Irrlicht Engine

Another reason for using a solution directly is that you will be closer to the metal and you will learn the native API, You can use PAL to set everything up and then drop-down to "the metal" and use each API specifically if you like. I'd suggest you take a look at PhysX, its also a free c...

Anyway, your project does sound pretty cool and useful so i don't want you to feel i'm knocking it! As you mention it could be good for a multi-platform game as you could just switch in the best physics engine for that platform really easily. Sure, I didn't take it that way at all, every bit of fee...

Also, as I'm also sometimes doing image processing, is there a working link for your ImprovCV? The one on your homepages seems to be dead :( Yes, I've been having ongoing issues with my webhosting, I will try and get that website back up for you soon. (this weekend) @aboeing: Why don't you create a...

you can use the physics abstraction layer, its simple, open source, and you can use physx,havok,bullet,newton,ode, or anything else you want as the underlying tech.
there is a irrlicht integration tutorial on the website.
http://www.adrianboeing.com/pal/pal_irr ... rain1.html

you can use the PAL physics system to select the best physics engine for your needs. check out the PAL irrlicht benchmark demo, it compares a number of popular physics engines.
http://www.adrianboeing.com/pal/benchmark.html

you can also use havok via PAL with irrlicht
http://pal.sf.net/[/url]

you can try subsim:
http://www.adrianboeing.com/products.html#subsim

you can try the PAL physics engine wrapper, it uses a number of different physics engines:
http://pal.sf.net/ it has a tutorial for integrating it with irrlicht.[/url]

Physics wrappers imo are a particular strength of Ogre, as there are wrappers for most major libs (Newton, ODE, Bullet, PhysX) Yeah but Irrlicht has a tutorial for using PAL as a physics wrapper , so you can use Ageia PhysX, Box2D, Bullet, Dynamechs, IBDS, JigLib, Meqon, Newton, ODE, OpenTissue, Si...

I would suggest you look at the interface for the Simple Physics Engine , since as the name suggests, it is easy to use. Ageia PhysX also provides a nice features list. An easy way to start your development might be to build a interface to the Physics Abstraction Layer , which already comes with a s...

Hi,

does anyone know how to use addColorSelectDialog?

(ie: so that it displays which color your choosing and also how to get the picked color information back from the dialog?)
(note that the help for this item still says "Returns a pointer to the created file open dialog.")

Thanks

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Oh yeah, I just noticed, the image is also upside down with OpenGL vs DirectX

Is this an issue to do with the API's/Platforms or something to do with bitmaps (.bmp) being writen upside down? Any ideas? (ie: should the openGL lock code flip the image?)

vitek: Ah yes, thanks for that! The previous version of irrlicht didn't have those functions I don't think - but that all works fine. hey_i_am_real: Thanks for the tips! Got a working version now! :) I noticed that using the code for writing straight to a file seems to also work for DirectX 9.0c, so...

Hi, Thanks for the advice hey_i_am_real. I downloaded the irrlicht source from subversion and modified the lock operation to use glGetTexImage as you suggested: void* COpenGLTexture::lock() { if(!ImageData) { ImageData = new u8[256 * 256 * 4]; //hardcoded this for now } glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, ...