Irrlicht Engine

Thank you for your help, the bindTargetAndRotation solved my problem.

To elaborate my problem further, i want to rotate the camera on the axis that is pointing toward a given target, so if the camera is a top view cam and you're seeing 4 quadrants on the screen

1 | 2
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3 | 4

i want to make a 180 degree rotation in a way that the view will be

4 | 3 ...

Can I disable the option making the camera point to a target because i don't need it in my project and I only need to rotate it on its axis. I've already tried omitting the setTarget and still it seems that the camera is always pointing to a fixed point.

I downloaded irrlicht 1.7 on a windows box and compiled it using visual studio 2008, i ran the exmples and everything is working fine. However, i want to control the camera object with my own key event listener.
So i set up a normal camera (assuming that scmgr is my scene manager object) and in the ...

Thanx guys for your replies. The game that its developers regret using irrlicht can be found here "http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~mheinz/microracer-html/", however they're using an old version of irrlicht which why they regret their choice back then, I'm sure irrlicht has matured enough now.

Hello all, forgive me if it's not the right place to post this.
I want to create a formula 1 racing game. I'm not an experienced game developer, however I have a solid background in both C and C++. I coded some 2D games, mostly side-scroller shooters, back in old school. I also have a beginner ...

Well, what can i say other then Thx for the warm welcome

thx rogerborg, although your sarcastic remark was not needed.

ok, thx for clearing this out. I think I'll go for the .X format. Anyway, I was searching the forums for a code snippet on how to use the API to access the different joints but with no luck so far.
It would be helpfull if someone posted some pointers.

Thx for the reply JP, so as I understood correctly I need to create (in my case) 2 ".3DS" files with one housing the chassis and the other file housing one wheel and then import these in irrlicht and create the appropriate scene nodes.
But I'm little shocked about this. For example, let's say I ...

Hello all, I have a 3D Model of a vehicle in a .3DS format. The model has 5 parts: the chassis and 4 wheels.

So far I'm able to import the whole mesh and render it in my application, however I need to be able to create the different objects in my mesh serpartely or in other words, create a ...