Irrlicht Engine

Sorry, it's me again. I steel can't find my answer. :(
Can I ask you for a big favor? I need a very basic sample code to make this:
1- Load a b3d file (for example a room with 2 chairs)
2- Store in a variable how many individual elements are part of the loaded scene (ie: room + chair1 + chair2 ...

Sorry, maybe I used the wrong terms. When I say meshes I mean individual child geometries loaded in the b3d.

What happens is that I'm still confused about what is the diference between a joint, a bone, a children geometry.. (I mean, I know what they are but in the graphical point of view, I still ...

Hi it's me again, I still don't get it, can I ask you for a big favor?
I need a little sample code to learn better this things, and the samples that comes with irrlicht pakage doesn't answer my doubts, I searched in internet but I didn't found anything.

I need to: load a scene(b3d if possible ...

Ok, I understand now. Let me ask you one last thing:
I'm more a modeller than a programmer so I don't know much about that kind of technics and I was thinking, what happens if I pre-render all the light values in hdr lightmaps and then multiply those lightmaps in the geometry so when I render a ...

:oops: Sorry hybrid, I didn´t understood your answer, my english is very poor. HDR textures are posible with FreeImage?

Hi dlangdev, to be honest I´m just learning to program in C, I´m only an amateur Blitz3D programmer. I don´t know if this is usefull to you but here is a link to a wrapper made ...

I really apreciate your help, thanks a lot for the answers!

Hi, I don't ask how (yet ) but, is it posible to use freeimage library http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/ for making hdr-lightmaped scenes?
Thanks a lot for any answer.

Ok, I see. In blitzbasic it's similar, if you load as animated mesh is separted in several objects, and as static mesh it's a bunch of vertices and faces.
In the case that I want to find a pointer to a children searching by the name, how do I do it?
In blitz it's something like: pointertToChild ...

Hi, once I loaded a b3d scene, how can I acces to the diferent objects without knowing the names, is there any way to obtain a pointer to each object inside a b3d file and then obtain the objects names? please can anyone post a sample code?
Thanks a lot.

I think both of you was right, dev is much more easier but CB is more complete. I´m using dev for now because it caused no problems. I guess I will use CB when I learn some more of C++.

I have another question:
I need to create an ICursorControl pointer, but i need to call it from a function ...

Thanks a lot! I think i will try both, after all I don´t have any parameter to choose
I have downloaded codeblocks before because I "tryied to try" Ogre (to complex for me at this time) so i will see that option to.

Hi, (sorry for my english) i´m new in this community and i really want to learn irrlicht.
The problem is that i don´t know to much C but i have "Very" basic knowledges of game programming. What confuses me it´s basicly the needed tools part.
I need to know wich IDE you recommend to use for an easy ...