Irrlicht Engine

I made a dungeon set for this concept (link bellow) inspired on the Oblivion pipeline.

http://institute.no.sapo.pt/ca/ph-c.jpg

I was interested in doing some blender blocks for this structure and at the same time study the way they have done it in Oblivion. As you may or may not know Oblivion ...

Information about the Starflight3 project can be found here:

http://www.starflight3.org/

The project forums:

http://icc.starflight3.org/

If you are interested in contributing please join the forums and ask for Opie (i'm zingbat in the same forums).

Some information about the project.

The ...

In case you are annoyed with math conventions like me you can find all of it explained in the euclideanspace site:

http://www.euclideanspace.com/maths/standards/index.htm

The ones that apply to Irrlicht are the DirectX ones if im not mistaken.

For Euler angles there are usualy lots of synonims to ...

No it isn't. The Irrlicht example that shows parallax mapping doesn't use a shader directly and is not as good as the one shown by noreg. If you want to try the SteepParallax shader modify the Shaders example to know how to create and setup a shader.

It's easier if you just study these that are already made in a pro way and add whatever you want:

http://www.cs.fiu.edu/~weiss/dsaa_c++3/code/
http://www.cs.fiu.edu/~weiss/#dsaac++3

No need to reinvent what is already invented.

There may be other reasons for the use of an allocator. The std c++ library also uses allocators for strings and other containers.

But what about Irrlicht for mingw compiler, linux and macosx?

Did you just read the word parallax in the article and nothing else?

This is a picture showing the differences:

http://graphics.cs.brown.edu/games/SteepParallax/compare.jpg

The first two are texture and normal mapped, the third is parallax (the one in your shader), the last one is steep parallax ...

I agree 100% with Vitek on this. It helps you making better code by controlling include dependencies and reducing them to the minimum. If you want to include everything then just have:

#include <irrlicht.h>

Or even, for a more fine control:

#include <irrCore.h>
#include <irrIO.h>
#include <irrXml ...

The typical way of working to handle the mess of different mesh formats that i see in many engines is supporting an interchange format and a binary format that is dependent on each engine version (almost like a serialization of the engine classes) for the fastest loading possible, then either have ...

I hope this posting is meant to be a joke in some way. Are you really concerned about compilation time?

Only for curiosity don't worry. Im quite happy with Irrlicht compilation time. This is probably the samller and faster to compile engine (with a good set of features) on the net as you may very ...

I have compiled it with with CodeBlocks in 4 minutes and 30s with a P4 3Ghz and 2Gb ddr ram.

The biggest ofenders to compilation time are the mesh loaders.

Can we get this value even lower than this?

Heres one sugestion Ogre and Panda3d use its own mesh format and any other format is converted ...

Well if you use this shader for example. Someone used it with Blender but i don't remenber the thread.

http://graphics.cs.brown.edu/games/Stee ... x/#shaders

I have some hard animation requirements for a remake im working on. I don't mind to wait until someone implements this stuff if Irrlicht can't do it so lets get on with the requirements.

The creatures tha need to be animated are these:
http://institute.no.sapo.pt/dfmonst.png

I haven't choose the ...

It should as Irrlicht claims to support GLSL shaders. Just copy that shader from that Blender file and use it on the Irrlicht shader demo. Don't know if it works with the download on the main site or if you need to use the latest svn version.

Edit: Just downloaded the file and tried. This is a ...