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Posted: 2nd Sep 2020 12:58
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Hi All,

I have just released the latest Sneak Peek Video, highlighting some of the things you can expect to find in the forthcoming Alpha Build 6:



GameGuru Classic will continue to be supported with bug fixes and functionality additions.

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Posted: 2nd Sep 2020 13:06
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Fantastic !!
Looking incredibly like a very professional Game Creation tool now.
I think Max just may rock a few cages now
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2020 13:31
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Wow!, Very nice. Getting all sorts of new sliders and controls.
Great job.
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2020 13:35
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This is looking fantastic! I'm definitely liking the direction Max is headed by opening up so many of the engine internals to the user.
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2020 13:41
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Nice to see Wicked's features being implemented, including I may add the clouds People will have a fit when they see the water

Looking good!
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This is all looking great! Thanks for including additional features from Wicked! I hope even more make it in eventually.

This is a very, very minor thing, but I think it would be great if we used check boxes to turn on/off features instead of sliding a slider all the way to one end. This way, you could leave a setting as it is and then turn the feature on/off via checking a box. No check, the feature is disabled. Checked, the feature is enabled. Just a preference, but what you have not works fine.
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2020 17:27
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A lot of goodies to play with, Wicked is merging nicely with GGMax. Nice job Mr. Lee and team.
I ask again if those sky settings are going to be exposed via LUA commands? if so, we could write a night and day system via script.
Also would be really nice being able to disable/enable sun via LUA.
All above is just an idea and not to be made for tomorrow, just to be added to the possibles list.
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2020 18:15
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That dynamic sky is amazing, so glad to see it wasn't replaced by the static skies from Classic! However, it would be really nice if we could move the sun around/change the time of day. (Both via a slider and via script. You give us such big terrain powers you can't expect us to not want to at least try with some kind of small open-world-ish thing!)

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Posted: 2nd Sep 2020 22:12
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The future is looking bright!

Ditto on opening the lights and sun to scripts.
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@ Lee
I wonder if playing with the pixels a little you could add some kind of lightning in the sky, you know, the kind that you see in the distance heralding a storm.
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Q: Are there any controls for the position of the sun? And, if so, are these exposed in LUA?

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Excellent job! Looks better and better.
One question, I did not see any sliders for Brightness and Contrast.
So if scripts are using the GG classic syntax for setting Brightness and Contrast will it still be compatible?
And same question goes for the rest of the visual settings (LUA commands) from GG classic ?

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Posted: 3rd Sep 2020 16:13 Edited at: 3rd Sep 2020 16:13
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Can you change the colour of the actual sun? I know you can change the lighting but can you change the colour of the sun object itself?
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@MadLad Designs ,yes you can



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granada, I know about the 'visuals' but that changes the "ambient" colour. If you look at the actual sun object (in the video) it still stays white. I want to know can you change the actual physical sun object colour, like this:

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Posted: 3rd Sep 2020 17:14
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Maybe something to do with the skybox then

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Posted: 3rd Sep 2020 17:40 Edited at: 3rd Sep 2020 17:50
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haven't tried it yet, with my boy, but you could try modifying the skyspec.txt (SunColor)

;Night Sky
;SUNLIGHT DIRECTION VECTOR
SunDirection = -100,100,-100
;SUNLIGHT STRENGH MULTIPLIER (DEFAULT 100)
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SunColor = 12,12,15
;SUN ROTATION
SunRotation = 310

OR see attached pics, playing around with gamma and visual controls.
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Posted: 4th Sep 2020 18:38 Edited at: 4th Sep 2020 18:39
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Perhaps I'm not making myself clear.

Look at these two images (from MAX):




The sun itself stays the same colour. I'd like to change it something like this:

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Ha I guess you cant , you will have to get Lee to answer that one.
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Posted: 4th Sep 2020 23:21
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The progress looks fantastic in general.

Please can we get an official confirmation if there is going to be a setting for shadow quality?
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I like it, ........... I like it a lot.
Thank you Lee.

Ps. all i have to do now is to upgrade my Pc to use Max when it is released.
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Posted: 5th Sep 2020 02:06
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Yes in the next build you will be able to set the shadow map resolution for both point lights (which uses a cubemap) and spot/single lights (which is a simple basic texture). Watch out in the visuals panel at the bottom
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@Lee

Are there plans to add a checkbox for Double-sided (checking it would make textures/materials double-sided)? It's important for a variety of reasons.
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Quote: "Yes in the next build you will be able to set the shadow map resolution for both point lights (which uses a cubemap) and spot/single lights (which is a simple basic texture). Watch out in the visuals panel at the bottom "


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Wonder if light settings will provide me the easiest way to achieve a waving light effect like I did on the video below some times ago, via LUA,
Even the shadows acting dynamically?

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What about if I wanted 2 suns?
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Quote: "What about if I wanted 2 suns? "

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Or the sun gradually setting behind the mountains.
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