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• keszegh Member

  March 2022

  @MoKaLux , thanks, that's great, i will try to add these whenever i get the time.

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• MoKaLux Member

  May 2022 edited May 2022

  Where would be a good place to add new luau vector?
  Under Gideros specific methods in the math section https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Math?
  
  Please some advice

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• MoKaLux Member

  September 2022 edited September 2022

  I don't know the value for cull mode
  https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Mesh:setCullMode
  When looking in gideros GH I could see:
  enum CullMode {
  CULL_NONE,
  CULL_FRONT,
  CULL_BACK,
  };
  There is this CullMode thing so I thought I could write:

  mesh = Mesh.new() mesh:setCullMode(CullMode.CULL_FRONT) -- doesn't work mesh:setCullMode(0) -- does work

  So is it fair to say that 0 = CULL_NONE, 1 = CULL_FRONT, 2 = CULL_BACK?
  
  Thank you
  PS: does it work for 2d and 3d?
  
  EDIT: see answer below from hgy29, wiki updated https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Mesh:setCullMode

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  September 2022 edited September 2022

  MoKaLux said:

  I
  So is it fair to say that 0 = CULL_NONE, 1 = CULL_FRONT, 2 = CULL_BACK?
  

  Yes, enums in C start 0 so you are correct. I'll add constants in Mesh class to avoid confusions.They are defined in Sprite class (Sprite.CULL_NONE, etc). And yes it does work in 2D, but is there are point in using culling in 2D ?
  
  

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• MoKaLux Member

  September 2022 edited September 2022

  Is lua select function supposed to be in the wiki?
  If so here https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/(global) ?
  Thank you
  
  EDIT: added https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Select

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• rrraptor Member

  September 2022

  Fixed & added some things
  https://github.com/gideros/gideros/pull/543

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  September 2022

  Great, merged!

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• MoKaLux Member

  September 2022

  rrraptor wrong thread but great news

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• rrraptor Member

  September 2022

  MoKaLux said:

  rrraptor wrong thread but great news

  Yeah

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• MoKaLux Member

  November 2022 edited November 2022

  https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php?title=Trigonometry_Conversion_Operators
  __NOTOC__
  !-- GIDEROSOBJ:Trigonometry Conversion Operators --
  '''Supported platforms:''' [[File:Platform android.png]][[File:Platform ios.png]][[File:Platform mac.png]][[File:Platform pc.png]]br/
  '''Available since:''' Gideros 2017.10br/
  
  === Description ===
  Operators to convert from one type of measurement to another.
  
  Same here https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php?title=Better_and_easier_syntax_for_arrays
  __NOTOC__
  !-- GIDEROSOBJ:Better and easier syntax for arrays --
  '''Supported platforms:'''...
  
  and https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php?title=Bitwise_Operators
  !-- GIDEROSOBJ:Bitwise Operators --...
  
  and https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php?title=Integer_Divide_Operator
  !-- GIDEROSOBJ:Integer Divide Operator --
  
  and https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php?title=Larger_and_Smaller_Operators
  !-- GIDEROSOBJ:Larger and Smaller Operators --...
  
  ...
  
  I think I can get rid of !-- GIDEROSOBJ:...-- they have nothing to do here (aka not linked to Gideros Studio)!?
  
  Downvote if you disagree, peace
  
  
  EDIT: added https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Ternary_Operator

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• MoKaLux Member

  January 2023 edited January 2023

  updated strings wiki with missing luau functions (thus missing in Gideros Studio)
  https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/String
  
  EDIT: I copied the docs from roblox which are copyrighted it is clearly forbiden in gideros wiki code of conduct
  EDIT2: table WIP DONE https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Table (https://create.roblox.com/docs/reference/engine/libraries/table)
  
  EDIT3, TODO: bit32 DONE, coroutine DONE, debug NO CHANGE NEEDED, utf8 DONE. I need to test a couple of them to make sure they work in Gideros!
  
  EDIT4: should be ok , utf8 has some functions which seem not present in current Gideros Studio (graphemes, nfcnormalize, nfdnormalize) so I don't add them
  
  Please tell me if I am missing something else

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• MoKaLux Member

  March 2023 edited March 2023

  added SoundChannel:setEffect: https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/SoundChannel:setEffect but I have no clue if this is right at all
  
  For me new balance for SoundChannel:setVolume has no effects (tested with a .wav file): https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/SoundChannel:setVolume, also I don't know what the range should be? 0<>1, -1<>1, ... maybe I need a stereo file

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• pie Member

  March 2023

  @MoKaLux I haven't investigated the new SoundChannel yet, but if I recall correctly the setVolume values were from 0 (mute) to 1 (max) - this was almost 10 yrs ago though..
  
