Irrlicht Engine

Glad to know its not just me. I have been beating my head against the wall with this same issue. I knew I was seeing the variables change but then after the scene is rendered the values are back to where they were to start with.

I am having this same issue and was wondering if you had come up with a reason or solution to your issue. The interesting part of my problem is that my main .irr file has this problem, yet another test .irr file I had sitting around works fine. I have yet to see any difference. Also in my issue I ...

I'm still rather new the Irrlicht engine, however I believe your issue may just be you are not calling the GuiManager to draw its contents in your main loop. You could try to add gui->drawAll(); just after smgr->drawAll(); in your main loop.