ZExpression
- Parent.Property support

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Hi Yilmaz, That's a good question actually, and as far as I know currently not documented. The general order is OnLoaded / OnStart / OnSpawn ( once ) > OnUpdate > OnCollision > OnRender. But there are some other aspects that are useful paying attention to. - Velocity offsets of models occur when OnU...