Irrlicht Engine

Backslashes are interpreted as escape characters, such as \n for newline. In order to store an actual blackslash in a string you can either escape it (use double) or the following:

Check your camera. I ran into this as well the first day I messed around with Irrlicht (admittedly this was yesterday). When creating a FPS styled camera the particle emiter/node is visible, when creating a non-FPS camera it does not appear. I'm not sure what is causing it yet, or what I'm failing t...

If you haven't figured this out already, you could always try responding to a key event (such as key.KEY_SHIFT, etc) by setting:

<cameraFoo>.InputReceiverEnabled=false

and then enabling it once the key is lifted.