Irrlicht Engine

I'll help in any way i can, i am an experianced PHP/mySql developer. But, i suck with making websites *look* good. Think it needs a really cool new design :)

We've got both a professional designer ( fuzzy ) and a professional web developer ( myself ) who have volunteered to do it. Its just ...

Excellent work.

Good work, but I'd like to see it used as a generic container that you can save() and load().

So you could do...


persistent->write("name", username);
persistent->save();


And load it back later with ( maybe add a dynamic cast )


string username = persistent->load("name");

Vitek is right, however vague.

Two good places to start with serialization are the wikipedia article and C++ faq lite.

Boost has an excellent serialization library.

Well, it's technically impressive, but the pictures don't look very pleasing. Also, I don't want my grass pushing that many polygons, I'd rather use those polygons else where.

Good work, but I don't think it's done yet.

Josie, your renderer looks really interesting. Is there any license or anything on the code?

EDIT: Open source, apparently I have a reading problem :lol:

MIT, so you can steal it all you want.

Quillraven, you'd have to write something to handle all your 2d draws. The way phoenix does this is ...

What you should do is encapsulate what you draw into scenenodes, Irrlicht automatically orders those by depth, regardless of what order you create them in.

No, it's not slow. The only problem here is that Irrlicht does not batch the 2d calls. You have to do this on your own. The images have to be batched into common textures and the draw calls should use the 2d batch image method. This requires some work, but it should get much faster that way ...

Agreed with all points above. However, do note that according to wikipedia DirectInput is being phased out. Microsoft now suggests just using the standard messaging loop for joystick inputs. This is because MS is actively marketing their XInput library ( which only works with the 360's pad ). So ...

oginnam wrote:I think the web needs more tutorials with their corresponding sample files that are better explained ...

Which tutorials are ambiguous? How can we improve them?

CuteAlien wrote:I think the CIrrDeviceWin32 device should not depend on DirectX.

Agreed, but it would be nice to take advantage of directinput when available ( On every windows OS Irrlicht supports ).

- avoid Flash, JavaScript or similar web diseases


JavaScript is not a web disease, when used properly :|

Also, maybe it's just me, but I hate going to a page and seeing that their front page is just a wordpress blog. I think all that you guys need is a simple CMS for handling static pages ...

Well, we also need to cross-link from old to new posts etc. So porting the forums might be second or third step IMHO. More important would be the update of the homepage. Maybe we should go for the Wordpress blog and a nicely looking Wiki. I guess that would fit most of our needs, would just require ...

Well, bitplane has almost vanished from earth's surface, so I don't know how to proceed with this. Just keep on creating suggestions on how to change the layout and things. Also make sure that all your proposals are conforming to the things SourceForge offers. And no, thanks, but we don't need ...

I am willing to help as well. I am a professional web developer that specializes in web applications, so I could definitely help with making the site more dynamic and easy to update, as well as the move to PhpBB3.

Also, as far as hosting goes, sourceforge is a pretty excellent free host for ...