I had a look and went:
‘It works for you and that’s not fair’
Is there something you have to change in the project settings? It seems that in your project creating a new material and enabling additive alpha makes it … additive alpha, but in my project it doesn’t.
Disable material depth write in “other” section. Otherwise your nearest cube was blended on top of the background, but farthest was first occluded by nearest’s depth, and then also blended, and blend between cubes didn’t happen due to occlusion treating objects as opaque.
What is the biggest reason you want them in the same window?
I can only find limitation having in same window, rather improvements, except for editing shader code for example.
And we will be able to refresh attributes automatically in the future.
But live reloading of scrips in game - unfortunately indeed, currently there is no life reloading of scripts.
We are thinking of something that will allow people to have live reloading of scripts, but that requires to write destroy handler in script, to make sure once script is destroyed it will unsubscribe and destroy all events and data to make sure it is cleanly destroyed.
Once that in place, we will be able to make auto-reload of scripts without reloading the launched game.
Just tried this, been using Unity for the last 5 years, a lot of similarities, love the clean look of the UI. Biggest thing and advantage over Unity is becoming the google docs of game dev and your almost there by allowing simultaneous editing in the scene but why not allow that while editing code too .
Also while collaborating why not click on the collaborators icon to chat?
Collaborative code editing is coming soon. We’ve thought about Chat, but for now there are lots of alternatives (like skype, slack, etc), so it’s not quite a priority.
You can do most things in PlayCanvas using one hand and a mouse with 3 buttons. There are toolbar buttons for almost every function. One thing you can’t do is use the fly camera which works with a combination of WASD and right mouse button. So we can improve that. An alternative to the fly camera is to select an Entity and click on the Frame Selection button which will focus the camera on that object. Then with the mouse wheel you can zoom in / out and by dragging with the left mouse button down you can rotate around the object.
I’m not a very big fan of the new editor. It’s cluttered. On lower resolution screens everything is smashed together. I can’t find anything that I want to use. The tutorials the explained how to use playcanvas use the original theme to explain things. New users are bound to have a hard time.
Just wondering if it’s possible to revert to the older layout? It was much easier to use and much more responsive. (In the sense of it actually working | doing what you tell it to)
Hello, i’m workinig with the editor just for few hours, but what is seems to lack is a mapmaker easy to use (example sandbox game maker, atavism). In atavism is interesting also the npc movement type giving a range of action of npc from start position or build a preset course. I know that what i’m pointing could not be the main priority, but i think the mapmaker can attract more builders.
I have a (simple) improvement for the editor… The editor inspector panel cuts of long text. In my scripts I tend to set a proper display name for my attributes that often results in clipped text. Would it be possible to add a tooltip to the inspector labels showing the complete text on hover? (the default tooltip implementation of browsers would do fine I guess)
I’d really like to zoom in and out with Alt + RightMouse. This is a common camera movement pattern in many 3D applications (Maya for example) and Unity3D also uses it. I configured Blender to work this way as well…
I am so used to it that to me it is a real pain to zoom in and out with the mouse wheel. It’s ridiculously slow and uncomfortable and it really interferes with my workflow.
Currently we can tilt and pan the camera with the right mouse button. In my opinion this kind of movement is pretty much useless. Every movement needed to navigate through the scene can be achieved with orbiting (Alt+left mouse), zooming (Alt+right mouse) and dollying (Alt+middle mouse) the camera in a much more intuitive and fast way (at least to me) … Please make this at least optional in the settings - I think this would be very easy to implement too and I am sure users like me that are used to Maya or Unity3D will thank you a thousand times.
Also the current behaviour (tilt and pan) could stay at right mouse (without alt), so nothing would change for everyone that uses this kind of camera movement.