Irrlicht Engine

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Would this other chunk of code provided by vitek (again!) be an appropriate solution, giving precedence to the GUI over other event receivers?

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=11785

Just wanted to say that I am currently up against this same problem and was wondering if any more elegant solutions have been developed since? If not, I will use the suggestion vitek posted (thanks for that!).

I couldn't find good answer on how to effeciently fade a scene node, so I came up with one using the existing scene node animator examples. Many suggested using lock()/unlock() on the node's texture to edit the pixels and change the alpha value, which works, but I was warned that it is costly in ...

Nevermid, I answered my own question using this thread:

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=14642&highlight=copy+texture+image

As for the slowdowns with manipulating textures using lock/unlock, particularly when trying to create a "fade" effect, I just create multiple textures ...

emil-- the only reason I can think of to have an image loaded into memory more than once is if you were to modify a copy of it. The engine does infact allow you to create a blank image the size of some source image and copy the contents over, and then modify that image. Which solves that problem ...

Well, I made the change to ISceneNode.h in my copy of Irrlicht (1.2) and its working like a charm. Its a VERY simple addition, but I'd be happy to post it if anyone is interested. Whats the proper way to create and submit a patch? Or should I just mention it in the code snippet section of the forum ...

I don't think it is, but PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong. I found another thread that lists exactly my problem:

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9261&highlight=entity+nodes

I am thinking of using the solution that Electron dubbed "unclean" (in addition to using predefined ...

One of the arguments when you create a scene node is the ID of it, which defaults to -1 if you don't give it one. If your player class (or enemy class or whatever) has a pointer to a scene node in it, and you assign that node a unique ID, you can fairly easily find out what scene node is supposed ...

What you could do is when you select the sphere you could test to see if the selected node is equal to the player.sphere, if so then you know it was the player that was selected.

That seems like a good idea, I just wish there was something cleaner. The main reason is that there will potentially ...

OK, after sifting through these forums for hours, I've changed my approach. I'll be creating a player-like class that will include a scene node to represent it. Now here's my new question, if I click my mouse on the scene node that is a member of my new player-like class, how do I get from the ...

What's the best/easiest way to do this? Basically, I want to create a custom scene node (I know how to do this much) that would be loaded from a mesh. Clearly in the constructor I can't just say:

this = mgr->addMeshSceneNode(.....);

So I was wondering the proper way to go about it. It seems I ...

Thanks for the tip hybrid, saved me a headache.

I don't think I understand your question. Are you looking for 3D models to use, or do you want custom ones made for you? If its the first one, just pop "free 3d models" into Google and you should get a bunch of sites offering free models of various types. If you want to create models, you can try ...

OK, successfully updated. As you may be able to surmise from the time between my last post and this one, the update went rather easily. :wink:

And if drawVertexPrimitiveList() with EPT_LINE_STRIP in a custom scene node (need the node for holding other information) is overkill for a 3D line I need ...