BTW if anyone knows if I could redistribute libs and includes of PhysX without violating its terms of use (I try not to by any means and as I'm not a lawyer I'm not sure if I understood all points correctly).

Nonetheless there will be update soon.

Did you try cleaning up (removing all temporary files etc.) and then rebuilding whole project? Maybe VS went crazy with something and remembers something it shouldn't?

BTW I removed the majority of warnings yesterday. Will commit today/tomorrow.

Creating library…
LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'nGENE.lib'
Build log was saved at "file://c:\Develop\nGene\nGENE Framework\Release\BuildLog.htm"
nGENE Framework_VS_9 - 1 error(s), 5 warning(s)

For some reason I can't get the nGene.lib to link. Any help would be appreciated.

// EDIT: But you're right these warnings shouldn't be present. I'll get rid of them ASAP.

c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\Joint.h(123) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::Joint' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\Joint.h(77) : see declaration of 'nGENE::Joint'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointSphere.h(65) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointSphere' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointSphere.h(50) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointSphere'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointCylinder.h(44) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointCylinder' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointCylinder.h(29) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointCylinder'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointDistance.h(75) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointDistance' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointDistance.h(60) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointDistance'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointFixed.h(45) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointFixed' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointFixed.h(30) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointFixed'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointHinge.h(68) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointHinge' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointHinge.h(27) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointHinge'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPointInPlane.h(47) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointPointInPlane' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPointInPlane.h(32) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointPointInPlane'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPointOnLine.h(47) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointPointOnLine' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPointOnLine.h(32) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointPointOnLine'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPrism.h(45) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointPrism' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPrism.h(30) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointPrism'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPulley.h(87) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointPulley' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPulley.h(60) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointPulley'
JointPulley.cpp
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\Joint.h(123) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::Joint' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\Joint.h(77) : see declaration of 'nGENE::Joint'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPulley.h(87) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointPulley' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPulley.h(60) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointPulley'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointCylinder.h(44) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointCylinder' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointCylinder.h(29) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointCylinder'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointDistance.h(75) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointDistance' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointDistance.h(60) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointDistance'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointFixed.h(45) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointFixed' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointFixed.h(30) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointFixed'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointHinge.h(68) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointHinge' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointHinge.h(27) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointHinge'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPointInPlane.h(47) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointPointInPlane' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPointInPlane.h(32) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointPointInPlane'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPointOnLine.h(47) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointPointOnLine' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPointOnLine.h(32) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointPointOnLine'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPrism.h(45) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointPrism' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPrism.h(30) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointPrism'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointSphere.h(65) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointSphere' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointSphere.h(50) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointSphere'
.\JointPulley.cpp(96) : warning C4800: 'NX_BOOL' : forcing value to bool 'true' or 'false' (performance warning)
JointPrism.cpp
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\Joint.h(123) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::Joint' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\Joint.h(77) : see declaration of 'nGENE::Joint'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPrism.h(45) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointPrism' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPrism.h(30) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointPrism'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointCylinder.h(44) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointCylinder' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointCylinder.h(29) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointCylinder'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointDistance.h(75) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointDistance' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointDistance.h(60) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointDistance'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointFixed.h(45) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointFixed' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointFixed.h(30) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointFixed'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointHinge.h(68) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointHinge' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointHinge.h(27) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointHinge'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPointInPlane.h(47) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointPointInPlane' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPointInPlane.h(32) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointPointInPlane'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPointOnLine.h(47) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointPointOnLine' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPointOnLine.h(32) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointPointOnLine'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPulley.h(87) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointPulley' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPulley.h(60) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointPulley'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointSphere.h(65) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointSphere' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointSphere.h(50) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointSphere'
