Irrlicht Engine

Hey dude, SpOOky here. Din't bother to read through all the pages because i am so lazy, but i need to ask why didn't you implement shadows? It would look so sweet with some lightmapped buildings/streets and self-shadowed vehicles.

Just my two cents...

for #2 you can use nvidia`s photoshop plugin

Ogre can't read resource.cfg files itself, this is solely for samples, they are parsed by the example framework, not by ogre itself. And everything that can be done in a terrain.cfg can be done in code. It doesn't need cfg files at all. :)

i didnt stated that ogre is dependent on cfg files. i ...

Ogre doesn't need cfg files for loading meshes. In fact it doesn't need any cfg files at all.

actually ogre does use .cfg files. resource paths and terrain definitions are stored in such files

OGRE might use some extra specifications you might missed

in ogre each fragment/vertex shader you ...

thanks for the fix, i hope that it will improve performance to a certain level

paul

this is good news. any eta on the 1.3.1 release?

this is really bad news, as in my project there are at a given moment as more as 10 characters, about 5k polys each, normal mapped, and the scene dynamic lit. the way irrlicht handles animated nodes is quite a big performance drawback, and this throws off getting @30fps on medium hardware

is there ...

I have read in a topic that due to a bug in the 1.3 version irrlicht animates each frame twice, dos giving an important performance drop.

my question is if it was fixed in the latest svn, and if not when will it be?

paul

That's like saying you want someone to do the entire work for you...
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I tried the NVidia shaders library but it doesn't work for me...

are you sure you did? :lol: the first one in there, relief mapping has this description: This material shows and compares results from four popular and ...

greenya wrote:

hybrid wrote:If you have animated nodes and using Irrlicht 1.3 you will get a noticable drop in FPS due to a bug in the animation code. It's animated twice per frame, and that is quite costly.

Is this fixed in latest (current) SVN version ?

well was it? this is critical info

i am getting ~50fps on an even older fx5200 with an amd athlon 2400+ cpu and 768 ddram. before i downloaded the game i was afraid that you were using a pixel shader or smth, the whole 5 series is real crappy when i comes to that

as i mentioned before you could check out the nvidia shader library for examples, but note that hlsl shaders are restricted to DirectX use and glsl ones to OpenGL

what you have there is a engine specific material script. from what i know irrlicht does not support material scripts, therefor the only way you can access that functionality is either via the built in materials or via fragment and/or vertex shaders

thanks, but all i was trying to do is to point him in the right direction

when you are creating a piece of software you realize that you spend more on debugging the code than actually writing it. the best thing that you can do now is to learn proper debugging. posting an industrial-sized code snippet and asking other people to do your work wont get you anywhere.