Irrlicht Engine

Checking for null-pointers is never bad habit. In one of engines I used, they had custom new and delete operators which could return 0 in some cases (the reason is that they pre-allocated memory and new and delete were really fast, but you couldn't allocate always).

In the end, computer memory is ...

DtD wrote:Is it even possible to access the internal Z-buffer?

With DirectX<=9 and OpenGL<3 it is not possible - you need to render your own z-buffer.

If someone finds way to access internal z-buffer of OpenGL/DirectX, please let me know

What I can tell you from my personal experience is that 1000 objects per scene is LOT of objects to handle. In most games, there are severa huge objects for terrain and other background stuff, dozen (at most few hundreds) of game objects (like houses, players, vehicles, ...). But if you want more ...

Great news, indeed!

BTW, I've merged OpenGLES branch with trunk (there were minor changes and tweaks needed mostly in IrrCompileConfig.h), and now I'm fighting linking issues with Xcode, but it looks I'm on a good track...

Unfortunately, it's not my personal Mac, so I don't have access to it all the time, but only during development, so I cannot guarantee I'll have it when next beta comes out to test it...

Hi!

Sorry in advance if this question has already been answered, but...

Why is OpenGLES not part of trunk version? Is it "only" lack of man-power and time to keep it up-to-date?

I've just started working on a project which will target Windows, Mac, iPhone and several other platforms, so (as it ...

It works now! Thanks for the quick fix

I've just updated to trunk, but there are still problems with void* to GLuint conversion inc COpenGLSLMaterialRenderer.cpp on lines: 330, 340, 343, 354, 365, 367 and 387. Adding (GLuint) indeed makes Irrlicht compile.

1) Go to www.python.org
2) Left menu: Documentation
3) There are links "Python/C API" for both 2.X and 3.X Pythons - depending on which one you use.

If you have normal (std, pro, ...) version then in conjunction with VA it is the most powerfull C++, C# IDE for Windows platform.

I also thought that, but after trying (and using) Eclipse for some time, I changed my opinion :-) When I work in Eclipse (either Java or C++), I feel like I fly around ...

NetBeans is really great tool, and I recommend everybody to try it. On the other hand, I use Eclipse daily and I can say that it is the best IDE for Java I've worked in - sometimes I feel like I fly through the code and play with it

I tend to use signed types as much as possible, and use unsigned types only where it is really neccessary or natural (like bitflags).

What I dislike is misuse of unsigned types, so I try to distinguish two types of unsigned values:
a) values which are not really numbers - like bitflags
b) values ...

The Fact is that Irrlicht could benefit from "official" C wrapper, so you can easily use it in almost every language (since "almost every" language supports external C functions). As of myself, I would be interested in Python wrapper. Now, if there is "official" C wrapper, it would be LOT easier to ...

Great work, BlindSide! I'm downloading it right now.