for those having issues with the importer i have put AM Lite on sale with 50% off until the end of the month
https://www.tgcstore.net/product/35371

Latest version is just around the corner,
added GPU Rendering for 3D viewer/convertor
Re write of Menu Creator
added Dynamic lua (increases performance when creating menus)
added actual menu preview to button placement screen
added the ability to move button vertically (visually)
plus other little fixes throughout

Apparently, Dropbox does not allow a URL link to an image. I'll try to find a way to show the images. The links were not exactly what I wanted either.

Graphix, this is in regard to the question I had in the store (as RedLazer). First, it was not the FPE creator but the Library tool. The first image below shows the window of the Library. On the far right is the view of the FPE file. The second image is after I click on the "Edit Selected FPE." As you can see the background color is black and the foreground color is blue. I can't see what it is I would like to edit. Is there any way to change the foreground color or the background color?


https://www.dropbox.com/s/mdnlw32dwo5xd6r/library1.JPG?dl=0


https://www.dropbox.com/s/ohkldarvqxs4sn6/library2.JPG?dl=0

Hi Flatlander,
thank you this is a strange one because I have not set a 'black' colour it should be pale yellow background and then white when you edit, have you set any colour filters in windows 10? you can access them from settings > ease of access > Colour filters

here are your screen shots:



Here is what the background should be:



There is a new version on the Store that I uploaded last night, please download that from your download area, uninstall your version and install the latest, if you still have the problem after installing the new version and checking your Windows settings I will add the option for users to change the background colour of that window.

Thanks, Graphix but there was no joy in doing what was recommended. I looked at the Colour filters feature and the "turn on color filters" switch was turned off. I also re-downloaded the app and again no joy. This is a weird issue for sure. I do have a yellow background when viewing but it still changes to black rather than white. It's like an invert switch is turned on. If I'm the only one experiencing this I think you should consider this a very low priority and not take the time to add more code. Adding code can be a very dangerous thing. I'm not sure if adding the ability to change the background color would work for me. If it is hardcoded to be white when in edit mode, I don't think my selecting a different color will work. What I will do is copy and paste into notepad++.

On the Contrary a bug is a bug no matter how strange LOL

I have added a colour change option on the edit window, at the bottom are two swatches one for Text Colour and one for Background Colour just click on the coloured swatches and a panel will pop up allowing custom colours.



Once store Staff have approved uninstall your current version, download from your download area the new version and install.
Let me know if you have any issues

V2.5 Changelog - 01/07/2021

********************************************************************************
Asset Manager - Added new Backgrounds
Asset Manager - Updated Help File
Asset Library - New Tool Check FPE's Use to update old assets

Check FPE's - Add shader name and replace FPI with LUA (in bulk)

3D Viewer - DX Hardware Rendering
3D Viewer - DX Diagnostics

Menu Creator - Full code re-write 34% faster
Menu Creator - Added More Settings button (move menu buttons vertically)
Menu Creator - Button Placement - added option to move buttons
Menu Creator - Live Preview of Menu
Menu Creator - Project files now have an icon (not DDE) open from Menu Creator
Menu Creator - Added Settings to file Menu (option to change background colour)

Fixed - excessive screen flicker on all screens
Fixed - Surface Creator not releasing images from memory stream
Fixed - 3D Viewer thumbnail creation wrong size

*******************************************************************************

Excellent! It works as expected. Thanks for doing that. BTW, the default colors are working.

ha ha ha typical lol

glad you are sorted, if there is anything else let me know

What is this

@Bro

https://www.3dassetmanager.co.uk/

Dave.

V2.5.0.3 Changelog - 04/08/2021

**********************************************************************************
Fixed - Menu Creator Title Screen alignment sometimes incorrect
Fixed - Menu Creator Loading saved projects font details were incorrect
Fixed - Menu Creator auto generated LUA scripts now UTF8 standard

Added - Menu Creator Option to change 'Processing Core Files' text to user choice

**********************************************************************************
Please make sure you are on the latest GameGuru Public Preview 2021.06.10b to use new feature

Asset Manager - Minor Update

V2.5.0.5 Changelog - 31/08/2021

**********************************************************************************

Added - Smoothing Groups in 3D Viewer

**********************************************************************************

Asset Manager Update

Whilst creating a menu for my little mini game i found some LUA errors in Menu Creator, these are now fixed
V2.5.0.6 Changelog - 16/09/2021

**********************************************************************************

Fixed - LUA Script error in Menu Creator

**********************************************************************************

Asset Manager Update

V2.5.0.7 Changelog - 22/10/2021

**********************************************************************************
Fixed - 3D Viewer crash importing some models
Variation Generator - Random Crash saving maps
**********************************************************************************

Great work Kev

Dave

Now available on Store https://gamecreator.store/product/36347



Asset Manager is an easy to use yet powerful and intuitive library environment which provides a clear and efficient user interface to build GameGuru FPE files, LUA files and FX files, clone your folders, preview/edit your files as well as search FPE files from a single source (Legacy as well as the new 'Metadata' format), you can also create 'Project Lists' for your maps in GameGuru.

