Leadwerks is the easiest way to build 3D games. With a rapid development pipeline, support for Lua and C++ programming, and plenty of learning materials, Leadwerks is the perfect way to learn to make games.
- ADVANCED GRAPHICS: Leadwerks brings AAA graphics to the masses, with hardware tessellation, geometry shaders, and a deferred renderer with up to 32x MSAA. Our renderer redefines realtime with image quality more like a cg render than real-time games of the past. The use of OpenGL 4.0 provides equivalent graphics to DirectX 11, with cross-platform support across operating systems.
- CSG MAPPING TOOLS MAKE LEVEL DESIGN FUN: Build game levels from scratch right in our editor with constructive solid geometry. Our tools make it easy to sketch out your design and bring your ideas to life. Anyone can build their own game worlds in Leadwerks, without having to be an expert artist.
- BUILT ON THE INDUSTRY STANDARD: At it's heart, Leadwerks is a C++ library of functions you can call at any time, in any order. Leadwerks uses industry-grade tools like Visual Studio and Xcode, so you'll be coding games like a pro.
- INTEGRATED LUA SCRIPT EDITOR: We integrated Lua right into Leadwerks because of its proven track records in hundreds of AAA games including Crysis, World of Warcraft, and Garry's Mod. Lua integrates seamlessly with native code for rapid prototyping and instant control. The built-in debugger lets you pause your game, step through code, and inspect every variable in the program in real-time. Lua is perfect for beginners, and the integrated Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler ensures you can publish commercial games that perform blazingly fast.
- VISUAL FLOWGRAPH: Our unique visual flowgraph enables designers to set up game mechanics, build interactions, and design advanced scripted sequences, without touching a line of code. The flowgraph system integrates seamlessly with Lua script, allowing script programmers to expose their own functions and add new possibilities for gameplay.
- ROYALTY-FREE LICENSE: Your games you make with Leadwerks are yours. Yours to play, yours to sell, yours to give away, or do whatever you want with. There's no royalties to pay, ever.
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Hey everyone!
Welcome to our second blog, this time we'll share light on how we approached the wheelchair movement, our troubles with it, and a wholesome story to go along with it! 
On the 17th of July, we had the opportunity to participate in the GameDevStudent Showcase.
It was here that we for the first time, got first-hand feedback for the game because up until then, we were kind of winging it. Don't get me wrong, we already had a plan in motion, but this event solidified that and helped us polish the rough edges.
We received tons of great feedback, and one of the problems players found the most annoying, was this...
See, you couldn't use your mouse to rotate the camera as you'd expect, instead, you rotated left or right with the wheelchair, the mouse could only go up or down.
It's interesting how divided this choice was, some players liked it while others thought it wasn't needed, which lead us to a brief discussion about what we'd end up doing.
Well, we wanted to see how the game would feel if you had horizontal movement in the mouse too, and at first...things didn't go that...well.
What's happening here you ask?
Since the camera is clamped, meaning you can't go beyond certain limits with your mouse, the chair could rotate a full 360º but the camera wouldn't.
We clearly have an issue, so how do we fix it?
Firstly, I tried making the camera suffer from the rotation of the chair when the player pressed A or D, that didn't work.
Then I looked at the place you look whenever you feel stuck. Google.
Hours were spent scavenging the internet for anything remotely similar to my issue, some were close, but not quite what I was looking for.
Then I (Ruben), was invited to be the guest at a weekly Portuguese gaming podcast called Game Corner, and André, the co-host, so happened to be a dev himself, and after I explained the problem, he gave me a bit of an answer but wasn't sure, although it was a "puzzle to solve and I'll crack it eventually". That he did.
The next day, he shoots me a message on discord saying that he found a video that explained exactly what I needed, but it wasn't known at all.
Then what do ya know, after messing about with new code and doing things a bit outside of the box. Voilá.
We got results. It works fantastically well (a bit too well), and this will be many of the features present in the upcoming demo.
We're keeping this blog entry short and sweet, as we have a lot to cover next time.
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Ruben
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can i build/export game to Windows on Linux ? Or i need to boot to Windows (which i don't have :P)
When you export a Lua game it includes the Linux executable, so that will work automatically. If you are using C++ you need to compile your game on Linux to get the executable.
hello can i juste know id it easy to learn or hard ?
We're going for easy. Try the demo on Steam and let me know what you think.
The thing is catch me, map editor similar to hammer!
Great job, and oh yes, real-time shadows in viewport!
It now exports to VMF format, too. I've only tried it with the Left 4 Dead SDK but the texture mapping planes are perfectly retained in Hammer. Also added texture lock mode.
It looks similar but it functions far worse. But the WYSIWYG viewport is quite nice!
Its not crysis. But its good aswell :3 really cool
Have you spent any time with this engine at all? The graphics aren't the only thing to look at in an engine, and this one is just not fun and awkward to use, I sincerely wish there was a demo before I bought it.
Specifically what are you having trouble with? We've worked very hard to make the development experience smooth and enjoyable. Was there any problems you ran into?
The review I've submitted covers some of the larger points in a bit more detail, but to summarize, everything from navigation, to menus is finicky, hard to work with and slow.
Thanks for the feedback. I've been able to address a number of these issues recently. I didn't notice the viewport speed issue until you pointed it out, but once I did it was obvious. I fixed the bug and also added some mouse smoothing to make the navigation more fluid.
A new section for tutorials has also been created on the site here:
Leadwerks.com
And of course there are over 200 pages of documentation here:
Leadwerks.com
You might not be used to the constructive solid geometry approach to level design, but most people find it a lot simpler than trying to scale models precisely or build maps out of raw polygons.