JointPointOnLine.cpp
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\Joint.h(123) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::Joint' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\Joint.h(77) : see declaration of 'nGENE::Joint'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPointOnLine.h(47) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointPointOnLine' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPointOnLine.h(32) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointPointOnLine'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointCylinder.h(44) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointCylinder' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointCylinder.h(29) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointCylinder'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointDistance.h(75) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointDistance' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointDistance.h(60) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointDistance'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointFixed.h(45) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointFixed' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointFixed.h(30) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointFixed'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointHinge.h(68) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointHinge' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointHinge.h(27) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointHinge'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPointInPlane.h(47) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointPointInPlane' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPointInPlane.h(32) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointPointInPlane'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPrism.h(45) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointPrism' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPrism.h(30) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointPrism'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPulley.h(87) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointPulley' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPulley.h(60) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointPulley'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointSphere.h(65) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointSphere' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointSphere.h(50) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointSphere'
JointPointInPlane.cpp
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\Joint.h(123) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::Joint' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\Joint.h(77) : see declaration of 'nGENE::Joint'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPointInPlane.h(47) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointPointInPlane' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPointInPlane.h(32) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointPointInPlane'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointCylinder.h(44) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointCylinder' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointCylinder.h(29) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointCylinder'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointDistance.h(75) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointDistance' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointDistance.h(60) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointDistance'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointFixed.h(45) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointFixed' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointFixed.h(30) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointFixed'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointHinge.h(68) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointHinge' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointHinge.h(27) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointHinge'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPointOnLine.h(47) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointPointOnLine' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPointOnLine.h(32) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointPointOnLine'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPrism.h(45) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointPrism' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPrism.h(30) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointPrism'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPulley.h(87) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointPulley' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPulley.h(60) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointPulley'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointSphere.h(65) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointSphere' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointSphere.h(50) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointSphere'
JointHinge.cpp
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\Joint.h(123) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::Joint' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\Joint.h(77) : see declaration of 'nGENE::Joint'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointHinge.h(68) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointHinge' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointHinge.h(27) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointHinge'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointCylinder.h(44) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointCylinder' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointCylinder.h(29) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointCylinder'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointDistance.h(75) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointDistance' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointDistance.h(60) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointDistance'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointFixed.h(45) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointFixed' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointFixed.h(30) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointFixed'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPointInPlane.h(47) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointPointInPlane' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPointInPlane.h(32) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointPointInPlane'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPointOnLine.h(47) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointPointOnLine' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPointOnLine.h(32) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointPointOnLine'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPrism.h(45) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointPrism' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPrism.h(30) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointPrism'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPulley.h(87) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointPulley' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointPulley.h(60) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointPulley'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointSphere.h(65) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointSphere' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointSphere.h(50) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointSphere'
.\JointHinge.cpp(88) : warning C4800: 'NX_BOOL' : forcing value to bool 'true' or 'false' (performance warning)
JointFixed.cpp
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\Joint.h(123) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::Joint' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\Joint.h(77) : see declaration of 'nGENE::Joint'
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointFixed.h(45) : warning C4512: 'nGENE::JointFixed' : assignment operator could not be generated
c:\develop\ngene\ngene proj\JointFixed.h(30) : see declaration of 'nGENE::JointFixed'

