Irrlicht Engine

Word.

Here's an orientation helper scene node. It's nothing big, but I needed it for debug purposes and so I thought, I could as well post it here.
It displays a cube with three differently colored arrows, pointing in the X, Y and Z direction of the node.

http://web18.twitpic.com/img/107782396 ...

Nah, the 2/10 difference came from editing the post twice. :) That obviously that doesn't make sense, what I meant was 10...1000 and 2..10, for example. In the second pass the differences are much smaller, resulting in higher precision for close object. Of course you'd be disabling all "non-near ...

Thanks!

Can I easily add an existing object from my main scene manager to the 'helper' scene manager? Or: Do I have to expect a performance hit? (Since I only need a small set of nodes there, is there maybe some kind of optimization?)

Hi.

Is there a "native" way to temporarily hide all scene nodes? I need to isolate a single element to render it to a texture. I thought of creating some sort of supernode which I'd hide, but have no idea how to make a child of it visible again, overriding the parent's visibility.

Interesting read. I never looked at it this way! Thanks alot!

I wonder if it makes sense - generally - to use two render passes, one for distant objects and one for near objects with different zNear and zFar values. For example, zNear = 10, zFar = 100 for an indoor level, then zNear = 0.5, zFar ...

Things I learned today:

1.) camera->setNearValue(0) is evil
2.) I should call sceneManager->drawAll() first, then draw overlay lines (like bounding boxes)
3.) IGUIImage does not scale images by default; You have to tell it to do that.
4.) If you have to call draw3Dbox() etc. before drawAll(), then ...

Ah, yes. I used the IGUIImage with setUseAlphaChannel(true) and that worked perfectly.

I have a problem with the render to texture part, though.
I followed tutorial 13 (Render to texture) and created a texture, a fixed camera and an FPS camera. In the main loop I begin the scene, set the target to ...

Hi everyone.

I need to create some sort of 3D HUD; Basically a rotating coordinate system (three calls to draw3Dline()) that shows the orientation of the user selected scene node (the active camera, in my case).

I also remember older games like Conflict Freespace, where the model of the targeted ...