Current Tools :

Library - Keep tabs on your 'entitybank' features include, Search, Clone, 'Project' Lists and FPE Check
FPM Viewer - View contents of your GameGuru Levels
Project List creator - Create a 'Shopping List' and print it out for easy level creation
**Backup Tools including AES Encryption - Files that use AES cannot be extracted with Windows a third party Application is required
**3D Viewer - View/Convert 3D files formats include .bvh, .dae, .fbx, .gltf, .ms3d, .obj, .stl, .X
FPE Creator - Create custom FPE files for your assets with Metadata tags
**xHUD Creator - Health Bar - Custom Health Bars for Classic
**Audio Converter - allows you to convert many types of audio
INI Editor - Edit GameGuru Setup.ini file
LUA Editor - Create or edit .lua script files
FX Editor - Edit or create Shader files for GameGuru
**Icon Injector - use custom icons in your Stand alone game
Variation Generator - Creates a texture file that can be used in GameGuru to randomise/blend terrains
**Font To Bitmap - convert TrueType fonts to bitmap fonts
**xSurface - Surface Map Creator for GameGuruMAX
**Height Map Generator - Create height maps for GameGuruMAX
External Search - search GameGuru/thegamecreators forums with any keyword/phrase & Game Creators Store can be searched

** these tools are not in the Lite version of Asset Manager

This help documentation is designed so you can quickly learn Asset Manager as a new user or enhance your knowledge as a regular user.

Asset Manger Se V3.0.0.1 25/03/2022

FX Editor - Now you can compile your shader files (please use with caution)


Shaders created by cybernescene & compiled with FX Editor

improvements to GGs ‘light ray’ capability for bokeh


Ray Marched Horizon Based Ambient Occlusion (HBAO) to GG


Lua Pad, Lua Editor & FX Editor now have shortcut keys (documented in the help file)

Left, Right, Up, Down, Home, End, PageUp, PageDown - moves caret
Shift+(Left, Right, Up, Down, Home, End, PageUp, PageDown) - moves caret with selection
Ctrl+F, Ctrl+H - shows Find and Replace dialogs
F3 - find next
Ctrl+G - shows GoTo Line Number
Ctrl+(C, V, X) - standard clipboard operations
Ctrl+A - selects all text
Ctrl+Z, Alt+Backspace, Ctrl+R - Undo/Redo operations
Tab, Shift+Tab - increase/decrease left indent of selected range
Ctrl+Home, Ctrl+End - go to first/last char of the text
Shift+Ctrl+Home, Shift+Ctrl+End - go to first/last char of the text with selection
Ctrl+Left, Ctrl+Right - go word left/right
Shift+Ctrl+Left, Shift+Ctrl+Right - go word left/right with selection
Ctrl+-, Shift+Ctrl+- - backward/forward navigation
Ctrl+U, Shift+Ctrl+U - converts selected text to upper/lower case
Ctrl+Shift+C - inserts/removes comment prefix in selected lines
Ins - switches between Insert Mode and Overwrite Mode
Ctrl+Backspace, Ctrl+Del - remove word left/right
Alt+Mouse, Alt+Shift+(Up, Down, Right, Left) - enables column selection mode
Alt+Up, Alt+Down - moves selected lines up/down
Shift+Del - removes current line
Ctrl+B, Ctrl+Shift-B, Ctrl+N, Ctrl+Shift+N - add, removes and navigates to bookmark
Ctrl+Wheel - zooming
Ctrl+M, Ctrl+E - start/stop macro recording, executing of macro
Ctrl+(Up, Down) - scrolls Up/Down
Ctrl+(NumpadPlus, NumpadMinus, 0) - zoom in, zoom out, no zoom
Ctrl+I - forced AutoIndentChars of current line

**Ctrl+M, Ctrl+E - start/stop macro recording, executing of macro - not fully complete WIP

I'm receiving an error when trying to activate this product.



Thanks,
Dave

Yes I am working on finding why so far 3 users now have this issue, it is a strange bug and quite difficult to pin down.
There as been 15 successful installs and 3 with your error, the error points to a full stop which is not very helpful I have been going through my code for the past 48 hours I will find the issue eventually, please bear with me

Issue Fixed please re download from Game Creator store if you have this issue.

Worked like a champ!


Thanks,
Dave

Hi I just bought this and downloaded and Installed version 3.1. After setting it up and activating all Ok. I launched again for it to ask me to update to version 3.2, only when I do it will not let me activate with received serial. I have uninstalled and re-installed 3.1 for now. I guess the serial only works for version 3.1 then ?

