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Topic: Maratis 3.1 beta test

Hi,
it's time to test a new version of Maratis, fresh from svn :

You can find builds for windows, mac and linux here :
http://code.google.com/p/maratis/downloads/list

Here are the new features !

Editor :

- File packing system and automatic publish button (File > Publish Project) : thanks to Nistur !
- Object list selection and custom shortcut : by Mario Pispek
- Focus selection ('F' key), parent field (transform tab) : by Sergey Pershin
- Faster loading when published
- General Bug correction and improvement

SDK :

- Behavior drawing in-game / in-editor and M_VARIABLE_TEXTURE_REF variable
- Physics rayHit and multiple collision test
- Camera scene layer system and render to texture system

Script :

- rayHit
- quit, to quit the game from script
- getScene
- getObject modified to access other scenes
- getClone to clone objects from script
- enableCameraLayer and disableCameraLayer
- enableRenderToTexture and disableRenderToTexture

Thanks to everybody for the forum moderation, the patchs, the documentation and more.

Please let us know if the builds are working and I will publish the news on Maratis front page !
[EDIT] For the bugs, lets use the issues system on google code : http://code.google.com/p/maratis/issues/list


smile

Anaël.

Re: Maratis 3.1 beta test

Suh-weet! big_smile

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Both Windows and Linux versions work great for me smile

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Re: Maratis 3.1 beta test

Great smile
for me everything works perfectly fine (Windows version)

Re: Maratis 3.1 beta test

Build 3.1 Bug #1 tongue Apparently I forgot to package the shader directory wink I'll fix this and submit it tomorrow

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Nistur wrote:

Build 3.1 Bug #1 tongue Apparently I forgot to package the shader directory wink I'll fix this and submit it tomorrow

Ignore this, I was just trying to load the file before the package was loaded. Silly me

Re: Maratis 3.1 beta test

Build 3.1 Bug #2 smile

When you load a project and publish, it will create the published folder and files just fine. But when you load in a different project afterwards, and publish again, it will keep putting the files in the first project dir, not the current.

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Re: Maratis 3.1 beta test

Yes.. it also seems to be broken on mac, the published app is not working, it's strange because it worked on linux... damn...

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Re: Maratis 3.1 beta test

it will keep putting the files in the first project dir, not the current.

I found, my fault...

For the mac problem it's a bit of a mess, the xcode app and the scons app don't have the same structure...

Ok, corrected in svn !
sleep now...

Re: Maratis 3.1 beta test

I got a little problem with file open. It is only browsing the c directory. I am getting unable to change the directory.

Regards.

EDIT: OK, found it.

Last edited by Arclord (2012-08-06 07:45:42)

Re: Maratis 3.1 beta test

Will the fixed publishing mac version be compiled and put onto the download page?

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Re: Maratis 3.1 beta test

Hi, yes I'll try to rebuild everything for tonight,
please give use feedback if something else need to be fixed

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Re: Maratis 3.1 beta test

Done ! The news builds are on the download page,
and in bonus, with a lower CPU usage smile

Re: Maratis 3.1 beta test

Seems like the Linux version doesn't hide the mouse when playing. Is this some change that I need to know about or maybe a bug?

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actually the mouse only hide in fullscreen mode

Re: Maratis 3.1 beta test

Is there a good reason for this? It's kind of good to be able to run your game in windowed mode too, for many. Including when developing smile

*EDIT*

Anyways it would be really nice to have the ability to do mouseVisible(false) in a Lua script!

Last edited by BitPuffin (2012-08-06 22:43:25)

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BitPuffin wrote:

Anyways it would be really nice to have the ability to do mouseVisible(false) in a Lua script!

I am also missing this function smile.

EDIT: The new built is running very slowly here ( windows  XP ). But the previous one was ok, which I downloaded yesterday.

anael wrote:

Maybe a function to get the mouse position in the 3d world (to use it as a rayHit),

It would be nice, if you would add this in script smile.
Is it possible to use mask to detect rayHit other then object?

Regards.

Last edited by Arclord (2012-08-07 07:50:03)

Re: Maratis 3.1 beta test

Mac publishing seems to work fine now, I have just noticed a bug or something though. Both in the editor and published version of my game the game lags for a second at the start, and when colliding with some stacked physics boxes it lags very heavily reducing the frame rate to about 2 FPS until the boxes stop moving, the general frame rate has seemed to of dropped slightly too. It works and runs fine in Maratis 3.02, I have tested the same project in both versions. Could this be the same thing that Arclord said about XP?

Also, I just tested my executable made on XP on a Windows 7 machine. It opened fine, but the only thing that was displaying was the text. Even the controls were working, but nothing other than the text in the level was visible and I had no way of knowing if anything other than the camera controls was working correctly. I thought it may of been a compatibility issue so I ran the game in Windows XP Service Pack 3 mode through properties>compatibility to see if it would work, but it didn't.

And I think the old project opening system was much easier to use than the new one because it remembers the last opened project.

Last edited by Almighty Laxz (2012-08-07 08:52:14)

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Re: Maratis 3.1 beta test

I guess the lower framerate issue has something to do with the thing I added to reduce the processor use,
it was working fine on all my computers, but I guess the "sleep" function is not stable on all machines... mh...

I note the scripts things for the mouse hide and the rayHit

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Re: Maratis 3.1 beta test

By the way, there is a new example showing how to use render-to-texture easily, and with post-processing, using only one line of script (and of course the post-processing shaders) :

http://www.maratis3d.org/download/render-to-texture.zip

Re: Maratis 3.1 beta test

That is really cool! Everything's nice and simple smile

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anael wrote:

I note the scripts things for the mouse hide and the rayHit



Thanks smile

Last edited by Arclord (2012-08-08 12:41:37)

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Re: Maratis 3.1 beta test

Is it also running it slow for other people like for Arclord ? Is it slow only on windows ?
Arclord, is it slow with specific scenes or always ?

Re: Maratis 3.1 beta test

I tested it with all examples. All are slow.

Regards

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It's running slow for me on mac.