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Are the HWA features disabled in the demo version? I am trying to select the Flip Horizontal effect and it along with all the other HWA effects are grayed out. It still lets me select it, but it doesn't work. I thought maybe my video card somehow didn't support it, but I have an ATI Radeon HD 4600 with shader model 4.1 support and I'm running DX11. I would think that would be sufficient since it just says DX9 and PS1.4.
Any ideas?
You have to select Direct3D 9 (or Direct3D 8) as graphic mode in the application properties.
Thanks for the tip, but I can't find that setting anywhere. I looked under all the properties for the game itself and don't see it. I also don't see it anywhere on the MMF2 menus.
It should be under the Display tab under Application properties.
No, it isn't there. Maybe an option that has been removed?Quote:
Originally Posted by Danny
Actually, I don't even see anything that says Display properties. When I click the application and get its properties, there are the following:
Settings
Window
Runtime Options
Values
Events
About
And I don't see the dircet X option in any of those.
Runtime Options > Display mode
Actually it is in the "Runtime options" tab (third tab in the application properties)
It's not there in my demo version. Perhaps deliberately not there? I don't know.Quote:
Originally Posted by Francois
Nevermind. I see where it's buried. The Display Mode option that is set to Standard is actually a dropdown that contains the value. Thanks for all your help.
I do have one more question related to this. If all these effects are DX9 then how do these things export to iOS and other devices? Or don't they?
They don't, Shader effects are HWA exclusive (Direct3D 9) they use HLSL. The Android/iOS exporters are already hardware accelerated by default using OpenGL. Some* standard effects from MMF2 are ported over to iOS and Android though, just not anything that is HLSL.
OK, so let me get this straight then. If I want to use the Flip Horizontal effect then it will only work on Windows with DX9? If I want to port my apps to other devices then I need to avoid these DX9 effects like the plague?Quote:
Originally Posted by Danny
That's correct. This is no fault of MMF2 though, it's because DirectX uses HLSL for shader effects yet iOS/Android are OpenGL powered so GLSL is required for shader effects.
So, then just supply a GLSL version of the shaders?Quote:
Originally Posted by Danny
That's something only Yves/Francois could answer. I have no idea to be honest.
No problem. Not trying to be a jerk or anything. I hope this is something being considered as it would make the product even better. I just discovered MMF2 the other day and I think it is absolutely outstanding. I was evaluating several other engines and just couldn't find what I needed. After trying MMF2, I was sold almost instantly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danny
Oh no, I fully understand. Clickteam are always working every single day on improving the exporters and they're always listening to what people want/say regarding them. I know I'm a moderator here but seriously, Multimedia Fusion 2 is a very powerful product for both cross-platform game and application development. I'll see if I can find out regarding the answer to your question but do keep digging, there's tons of example files and alike to be going at but don't fear using the search box and posting questions on here.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomjscott
There's the quote you're looking for regarding shaders in iOS. Android will probably be a similar matter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andos
One thing that might be easier for them to implement initially would be to simply expose support for GLSL. Even if they don't convert every single one of their effects to GLSL, at least we could go in there and type in our own GLSL shaders. I know a little GLSL myself and could probably port over the flip shaders without too much difficulty.