Irrlicht Engine

When talking about a kinematic player controller, do you mean that the game translates player inputs into force and torque inputs to orient and move the player character as opposed to direct rotation and movement inputs? If so, that's what I'm working on right now, I was just going to have the game ...

My experience in Irrlicht with animated characters is virtually nonexistent. However, from what I gather, using a .b3d model format is considered the standard for irrlicht, and Blender already is capable of outputting .b3d models. The .b3d is capable of storing animations and all sorts of other good...

This may help you: http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=241485&highlight=#241485 Perform the numbered steps, then add the camera scene node plus children as a child of your mesh. During updates, after you rotate the mesh, do the updateAbsolutePosition(), setTarget(), setUpVect...

ok, so I set the camera to use an upvector which is another object that is also a child of the main mesh object, yet the camera now seems to roll independently whatever the main object does

setrotation doesn't override the upvector?

even with bindTargetAndRotation set to true?

thanks for the input Sudi, however the problem for seems to be stemming from the fact that for some reason, my camera refuses to rotate properly along the Z axis. Even if I manually input a specifit value for the Z rotation, it doesn't matter, it just does whatever it wants to. Any ideas why that wo...

okay, update: I decided to play around with the orientation relationship between the mesh node and the camera, and got rid of the parent/child relationship between the two. In stead I just made the camera have the same rotation as the mesh node using setRotation(node->getRotation()). Now the bindTar...

I'm trying to make a game/program where the player flies around using physics in stead of animators. The player input would control the movement of an actual mesh rather than the camera which would be "bolted to" toe player mesh, this is why I'm not using the FPS or maya camera. There's a...

I'm trying to make a game/program where the player flies around using physics in stead of animators. The player input would control the movement of an actual mesh rather than the camera which would be "bolted to" toe player mesh, this is why I'm not using the FPS or maya camera.

Just call camera->bindTargetAndRotation (true); On your camera then it works just fine. Yeah, that works too as long as bullet updates the parent node rotation correctly okay, I implemented the bindTargetAndRotation line and it still didn't work, what do you mean about bullet updating the parent no...

Thanks for the feedback guys, as for the ICameraSceneNode class problem, I think I managed to figure that out last night. I haven't had my morning coffee yet and I'm at work, so I can't get a look at the code right now, but I remember that sometime before going to bed last night I changed the way in...

So, I've gotten into working with Irrlicht's parent/child relationships, and it seems to work just fine for most things. However, when it comes to making a camera a child of a scene node, it doesn't behave like I would expect. Now the mesh itself is set up to work with bullet physics simulation, and...

alright, update: I changed the ground mesh over into an IBoxShape from a IBvhTriangleMeshShape and the simulation had no lag whatsoever, even when using the original mesh for the falling object in stead of an optimized one. Then I realized that the problem was with using IBvhTriangleMeshShape, so I ...

ok, so is performance more affected by the per mesh poly count on collision meshes? Or is it more the overall poly count for the entire scene? Cuz I wind up playing with more cubes in some of those examples provided with irrBullet than there are poly's in the simple scene I've got here and I have ye...

does this work with irrbullet? Or do I have to go in and manually include the bullet libraries in stead?