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by _neo_cortex
Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:27 pm
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: ITexture scaling
Replies: 2
Views: 372

Re: ITexture scaling

Software-way: convert the texture to a image and resize as already known. The Hardwa[y/re]-way: i think you can use hw accelerated scaling by rendering the Texture on a plain to a big RenderToTargetTexture in high quality (Antialiasing, Anisotropic Filter, Trilinear Filter etc) and then convert the ...
by _neo_cortex
Thu Jan 05, 2012 3:54 pm
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: Shrinking Irrlicht Exe Size
Replies: 6
Views: 547

Re: Shrinking Irrlicht Exe Size

Yeah thx, the UPX sound nice, it will rearrange the exe and integrate a decompressor automaticly. i looked at the irrCompileConfig.h and only found a few switches that should be commented out im testing what that brings, but I believe the model-loaders make up the most space? Do i have to have a cop...
by _neo_cortex
Wed Jan 04, 2012 12:36 am
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: Shrinking Irrlicht Exe Size
Replies: 6
Views: 547

Shrinking Irrlicht Exe Size

hi, i like to know how you guys shrink the size of Irrlicht-Programs. Mine are always 4 MiByte and above. In comparison GLUT programs are like 40KiBytes and such. I know there are many features in the Engine, but i thought the linker only links actually needed features to the programs. Is this alrea...
by _neo_cortex
Wed Jan 04, 2012 12:28 am
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: Level, mobs and camera
Replies: 5
Views: 402

Re: Level, mobs and camera

a perspective (isometric, perspective) is made with matrices

core::matrix4f camProjection;
camProjection.buildSomething...

then you can set the matrix to a camera->getFrustum().set... or camera->setTransform...,
or directly to driver->setTransform(ETS_PROJECTION, camProjection);
by _neo_cortex
Wed Jan 04, 2012 12:24 am
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: Multithreading-Style
Replies: 2
Views: 256

Multithreading-Style

Hi, i like to ask if it makes sense to use two irrlicht devices (NULL-device for loading, saving) and a 2nd for rendering? can both devices share data? how would they be made threadsafe? are they threadsave anyhow? what pros and cons has IReferenceCounted to std::auto_ptr<> and such? does anybody us...