Irrlicht Engine

ok, thanks

That is an interesting way to do it... right now I am turning whether or not the unit is affected by light on and off. I was hoping that it would be possible to draw a little circle around the units using primitives. See this http://www.playrage.com/wp-content/uplo ... aft3_3.jpg

can you tell me how it should look in code?

Assuming that tRay is the ray coming from the screen coordinate, and tPlane is the plane of movement.

I don't know exactly what to do with the variables even now.

from the documentation for getIntersectionWithLine() (http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/docu/classirr_1_1core_1_1plane3d.html#81c6fd667e7018805f9fb388721e2f30)

[...]
lineVect Vector of the line to intersect with.
linePoint Point of the line to intersect with.
outIntersection Place to store the ...

ok, the minimap is working.

Thread solved.

lol, documentation... I really should, I guess I might spend a few minutes over there.

But wouldn't that defeat the whole purpose of the space game appearing to not have a plane? Or can you click on a fully invisible plane?

ok

I am experienced enough with the engines in use that I can make a fairly large amount of progress quickly, but I've learned this knowledge in a short amount of time. Because I learned it quickly, there are holes in my knowledge. One of them is primitive manipulation. I could (theoretically) look up ...

This one should be somewhat easy if I'm right. Would there be an easy way for me to draw a black box onto one corner of the screen, then calculate the locations of different units and put a colored dot on the black box relative to the realspace location of the unit? (Obviously to from a minimap)

I ...

*bump*

How would I attach a LightSceneNode to a unit?

The homeworld style would be acceptable, with two problems. One, I would still need to get a ray trace onto a nonexistant plane in order to determine where to expand the circle to. And two, I would have to draw a circle, something I am not familiar with doing.

I would like to have an 'assumed ...

Have you run the Example 12, terrain rendering? If it doesn't do the same funky stuff, then perhaps you could try using the heightmap that was demonstrated with example 12 in your own program to test for funkyness.

Is there a simple way to do selective fog of war? Say that I have user controlled ships, planets, and stars. Is it possible for me to make only the ships vanish when outside of the given sensor range?