Armory Digest June 2020
Small community roundup
It’s June now, we’re reaching the middle of the year. The first Armory3D Community Game Competition has ended, and it’s time to vote. Read more below!
News
Lubos showcased some stencil masking, stencil mask and brush jitter. This is cool stuff!
Timodriaan (MoritzBrueckner) released Koui - A promising new UI library for Kha and Armory @ https://koui.gitlab.io/
The first Armory3D competition has ended. Time to turn in your projects and vote!
Armory Community Game Competition #1 - Voting
The competition has ended and if you haven’t posted your competition game entry yet? Hurry up! Due to unforeseen technical errors with the forum registration system, the voting will be postponed for 3 days. In case you’re not able to create a user here, you can still participate by:
Method one:
Showcase your game on Discord (Armory) in the “Showcase” channel. Remember to post at least 2 pictures of your project and remember to write that it’s for the Armory3D Community Game Competition.
Method two:
Make a github (https://github.com/) repo with your game and post some images and description in the readme.md (default text) file. Make sure that the repo name starts with “ACGC_” so I can find it.
Method three:
Post it in this forum’s showcase section.
Included just to clarify. This is the recommended method, although as mentioned it might not be possible for everyone due to the registration problems.
Method four:
This is the least recommended method, but if everything else fails: Send me a DM on twitter @ NaxelaKleemann
At the end, I will try to compile up all entries in one thread along with a competition poll. You will need a user to be able to cast your vote.
A voting thread will be made on thursday (4th of june), and the voting will run for a week. Remember to vote! Although if there’s only one competition entry, then that’s an automatic win!
Notable changes in Armory
This months Armory SDK is out, get it on itch: Armory3D by armory
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Add retrigger option for PlaySoundRawNode
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Add pause/stop option for PlaySoundRawNode
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Add loop option for PlaySoundRawNode
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Add optional sampling rate for PlaySoundRawNode
- Allow Armory3D to set custom play scene
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Fix proper debug console log output formatting
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Fix for running blender in background mode
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Fix boolean type node properties
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Canvas elements now listens to hover events
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Performance improvement for canvas elements
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Fix for onCanvasElement when ZUI is disabled
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Fix for canvas element not visible
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Cleanup for particle system export
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Fix for linked particle instances
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Implement render emitter option
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Generate project version class field
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Irradiance uniforms passed as argument
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Allow multiple color attachments
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Color attachment format
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World pass cleanup
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Improved metal gapi detection
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Clear pass for metal as well as metal fixes
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Fixed irradiance export when arm is not minimized
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Fix for missing uv coordinates (tex and tex1) for custom shaders/materials
Contributors: Lubos, MoritzBrueckner, QuantumCoder, tong, kennylerma
Notable changes in Armorpaint (v0.8 since May)
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SVG support
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Added layer and clear mask operators
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Improved retina support on macOS
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Improved kha system defines
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Improved shortcut handling
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Add support for rotating environment map
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No symmetry depth rejection
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Fix for bake undo
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Fix for project load
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Merged materials on OBJ import
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Improved log redraw
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Improved float reading
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Drop paths supported on iOS
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Window scale auto adjustment
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Fix for locale detech
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Handle BGR swap
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Output for Metal shading language
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3D cursor for Metal GAPI
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Single channel clear pass
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Pass color attachments
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Pass irradiance uniforms as argument
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Metal shader stubs
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Show Metal as a graphics API option (next to Dx11, Dx12 and OpenGL)
Showcase
These examples are showcased outside of the Armory Gaming Competition. Entries are not shown.
PotaPiyo_1 uploaded a nice example showcasing an electrical board system:
ArmoryBlender showcased a cool video with a gravity gun example similar to Half-Life 2:
ArmoryBlender showcased an aura effect on Twitter, to be posted on youtube soon:
Featured Example
Debug_draw is an example that shows you how to utilize the debugging options in Armory, showing the selected object with a box around, allowing you to find objects in scenes with many elements.
Featured tutorial
Armory3D - FPS Shooting
This Jayanam tutorial shows you how to setup a first person shooter example and guides you through the setup and Haxe code:
Support Armory and the ecosystem
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Lubos @ Armory3D, Armorpaint, Iron - https://armory3d.org/fund.html
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Robert @ Kha, Kinc, Krom - https://www.patreon.com/RobDangerous
