Irrlicht Engine

thanks spintz, that worked perfectly!!!

along the same lines, is there a way one can retrieve a mouse button press as an integer for saving to config file as well?

about 3DS model:
* add your 3DS model using IAnimatedMesh & IAnimatedMeshSceneNode
* the use setMaterialFlag( video::EMF_LIGHTING, false ) on your IAnimatedMeshSceneNode. the second overload "false" allows the model to light itself. setting it to true allows it to be affected by dynamic lights.

get ...

Here is a program that displays colored text on the screen.


/* irrlicht includes */
#include <irrlicht.h>

using namespace irr;
using namespace core;
using namespace scene;
using namespace video;
using namespace io;
using namespace gui;

#pragma comment( lib, "Irrlicht.lib" )

/* program start ...

depends on how you are displayling your font really.

using IGUIStaticText this is how you would do it:

declare a pointer and create your text:
Example:
IGUIStaticText *text = guienv -> addStaticText( L"hi", rect<s32>( 10, 10, 200, 22 ) );

next to change the color you need to enable the color ...

omg . this is gunna suck. it's gunna take forever to redo everything with the irr:: prefix.

o well, if i must

this really bugs me, whenever i have a header file that belongs to a microsoft library set, such as "Vwf.h" i get errors because the Microsoft SDK "Unknown.h" contains an IUknown class and so does the irr namespace.

is there any way to resolve this problem?

have you added the "include" directory and "lib" directory to your project directories?

read the first tutorial for irrlicht. it tells you how to configure vc++.
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/tut001.html

i assume u are using a microsoft ide because of the link error format.

if not, check you ...

never mind ppl. i figured it out.

if you add an event reciever, you need to add a SKeyMap[] to your camera for it to move via user input.


SKeyMap keyMap[8];
keyMap[0].Action = EKA_MOVE_FORWARD; // what the key does
keyMap[0].KeyCode = KEY_UP; // what the key is
keyMap[1].Action = EKA_MOVE ...

i imported a 3ds model of a gun i had just made and discovered that it had thrown the pieces all over the place. they weren't connected like they were in MAX. so i played around a little bit and discovered that if i connect all the pieces then they will be imported by irrlicht properly.
NOTE: this ...

when i add an event reciever to the scene, it removes the built in controls for the camera which leaves me to set up key events to move it.

i cant figure out how to move the camera forward ( in the direction it is pointing ) or backards or strafe in that matter.

i want to be able to have an event ...

O-M-G! am i a total moron :oops: . lol. thanx, that helped me..
i just came off of this engine that my buddies and i had written. its pretty outdated now, thats y i moved to irrlicht. and in that engine we made our rectangle function:

rectangle( float xPos, float yPos, float length, float height ...

sorry it didn't make any sense.
i have the pointer declared once in my application.
i was just showing that my first declaration worked, and upon changing it to new values it didn't.
Maybe this will help more:

int main() {
IrrlichtDevice *device = createDevice( EDT_SOFTWARE, dimension2d<s32 ...