Irrlicht Engine

I've been looking through the Irrlicht documentation but maybe I'm not looking in the right place so I figured I ask here. Is there a simple way to scale an ITexture image the same way that an IGUIImage does. I thought that initializing an ITexture* and using the draw2DImage method would deal with e...

I'm having issues using IGUIImage and to be truthful I'm having difficulty understanding it in general. So here is where I'm at: gui::IGUIImage* image; video::ITexture* background;   image->setImage(background);  In my head this should work. It compiles fine but causes a run time error for NullAcces...

So you don't ever change ISceneManagers but change the level of visibility of each scene node?

Okay, so I'm having a little difficulty getting my head around managing scene nodes. I get that to be displayed scene nodes have to be children of an active ISceneManager, but what about when changing scene, for example from a main menu to starting the game, if all the menu nodes are stored under th...

I know that generally the Irrlicht engine is tailored to 3D but it does have 2d capabilities and since I'm using this as an engine learning exercise then I believe I can be forgiven for under-using it. Anyway's... I'm fairly new to games programming, well programming in particular but if I do say so...