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working perfect, many thanks !

it's actually not featuring this,
but it will planned in the future, I hope to find contributors help for this.

Hi,

for deactivate in script, it's maybe a bug, it should not continue to collide, I'll have a look at that, thank you for reporting.
For now you can deactivate the object and set the position far away.

Abour GUI exemple, and in general, there is only 1 script launched at a time,
and it is the one from the current scene (Scene-1 in this exemple).

And for the effect, there is 2 ways you cand do something similar :

1 - animate the effect by hand in blender, make a two-sided mesh looking like the shape you want (here an arc), and in the material (when you are in Maratis render mode), set "additive" blending. You can also animate the texture offset to make a fade effect (use a fade texture going from clear to dark (in additive black is invisible)). If necessary, use some bones to deform the effect mesh.

2 - make the effect by programming (more complicated) using the c++ SDK. First in blender create a small polygon attached to the blade and set a transparent material (for it to be invisble). Then in c++, you can find this polygon according to the material and extrude it dynamically.

But, in the video you sent, I think it's done by hand (like in 1).

Hi I have also some general questions about levels.

1) if we load mesh in the methode "onbeginlevel" to create entities dynamically during the game , how can we free the memory already used to stock them, when the level is over and the "onendlevel" methode is called ?

2) if I use for example the methode "setLevel (pointortolevel2) " during an update methode of a behavior, what happens exactly?

3) is it possible to create another way to exit the game than "escape" ?

Hi, I made a basic behavior to test the level permutation (level1 to level2 and level2 to level1) :

if(input->onKeyDown("C"))
    {
        MLevel* level = engine->getLevel();
        if (level->getSceneByName("Sc1"))
        {
         getGlobalFilename(levelx, workingDir, "levels/level2.level"); 
         engine->loadLevel(levelx);
        }
        else
        {
            getGlobalFilename(levelx, workingDir, "levels/level1.level"); 
         engine->loadLevel(levelx);
        }
    }

This work , but after 6-7 commutations (1-2 for levels using complexes shaders) maratis crash.

(maybe it's because of a lack of memory ... ?)

Thanks, this time it's work

this doesn't work ?
fov = getCameraFov(Camera0)
setCameraFov(Camera0, fov+1)

- Using the standard renderer, you can set the emit color to white for an object not affected by light.

- For the joystick, maybe you didn't calibrated it precisely (windows config pannel) ?

Or you can try to change this part in the script :

if dx > -0.2 and dx < 0.2 then dx = 0 end
if dy > -0.2 and dy < 0.2 then dy = 0 end
if dz > -0.2 and dz < 0.2 then dz = 0 end
if dw > -0.2 and dw < 0.2 then dw = 0 end

try using a  number bigger than 0.2 maybe.

Damnit xD thats probably the only thing i didnt tried, and thats working ! thank you
Also thanks Alinor but C++ is like chinese for me, i dont even know where to put that :x

For joystick, it didnt fix the problem, i will try to recalibrate later on but
i doubt thats the prob, as im playing alot of games with my gamepad and never had that problem

And lastly, about shadeless objects, when you say set Emit to white, is just apply a texture like this or something else ?
-

I tried about 1hour with many differents options but its still not shadeless
i need some more info :x

The best i can get is a very bright (emit only) or very dark object (playing with diffuse,specular,hardness), but its still affected by light

Just to make sure,
I want that object to be shadeless in maratis with standard renderer (in the game), not fixed renderer

Hmm writing GLSL shaders is out of my range, but nevermind, your method should be ok for what i'm trying to do
I was also thinking about put my object inside of a box (along with camera), toy around with double sided and see if it blocks the light

Thanks

Hi, i need a quick tip on :

getBehaviorVariable(object, behaviorId, « variableName »)
setBehaviorVariable(object, behaviorId, « variableName », value)

Im trying to make some kind of waypoints with the LookAt behavior for entities,
The idea is :

"box" with LookAt on object1
when "box" has reached object1, LookAt target change to object2
and so on.

But for now in all my tests theres no changes at all so i must do something wrong

Great, thanks

Also, nothing to do with that but, for my previous problem with  car / angular factor and weird collisions,

It was because i tried to make the car moving like a normal character (like in yofrankie with a player bounding box)
I completely forgot your PhysicsTest level in Demos, tried with that and theres no problem at all -.-