I noticed that when checking/unchecking items in the layers panel that the checkbox for the layer automatically visually switches on/off every time you switch a child's checkbox on / off. It doesn't seem to actually switch the layer on / off however.

If this is supposed to show a partial state maybe it's better to use three state checkboxes: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.checkbox.threestate(v=vs.110).aspx

It's said the LevelEditor works with Win7 32-bit. Following the docs and building the Level Editor with VS2010 as explained just gives me only a 64-bit target (x64) for the building process which won't work on my 32-bit Windows 7. So how to build a 32-bit one?

Hello! As per topic - I find myself in need of a resource-loaded listener in managed land, and for the life of me I can't seem to find one. The use case is, loading a game object definition file that contains game object component definitions, and then resolving and instantiating components for those definitions once the file has been loaded.

If the functionality doesn't exist yet I'll take a swing at it, but I figured I'd ask just in case.

Hi,

I've been experimenting with the LevelEditor, I want to work with mostly Collada model assets. However the geometry is based on the Z-axis being upwards. Despite this being indicated in the Collada file with ''<up_axis>Z_UP</up_axis>" in the asset section, when imported models are orientated incorrectly.

I was wondering if it was possible to add support so the LevelEditor automatically accounts for a Z-UP axis and translates it to its own coordinate system.

As I'm relatively new to the code base I was hoping someone could point out where I should make adjustments and what adjustments should be made.

Thanks

The docs seem very sparse, especially with:

Work with a variety of file formats

What do these include?

In the example terrain level, when moving the camera using the 'walk' mode movement is super slow. It might be a good idea to be able to move the camera faster when pressing, for example, shift at the same time as WASD.

It might be convenient to show what objects are visible / locked in the project lister by showing icons & being able to change that by clicking on those icons.

Unreal and Unity both use the right mouse button to rotate / pan the camera.
For those who are used to that behavior it would be nice to change the middle mouse button to the right mouse button.

The solution is pretty easy
Change the Include directories of LvEdRenderingEngine to
$(IncludePath);$(DXSDK_DIR)Include;
And Library directories to
$(LibraryPath);$(DXSDK_DIR)Lib\x64

I think README should be improved:

• Mention that it's not just levels for any games, but levels for games using some particula framework. This can also be mentioned in repository description;
• Screenshots whould be nice, as in any readme of a GUI application.

I've got two GPUs in my system. Nvidia Geforce GT440 (dx9) and AMD R9-290x (dx11). There is no display connected to the Nvidia card. The application merely picks the second one to appear in the list of devices obtained (DeviceManager.cpp, line 50).

This is a problem because there is no prejudice regarding the level of directx on the card. The application merely crashes because it has selected a non dx11 compatible card.

It would be nice to be able to go forward/ back when using the mouse wheel in fly/walk camera mode.
The arcball & maya camera modes already have this behavior.

I've been spinning my wheels trying to wrap my head around how to share data types between different GameObjects and have their attributes show up in the editor. I believe what I'm trying to do is embed complex types inside complex types and have their simple types show up in the Properties Panel.

Is it possible to do this currently with level_editor.xsd or is this a use that isn't currently built in? If it is a sample would be very appreciated. My use case is to create components I can share across different GameObjects without having to add every single property to each new GameObject.

Cheers,
-Bert

I went through the code and found it in the rendering part. Adding the ninth layer just results a crash (not an exception), which I believes residing in the same module too.

If it's the case, I suggest it should be listed as a limitation (I did not found it in the wiki and documentation), and provide some message in the application notifying user not to add too many layers.

Hi

I'm trying to add an own new GameObjectType according to LevelEditor-ProgrammigGuide.
Although It says "Run the GenSchemaDef.bat", that .bat file couldn't find DomGen.exe.
Because it points relative path "......\wws_atf\DevTools\DomGen\bin\DomGen.exe" which is out of LevelEditor repository. Then I need to checkout ATF separately and fix the path.

It's not that big problem though, it is helpful if LevelEditor repository includes DomGen.exe.

Thanks,
Shintaro Iguchi

Hello! Can we get support for newer visual studio versions?

I'm Trying to upload Level editor but it doesn't load up and it says level editor is not responding.
Here is the code I keep getting.
Code i keep getting.txt

Hi!,

I've been experimenting with integrating the LevelEditor code with an existing engine. So far it's gone very well! I'm hoping to fork the code and build some customised object and manipulator types to suit our needs.

