Irrlicht Engine

I felt it in Dunedin. I wonder if Blindside felt it.

Lonesome Ducky wrote:This is good news, but I think I'm going to stick with Bullet still.

+1 for bullet.

Though now newton is open source I may have to give it a go.

You don't need a physics engine for calculating matrix rotations. Irrlicht has that inbuilt. You may want to pick up a book on maths or start reading online. I only did 101 maths in uni, so I found arras's Free Flight (space flight) functions very helpful. I tried to do the same with quaternions but...

I'm just going to scrap the shadow feature in my game. Sometimes unity3d looks very tempting. Stensil buffers create too many artifacts. Xeffects only works on limited hardware. Even simple textures for shadows only works with meshes, which will create artifacts. I remember reading in the API a way ...

Bullet is pretty nice. And Newton is now under a zlib licence.


But first ask yourself: will a physics engine make my game funner?

A nice trick:

new rotation += (current - target) / 2

this way it will add half of the difference each update. You can apply this to positions too, so when it gets closer to the taget, it will slow down.

devsh wrote:I'm developing a game engine, you could join.

Instead of developing your own engine, why don't you simply contribute to irrlicht?

I'd rather have irrlicht have a wrapper, and perhaps some optimizations for the newton wrapper.


But this is great news.

Ha, come to think of it I am using the solarflare from irrext.

So I am kinda using it.

Calculate the position of the ground relative to the object you want to put your blob shadow, and put the blob shadow there. haha yes. I was looking for more something like this http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=208472&sid=7934e9608187fd0e7c4b505ec2e6eb06 or http://irrlicht...

No need to be harsh, he's only 15 years old.

I've decided to do a basic blob under the player / other objects. What's the best approach to doing this?

It seems to be disorganized.

I'd write my own custom behavior before reading through someone else's only to discover it's not what I wanted.

After a little research I think both Source and Unreal have their own format for defining material properties and shader variables. In Unreal if the user specifies a bump map or similar the engine will use internal higher shaders to render it. In Source the user can write their own pseudo-programmin...

Am I evil for thinking as soon as its deprecated, just remove it?

A quick google of the error after upgrading irrlicht versions will likely point to a forum post of someone with the same problem and solution.