Irrlicht Engine

You never create a mesh there. Try something like this: irr::scene::SMesh* mymesh;       mymesh = new irr::scene::SMesh();         irr::scene::SMeshBuffer *buf = 0;     buf = new irr::scene::SMeshBuffer();     mymesh->addMeshBuffer(buf);         buf->drop(); After that, you feed your data into buf->...

twitchyliquid64 wrote:Winding?

Means you have to give the vertices for the face in clockwise order.

twitchyliquid64 wrote:1. Generate a set of 6 vertices for each side of the cube.

4 per side will do, or 8 for the entire cube. You can use each vertex more than once, For example 0-1-2 and 1-3-2.

You'd use an SMeshBuffer for this. Actually, reading your original post once more... since you only need cubes, maybe you don't need to mess with mesh manipulation at all but just use the primitive? Anyway... Does that mean that if I have u16 indices[] = { 0,2,1 }; It will create a triangle that ope...

I did something similar recently and found tutorial #3 helpful.

The vertexes specify a point cloud.
The indices tell which vertexes are connected to form a triangle.
The normals are for defining the orientation.

Hope that helped a little.

Gotcha, thanks for the reply.

The 65k limit shouldn't be a problem for any of the models I'm working with. As to the winding order of the indices, I can only hope that they are in the right order in the source file, for how would I check that?

Hello folks. I'm trying to load a POV-Ray mesh2 structure into my program and display it with Irrlicht. The task should be pretty straightforward; parse the file and stuff all the vertex and normal data into an SMeshBuffer, right? But I'm a little confused about the Indices. Since they are used to d...

The topic says it all, does Irrlicht provide a way to load a mesh (in this case a .3ds) from a stream instead of from a file?

Yup.

/Edit: Please ignore me, it was just me being stupid. Works like a charm now.
Thanks again to Quibbler for the nice manual!

I've been using BCB 6 and GLScene, but I've recently switched to BCB 2007 and can't get GLScene to work with it. So I checked if any of the "major" free 3D engines supported BCB and found this thread. I know it's months old now, but I hope that Quibbler is still around. :) I am using Irrli...