Irrlicht Engine

looks interesting, i will take a look thanks.
Actually you described it perfectly "A tile based system"

One question though before i jump in, are they batches dynamic? eg can i remove the tiles from them once they are made (remember it is for an editor)

Unfortunately it is not just cubes.

What i am trying to do is make a built in level editing system like i made with B3D several years ago. On a level load it loads all the prefabs it needs into the scene (walls,stairs,pillars,entire room prefabs etc etc) and hides them from view.

Then as the map ...

Back on this after a slight break..

I need to use the out of the box irrlicht for my project (too many reasons to explain) What i want to do is to be able to load a load of meshes and hide them, then have them copy into view when in 'scope' and delete when not.
I have heard of meshbuffers but ...

I thought clone instanced a copy

Yikes, this has thrown a bit of a brake on my project. I did not know that irr did not support instancing.
Any idea how i can do this if it is not supported? Has anyone made something to do it?

I seem to have a strange problem, if i load a cube exported from blender as .b3d and then clone it 1000 times in a grid, i get some serious slowdown. I know it is the 3d render because when stepping through it is the render3d that takes all the time.

I am using the OGL option but strangely enough ...

Solved it

The first ones of the above work but it has to be a precision mesh tri selector!. I was using octree!

(not quite sure what the point in the 3rd one is though it seems to do the same as the first.. except actually work )

bbEntity is a custom scenenode, and eventually i will need the other values, but mostly want node mesh specific picking from a screen position but nothing seems to work as i would expect.

This seems to work kind of but it is not right. The resulting node seems to jump between them, almost as if it ...

yes the screenpick is being called.

I have managed to pick up a node using getCollisionPoint instead but the end point of the ray returned from the screenCoords is 0,0,0.

However, when i look at the console out of the following it seems the ray is always from world 0 rather than a relative point ...

Thanks for the reply, unfortunately I did try that one but it only works on bounding boxes which is not what i need.

Can anyone help with this? i have turned off things like cameras and have set a cube to "1<<2" and the pick ID to the same but the entity is always returned null.
I have even tried hardcoding a ray that intersects the cube and still no joy. What am i doing wrong?


bbEntity* ScreenPick (s32 x,s32 ...

Great thanks!

I realised the problem was in the ID of the camera's pivot.

Still have the probelm that this only semms to work on bounding boxes though, how can i make it so it uses the mesh for picking?

well, i have tried getSceneNodeFromScreenCoordinatesBB but it seems to return the same node intptr no matter what.

Is this possible? I am making an editor where i can drop instances of some loaded source meshes and need to be able to "get" the node i click on. I could not find any function in the API for this.
Can anyone help?

Thanx

How do you make a scenenode fullbright (lighting,false) but also be affected by material color values?

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As ^he said it uses the iphone app stuff so i guess that means objecive C ...