Irrlicht Engine

@Radikalizm: Thank You!
surprised how many ppl still confuse the two terms, simply put hacking does not have malicious intent, whereas cracking does.

@Bate: thats stencil shadows, everything inside the outline gets shaded (there is nothing that stops it)
actually in Mass Effect 2, they do a good job of positioning NPCs, but there are times when you can see the shadow of someone on the other side of the wall

translation can be tricky though, because most people try to go word-for-word and then you get the saying "lost in translation"
best way it to describe what the thing is and translate the meaning not the word.

nice, im thinking more linux apps would get it though

when you die...
1 for attaching to your toe/boot
1 for slamming your jaw shut to wedge it in your teeth

@wing64:
more closeups of the dancing chick hehe

not for sure it will help? but a friend recently had an issue with exporting png's from gimp as well (looked similar to yours)
fix was to change Image->Mode from RGB to Indexed (in gimp) before saving as png

This is a question that comes up a lot, but has an easy answer...
1 unit = 1 unit
Depending on the size of the environment you want, 1 unit could be 1 foot, 1 meter, 1 mile, or 1 cm (whatever you want)

If something doesnt "seem" right you can modify the cameras FoV, apply a scale to the object in ...

@strong99
shouldnt you change the topic title?
Screenshot of the Month August 2010 [Submit now!] <- vote now hehe

I'll volunteer as well. I may not have many posts on the forums, but I do run through them about 3-4 times a day (more if im bored.)

I agree with BlindSide, use a terrain tiling (or make your own) and then populate that with individual objects.

reason for this is you can use fancy LOD on objects, so if they are too far away you dont see them, but still want to see the base terrain of where that object is at.

from a designing ...

this is the code i use to pass it

update(irr::IrrlichtDevice* const mIrrDevice)

ive tried to use reference but it never worked, someone on irc told me to use it this way and works like a charm

well you should know that *env is only in scope with main()

if you pass correct references it should work, as i have some classes in my project that take in different pointers as args

@Mel: looking good, i just hope later i can make something half as good hehe

@pera: um... isnt that "Toby the Turtle"? looks awfully familiar