Irrlicht Engine

Hi everybody

Do anyone knows a way to make a simple mesh like a simple plane but with fat triangulation? I mean most of the triangles will be Equilateral triangles.

Do anybody knows any tool for making this kind of meshes or how can I build them, for example, in 3Ds Max?

I want such kind of ...

How about building a grass system like that in GPU Gems 1? It does not use physics and irrlicht will remain graphics engine. I think I can implement it by vertex shaders for both GLSL & HLSL.

I was just explained what I was talking about, that is too say fluid surface and not 3D fluid flow. The first one can be achieved without any full physic engine. As I was saying it, I will probably do that next year : a scene node like the waterSceneNode, which water surface is dynamic, I mean you ...

I still don't know with whom you're discussing, stefbuet, but I don't talk about such simulations either. As I might have made clear in my previous post.

Thank you hybrid

I understood what you said, but not completely, and I know that there will be no physics for Irrlicht. I will try to see what ...

stefbuet wrote:You don't like the dynamic water idea ?

Yeah. That sounds nice, But as you see there is no physics in Irrlich and Idk whether it can be implemented without external physics engines or not.
Do you have any idea about that?

Thanks alot,

Yu should be able to get a decent cloth effect without using a full-blown physics engine. Just create some animators which move certain kinds of geometry in an acceptable way. If you lay out your code such that one could even add a physics engine - even better. But I don't think it's absolutely ...

Make me a decal system :) with some kind of decal manager, and decal clipping... (perhaps the decals are even meshes, triangles extracted from the scene geometry and clipped to a decal volume). Something that is easy to use and can just be dropped into a game.

Maybe it wouldn't get into Irrlicht ...

There are alsready some paged terrain implementations, I guess you'd need a special algorithm if you really want to make a thesis from it. Shader files are probably not that useful, as Cg also comes with that sort of things. So it might be redundant once Cg is integrated into Irrlicht (alas not ...

how about creating some sort of plugin , for example paged geometry or paged terrain, although i wouldnt know the difficulty of doing this

Thanks conallmmcg

Yes. I think paged geometry and paged terrains needs lots of work and understanding. But can you estimate how much work does it need ...

Yes, Nadro has a Cg add-on, which might be merged into Irrlicht at some point.
You could go for a DX10/DX11 driver, or OpenGL-ES2.x. Those all need a shader-based material system.
A somewhat outdated list of things to work on can be found on the Wiki:
http://www.irrlicht3d.org/wiki/index.php?n=Dev ...

From the irrlicht's todo list :
Generic Post-Processing
Irrlicht Shader Files
Hit two birds with one stone, and make a shader phaser; it would simplify things nice effects for all users and make irrlicht more professional.

One idea would be to read openGL vsh/vert/frag and convert it to Dx's ...

In my opinion which does not count very much irrlicht should be made ready before trying to add new things. There are some features need to be implemented properly and other things which might be reworked before new stuff is added upon i.e. the Texture<->Image thing. Or a flexible vertexformat ...

Nox wrote:Isnt there already a cg-implementation?

Idk, But I think it is a good idea.

well, currently the engine is singlethreaded, which means e.g. loading a model in the background and rendering at the same time is not possible. but to work on this one would need very detailed knowledge of the engines inner workings, and it still is a pretty big task.

the revamp of image/texture ...

personally i think the missing feature which is of highest strategic importance would be multithreading, but that is kind of a big task.

other than that, a revamp of the Image/Texture system would be good.

but if you are looking for smaller things, i am sure you will find some nice task

Hi loki ...