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Hej, For everyone that is not familiar with the problem that is Gimbal Lock . You're going to run into this problem when for example wanting to make a 3D space exploration game like Elite or any other situation where you want to rotate over 3 axis. There are two good solutions for this. One is to su...

Hej JPH, This game is even harder then your previous man 8) Ville's remark concerning texture sizes is a valid one, textures in general look better when scaled up ( unless more then 1.5x as you loose detail ) then scaled down. Runs at my display's refresh rate without problems though. And thanks for...

Hey Boris,

Good suggestion. Maybe a toggle play / stop shortcut combination would be even more convenient ( Alt+Enter ) ?

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Hi Boris,

You're correct, Velocity values aren't reset to 0 automatically. You need to do this yourself when using Referenced Models.

K

Yo jph,

Well, since I've had some experience with HLSL / CG in the past years, GLSL all looks rather familiar to me. When it comes to designers, I've only tried the one at TyphoonLabs, which seemed quite decent .. but I ended up typing most of it in ZGE anyway.

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Hi guys, Since ZGE makes use of SDL*, in theory it should not be too difficult to port it to PS3 / Wii etc. 360 however is another story due to DirectX. But when looking at the engines jph mentions, they are quite limited in the platforms they support at well. Blade only does PC / 360, Unity does PC...

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Hej jph, Ironically this is how it works already in the Fragment / Vertex properties of the Shader Component. Even better, you can just overload any function with the amount of variables you want to pass*. But I suspect Ville just plucked a GLSL Parser somewhere off the web, and that the ZScripting ...

Hi jph, A "Call ZExpression" Component is probably not that difficult to pull off ( but I could be wrong ), except from passing arguments, since that usually requires some kind of list / array structure. But even without that ( using global variables instead ) it could still be very useful...

:idea: SpawnModel* - Rotation ( vector ) - Scale ( vector ) Call Script - ZExpression to be called ( String ) - Target variable to which the returned value is written ( String ) - Arguments to pass to the ZExpression ( ? ) Component Tree - Highlighting of active Components ( AppState / Condition:Sta...

Hi jph, I noticed this as well in my "walking legs example" posted in the Tips'n'Tricks section. Each clone uses a rnd() seed to offset their animation, however .. this number seems to remain the exact same for each of the clones every time the build is ran. Within the editor it does seem ...

Hey,

Use the ZExpression Component for expressions. If you'd taken a close look at all the wonderful examples that are included with ZGE you should have know that

Here's a tutorial on shadow mapping using GLSL ( Link )

Good luck,
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:? Most of your requests are already featured / possible. - Gravity: Unless you mean a full featured Physics system like Havok, you can just use "g=c*m/pow(d,2);" - Glow / Global Illumination / Shadows: Fragment & Vertex Shaders are already supported. - Lights: When using Shaders you c...

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.



Have fun~
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