Irrlicht Engine

Okay, thanks for the CMake tips, I´ll definitely be taking a look at the Vertex skinning example. For shadows I do a render using a simple depth shader into a float16 frame buffer, then in the pixel shader I see if the pixel being rendered is below the depth of the matching pixel in the depth map, s...

Thanks very much!

Have you seen this Assimp Viewer page, the downloads all point to Assimp 3.1
http://assimp.sourceforge.net/main_downloads.html

Thanks, appreciate that, I'm feeling burnt out trying to get code working that a) never could have worked, or b) lacks instructions! ;) I have CMake GUI, but I saw several Assimp...io CMake files, and I wasn't sure which one to load. Do I need QT, I'd like to compile Assimp in 32-but X86 to start, W...

I tried to use MeshManipulator::recalculatenormals() as it mentions smoothing, and even calculate a weight for normal smoothing, but after having to dig through the subject at some time cost :roll: has become clear that it never worked!!! Most of routines to handle mesh smoothing through adjusting n...

Its a nightmare, so many things to consider, so many compromises! I don't think much will help my model's rendering speed, I already having it loaded in GPU memory, and just render the same stream each frame, but the 1050 mobile struggles with 5 million polys when rendered with floor, environmental ...

Thanks a lot for the tip, I changed to V140 and now it compiles, but it shows unresolved external aiNode, I tried copying in the assimp.lib but made no difference. Having some setting instructions for Visual Studio would make life easier! I set the lib path, assimo.lib in the imports list on the lin...

I guess bGFX also has its problems though that seemed like a good solution, i.e. to go with a major driver project, but I guess there are problems with that too. I wonder how much real benefit users will get with a full multitasking driver until we get GPU with multiple cores? My problem, for my usa...

Sure, but Google lists the Assimp GitHUB with version 3.1, and that page looks official, it would be useful to remove that, or make a note about the later version so people don't have the same problem. Anyway, I installed the latest Viewer, the X64 viewer is "not compatible" with my Intel ...

Okay, phew, great! I´ve now found the Assimp site, as searching on Google for "Assimp download" only losts the older 3.XX GitHub site!!

I will now repeat the testing, again, with the newest release 4.10! Thanks!

Has anyone considered using Vulkan Ez, or Ez Vulkan API, seems that it offers all the functionality at lower-level but faster start-up.
I guess there is considerable work to do restructuring for CG multitasking to make have Vulkan really worthwhile.
Still, Ez Vulkan seems interesting.

The problem with IrrAssimp is that it does not load the joint positions, rotations or scaling anywhere! CreateAnimations() in IrrAssimpImport.cpp is called, these vars are loaded from the joints, but Visual Studio cannot find any setting of these variables in the joints! This them causes HasAnimatio...

Probably the binary was compiled from different code changes, hence different functionality. In any case, XEffects is easy enough to follow although it will take some time to go through, once you have done that, you will be able to make the changes you need in future easily. No pain, no gain as they...

I had a quick look at BAW, is the Vulkan driver implemented, because I couldn't find the driver just a few structures name ...Vulkan.

Hi, Xeffects renders a shadow map from one light only to produce shadows, so extra lights will not affect shadows. You can render multiple shadow maps, and altering the code to do this is relatively easy. Frame rates will drop though, as every etra light requires a complete redraw of each scene. You...