Irrlicht Engine

I was too busy this year to truly develop the application and anyway I'll need help. I've have let a coder to develop the engine on linux and never seen it working (I have only Windows). Since I don't have updates since december 2008 (asked to try to port to windows to see what was done) and ...

I would suggest using the #warning preproc instead of #pragma message() as the later is less "portable" AFAIK.

Warcraft 3
GTA San Andreas
Battlefield 1942

and of course World of Goo

hmm....if you want to live under the sky...i prefere to live in a heated house with a leakproof roof, windows and gates(doors) :P
regardless whether or not one likes living under the sky (which I do btw, though not all the time) one should consider the word "walls" in a metaphorical sense I think ...

if you don't protect you work then you could have it stolen
Well, no matter how hard you protect it, as soon as you release it there will be people able to steal it (which does not mean they will do it though).

and other people will clam your work as there's.
And that's where releasing ...

And to make a liar out of me...
http://www.betanews.com/article/Mono_22_may_overtake_NET_in_some_critical_categories/1232551276

For my defense, it's fresh off the press, so...

No, not really :P

It's great news though, I was waiting patiently for it to be implemented.
Such a joke! No really ...

it looks like two method signatures have changed in a recent Irrlicht release and the code of this skin has not been updated.

You need to edit the iguiskin.h header (and presumably the iguiskin.cpp or cguiskin.cpp) to change the method signatures accordingly (probably just a const keyword to add ...

I'd just recommend that you reconsider your language requirements in some way. C++ is definitely the best option for desktop apps, especially if you need them to be fast which, I believe, is one of your requirements. If for some reason you cannot afford to write the whole application in C++ then it ...

8Mb for embedded programming? man I would have dreamed of that back in the good old days I spent writing a grayscale rendering engine in z80 assembly for Ti 8x calculators... The device had a hardware limit of 64kb of memory, most of which was actually taken by the OS, leaving about 8-20kb for the ...

nice screenies!

just wondering : how are you handling the physics part (especially character movement)?

you probably can tell there's a lot of things I don't know
I doubt I can, just trying to put hundreds of hours of maths/physics lessons to some use (at last). Irony is as sweet and addictive as Genuine Imitation Ovalkwik and even if this one was not half as fun as rogerborg's gems it made me smile ...

Ok so what you're trying to do (correct me if I'm wrong) is :
* creating huge (planetoid) worlds using geographic coordinate to place object
* load scenes with patches of this world

Two important things to take into account :
* there are several different ways to project spherical coordinates ...

whoa, wait... you discovered spherical coordinates? :roll: You haven't done much physics so far have you? Anyway I don't really see how this is gonna help you rendering big things. I really doubt any individual can afford hardware that can render a whole planet with speed and a level of detail ...

@BlindSide : indeed. hopefully this board allows editing even after several days :)

@torleif : of course not. arithmetic remains a lot faster than floating points, even using MMX/SSE but there are a number of places where integers are just not affordable... This tricks are not design/algorithmic ...

A couple more gems :

As a youngster, I got my career advice from a wise old guru who lived in the wilderness. Well, by wise old guru I mean tramp, and by wilderness I mean the public toilets in the park. And by career advice I mean, uh... a lifetime fear of public toilets.

Uh oh, I think Saturn ...