Irrlicht Engine

Alot of uses are possible.
For example,
volumetric fog, more realistic explosions based on procedural noise.
All in all they're quite handy

Hello. Im currently working on adding volumetric texture support into irrlicht. I'll try to get it accepted into the engine when it's completed. Biggest issue is design, all texture & image handling in irrlicht is 2d centered. The quick way is to add methods such as s32 getDepth(), as it wouldn'...

There are several approaches on how you can do CSG.
One common way is to use BSP tree merging to perform boolean operations.

node->isVisible(false); I think this shud work???? No, we're talking about selective polygons, not nodes. That is polygons with a certain material are culled in the rendering cycle. But yeah, splitting the mesh would work, mostlikely not in realtime :/ Im doing a seamless design where the entire wo...

Hey. Im currently building collision support into my game and i noticed the absense of a NULL material. Ok, let me explain: In certain games it's very common that you build solid collision primitives, these are only part of collision detection/handling and shouldn't be rendered. This is to keep the ...

In my game i wrote a new scenenode for animated sprites. (based on the standard billboard scenenode) Which can do frame animation, translations(x,y) since sprites have virtual depth, scaling etc. Hm maybe i should separate it from my game and write up a tutorial. Since it might be useful for more pe...

Going to try to hunt this bug down.
So damn weird that PNG,TGA etc will work but not BMP.
Something is fishy, since BMP will work from direct3d :O
Check the mainpost for screenshot,
to replicate it do a billboard scenenode with a odd width BMP texture.

Upgrading my game to use irrlicht 1.2 and i ran into a few problems. With OpenGL, BMP textures just won't draw properly. Narrowing it down it seem that if the texture width isn't even, it will not draw as it should. Eg. 26x69 will work, but not 25x69. This seems to be related to BMP only. Quite weir...

True forking is NOT threading, when you fork you clone the process, splitting it into two independant address spaces. vfork on the otherhand won't duplicate the memory pages and can be used, but it's not recommended. Basicly all unix systems i've come accross supports pthreads, if they are somewhat ...

There is no easy solution to just "threading" code. Alot of special care has to be taken when writing threaded programs. As a rule of thumb, if parts of your program can be independant, you can easily thread them. Eg. running your soundengine from a separate thread from the 3dengine. Howev...

EDIT: There was supposedly an API function called isEmptyElement(), I didn't notice it, not enough coffee i guess, but the rootelement generating EXN_ELEMENT_END twice is still a bug! <?xml version="1.0"?> <XML> </XML> In this example, with the following code: static int begs = 0; static i...

Irrlicht might benefit from a LGPL license. Just for info, the irrlicht license was the main reason for me to chose that engine over ogre. Not because i want to hide my changes to the engine, but simply because a lgpl licensed engine can't be used in a legal way when porting a game to game consoles...

I see, didn't know about that windows API function heh
Well that makes everything easier.

One of the strong points of Irrlicht is the non restrictive license. Also it's very easy to use & extend. Heck, it took me a couple of minutes to get ready to integrate it into my already started project, without having ever used it before. The Unreal engine has a long history, therefor more mat...

Hey! My suggestion is adding support for mouse confinement in windowed mode. (clipping) This isn't really an extremly important feature, normally it's ok if the mouse isn't locked to the window. It can bring some annoyment though especially in point and click games, in my case an RPG game, if you ha...