Irrlicht Engine

have to call draw()

whether this is abstracted or not its going to happen.

plus, i dont think shooting down helpful community posts is gonna get you any friends, let alone more posts about your engine.Try not to come across as a douche.

I know that a draw method would have to be called, the ...

You are looking for Gosu http://code.google.com/p/gosu/
Cross platform, c++, opengl, 2d accelerated, optional ruby frontend, scalable images, etc...

For 2d which uses hardware acceleration Gosu is the way to go.

Please stop recommending other API,s. I have already spent a lot of time developing ...

i really don't want to make your project appear as a bad idea, i guess it is pretty usable, but:
is there a specific reason why you did not implement a layer with 2D functions on top of Irrlicht? i think that way you could make use of Irrlichts advantages (multiple renderers, possibility to use ...

I have bean developing a 2D platform game with irrlicht. As the project was developing it was becoming obvious that using a 3D engine for a 2D game wasn't my best idea, and the project frequently ran into problems, such as the lack of animated textures, 2D collision detection and the like. Because ...

Thanks.

The applications produced from irrlicht are quite large, around 14 meg, while this is not massive, there is bound to be a lot of code which is not being used, sutch as all the graphics renderers besides OpenGL.

1) How easy/hard would it be to compile the lib with only the code which I am accualy ...

You are using a cross platform engine, why tie yourself to one (rubbish) OS? I would test your game, only I ditched windows long ago.

ether have one huge mesh, or a number of smaller meshes combined with an algorithm to merge veracities the further you get from the camera. alternatly you could wright your own hight map displacement terrain node with multi texturing...

hares how I created a background image.

create a custom scene node that,s just 1 quad
use trial and error to position it (control the scale with the keyboard, display the dimensions in an xterm, or the title bar)
map the image to the plain.

3ds max

or Blender, wings3d etc if you haven't got several grand to throw away

I've been trying to create a ball that rolls in the direction its moving. the following code partly works, left and right movement is always correct. however up/down movement the ball sometimes rolls on its side or backwards to the direction of travel dependant on the horizontal position. diagonal ...

can you compile a Linux version?
thanks

there isn't much point encrypting the files, programs exist that will extract 3d models and textures from API calls.

How can i play a video file in a program using Irrlicht that is cross platform? all the threads i have found here are tyed to directX. I could use a sequence of image files, load as ITextures and display them, but because of the power of two requirement of graphics cards, and video formats not being ...

Irrlicht is open source, why not look at the source code? thay are normally coded in C/C++ using OpenGL or DX