Irrlicht Engine

This is absolutely terrific. Nice work Jorgerosa!

Time to start developing another birthday project. My boys are 8 and 5 now, and I'd like for the project to work for both. My wife's Aunt and Uncle sold their Wii, but nobody seemed to want the non-standard plastic wii guns that they had, and so I snapped them up. What an opportunity to use some old...

The party was a hit! The kids spent the first 1:30 engaged in the other activities we had planned, and then I opened the basement to this running. Everybody had a blast, and most of the parents took a ride on the turret as well. One of them said "Dave- the room is shaking. How did you do that?&...

Birthday party is next Saturday, so the deadline's approaching fast. I have a downloadable windows version of the game available (link at bottom). The turret mechanics work! I cut out a 3/4" x 2' (for the metric speakers among us, about 19mm x 2/3 m) in diameter plywood disk and sandwiched it b...

I'm building a project that includes a few asteroids tumbling through space. To get a nice stable tumbling, I used CreateRotationAnimator from the 11.PerPixelLighting example (where you set the earth turning slowly). My problem is that if you specify any more than one of the Cartesian axes for tumbl...

Name it "X-37B Blackstar", the US top-secret robotic shuttle. It orbits earth, protecting it from oncoming asteroids with powerful lasers, unbeknownst to the people below... NASA materials are in the public domain, so using the name should be fine. That's pretty good! I've used a bunch of...

Thanks guys. Keep the names coming! Astro Blaster, unfortunately, is already taken. It was a 1981 Sega arcade game.

It's time to create another game for my kids' birthday parties. The oldest is turning 8 this year and so we're moving away from pirate ships and on to... Asturret! Asturret is a combination of 'Asteroids' and 'Turret'. The name borders on absurd, so I'm happy to take suggestions (Jorgerosa has had s...

Sorry about a complete lack of updates. I decided to enter the project in RedBull Creation, and changed the control board over to the 'Bullduino' that they sent me. I put up full details, source, and a video of the whole thing here: http://ballisticlocomotive.wordpress.com/ But, if you just want to ...

Alrighty- more progress. I now have a fire placed ready to show in every window. The object is that a fire pops up, and if you don't put it out fast enough, it'll spread to adjacent windows until everything catches on fire. I thought that I'd add a smoke particle generator, but it's getting a little...

Hey there! This sounds really cool. I just have one question. Is it really necessary to mock-up your own sensor bar? I mean, you are building it specifically for your projector screen, right, so couldn't you just translate the perceived mouse coordinates to the coordinates that you want? Yes- very ...

Well, time for an update. First, my wife was in Chicago over the weekend, but she still got a great start on the crayon cityscape. Lots of windows. Here's a preview pic! http://i1248.photobucket.com/albums/hh482/pilesofspam/photo3.jpg Next thing I worked on was the 'virtual sensor bar' as mentioned ...

This is a pain. I do all of my development under Linux, but I like to keep it portable in case there's a reason for, well, anyone else to use it. For example, my son's pre-K class was studying the solar system back when I was doing 'Planet Wars' about 2 years ago. Well, I took the solar system I had...

Quick update- I got the wiimote working as a mouse using this page's instructions: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CWiiD However, just like the wii, when doing this with a projector you're aiming well below the screen to where the sensor bar is set up. It's not really an intuitive place to point a...

Thanks! I'm really glad to have the help of this forum when I run into a snag, or I just need a fresh set of eyes on my code. Played around a little more- right now it's easy to cross compile, so I captured a quick video of a steerable stream in windows with fraps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP7...