Irrlicht Engine

Close the topic if you wish, I was just wanting people's opinions on if it's a type of business that should require a college degree.

Bearing in mind it could take a few years to become successful, do you have a way of maintaining yourself in the meantime? I think that is the most important issue. If you have parents willing to keep you, or a part time job or something you like, and you definitely have the skills to succeed, I ...

When you work for someone else, that's exactly it - you work for them, not with them, to create the game. You are nothing but a this decade's factory worker, assembling the parts of someone else's idea. I don't want that.

This is, at least where i work, ENTIRELY untrue. There are companies like ...

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i'm going to be harsh. harsh but true.

you're going to fail at this "start my own indie game company" plan. while starting and indie game company is becoming more likely than it used to be, statistically speaking it ...

You used the term education, but do you know the meaning of education?

Education in the Latin term is "To be guided." There is a guide assigned to you in order to see 'The Way.' To know the mysteries 'The Way', you must see 'The Guide.'

If you want to learn on your own, you are going the path of ...

without reading the previous posts (short on time now), I'll reply to the poll:


It's a great idea, but chances are that the group will be so unorganized that it either never starts, or starts but falls apart shortly after.


I've been on so many game making communities in my lifetime (primarily ...

I voted yes, but didn't mean to!
I mean, if you could teach yourself for free and quicker then it is certainly not required. Just don't get distracted. :lol:


well even with college you could get distracted, fail, and basically waste time AND money...


But is education in general even needed to ...

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The Bible and the Mayan Culture are completely contridictory, but apparently they agree on the end of the world?

The mayans killed their own kind in sacrifices to ...

I'm aiming to start up an indie game company in the next few years. Currently looking into college classes for this fall, as well.

So the question I had to ask myself is if I should go take programming and graphics design classes, or is it more of a waste of time (and money) as long as you get the ...

are you working on your own game? or do you think you would join my project for a bit to see how physics are done (haven't started on them yet)

I was, but the other project designer is having issues with his living expenses (no internet now basically), and I've got no work computer to mess with ...

ill be looking forward to seeing it, fuzzy.


Sadly, I have to get my home computer running before I can even attempt this, so if you get this figured out, hopefully when the time comes, you wouldn't mind showing me how it works. No obligations, obviously.

the general air im getting about destructible physics is that "its not impossible, but its not entirely possible either"

This, is what i was referring to. Either that or Quantum doesnt know how to evaluate things on a realistic scale.

No i was pretty much saying the general answer I'm hearing ...

so the general air im getting about destructible physics is that "its not impossible, but its not entirely possible either".... something that an expert can do with some hard work, but someone jumping into C++ after only a few years of off-and-on programming experience should stay away from ...

short run: it is possible, but not out-of-the-box, so you have to code it.

of course integration of an external physics engine is possible, there are several tutorials and examples. but i guess it still requires _some_ knowlegde and learning, haven't done it myself yet tho.

i would say there are ...

Okay, so I've been doing some searching, and I can't seem to find a straight answer as to if Irrlicht has the ability to have destructive environments. I've seen mention of a few things leading to a yes, but no up-front obvious yes.

But I actually have two questions dealing with this.


First ...