etc, etc

you should compile ngene proj and ngene framework projects. The latter will produce nGENE.lib. Are you getting any errors?

I could send you my projectfiles If you want to add a special x64 configuration to the repository

Thanks, I'd be grateful for that.

My mail is: moc.liamg|wnamot#moc.liamg|wnamot

So I guess it must be a problem with the delayed loading of the dll. Why are you loading those dll's delayed?
I also don't really understand why it would act different on a x64 system…

I'll try to find a way to fix this…

*edit*

Ok I recently found an older post with a similar problem: http://ngene.wikidot.com/forum/t-142637
I followed the mentioned steps and it seems to work (replace lua51.lib with lua.x86.debug.lib (or lua.x86.release.lib) and delete delayed loading lua51.dll)

I could send you my projectfiles If you want to add a special x64 configuration to the repository

1) Did u invent algoritm by urself or used some known one?

No, all credits go to Jason Mitchell who invented this particular one. I only implemented it and think my implementation is ok :)

2) Could u write tutorial about implementing light shafts

Well I could but I don't know if you read this: short tutorial on my blog. Not all of the details are covered there but it presents the general idea. Of course I can go deeper into implementation specific stuff if there is such demand :)

3) Where can i find source code of light shafts? I have checked current relase but i couldn't find anything called similar to light shafts.

There are several files related to this in current release:

• vertex shader
• pixel shader
• C++ header
• C++ source

BTW: Could u put all release in one file?

Yes, I soon will do it.

I'm crazy about light shafts! Many times i had played Doom 3 i was thinking it would be great if flashlight worked more realistic. Crappy flashlight makes doom 3 unenjoyable. I think u would make it much better! I have couple questions about light shafts

1) Did u invent algoritm by urself or used some known one?

2) Could u write tutorial about implementing light shafts

3) Where can i find source code of light shafts? I have checked current relase but i couldn't find anything called similar to light shafts.

BTW: Could u put all release in one file?

With best regard Shlack Traphiw

Might it be a problem that the lua51.dll is loaded after a delay?

I have another idea. Probably the lua51.dll version I provided works only for x86… especially as there is version dedicated for x64…

I'm not sure if it would make any difference (at least it makes sense) but here are lua binaries downloads:

http://luabinaries.luaforge.net/download.html

You should download x64 version and replace dlls in bin/debug and bin/release folders with the ones from the download. I'd be grateful if you could test it (I do not own x64 system nor CPU) and let me know. If it helps, I'll add them to the SVN repository

But I think I know where it crashes. So first, here is what I did to be able to debug the Samples:

I removed all DX10 related files by setting some #ifdef around the DX10 using files.
Then I removed the lib and dll files from the project settings. After building the lib, framework and samples in debug mode I finally was able to debug the sample without the disturbing d3d19.dll missing message.

By stepping through the code I figured out there seems to be a problem with the lua system.
It crashes here:

  void ScriptSystemLua::init() { m_pLuaVM = lua_open(); // this call failes 

The Message is

Unhandled exception at 0x7d4e237e in FurryBunny_VS_9.exe: 0xC06D007E: Module not found.

Might it be a problem that the lua51.dll is loaded after a delay?

Yes I built the samples and the tutorials by myself as well, I got the same problems (either dll missing in debug or crash on release)

I hope you choose default (DirectX 9) renderer?

Where would I have to choose this? You mean at the settings dialog when I start the examples? Yes I choose DirectX9.

Why? Do you get any specific errors?

Well yes, I can't debug because of the dll error on startup ;)

I'll check your suggestions out (I hope I find some time tonight) and let you know if it worked!

Thx again!

• Introduction of material techniques
• Lightning bolt effect
• Surfaces can now custom shadow material instead of default. Just add technique with the name "shadow" to the base surface material (see palm_bark or palm_leaf in default.lib for example)

• [fix] Vegetation shadows
• [fix] Fixed bug with display modes
• [fix] Bounding boxes of some objects were invalid

• [example] Lightning bolt

The most important thing is the first point i.e. material techniques. Now material doesn't directly contain RenderPass objects but instead RenderTechnique's (similar to DX FXs or OGRE for instance). For now technique is just a simple object but I plan to use it for some materials LOD later on and yet it helped me to solve some problem with shadows casted by objects animated using vertex shaders (see palm_bark material for the example of custom shadowing routine).

By default the first technique is set as active (i.e. one used in rendering) but you can change it using Material::setActiveRenderTechnqiue(RenderTechnique* _technique) or providing index.

There are besides some fixes of course and addition of new example (lightning bolts) and new effect lightnings. You can see it in action below:

and below:

There are still some tweaks to do but in general it is working ok. You can read about the algorithm on my blog.

First check the newest version from the SVN (today commit). Maybe it'll help.

Have you rebuilt the samples as well? Also ensure there is something like "d3dx10_41.dll;d3d10.dll;" in Linker -> Input -> Delay Loaded DLLs field for nGENE Proj project (don't think it should be in any other project too). If you're using DX SDK newer than that of March 2009 you should probably replace d3dx10_41.dll with its newer version (_42 I guess?). I build the code on Vista with DX10 support so the binaries might require this step.