The serial works for 3.2, please try again, if copying and pasting make sure there is not a space at the beginning or the end

Sorry for delay had to re-install again after restarting my PC it seemed to update without any problems with the serial key. So fine now thanks.

@Graphix. Same problem here.
Bought AssetManager Se today (V3.1), played a bit with it.
After a restart, it prompted me to upgrade to 3.2.
On trying to (re-)activate, I was told "Activation failed. Serial not Accepted"
Made sure that copy&paste did not have "extras" at the start or end.
Windows 10 Home, Current Patch level
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10750H CPU @ 2.60GHz 2.59 GHz
64,0 GB (63,8 GB verwendbar)
NVIDIA RTX2070

Please look into it.
Thx.
Y

Hello sorry for the inconvenience, i am working on Version 4 of Asset Manager but it upsets my activation server
Please try again i have stopped coding for today

Thanks, Graphix.
Well, that also explains why even the reinstall of 3.1 failed me just an hour (or so) ago.
5 mins ago, at least the 3.1 reinstall & activation seems to have worked, more or less.

What I forgot to mention in the first message was that on the original install,
I was greeted with this:

Informationen über das Aufrufen von JIT-Debuggen
anstelle dieses Dialogfelds finden Sie am Ende dieser Meldung.

************** Ausnahmetext **************
System.InvalidOperationException: Der Wert Close() kann nicht während der Ausführung von CreateHandle() aufgerufen werden.
bei System.Windows.Forms.Form.Close()
bei Asset_Manager.FRM_Set_Paths.‘’Š
Œ†›˜–‘()
bei Asset_Manager.FRM_Set_Paths.‰‹‰
ŒŠ•”š”™(Object , EventArgs )
bei System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoad(EventArgs e)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnCreateControl()
bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl()
bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Form.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)


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************** JIT-Debuggen **************
Um das JIT-Debuggen (Just-In-Time) zu aktivieren, muss in der
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Die Anwendung muss mit aktiviertem Debuggen kompiliert werden.

Zum Beispiel:

<configuration>
<system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>

Wenn das JIT-Debuggen aktiviert ist, werden alle nicht behandelten
Ausnahmen an den JIT-Debugger gesendet, der auf dem
Computer registriert ist, und nicht in diesem Dialogfeld behandelt.



Asset Manager DID work for CLASSIC inspite of this, as best as I can tell.

This error re-ocurred on the last reinstall. So, if your working on 4.x,
maybe, you could have a look at this, also, or maybe, it becomes obsolete anyway.

For MAX, there was a strange occurrence on the "initial settings panel."
I entered the appropriate data for MAX, but both the upper fields (for "core" and "writeable folder") were filled with '1'. Is that supposed to happen ?

For completeness: My CLASSIC is a STEAM version, MAX is the TGC/Download version.

FYI: 3.2 still won't activate ....

When I look at SSELastInstallLog.txt, I see that the removal of 3.1 seems to have worked,
but the automatic re-install goes to Drive C:, while my original 3.1 was installed to another drive (deliberately,
but the user defined install path obviously has never been preserved).

I'll go back to 3.1 for the moment, hoping we can sort this out in the coming week.

Keep up the good work.

Regards.
Y

Hi i have released a small update to see if this fixes your issue, you can either uninstall Asset Manager from Control Panel, then re download from the Store or Auto Upgrade by just running Asset Manager.
Use the serial key from your store account.

Thanks, Graphix.
Well, at first glance, the upgrade technically seems to have performed,
the serial key was accepted by the new version,
the Classic Asset Library viewer seems to be working.

BUT:
* Still the new version is being installed to C:\Program Files (x86)\Asset Manager Se",
and the original install got deleted.
* that "Der Wert Close() kann nicht während der Ausführung von
CreateHandle() aufgerufen werden bei System.Windows.Forms.Form.Close() bei
Asset_Manager.FRM_Set_Paths." windows pop-up still prevails
* GGMAX Paths are still being changed to '1' on path setting (this looks to me as if
a return code instead of the path string is being set to the input field (I assume you
probably are checking the user input for validity at input time ? )
* Trying to edit an fpe-file (CLASSIC) leaves me with an empty black input area

I did not check all functionalities, so, there just may be more errors, on the other hand,
some deferred errors may just not occur if those basic problems get fixed.

As GGMAX has its own built-in asset manager , I'd appreciate you taking care of the GG CLASSIC errors first.

Thanks again
Y

Can you un install all versions of Asset Manager through control panel, delete any custom Asset Manager installs you also have, restart your PC, download from the store and install, when installing choose your custom path for install from the setup.
Now when first run it will ask you to confirm your classic and MAX install locations, if it as got the MAX location wrong click the button with 3 dots in and choose your custom install folder, if the writable folders are also incorrect do the same for them