Irrlicht Engine

The fonts show up as blocks



I've got an old video card, but not that old...
Irrlicht stuff works fine with the opengl driver.

If the latest is this month I certainly don't have it.

It doesn't bother you that code just crashes with no reason?
I find it very embarrasing when my code is put in front of people
and it dies. Then they tend not to hire me. Then life just
gets ugly after a while

Any idea why CSceneManager::addTerrainSceneNode()
instantiates a C TerrainSceneNode but returns an
I TerrainSceneNode ( which is not exposed
by the library)? I can't see how it gains you anything
unless you're trying to prevent inheritance.


ITerrainSceneNode* CSceneManager::addTerrainSceneNode ...

Oh, thanks! I didn't catch that.

Why would you really want to do that anyway? If you have the definition for your class, why would you want the scene manager to create an instance for you?

I wanted to add code to create a collision tree for the newton physics engine. It would be nice if it were automatic and transparent. If I ...

Can you derive a class from something used by scenemanager?
Like:

class myTerrain : public scene::ITerrainSceneNode
{
}

Since scenemanager instantiates all terrain nodes how do you get scenemanager to instantiate objects of your type, not TerrainSceneNode?

terrain = smgr->addTerrainSceneNode ...

For windows I can choose vs2005express, cygwin, dev-c++, etc.
Any recommendations?

Thanks,

but I believe 9.0c is the latest version. I have the last version of hardware
driver ATI produced before they started on the next year's version
of hardware.

If the lib is using a feature of directx that might not be implemented
why doesn't it check for it or wrap those in try...catch ...

Any idea why some of the 1.2 demo programs do this?
I checked the event log and there are no entries there.
The terrain renderer does this when any of the directx
drivers are selected.

Dxdiag says I have version 9.0c

Thanks