Irrlicht Engine

Perhaps it does use HumanIK. Although it uses some Havok tools, and I'm not sure where physics fits into that scheme as you could easily design the "physics" they have in that game through collision algorithms that shouldn't be that difficult to understand.

Assassin's Creed uses Havok Animation which is freely available.

I use Havok in the form of scene node animators. That is a lot less work for integration and quite clean.

Well, how are you doing it now? Are you stepping newton by a timestep or something like 1.0f / 60.0f? Or do you mean the way you are applying rotations and translations to the nodes in Irrlicht?

Well, first off I'd texture it. Then of course, I'd put a light around the object. If you wanted it to "glow", per se, you could attempt at using bloom lighting or high dynamic range lighting. But from what you are saying, I'd go with placing a light at the object and texturing the lights different ...

I believe you can use both. There is an example that shows the terrain surrounding the castle in an irrlicht sample. I haven't had too much experience with BSPs, but I'm sure its possible. Just check the examples. It might just be the quake 3 shader example, so that might be your best bet. I'd look ...

Well, for starts, you are disabling light on the temple scene node. The line temple->setMaterialFlag(video::EMF_LIGHTING, false); turns off all light. Perhaps your terrain has lighting enabled? Just a thought.

while(GetMessage(&msg,NULL,0,0))
{
TranslateMessage(&msg);
DispatchMessage(&msg);

//Run the game, simple draw/update loop.
game->Run();
}


That code seems redundant. Why not just have your loop like:

while (game->Run())
{
game->Update();
}


Of course, you'd have to change your methods ...

Thank you a ton, arcoroc. That was the problem. Seems I don't know all that much about xml, hah.

Yup.

It's not that. The values aren't actually stored as an attribute it would seem. It's quite odd. The only attribute associated to each cell is what type of data it is (i.e. number or date).

But yeah, I wouldn't have come here if it was something so easy xD Either way, this is really ...

Ok, so I'm trying to parse some data exported from a program.

Here's a little snippet of some data I'm parsing:

<Cell ss:StyleID="s21" >
<Data ss:Type="DateTime" >2009-06-19T12:50:00</Data>
</Cell>
<Cell ss:StyleID="s23" >
<Data ss:Type="Number" >1.64846</Data>
</Cell>


I want to be able to ...

Looks good. I'd have to disagree with JP (although, its just opinion), I quite like the style. That is, of course, just my opinion.

Its trying to load media from Irrlichts media directory. The files its loading are probably loaded like "mesh = smgr->getMesh("../../Media/..."); or something with some .. and /s. All content is relative to your directory in many cases.

I had a feeling that was it, but the name sounds like its saying set up something in case of GPU mesh buffer is used. But ok, I'll go ahead and try that.

How do I make a mesh so it renders with a GPU VBO as opposed to all software? My game is in dire need of a speed up with one or all of the models...

Thanks in advance,
Xarshi.