Irrlicht Engine

D3DX is the D3D eXtension framework. It's now deprecated for Metro apps. DX11 is what you use now. There's also a new WinRT windowing system that replaces Win32, and from what I understand, XInput is the only joystick API that they support for Metro style apps (why you would need joystick support in...

They created a store similar to iOS app store for Metro apps. You have to run a validation tool that checks certain things. D3DX has been deprecated, there's no more support for DirectX 9, etc... The reason Metro style apps are going to be important, is because ARM based Windows 8 tablet will only s...

I've been playing around with the Windows 8 Beta and checking out the dev tools for it. It requires you to use DirectX 11.1, and apps can't get into the store if they run on DirectX 9. Is support for Windows 8 Metro style apps planned for a future release of Irrlicht? I want to write Windows 8 Metro...

The back of the ship is not reflecting the blue light from the back because the fire is a particle system. You need to add a point light with the same color as your flames right behind them. Bloom/glow would add a lot to the scene. And normal mapping on the asteroids would look nice too.

I'm pretty sure that you don't pass app certification for Microsoft Store if you use anything earlier.

If Irrlicht is going to run in Windows 8 Metro style we're going to need D3D11.1 support.

I downloaded the Consumer Preview and the Visual Studio 11 Beta. I really like the Metro style apps, but I hate having to re-learn everything about Windows programming. Irrlicht doesn't support metro style apps either...

Writing normal/specular map shaders for your ship would be a good idea too. And adding some glowing lights to your ship and some bloom/glow post-processing could help too.

I didn't know you had to do that. I'll try and enable it when I can get to my desktop.

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Cool. I want to port my engine (built around Irrlicht) to DX11 (or 12?) eventually, and when I tried writing a DX11 driver before, the vertex structures were the problem I ran into first.

Is the patch designed with future DirectX11 integration in mind?

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Custom renderer? You mean a custom IMaterialRenderer implementation?

Good point. I guess 1.9 is when to hope this gets in.