Irrlicht Engine

Thanks for your suggestions! A LOD-system is truly important, but I think I'll need some more time learning c++ before I'm able to code that. About the fog: we wanted to avoid using it because of the city scenery, I think this wouldn't look that nice. For the moment I've found another solution for ...

vermeer wrote:how many 1024x1024 24bits were u loading, out of curiosity...

about 30

Ok, I think I've figured out the main problem. It was so obvious that I haven't thougt of it yet :oops:. The most of our textures were 1024x1024x24 pixels big, which means that every texture needed about 3 MBytes of RAM. I've shrinked these textures down to 512x512 and the program now only needs 190 ...

When I ran the demo, I didn't see anything that would merit such bad performance...
That's the point. We don't know why our program needs over 300 MBytes when we just load in our level-mesh via SceneManager->getMesh("..."). Maybe this is a problem with our 3ds-file (converted from ms3d), maybe it ...

Yes we know that. The problem is that our program needs over 300 MB of RAM (see my thread in the "advanced forum"), so if you don't own at least 512 MB Windows uses your hard-drive as a virtual ram and this is of course very very slow.

Someone asked for sourcecode in our guestbook. It isn't that impressive at the moment, I've just put some snippets from the forum together and added a few things like a small class for the car. The 3rd person camera is descended from boogles 3rd person camera class, I've just changed a few lines to ...

Hi!

We have just released the first Irrlicht-based version of "Projekt Urbanus". It's going to be kind of an adventure/quiz-like game with a 3rd person view, playing in a real city in the 1920's. Currently, you can walk through some city parts, see a tram in action and drive a car (very primitively ...

Hi!

We (two man team) are developing a game in which the player can move through our home town. The game plays in the 1920's, where the town centre differed much from the todays state. Some of the buildings contain brand names ("UFA Palast" -> cinema, UFA still exists; "Sarotti" -> chocolate ...

It works, but you have to edit and then recompile the engine. Delete the lines marked with a "-" and add the lines marked with a "+" and then rebuild Irrlicht.dll.

On a sidenote, I broke the camera into camera.cpp, main.cpp and main.h files so it's relatively easy to put it into other stuffs if someone needs it - camera is now being handled by two functions, depending what you want.
Great! Can you please upload these files? I have some problems with my 3rd ...

I have noticed this, too, but I think this appeared first with Irrlicht 0.6 or 0.5.2. In previous versions everything worked fine. Here is a sample screenshot:

http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~kotho/dx8.jpg

I've got another problem with the dx9 renderer in fullscreen-mode, just see this screenshot ...

Very nice game. Fortunately I could grab one of those new Ati X800 XT today so it runs perfectly on my machine

I'm not quite sure if "getRayFromScreenCoordinates" returns the ray you want to have. Where is your model set with your code?

Hm, can you please be a bit more specific, e.g. show a bit more of your code. What type of line do you use? Maybe you can try using Irrlicht's line datatypes. Check if line.getVector() returns the vector you want to have.

Tels wrote:However, since niko is in Europe and many other people are too, he might simple publish his bank account info - I would happily send some money over.

Good idea, I would also like to reward Niko's great and hard work on the engine with some euros.