Irrlicht Engine

I'm just posting to support Cochi's comments. I should just say up front that I don't think Niko's code completely sucks. If I did, I wouldn't have been interested in Irrlicht in the first place. But once you really start to get into the engine's core code, I mean really get involved looking at it, ...

hrm.. What do you mean by 'black and white'.. Can you post a screen shot?

Well, the whole point is to allow people to write games without having to touch C/C++. I plan to release binaries with the first stable release of Venom. Hopefully that'll happen pretty soon.

It's usable enough at the moment. I've written a first person shooter demo with it, and it works pretty good. You can download the sources from http://venom.feralfox.net, but I don't have any pre-built binaries. You'll have to build the sources yourself for now.

Is there any specific reason why transformations are updated AFTER the frame has been completed? This doesn't make much sense to me, and causes problems like above. It would seem logical that transformations be updated before a frame is rendered.

Cool. Now we need an OpenGL implementation.

Hey. In OpenGL i've noticed a strange effect with GUI objects. It appears that when the camera views a scene at certain angles, all of the GUI elements become more transparent than they should. It only happens at certain angles.. has anyone else experienced this problem? I think it might have to do ...

Well, you COULD use Venom statically if you embedded your favorite language into a C program, but extending is much better than embedding. I just can't see when anybody would actually link statically with Venom. There just isn't much of a reason to do that. You could use Venom directly in C/C++, but...

Are you using a version of Irrlicht that was compiled in Debug mode with Visual C++? I noticed all kinds of extremely weird and unusual problems came up when I did that. Maybe try compiling Irrlicht, or your application, in release mode.

Just a thought...

Sounds great. Thanks for the contribution, this is definately something I know I would find useful.

Unless i'm mistaken, the LGPL should allow you to create commercial software as well. Just don't link with it statically. This shouldn't be a problem, since normally one would link dynamically with Venom anyway through the dynamic language they choose.

Java bindings will come eventually. So far I have Python, Ruby and now TCL supported. The version of Venom available for download at venom.sourceforge.net is extremely outdated. I've made so many updates and changes... You can try the newer version for download at venom.feralfox.net, which contains ...

That's why I made it. Please include it in the next release. Thanks!

I patched the Linux device in Irrlicht so it can now make the mouse disappear. You can download the patched header file here: http://venom.feralfox.net/CIrrDeviceLinux.h.

Just replace that file in the Irrlicht source and it should work fine.

Yeah, sorry about that. I modified my original post to correct that mistake. It's on irc.freenode.net.