Irrlicht Engine

arras it's not that hard to add new materials. But you will need to make changes to the irrlicht dll. you will also have to decide whether you want your material to support opengl, d3d, or both. I suggest using opengl as it can be used for mac and linux as well. Take a look at source/irrlicht/COpenG...

are your models animated? if so, then that would account for some additional processing as well since animations are calculated even if an object is never rendered, as they should.

hmmm... well that just sucks.

well it's fine if the triangle selector method returns a few triangles which aren't in the box. at the very least Ill get a smaller subset of triangles to test against. I just hope the method won't miss triangles which really are inside the box.

thanks for the help vitek.

still waiting on a reply to this one.

was this already discussed somewhere else? should I even worry about this?

I really just want to know if the methods for selecting triangles are reliable.

Im going through the api looking at the triangleselector documentation and Im seeing this for selecting triangles based on bounding box: "Please note that unoptimized triangle selectors also may return triangles, which are not in the specific box at all. " what is the difference between op...

hybrid, I noticed that when .x models are animated their normals are always updated, could this be part of the reason it's slower?

theres two methods that i know of: 1. render with two passes; first pass is a black wireframe with thick lines, second pass is the textured model. 2. render with two passes, first pass is polygonal mesh in all black with faces flipped, second pass is the textured model. with both techniques youll pr...

understanding code, and creating a complete game framework are two separate things. the latter takes alot of planning and experience.

you could do a raycast from the sword handle to the sword tip and see if it touches anything.

very impressive. is this flash?

Couldn't you just use irr::ITimer::setSpeed(0) for pausing?

I have two quick questions about meshes so I thought I'd just toss them both into the same thread. My first question is, does Irrlicht use hardware mesh buffers, or software buffers? If hw, is there any user control over this and are fallback measures in place for people with ancient gpus? My second...

Is there any way in Irrlicht to do manual transformations by setting joint rotations manually? I see theres a getXJointNode() and a getMS3dJointNode() which returns a ISceneNode object. Is it then possible to override the current animation sequence and create my own animation by directly modifying t...

Ok after searching the forums and looking through the API a bit, I came across another function: irr::scene::ISceneCollisionManager::getCollisionResultPosition () this function seems perfect for what I need; sliding collision under the influence of gravity and an intial impulse. Ive read in as few t...