  The variables mentioned about the openal equalizer seems to be these:
  
  
  
  taken from https://openal-soft.org/misc-downloads/Effects Extension Guide.pdf
  page #69
  
  maybe you can find something more there, or just add it as a reference

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• MoKaLux Member

  March 2023 edited March 2023

  pie said:

  @MoKaLux I haven't investigated the new SoundChannel yet, but if I recall correctly the setVolume values were from 0 (mute) to 1 (max) - this was almost 10 yrs ago though..

  The range for volume is 0<>1 but I was asking for the new balance parameter range . I tried different values but cannot hear any difference in the balance, it always sounds "centered".

  pie said:

  taken from https://openal-soft.org/misc-downloads/Effects Extension Guide.pdf
  page #69
  
  maybe you can find something more there, or just add it as a reference

  This is indeed a VERY NICE REFERENCE, I am not too much into sound but that may come in very handy, thank you mr pie
  
  PS: also I don't know for you guys but the default volume sounds WAY TO LOUD?!
  PS2: oh I may know why balance isn't working for me!? I don't have a stereo file

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• pie Member

  April 2023

  I post here because it's wiki related: since I just rediscovered Gideros Fiddle I thought it could be cool to embed it in the wiki.
  I don't know if that requires a lot of work, but as of now I can't embed iframes nor open links in new browser tabs.
  Here is the best I can do right now, I don't know if it's because I lack privileges, or for safety reasons (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgExternalLinkTarget):
  https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Your_first_code
  
  The ideal thing would be that the wiki could embed the gideros editor window button in code snippets, or only some code snippet like it happens for example here: https://www.w3schools.com/python/python_dictionaries.asp
  If that could happen automagically reading the css or templates we would save a lot of manual data entry and focus on developing new mini games

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  April 2023

  You can also just display the code and embed a playable version (.GApp) on the same page, such as in https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/2D_Space_Shooter_Part_5:_Firing

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• pie Member

  April 2023

  hgy29 said:

  You can also just display the code and embed a playable version (.GApp) on the same page, such as in https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/2D_Space_Shooter_Part_5:_Firing

  I didn't know that, I always wondered what was the purpose of Gapp export.. but I think that the option to fiddle directly with code is much more attractive and educational, even if you can rely only on existing assets (which might be expanded a bit though) and almost no plugins/libraries.
  It basically recreates the good feeling of instant testing that I guess we all love and that no other framework that I've heard of has.
  GApps could still be useful for more complex projects like that 2d shooter
  
  

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• MoKaLux Member

  June 2023 edited June 2023

  With the new addition in Gideros 2021.9 (please see post https://forum.gideros.rocks/discussion/8472/gideros-2021-9-released/p1) I am trying to document TexturePackFont
  
  I don't know what to feed the "mappings" with
  I created two pngs to simulate letter a and letter b and I tried the code below. It prints my pngs but something is wrong.

  --TexturePackFont::TexturePackFont(Application *application, TexturePack *pack, std::map mappings, double scale, double anchory) : -- BMFontBase(application) { local tp = TexturePack.new({"fonts/ar_ba.png", "fonts/ar_ta.png", "fonts/ar_ta.png"}) -- 16*16 pngs local tpf = TexturePackFont.new(tp, {a="a", b="b", c="b"}, 2, 0) -- tp, mappings, scale, anchory --tpf:drawText("ab") -- crash print(tpf:getBounds("a")) -- 0 0 974849408 65526 print(tpf:getLineHeight()) -- 368 local tf = TextField.new(tpf, "a") -- prints all TexturePackFont letters! local tf2 = TextField.new(tpf, "b") -- same as above! local tf3 = TextField.new(tpf, "b a bc hello") -- same as above! local tf4 = TextField.new(tpf, "d") -- blank tf:setPosition(64*6, 64*1) tf2:setPosition(64*6, 64*2) tf3:setPosition(64*6, 64*3) tf4:setPosition(64*6, 64*4) stage:addChild(tf) stage:addChild(tf2) stage:addChild(tf3) stage:addChild(tf4)

  for ref: https://github.com/search?q=repo:gideros/gideros TexturePackFont&amp;type=code
  
  Is it suppose to work like Gideros Font Creator?
  
  Do you guys have a better sample code , thank you!

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  June 2023

  Hi @MoKaLux,
  in TexturePackFont.new() mapping table associate characters to original file names, so in your case something like:

  local tpf = TexturePackFont.new(tp, {a="fonts/ar_ba.png", b="fonts/ar_ta.png", c="fonts/ar_ta.png""}, 2, 0) -- tp, mappings, scale, anchory

  You shouldn't add the same image twice in the pack.
  Currently Gideros doesn't handle the case where your mapping table is incorrect, it will draw some random part of the texture pack if the mapped file name doesn't exist. I will fix that.
  
  

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• MoKaLux Member

  June 2023 edited June 2023

  Awesome, thank you hgy29. After adding the title in wiki Main_API, I noticed TexturePackFont was already existant (created by you ). Viva Gideros
  https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Main_API

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• MoKaLux Member

  June 2023 edited June 2023

  thread(s) is it still a thing?
  When I look at Makefile.gid I see:
  PLUGINS_WIN+=threads
  PLUGINS_ANDROID+=threads
  PLUGINS_WIN32+=bitop threads
  
  But in a Gideros project there is no such Thread(s) plugin anymore.
  
