Irrlicht Engine

For frame rate independent movement, you are doing it right. That is, getting the time since the last frame and multiplying it by the amount to move. So the problem is probably with your physics I suppose. Also, if you are waiting for a character to be modelled, you could just use something as a pla...

I personally prefer having the poster's details at the left instead of the right. Before I could read from sorta left of the middle, now I gotta turn my head to the left edge of the screen. So it's a bit awkward. But I'm sure apart from the layout, the forum itself is probably better.

Thanks for the info, I guess I should update

To read a file: IReadFile *file = device->getFileSystem()->createAndOpenFile("text.txt"); then use file->read() to read the contents use file->drop() to close the file when youre done Write a file is almost the same IWriteFile *file = device->getFileSystem()->createAndWriteFile("text....

for the using wrong LoadLibrary etc functions I decided to change my IrrCompileConfig.h a bit //! Define _IRR_WCHAR_FILESYSTEM to enable unicode filesystem support for the engine. /** This enables the engine to read/write from unicode filesystem. If you disable this feature, the engine behave as bef...

Sorry I guess my eyes are going bad. I tried this again today, also tried recording a video, and it seemed to be no bug.

When _IRR_WCHAR_FILESYSTEM is defined, the engine doesn't compile. The first time I tried to compile, there were tons of errors. This was with the debug build setting. For the cases where it was trying to use ansi functions (like LoadLibraryA), changing the project settings in MSVC to "Use Unic...

When you drag a window around the screen, the window itself moves slower than the mouse cursor. I'm not sure if this is a problem with CGUIWindow itself, or a problem with event.MouseInput (not sure what thats called), or if it's just a 'feature' that can't really be helped at all. But I can't reall...

This will make the mouse cursor behaviour with edit boxes more like the behaviour in your operating system/browser, so when the user of your application/game mouses over an edit box, they'll be like "oh I can type here". How it works: If the element moused over is an edit box, the cursor w...

Looks really good. Would love to see something similar to this be added to the engine at some point.

Yup, it was my bad. It does work.

Thanks.

Edit: Here's a function I use, you might find it helpful. However it's not portable and only works for Windows. It will ensure that Irrlicht always tries to load from the application directory. Otherwise, it is possible to go to command line, and while in the C:\ directory, type "C:\Path\To\Exe...

I guess it does make it easier. Stuff like STL containers and things that mother you like that, aren't in C. In other words, it's better for you to learn to do things the hard way first so that you understand whats going on behind the scenes, then afterward you can do things the easy way and skip it...

I'm having trouble with LZMA zip compression. Zip and Bzip2 work fine. But with LZMA I'm getting an error "Error decompressing thm1_xl" This isnt the name of a file in the archve, just a random junk name. This is the archive I'm trying to open: http://www.mediafire.com/?ob68677cn9878dj The...

Hmm, I feel like there's something missing. In your main function, you got your 5 variables (device, driver, smgr, gui, collMan). But these exist only within the scope of the main function. Then in StartGame() the first line uses "smgr", but there's no smgr in this scope, so it shouldn't e...