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Geek Culture / December Newsletter # 83 is out!

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Mike Johnson
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Newsletter 83 has been released today. Lots to see in this issue including news of a mini site makeover, two new iPhone games, two new model packs and much more.

You can read the newsletter here http://www.thegamecreators.com/data/newsletter/newsletter_issue_83.html

Something that didn't make the newsletter - we're offering an upgrade to Leadwerks Game Engine 2.3 for existing users. This upgrade is priced at $50 and brings the following new features:

* brand new scene editor
* roads
* lua scripting
* and much more

The dynamic lighting system in Leadwerks Game Engine removes the need for any pre-processing or compiling; scenes can be edited in real-time, and the results are instantly visualized. For more details check out http://leadwerks.thegamecreators.com/upgrade.php
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Fuzz
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Good read this month.

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pcRaider
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Lee's Tip of the Month - A powerful New DBP Parameter
Quote: "
SET OBJECT FRAME ObjNo,LimbNo,Frame,BoundsFlag.
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BoundsFlag ???
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Van B
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Yeah, recalculates limb boundaries - probably fixes issues with objects that have limbs all over the place after loading - like a transformer. If you had a transformer model, that started as a car then grew to a robot - then loading the car would set the bounding around the object around the car. Then when you transform into a robot, the engine thinks the robot is still just the size of a car. So this might mess with limb position feedback, collision, but most importantly visibility - if your robot disappears when you look up at it, then this command would fix that.


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pcRaider
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Posted: 1st Dec 2009 13:56 Edited at: 1st Dec 2009 14:00
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OK, Thank you VanB
And was this changed?

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* Added parameter to SET OBJECT FRAME obj,LIMB,frame,mode (used for per limb animation frame control)
* Modes above are 0=normal, 1=override limb animation, 2=disable animation altogether
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Van B
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Yeah, that's kinda a major boon to DBPro's functionality - especially for FPS games and FPSC (moving lips, syncing to voice .wav files, rolling eyes) - and dynamic aiming too. Before this update, the only option would be to use the advanced animation plugin - which I hear is great, but it's nice to have a native option as well.

I think things have been mixed up a little though, Lee probably revised the flags for SET OBJECT FRAME to calculate bounds, after testing and finding an issue. I think we can get the same functionality without the old parameters (0=normal, 1=override etc).

I've still to check these new commands out, but it seems all good - maybe a little bit of a shame that it takes FPSC to drag DBPro into new ground like this every time. It would be nice to see DBPro get a little more attention - maybe a competition for example, a decent one. TGC competitions seem to center around FPSC these days. The bottom line is that good DBPro competitions is where all the best DBPro games came from, we need another big compo to energize the coding folk around here.


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KeithC
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Don't forget to vote for your favorite BOTB entry, in the Very Best of the Best Poll:

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=161482&b=35

-Keith

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pcRaider
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Thank you VanB
Change, OK.
Yes, this is a good command.
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Morcilla
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Thank you very much for the MPL3D article, and many thanks all along for your support.
Cheers
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Cash Curtis II
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DBP needs some kind of BOTB award. I'm jealous of FPSC guys that are sporting that with their avatar.

Great newsletter. The metro theater looks amazing. I use 3DWS for my levels but I'm really interested in using the FPSC editor because of content like this.

Thanks for the mention!!


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Quote: "DBP needs some kind of BOTB award. I'm jealous of FPSC guys that are sporting that with their avatar."


I actually proposed that awhile back, when starting the BOTB. It got a luke-warm response though. Maybe things have changed?

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Cash Curtis II
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That's cool that you did. Who gave a like-warm response? Was it DBP users or FPSC?


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KeithC
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Honestly, I can't remember as it's been a few years now. I'd like to see something like that for the DBP Community though, personally.

-Keith

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Sid Sinister
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Great newsletter. I was definitely impressed with the 3D Competition! Wow! Great work everyone =]

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Quote: "DPBro U75"


Glad to hear it has a brother.
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Jingle Fett
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I think it's nice that FPSC will be getting lots of cool new features, lipsync and all that is really sweet. Good newsletter but I think a few people have a question on their mind (I know I do anyways).

My question is why is it that all these features are added or planned to be added but X10 users don't get anything? X10 users don't even have the store that was promised back in FEBRUARY; every newsletter since #73 has been saying the same thing, the same old story about the store.

It seems that since then, x9 has gotten a million new features/updates with plans for more and yet even just integrating the store takes about 10 months? That's just the store too, not even the hundreds of nagging little issues it has had since the start (And no, I am not talking about the "this doesn't work" bugs that 90% of the time are the user's fault, I'm talking about the real issues that serious users know only too well, like the lightmapping, waypoints, soft particles, etc.)

Quote: "We think community lead development is a great way to create products and updates, and if the X10 guys want an update then that is what they are going to get!"

What happened to that? (from Newsletter # 72 by the way)


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Phjon
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Thanks to BatVink (the newsletter editor) for mentioning PerfAnDBPro!
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Thanks for being featured, Appreciate it.

demo released.
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Thanks for mentioning the new syntax highlighting feature; hopefully more people use it now!


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