Irrlicht Engine

I am writing a "save game" feature for my game where everything will get serialized to an xml file. I'm worried that the file size will be needlessly large. I see a way to read from zip archive, but is there a way to *write* an xml file to a zip archive?

It looks like it's not possible without ...

Hi all, I know there are a million threads on this but I was just hoping if anyone had a simple working solution in place.

I am writing a very basic 3D game for my kid and I don't need any kind of impressive graphics, just the most basic shadows that have 1 and only 1 purpose: to see how far an ...

nope

Noticed I was getting some graphical frame rate lag with just 50 objects on the screen, and profiled my client with Very Sleepy. Following are the results:

Name Exclusive, Inclusive,%Exclusive,%Inclusive, Module
png_write_rows, 11.245545, 28.617578, 32.021381, 81.487769, Irrlicht
SetEvent, 1 ...

It was in the Irrlicht 1.8 zip I downloaded. I'm not the only one:
http://code.google.com/p/opennero/source/browse/vendor/Irrlicht/current/source/Irrlicht/ISceneNodeAnimatorFinishing.h?spec=svn1640&r=1640
https://github.com/codetiger/IrrNacl/blob/master/ISceneNodeAnimatorFinishing.h
http://irrlicht ...

what's the point of ISceneNodeAnimatorFinishing? It appears it would help optimize things by causing completed animators to be cleaned from the animator list, but nothing in the code appears to actually be calling HasFinished() or doing any cleaning.

Hi, I get z-fighting when I rotate my ship around with shadows enabled:

http://squisher.co/images/forum-shadow-artifact.png

Relevant code is:

smgr->getMeshManipulator()->setVertexColors(smgr->getMesh("bird.irrmesh"), SColor(0, 0, 0, 0));
auto shadowNode = smgr->addAnimatedMeshSceneNode(smgr ...

My Submission:

http://squisher.co/images/ships.png

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Title: Ships MMO
Description: An in-game screenshot of me mining an asteroid for points. In the background is a randomly generated space dungeon. Mounted on the wings of my ship from left to right are a miner, a tractor beam ...

Hi Polylux, I posted a possible solution in my support forum.

Newly added: space dungeons!

Several randomly generated space dungeons are scattered around the universe. They have only one entrance, and one room at the opposite end full of loot! Rooms in the dungeon may contain loot as well, or more likely enemy ships.

http://squisher.co/images/dungeon.png ...

I noticed when my character's back was up to the wall, I could see behind the wall into the room behind me. That was an easy fix: I use getSceneNodeAndCollisionPointFromRay to move my camera up closer to my character if the character's back is up to the wall.

My problem now is if I am standing with ...

Probably a dumb question, but I was hoping to improve performance by only drawing shadows on basic walls and not drawing them on hi-poly objects. Is that possible? Would that even save CPU if it were?

For me it's not random. Any failed login crashes.
This is fixed! Version 0.009 will automatically be downloaded next time Ships is run.

Thanks for the feedback, I agree and I'll take all your suggestions into consideration! The particles and lens flare in particular bother me too, but I plan on ...

Hi Teto,

Thanks for trying it out!

- I've fixed the Irrlicht.dll problem.
- I've added the "without first and last letter" notice to the error message.
- Most likely a spam filter blocked the validation email. I turned off email validation, can you please try registering again?
- I noticed that ...

Shamelessly bumping, with a new announcement that I've added a bunch of stuff (relatively speaking) to flesh out the game. Also, I completed another project I was working on, so I now have the time to release updates for Ships much more quickly. Here's a pretty picture showing off the newly added ...