  In Gideros Studio folder \All Plugins\threads:
  threads.gplugin_deprecated
  
  Tested on latest Gideros and I have this error:
  Uploading finished.
  Luau
  [string "luabinding/compatibility.lua"]:79: Module Threads not found
  stack traceback:
  [string "luabinding/compatibility.lua"]:79: in function require
  
  
  So I think I answered my question and will hide link to https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Thread in the wiki .

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• MoKaLux Member

  July 2023 edited July 2023

  What happened to the wiki , it looks like it's been updated
  Example:
  syntaxhighlight lang="lua"
  Sprite.new()
  syntaxhighlight
  Hope this was automated
  
  + new section added by hgy29
  GIDEROS SHORTS
  https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Welcome!
  
  Viva Gideros
  

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• MoKaLux Member

  August 2023 edited August 2023

  roblox documentation is now open source
  https://devforum.roblox.com/t/open-sourcing-creator-docs/2569346
  
  

  Licenses
  
  The repository uses two open-source licenses:
  
  Prose is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, so you can remix and adapt it into your own work as long as you provide proper attribution.
  
  Code samples are available under the MIT License so that you can freely incorporate them into your experiences.
  

  
  
  
  https://create.roblox.com/docs/reference/engine/libraries/bit32
  ...
  

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• MoKaLux Member

  October 2023 edited October 2023

  new wiki category GIDEROS PEBBLES
  https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Welcome! by hgy29

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  October 2023

  MoKaLux said:

  new wiki category GIDEROS PEBBLES
  https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Welcome! by hgy29

  Yes, I thought it would nice to have user-contributed ready to use demo code on the wiki
  

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• MoKaLux Member

  November 2023 edited November 2023

  The Shaders documentation now has its own section on the Gideros wiki main page.
  I merged various scattered pages into one block and removed many disorenting links. Custom shaders and lua shaders should be easier to understand now(?).
  
  I am really sorry hgy29 I moved your Rain drops demo to https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Lua_Shader_Examples
  
  I hope this will be helpful to the community
  
  PS: there are some missing links which I cannot fill as of now because I don't know
  PS2: I am still not happy with the wiki home page and I am trying to declutter it, please allow me some time
  PS3: https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Tutorial:_Making_a_2D_space_shooter_game is broken. I will try to fix itDONE https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Tutorial_-_Making_a_2D_space_shooter_game
  
  Viva Gideros, viva Gideros Wiki

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• MoKaLux Member

  November 2023

  I "completed" Making_a_2D_space_shooter_game by hgy29
  https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Tutorial_-_Making_a_2D_space_shooter_game
  
  I had to remove cbump and use a collision detection function instead. I also tested the tutorial again from scratch and it is working, see https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/2D_Space_Shooter_Part_6:_Enemies#Kicking_off_our_level
  
  Guys you should follow it because it is from hgy29, you will feel like being in the movie "Being John Malkovich" but instead you will be hgy29
  
  Have fun!

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• rodri Member

  November 2023

  @MoKaLux
  thanks for the tutorial..
  
  I have a question. Why did I have to remove cbump? Have any problem?
  
  thank you

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• MoKaLux Member

  November 2023 edited November 2023

  rodri, here is why
  - my goal was to follow the tutorial written by hgy29 and maybe fix some typos
  - everything was fine up to the last part: 2D Space Shooter Part 6: Enemies
  - in this part the collision between the bullets and the player, enemies wouldn't work
  - I searched and found out that collisions don't work in cbump when you only use cbump update (https://github.com/kikito/bump.lua#changing-the-position-and-dimensions-of-items-in-the-world) to move the player
  - so the problem was no collision were detected with the actual way to position the player (enemies?)
  - I tried to find solutions to keep cbump with detection but I would have to rewrite how you move the player
  - the other and simpler solution was to write a new collision detection
  - when I did, I then realised that cbump was not needed at all, so I removed it!
  
  So that is why
  
  Also, I am trying to add more cool stuff to the wiki like tutorials, classes, examples, ... so I couldn't spend too much time rewriting it.

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• MoKaLux Member

  December 2023 edited December 2023

  Wiki December update
  - https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Multiplayer
  - https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Ftf_libs for longer piece of code (ftf = from the forum)
  - https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/UI_Buttons (updated)
  - https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/UI_Text (a typewriter class)
  - https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/VirtualRelativeJoystick
  - https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Pathfinding
  - https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Dictionary_tree_search (exotic)
  - https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Lua_Tar_Extraction_Module (exotic)
  - https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Made_With_Gideros curated
  - + loads of deleted wiki pages
  
  Hope this can help?!
  
  EDIT: all the code were tested/updated!

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