Irrlicht Engine

Solution 1: Bones Animation System
Does irrlicht support bone animation? if yes, how do I access it, if no, how do I impliment it?

Solution 2: Reduce number of objects
This could possibly work, but would require some strange rotation code that I don't want to think about until I decide on how ...

Thank you all, I will look into all of these solutions as soon as I get the chance. But just to clarify, I do intend most of the items I assign to a character to be on something that moves a lot. (Hats or hair or both on a head, shirt on a body that moves, pants, mace in hand or on waist, etc.) But ...

Is it possible to set up a mesh so that you basically have an avatar, Then if you equip something onto the avatar, it shows up on the screen as being attatched to the avata? A good example of my question is the first and third person cameras in Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, where you attach a weapon ...

I know there is probably another thread on this somewhere on the site, but just to ensure that I am up to date:

What terrain engines do you all use for displaying a terrain in your application?

Examples: Irrlicht, GrinningLizards Lillith3D, etc?

and which engines would you reccomend?

Okay, that I understand perfectly. Thank you Acki

Okay... so I found the problem, thanks to this post here by cmoibenlepro and afecelis
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=22202

For all the other newbies who couldn't get this to work... or don't understand it:

Open game_engine.cpp
Search for the line bool game_Engine ...

I have trouble using ICE. The source compiles fine, but wont run correctly. It will either not run correctly ( meaning either the buttons don't work, or the menu won't load at all ) but if I download the precompiled source, it runs perfectly... does this have anything to do with the fact that I am ...

I have trouble using ICE. The source compiles fine, but wont run correctly. It will either not run correctly ( meaning either the buttons don't work, or the menu won't load at all ) but if I download the precompiled source, it runs perfectly... does this have anything to do with the fact that I am ...

same for me... most things compile well for me on 98SE, with a few exceptions that I cannot really explain...

yes, it is. But I was kind of expecting a ".dll" format... so the .a file threw me off.

ROFL!
OMG, no wonder it doesn't work... I am still running Windows98SE...

Okay... I need to upgrade my computer, but most other programs still will compile into a .exe file, but I did notice that sometimes the compiler will compile into a library irrlicht.a file.

No, it doesn't compile it and place it anywhere special. The compiler just doesn't generate the file. Does anyone have a reason for why this happens, and how to fix it or get around it?

that is a Milkshape3D file. Its a 3D Software file.

Forgive me if this seems like an obvious question, but how do you compile the irrlicht-0.7 source code correctly?

I mean, the compiler creates all the *.o files correctly, but sometimes it won't generate a completed project. Other times it will just generate the libirrlicht.a file. But it will ...

Is it possible to set the FPS camera so that it doesn't rotate unless the mouse is outside a certain range of movement.

For Example:

Window
+-------------------------------------------------------+
| MouseBox |
| +------------------------------------------+ |
| | | |
| | | |
| | * Cursor ...