Irrlicht Engine

I figured it out. Have to call setMesh afterwards for it to take effect.
Thanks for the advice. It doesn't work without using ECM_EMISSIVE, so that was very useful to know.

If anyone's interested this is how I changed the colours per vertex.


scene::IMesh* mesh = meshNode->getMesh();
for ...

I'm working on a custom lighting solution and want to display it.
Rather than go through the complexity of setting up textures and lightmaps,
I decided that for now, simply changing the vertex colours would be enough.

But I'm having no luck changing the vertex colours.

I've gone down to the ...

cool!

Thanks for the replies.
slavik262 answered my question very well.

With the extra info FX Composer requires, will it make the shader invalid for Irrlicht? - or will irrlicht successfully ignore them?

(I hope the latter)

What is .hlsl?
I've searched for it on google, but everyone refers to a directx hlsl file as a .fx file.
So I thought, maybe it's just an .fx file renamed with the extension .hlsl.
Alas, no.
NVidia FX composer doesn't recognise it as a hlsl fx file even with a .fx extension.
Maybe the .hlsl ...

of course!
Forgot to make it a reference. I really shouldn't programme this late at night


Thank you.

I have a tree with two materials: bark and leaves. I want the bark to be solid and the leaves to be transparent by alpha channel.

I'm doing this:

scene::IMeshSceneNode *mesh = smgr->addMeshSceneNode( smgr->getMesh("models/mesh.3ds") );
mesh->setMaterialFlag( video::EMF_LIGHTING, false );

video ...

most games do this in some kind of options page, which has very few objects to re-load. I don't know whether they work by re-creating the scene or not, but it's certainly possible to mimic this behaviour by deleting & re-making the device. For simple scenes the delay will be minimal.
RTTs are well ...

could those system-specific functions also work in fullscreen mode?
There must be some way that modern games can do this so effortlessly.

I guess I could always make a setup program as a seperate executable for configuring game settings that can't be configured in run-time. Feels somewhat dodgy to ...

Thanks for the advice.
Acki's kit for making irrlicht docs seems extremely useful.
I'll give it a go

Pre-irrlicht 1.7, documentation was provided via chm.
I found this very useful.
Then it was changed to a html equivalent.
I know it's a more common standard but I really don't see the advantage.
I find myself sorely missing the contents - for easy navigation,
the index especially and the search.
You ...

Hi

I was a bit frustrated by the fact that irrlicht can't change resolution in fullscreen mode without having to reload all irrlicht objects and resources. This includes textures and stuff which on a complex project would mean a long wait to reload. There must be a better way I thought.

So,

1) is ...

Something like this?

vector3df point( 5,5,2 );

matrix4 viewMatrix;
viewMatrix = driver->getTransform( ETS_VIEW ); // get view projection matrix


viewMatrix.transformVect( point ); // transform the point by the view matrix.

// point is now in viewspace

...


Well... that's as far as I got. Bit ...

When the perspective is not moving and the objects (billboards) are stationary, do you get flickering of all the billboards?
No. It's not a technical problem. It's the small inaccuracy. So moving camera a little, it might suddenly appear 1 pixel bigger. Then moving again makes it return to the ...

Sorry for my being confusing.
I seem to be that way when it comes to forum stuff.

Anyway, ur right Ulf about the size thing. My thinking was, I wanted it to have static size, but also be occluded by walls and such - so a brick wall in front would block it. 2D wouldn't do that. Unless it could use ...