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Nice work, I hope you continue chipping away at this.

^ But the point is that it can't be infinite . The values you use to seed a pseudo-random number generator with have to come from somewhere. It could be to all intents and purposes infinite (i.e., it'd take more than a lifetime to visit all locations), but never truly infinite.

Anyway, I'd suggest ...

CuecaX wrote:i dont want my game running well using all processing power at 200fps
and i think that using fixed values is simple and easier.

Oh, sorry, I misunderstood your first post. Yeah, that's a good idea.

Thanks Gato, but I revisited this problem a few days ago, and I think I found a faster solution. Something like this:


newDirection.X=target.X-nodePos.X;
newDirection.Y=target.Y-nodePos.Y;

newDirection.normalize();
direction.normalize();

toAngle=direction.getAngle()+(360.0-newDirection ...

But with what you want to do, you can never, ever guarantee a time-consistent simulation. What exactly is it about delta time systems that bothers you?

monkeycracks wrote: 1. I despise WoW.
2. I've had this idea since before WoW, just haven't worked on it.

Haha, that's good to know. I also despise WoW, and pretty much every generic, level-grind MMO, so if someone is intent on making something fresh, there's a much better chance I'll like it.

Cool. I just thought it was odd to post progress reports on an essentially unrevealed game. Anyway, it's good to see that you're going for wars between factions, rather than the totally prescribed BS seen in most MMORPGs.

I think what I said I needed was misleading. Basically, all I need to know is whether a clockwise or counterclockwise rotation is shortest (between 2 unit vectors). Becuase acos(product), the way it is now, returns absolute values, I don't think if(angle>180)angle-360 will help (even if I set up the ...

Hello. For a while now, I've been trying to figure out (with reference to a couple threads on the GameDev forums) how to rotate vectors. I can't get it right. I'm doing:

vector3df direction;
vector3df newDirection;
double product;

newDirection.X=mousePointAt.X-nodePos.X;
newDirection.Y ...

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/docu/classirr_1_1scene_1_1_i_terrain_scene_node.html
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/docu/classirr_1_1scene_1_1_i_scene_manager.html
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/docu/classirr_1_1scene_1_1_i_scene_collision_manager.html

Get the terrain node's mesh ...

getTriangles()? What class is that function a part of? I couldn't find it in the doco. I had checked with a visible mesh, and it definitely was the size I expected (using my method). I don't know anything about this getTriangles() function, so I was probably doing somethng wrong.

Anyway, thanks for ...

^ So it's impossible? Thanks for the help, but it would've been better had you stated that fact through something other than obscure lyrics, haha.

Anyway, I tried to just make the plane mesh bigger, which was a mission in itself. It seems that the .x exporter that Blender includes sees the need ...

Hello. Searched the forums, and couldn't find anything on this problem (surprisingly).

I wanted to do raycasting on a large plane. I did this:

IAnimatedMesh* planeMesh=smgr->getMesh("plane.x");
IAnimatedMeshSceneNode* planeNode=smgr->addAnimatedMeshSceneNode(planeMesh);
planeNode->setRotation ...

Oh yeah, sorry for the lack of clarity. I asked two completely different questions in this thread.

Thanks stodge, but I didn't understand the "visitor" concept from what I read of it. I think I'd rather stick with using the simple concepts that I could actually successfully deploy at my experience level (for now).