I also can't start the release samples because I get the following error on startup:

It seems, it crashes on initializing renderer (it should be the next message). For some reason it probably tries to use DX10 renderer and load its dlls which of course can't be found I guess. I hope you choose default (DirectX 9) renderer?

Since I can'T debug I am not able to solve this problem…

Why? Do you get any specific errors?

Let me know if it helps. If not we'll try to find a solution.

I just wanted to get started with your promising looking engine. (edit: I'm using the current svn snapshot and build the librarys by myself without any problem)
Unfortunately I can't start the examples (on Windows XP 64 Professional) because it tells me the d3d10.dll is missing. Since WinXP doesn't support dx10 I am a little confused why it is required in the first place?

I also can't start the release samples because I get the following error on startup:

 Welcome to nGENE Tech Logging system started... It is now 21:27:30 30-09-2009 EVENT: Initializing utilities in nGENE::Engine::InitUtilities() function in .\Engine.cpp at line 88 GAME MESSAGE: CPU Vendor is: AuthenticAMD in nGENE::Engine::InitCPU() function in .\Engine.cpp at line 108 GAME MESSAGE: SIMD supported in nGENE::Engine::InitCPU() function in .\Engine.cpp at line 114 FATAL ERROR: Unhandled exception!!! Writing crash dump file. in nGENE::Application::createCrashDump() function in .\CrashDump.cpp at line 33 

Since I can'T debug I am not able to solve this problem…
Do you have any tips for me how I can get rid of this problem?

My System:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual 4400+
4gb of RAM
GeForce 8800GTS
WinXP 64 Professional
I'm using Visual Studio 2008 Professional

Besides that, other problems arise, if you use some kind of the approaches that I or wtoman talked, you won't be able to run your code on the Xbox 360…which kind of misses the point that XNA brought, correct? ( same thing for Zune obviously)
There are other several other reasons such as optimizations, coherence in the dll's, wrappers, etc etc, that would give a lot of work to keep in synch.

The only thing that I see possible to be created is a total conversion of nGene to C# with XNA, which to be honest, if you read nGene code, would be "doable" as wtoman code is pretty clean and readable.

Just my 2 cents :-)

• very basic sound support (using FMOD but it is sufficient to provide simple wrapper to use something else)
• it is now possible to listen to collision events
• night vision effect
• improved bump mapping effects
• fixed bug in thermal vision effect
• added some mixing comments

• [fix] it is no longer possible to add two child nodes with same name
• [fix] factories are no longer registered in enumerators in constructors… that was just foolish!
• [fix] engine is started after displaying config window… not before
• [fix] static shadows fix
• [fix] many minor bug fixes

• [example] user can now control SSAO effect in SSAO sample (for me radius ~0.2 and range ~50.0 looks best)
• [example] sound example presenting use of much more than 3D sounds… check it for some interesting nGENE features :)

I'll write more later after short break :)

 FileManager& mgr = FileManager::getSingleton(); FileArchive* pArchive = mgr.openArchive(L"Default", L"VFS.nfs", OPEN_READ | OPEN_BINARY); mgr.changeDir("VFS.nfs"); MaterialManager::getSingleton().createLibraryFromFile(L"vfs_demo.lib", L"default"); mgr.closeFile(pArchive->getFileName()); // Restore previous directory mgr.changeDir("."); 

To create archives I provided a command line tool named ArchiveBuilder.exe which has following usage:

Usage: archivebuilder.exe <directory name> <target archive name> [-c OPTIONAL compression]

Note that archivebuilder saves directory structure so you will have to them take into account when passing file names (as you would do without resource file).

Another change is that some of the important materials have been moved to the new library (core.lib). The VFS example shows that now loading default.lib library is no more necessary.

It seems to be a verry good engine, I think i will using it on a personnal project !

In same time, I just purpose to a french forum ( http://www.developpez.net ) to make a post-it to this engine, maybe it will help you to grow-up your community ;)

I don't have any free time for the moment, but i hope in a moment, when i've got some, i can help you : )

Congratz for this engine.

Have a nice day

i download the nGENE Toolset,but double click the "nGENE Toolset.exe",the screen display "h:\Inne\nGene\lib" a part not found….
then how can i do for it work?

thank you!

