Irrlicht Engine

hendu wrote:beginScene with a NULL device does not make any sense...

We are using irrBullet for the server, and thus we thought we needed to use irrlicht, too. However, since it a server, we give irrlicht a null device. Does that make no sense?

If I use the NULL device on my application's server (which means no OpenGL), is it still then possible to handle beginScene() in different threads? After what has been said, it looks so, but can please someone guarantee?

Thanks! I believe you, but only for interest: Why isn't it possible? I have seen such issues with Qt and SDL aswell, but never found out what the reason was...

Hello, is it possible to run beginScene() with thread 1, and then with another thread, named thread 2? Also, is it possible to do the initial setup, like createDevice(), with a different thread as I run beginScene() with? Here's a valgrind output:   ==11811== Thread 2: ==11811== Invalid read of size...

Hey, to be honest, it was me who wrote the loader. :lol: I remember trying to use the loader in that game my friend wrote. But loading failed with an assertion saying that the mesh needed to have a type of EAMT_SKINNED. So I replaced (in the loader) animatedmesh = new SAnimatedMesh(); with animatedm...

Hey, I tried to put my own level loader (it is named "ODFL loader") into one of a game a friend of mine wrote. Usually, ODFL loader loads the level with simple irrlicht test programs I wrote. However, with this game, it failed with a memory bug: ==16830== by 0x430A980: irr::scene::CAnimate...

Hi, I am working on a level format importer from a foreign format to irrlicht using an own MeshLoader. Now, it seems that I've done everything right, but the lightmaps I was given from the foreign format make the levels very dark. No wonder - when I extract them and watch the bitmaps in an image vie...

Good idea Thank you so much!

Yeah, I know what you mean, but I have the data as an array of pixels. Now, As you say it, I will have to write those into a file (where I'll need to give them a header and all that information), to then load them from this file again into an IImage*? This would cause a large loss in runtime: imagin...

Hi, I need to access CImage in my external meshloader to build a texture of it. However, CImage is not in the Irrlicht include directory, but only in the internal sources. I can still compile it including the inner sources, and it does link on Linux. However, that should not be the way it is done? M...

Ok, so, does this mean, that I need to set animated textures (like GIFs) outside the MeshLoader?

Okay, but sorry I am asking again. How do I tell Irrlicht in the IMeshFileLoader that a texture shall be animated?

Thanks, but how do I then access the SceneNode? I tried to find a solution from other MeshFileLoaders, but found none.

Heya,

thanks a lot for this fast response... Still... I am not quite sure if any of those opportunities allow it to already load the whole animations in the IMeshLoader::createMesh(io::IReadFile* file); function. Do you have an idea? Is there any possibility?

Greets,
Lo

Hi there, I am developping a new map format which contains animated textures. I found this tutorial here: http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/docu/example008.html However, the tutorial first calls the MeshLoader: scene::IAnimatedMesh* mesh = smgr->getMesh("../../media/room.3ds"); and then adds...