[Solved] New in 1.3ß - How to add Scene Childs and other questions?

#1

Hi,

I just downloaded the new 1.3ß, congratulations on the great work! I am happy to see so many things added and fixed.

I do have a few questions though :blush:

  • I might have overlooked that in the news, but I think it was not mentioned:

    Warning CS0612 ‘Scene.AddChild(Entity)’ is obsolete

How would I now go about adding entities to the scene (at top level)?

  • I read all the news about the gamma and linear lighting, but frankly I have no clue what exactly this means. From the news i take it that using gamma color space is the way to go (?), yet the default project setting is linear? Should I switch that or rather stick with it?

  • Also trying to import a project from 1.2 finally stopped with the asset compiler complaining that one of my components [A] cannot be cast to [B], but the mentioned types and sources for [A] and [B] are exactly the same. I cleaned and reubild the solution, re-saved and opened it both in Visual and Paradox Studio, added
    <AutoGenerateBindingRedirects>true</AutoGenerateBindingRedirects>
    to the project file, but neither did help (I also uninstalled V1.2 meanwhile). Does anyone have an idea on what could be the issue here?

[A]SiliconStudio.Core.PropertyKey`1[MyGame1.CustomComponents.DockingPortComponent] cannot be cast to [B]SiliconStudio.Core.PropertyKey`1[MyGame1.CustomComponents.DockingPortComponent].

Type A originates from ‘SiliconStudio.Core, Version=0.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null’ in the context ‘Default’ at location ‘C:\Program Files\Silicon Studio\Paradox\GamePackages\Paradox.1.3.0-beta\Bin\Windows-Direct3D11.shadow\SiliconStudio.Assets.CompilerApp_ExecServer.exe\assembly\dl3\ce104695\cca7572f_90f1d001\SiliconStudio.Core.dll’.

Type B originates from ‘SiliconStudio.Core, Version=0.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null’ in the context ‘Default’ at location ‘C:\Program Files\Silicon Studio\Paradox\GamePackages\Paradox.1.3.0-beta\Bin\Windows-Direct3D11.shadow\SiliconStudio.Assets.CompilerApp_ExecServer.exe\assembly\dl3\ce104695\cca7572f_90f1d001\SiliconStudio.Core.dll’.

Thanks

#2

Sorry for your trouble, we will try to investigate.

In the meantime, does adding true fix your problem?

#3

For the Scene.AddChild, you can still use this method. We may rename it later to Add() instead.

For the exception, as a workaround, you can setup the env variable DisableAssetCompilerExecServerProxy to true to disable the proxy asset compiler. We will have look asap why this is happening.

For the settings for a default project, Linear is the default correct one. It means that calculations are done in linear space while textures/images/colors values stored are in gamma space (and we call this a gamma correct pipeline, which can be confusing!). We will add a proper documentation page about this.

#4

We just released a new 1.3.1 version that should fix your exception while building the assets. You don’t need to use the environment variable.

#5

Awesome, thank you very much!
I see the YAML serialization was fixed too, great!

So many new things to explore now, I need to play around with the new lighting now to get the hang of it (everything is blown out now, guess I have to take all my directional lights down a notch or two :wink:

Another thing that popped up: I am trying to adjust my LightComponent’s Color with the new SetColor() accessor now (it’s a PointLight Entity), but I get a runtime exception:

System.InvalidOperationException: The LightComponent doesn't contain a color light type IColorLight
at SiliconStudio.ParadoxEngine.LightComponentExtensions.SetColor(LightComponent light, Color3 color)

No biggy though, I guess I can still set Color the old way or find another one by just checking the source.

Thanks again for your amazing support

#6

@seven: The normal way to add children to a scene is now to directly Add/Remove elements to the Scene.Entities collection.

The SetColor crash is a known issue that have been fix already in last patch release, so I mark the thread as solved.

#7

Thanks for the feedback on the scene childs, I’ll adjust my code appropriately.

Yeah I saw the SetColor fix in 1.3.3 and closed the issue on Github but forgot to also mark this thread here, sorry!