Irrlicht Engine

Why I need dx8 to compile irrlicht source?!?
I already have dx9 SDK, and now when I try to compile I get errors that
some dx8 include file can't be found, what is that?

Probably, when I saw archive, it said 500 HQ models.rar(High Quality) on it, so I thought, they are really cool, didn't know about high poly :p

To the Scottish guy, where can I download Irrlicht source, what dependecies I need?

How to do that, I don't know almost anything about modeling, I got this models for free, check this out, I tried to load Octopus, It took longer time for irrlicht to initialize, after that my FPS was 1, and I fall through the terrain :roll:
Why is part of octopus black, and look at those stats ...

Hello, I am a newbie with Irrlicht, and for some reason I get relative slow fps, even though I rendered only few objects, so I wonder if I can post the whole source code of my game so far, and that you tell my what is wrong thanks.
http://i310.photobucket.com/albums/kk431/systat_photo/20080716 ...

OHh, I use this code
weaponMesh=smgr->getMesh("data/marine_rifle.3ds");
weaponNode = smgr->addAnimatedMeshSceneNode( weaponMesh, camera, -1 );
weaponNode->setScale(core::vector3df(6,6,6));
weaponNode->setMaterialTexture(0,driver->getTexture("data/marine_rifle.png"));
weaponNode ...

I disabled Z-Buffer, but gun now looks weird.
I will try some other way.

I found it, I don't know why this happens, and how to fix, please any help
When I look down in the terrain, the part of the weapon is getting inside the terrain.

How to add weapon mesh to camera?

Thanks once again Acki, I added drawAll function between setText and takeScreenshot in F9 case, I hope that it wouldn't slow the game...

And one more question, because I don't want to open new thread, why when I am far away from some hill, it looks like a triangle, it doesn't have it smooth shape ...

Thanks, pera and acki, now it is working properly, only I experience FPS loss, yeah, like every 2-5 seconds FPS is falling away, so I came to 22 FPS, look at code, I don't know what is wrong here :(
I put a screenshot neither...

#include "CGame.h ...

I want that when I press F9 that a text "Screenshot Taken.." appears for short period of time, and then dissapears, fade out or something like that, and that also in same time there is FPS, and other stats shown on screen.

Thanks, but you only partially helped me, with text, but I still can't add item to the listbox when I press F9, I tried creating guienv2, etc, but that don't wokr neither.........................

Here is the code, I want't that it continously update some game data stats, which it do well, and I want to add a text in listbox when i press F9, but for some reason, actually guienv->clear(), it doesn't work, it appears for one seccond, but then it dissapears, I want that it stay there.
I don't ...

I shaped my terrain in crater, now I want to put some liquid inside that crater, how can I done it?
Thanks.