Irrlicht Engine

Have a good one all, try not to do too much work over the Xmas period!

No! Not like the tech demo. The tech demo runs on time, which means that loading done or not, you will be put into the program.

What you want to do is draw your splash screen, render one frame ( just go through your render loop once ) and then call a function to load the resources. When the ...

Just out of curiosity, what exactly did they change/add?

Well spotted, the intentional mistake

Or you can hide with setVisible(true)

Check out Newton's site, they have a tech demo there that uses Irrlicht, that shows you how to use ragdoll physics as well as some other stuff.

It's not always the engine which makes games look good. Without seeing the code I couldn't say, but my guess is that they have a greatly optimised engine and the rest they do with shaders and top notch modelling and skinning. If we knew how it was done then ID wouldn't be able to sell licenses of ...

Hmm, I'm trying to use WinCVS but the version I can't find where to set the ssh program. Where do you do that?

What I would do is to have a function that is called every frame and handle the AI. So, it may check if an enemy is visible and if it is then stop doing what it was doing and attack, or carry on patrolling ( or whatever else you have them doing ).

You can run HL2 in offline mode, but there is one big problem, they don't let you do it unless your connection is down. Hmm, did they think that prehaps I want to play it in offline mode even when the connection is off! No, apparently.

I am warming to it. The friend network they have in there ...

Never used that but maybe it would help if you could post what line 1 in the getMesh script is. Someone may recognise it, to me it sounds like it is trying to use a variable that hasn't been declared.

When it crashes, click on the debug button of that screen that asks you to send your details over to MS. That will tell you what line the problem is ( as long as it doesn't try to direct you to assembly that is )

What you have are basic tools with which to create a GUI with. Windows is a very basic GUI for the most part, most OS's are. I guarantee that if you could draw a GUI in Photoshop that I'd be able to convert it to Irrlicht as a GUI. Maybe a few hacks here and there but the GUI will never improve ...

Eh? Buttons have been skinnable with images for the last two versions. Nothing else is tho, Crazy Ed's GUI is compatable with Irrlicht now, that is a pretty good GUI library.

Well, you could use some transparent images that move in the sky over each other. That is how smoke is done sometimes, they did it that way in Full Spec Warrior if you've played that.