In particular, I'd like to support more top-level "Document" types. It's convenient for us to have many specialised document types, wherein each document contains a separate dom node hierarchy. One document might contain static object placements. Another document might contain nodes with AI data. Another might contain FX data, etc.

So, rather than having a single giant dom hierarchy containing all object types, we would have many smaller dom hierarchies with specialised object types.

I've done some experiments, and the best solution I've found is to implement the IGameDocument interface for each document.

So, eg:

public class PlacementsDocument : DomDocument, IGamePlacement {}
public class AIMarkupDocument : DomDocument, IGamePlacement {}

This allows us to place all documents in the GameDocumentRegistry. And I've found that is necessary to get the history context working (and some other things, including bounding box rendering in NativeDesignControl)

But this requires that we also implement IGameObjectFolder for each document type. And it also means that every object type within must implement IGameObject (for clients of the GameObjects property in IGameObjectFolder -- where otherwise just IListable, IVisible & ILockable were enough).

There are some other problems as well:

• some places assume that objects that implement IGameDocument also implement IGame (eg, NativeDesignControl.TargetGame and RenderingInterop.m_gameDocumentRegistry_DocumentAdded).
• when creating a new object, sometimes the code must choose which document to add it to. For example, NativeDesignControl.OnDragEnter makes this decision. But it might be helpful to be able to customise how this decision is made -- so objects can be assigned to documents based on type or locality
• some UI controls might work better if they were bound to a specific document. For example, the layer window seems like it should be bound to a specific document. The history window could be bound either way -- either globally, or bound to a single document -- I'm not sure what is best in that case.

I was wondering what your thoughts on this were? Is there an easy path to go about supporting many smaller documents like this?

Is there a roadmap for future work on this LevelEditor? Or any intentions to work on document support for future versions?

Thanks so much

I changed the skin to the dark skin and after that all I saw was a giant empty toolstrip with a bigger size than my window, blocking everything including the menus.
On restart I got an error message, but couldn't read it because the error text had the same color as the background in the dialog box, same with it's buttons.
So far I haven't been able to find out where the settings are stored for the level editor, making it impossible for me to reset this without diving deep in it's code ...

Even in 2018 alot of people are using 32 bit. The low end laptops for example. So 32 bit should be supported.

When moving using the walk or fly mode using the WASD keys it seems as if the editor moves on a key event, and then when the key event is repeated, it'll move on each event. A better way would be to set a flag when the key is pressed down and unset that flag when it is pressed up. At the same time, while the flag is set the movement should be continuous based on frame-time. This would make the movement in the editor much more fluid and there won't be a small delay before the camera starts moving, which is distracting

Would be nice to just look at.

Plese ad snap to grid for move manipulator, and snap to angle for rotation manipulator.

• The renderer doesn't load properly when using the VS2010 project.
• When using the VS2013 project, you need to upgrade to use the VS2015 compiler.
• hash_set and hash_map are deprecated (we should be using unordered_set and unordered_map instead.

Do you accept PRs to include a VS2015 solution and use the non deprecated classes?

LevelEditor-master\AssetRoot\HieghtMaps should be LevelEditor-master\AssetRoot\HeightMaps

But really, how to modify it.

Hi,
I would like to use Atf as game editor as I've had already written most of the game engine part (https://www.google.it/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=alimer%20engine), I know that the license is Apache V2, can I modify the source code without releasing it? Probably there will be some proprietary modification and I would use the Wpf UI but probably with new editors and custom theme (metro style).

Thanks,
Amer

Is it possible to add arbitrary key value pairs to game objects in the property editor? That would be rather useful to hook into game specific logic.

In project lister, double click on object and camera is changed to focus on object.
(the "Frame Object" operation)

The project fails to compile under visual studio 2013.
std::min / std::max not found in CollisionPrimitive.cpp, can be fixed by adding

include

Also getting lots of direct-x related warnings, this solved the warnings for me:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/16868002/392825

"Wherever d3dx9.h, d3dx10.h, or d3dx11.h are included in your project, be sure to explicitly include d3d9.h, d3d10.h and dxgi.h, or d3d11.h and dxgi.h first to ensure you are picking up the newer version"