To make shadow static pass true as an argument. Such shadow will be updated only for the first time. To update it in the future call NodeLight::requestShadowUpdate(true).

There are also numerous other changes, e.g. grass rendering has been improved - both performance and quality. Therefore I updated tech demo a bit.

 JOINT_DESC desc; desc.actor1 = pActor; desc.actor2 = NULL; Joint* pJoint = pWorld->createJoint(L"Hinge", desc); Vector3 vecPos(0.0f, 15.0f, 15.0f); pJoint->setPosition(vecPos); pJoint->setDirection(Vector3::UNIT_Z); 

This snippet creates a "Hinge" joint provided pWorld is a pointer to a valid PhysicsWorld object and pActor is a pointer to a valid rigid body object. Other types of joints you can create are:

• "Cylinder"
• "Distance"
• "Fixed"
• "PointInPlane"
• "PointOnLine"
• "Prism"
• "Pulley"
• "Sphere"

They should work the same way their counterparts in PhysX do. After creating Joint you may want to downcast the pointer to get access to specific class methods. Also for some joint classes you have to use their specific descriptor structure instead of JOINT_DESC when creating them. These classes are:

• JointDistance ("Distance")
• JointPulley ("Pulley")
• JointSphere ("Sphere")

See source code for more details.

More details will be provided by the end of the week with a new tutorial focusing on joints.

HOW THE f**K i can download full nGENE its just list i cant find anything what i can download

Get yourself some SVN client (e.g. Tortoise SVN) and checkout the repository using the URL I provided in the previous post. Client would be able to download all files.

edit HOW THE f**K i can download full nGENE its just list i cant find anything what i can download
edit2: i need all copy / paste with C++ >?

you have to download and install DirectX SDK to use nGENE and its demos.

Full nGENE can be now only obtained from the SVN repository: http://svn2.assembla.com/svn/ngene/ but there will be some alternate download soon.

"This application has failed to start because d3dx9_39.dll was not found."
PS. where i can download full nGENE

I'm looking forward to work again on the engine. Unfortunately it's just not possible at the moment. Too much other projects. :( Maybe I can start again in october.

And here is how to use them:

 NodeVolumetric* pVolume = new NodeVolumetric(pLight); pVolume->setCreator(sm); pVolume->init(); pLight->addChild(L"Shaft", pVolume); 

Where pLight is some spot light. Light-shafts can be found in NodeVolumetric.h file and this file needs to be included to the project if you want to use them.

I almost forgot… now it is possible to change shadow density (how dark it is) for individual light. Just call NodeLight::setShadowDensity(float density) to change it. The value should range 0 to 1 and the higher it is the lighter the shadow is.

Hmm, my scene is very simple.. Most likely it is a stress test. And each cube can cast or receive shadow from many point lights. I`ll send it.

One more thing about shadows performance. Could you save the scene you're making (the one with 10 cubes) with Framework::serialize(const wstring& filename) method? The file will be in bin/media folder. Then you could send me it (to moc.liamg|wnamot#moc.liamg|wnamot) and I would be able to profile it to track bottle-necks.

[edit]
It`s work :)

Not to create a new theme, I`ll ask a question here. About Gbuffers.
Why 64 bit, a not 32 ?

• shadows work correctly for all supported types of shadows now
• blurring of PCF shadows resulted in colour bleeding artifacts - blurring was dropped
• to make up for the lack of blurring possibility of changing shadow quality (by means of resolution was added) - just call Light::setShadowResolution(uint _value) to change resolution for the specified light object or uint Light::getShadowResolution() to retrieve it
• BUFFER_TYPE enum was renamed to CLEAR_BUFFER_TYPE and its members now have names beginning with CB_ instead of BUFFER_
• I also added some missing comments and got rid of spelling mistakes in other

 matProj = frustum.getProjectionMatrix( ); if(_light->getLightType() == LT_DIRECTIONAL) { float doubleRange = 2.0f * m_fRange; matProj.orthogonal(doubleRange, doubleRange, _light->getShadowBias(), _light->getRadius().x); } m_pRenderer->setProjectionMatrix( matProj ); 

Right? :)

Sorry for my English :)