Irrlicht Engine

Very nice, keep up the good work. Would like to see the art/modeling side of this project improve a bit too, are things going steadily in that department?
Thanks - I've been solo with the project thus far, so I haven't had time to do much with the models / maps / art.

I tried getting a friend of ...

Greetings All:

So, it's been a long time coming but I finally feel like this project is at a satisfactory level for public demonstration. It's nowhere near complete and I can hardly call it a "game" even, since it's more of a simulation at this point in time. I'm sure problems / bugs / errors will ...

Thanks guys - I honestly didn't know this would be an issue. How does Irrlicht deal with this internally?

Thanks for the reply bitplane.

ISceneNode::RelativeTranslation holds the position of the node, this doesn't even get changed by Irrlicht internally. Are you sure you weren't checking getAbsolutePosition(), which is calculated (and gets rounded) during drawAll?
Nope - using getPosition() as shown ...

Hey All:

The problem I'm having originally stemmed from times where I was trying to set a node position but it kept getting changed automatically whenever ISceneManager->drawAll() was called. This wouldn't happen all the time, so it was pretty frustrating and time consuming to catch and understand ...

It's probably a culling issue. Try changing the node->setAutomaticCulling( ); to EAC_FRUSTUM_BOX or EAC_OFF to see if it works then.
Thanks Eigen - setting the culling to off fixed my visibility issue.

Just one more issue to overcome... I'm getting a weird texture / tiling issue. I'm using the ...

Well I got the "waves" working in my own mesh. I figured out that I'm an idiot and that I needed more vertices :O.

The visibility problem is still there though. I'm gonna try eliminating some other parts of the map and see if it's something with the map that's causing it.

Looks like either your mesh has some problems, or the water scene node is not working as good as expected :? Can you upload your mesh somewhere such we have a fully working version for tests?
I'll throw the mesh up for download when I get to work tomorrow but I'm guessing you're right that it's my ...

Ok, so I created a single mesh to enclose the "well" instead of 6, but now I've run into 2 other problems. The first one seems expected, the other does not.

[Problem #1]:
I'm not getting the "hill" effect that I was with the previous "6 mesh" method (I was using "addHillPlaneMesh" to create ...

bitplane wrote:The water surface node follows any shape its given. You should make your mesh an evenly spaced grid of vertices for best effect.

Awesome. Thanks all for the replies.

Thanks for the replies.

Could also be two overlapping transparent materials. Moreover, the problem is not the hole, but the surrounding, which is not just one mesh. Question is why you use several meshes instead of just one?
Is it possible to create one mesh for the entire "square" of the map and ...

Basically, I have 6 different meshes that, together, create 1 large body of water.

The problem is that there is a hole (purposely put there) in the middle of this body of water, that goes beneath water-level. It's kinda like a "reverse well", where in a normal well, the water is in the well and not ...

Thanks for the replies. I'll try some other irrlicht apps and see what happens with DOSBox.

I like to play some of my favorite older games using DOSBox while waiting for the compiler (1.5 minutes currently) but sometimes DOSBox crashes randomly when my app runs.

Now I'm not saying this is Irrlicht's fault and in the grand scheme of things it's not even close to being a big deal but I was ...

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That was pretty damn funny Roger