Irrlicht Engine

@Eigen
I watched the vid - it's looking pretty sweet, keep at it man. Do you have a sf page or anything like that set up?

Just 'build' the project rather than 'build & run' (i don't remember what exact terminology is used in CodeBlocks). The lib should have been compiled anyway (check the output dir)... the reason for that window popping up is (as the message states) CodeBlocks is trying to run the library without a ...

Unless anything's changed recently then the 3ds loader certainly does support textures, i think the only one that doesn't load them whilst loading the model is md2.. but even then still allows you to set them afterwards.

Hmmmm... in that case then, ignore me. :P

Why I was led to believe the 3ds ...

It depends completely on your specific needs. However, .b3d seems to be a popular choice around here.

As far as I'm aware the current .3ds loader for irrlicht doesn't support textures. The reason for this likely because 3ds files handle materials and texture paths poorly. There are other issues with 3ds also.

You have two options:
1. Write a new / modify the 3ds loader
2. Use a different format

I ...

switch the light on and off on keyup rather than keydown but only if the previous input was keydown

Ok I agree OpenCL is little out of scope for the time being. However I do think it's worth keeping in mind in the future as an option to take those complex calculations in. I know other libraries are generally used for i.e. terrain generation but should future versions of irrlicht use more ...

What would be the purpose of GPGPU for Irrlicht? So OpenCL seems a little out of scope for a 3d rendering engine :?

I meant with strict regard to graphics processing. At the moment there's a choice between fixed-function pipeline and the shader approach. Either way many calculations are done on ...

I know I'm jumping the gun a bit here but are have you Irrlicht devs had any thoughts on OpenCL?

Bit of a cheeky question i know

The requirements are:
1) 3D players cube
2) player cube reposition by mouse (drag and drop).

Are they the only requirements you have of a checkers game? You need to think about the game a little more and come up with more than two points. The requirements are too vague for anyone to give you ...

An int is an int across all compilers.

Not true. C++ standards do not actually clarify the size in bytes of defined types. Differing compilers and systems may use different definitions of the same types. That's why Irrlicht defines it's own types, abstracting type differences over different ...

Well I suppose that's quite a constructive way of learning the engine. All the best with it.

Looks good man!

I'm guessing this is an RPG/adventure game of some sort but what's it about?

For hardware which can't do npot sizes OR you don't have the required opengl extensions available (btw i dont know about d3d) then you can scale your image with something like...


int width = imageWidth;
int height = imageHeight;

int i;
bool sizeToFit = false;

// Scale image width to next pot ...

yeah, i expected some reactions like this but its really not that big as you might think

The game should probably have just 1-2 hours of gameplay and is more intended to give you some portfolio work, it should start with you in a really small village and from there you should follow a road to the ...