Irrlicht Engine

Using linux and version 1.1 of irrlicht, I'm getting a crash when I try to call getVideoModeDepth on an IVideoModeList object. This only happens when the engine is run in windowed mode, never if I run it in fullscreen mode. This does not happen when using version 1.0.

I've decided to try to write a dymanic terrain loader in irrlicht. Before I proceed though, does anyone know if the remove function deallocates the memory for the scene node?

At first I assumed so, but it appears that the children nodes are not removed, so I was unsure. Are children just parented ...

Hello, I'm trying to accomplish something very similar. I was trying to use meshes before, but I a simpler way would be to use this: http://www.irrforge.org/index.php/Some_ ... or_Texture to tile smaller textures into one large texture, and generate a terrain node from that.

Thanks JP, that would be great. Creating a single x mesh for the map would be much faster in both loading and rendering.

I can't post a samlpe right now, since I'm not on my home computer. But I am using CreateDeviceEx just like CreateDevice; just set all of the members of your SIrrlichtCreationParameters struct to the appropriate values, and replace the one latter function call with the former.

Does CreateDevice ...

The above post is mine. Just read that thread a little closer, and it looks like it's basically a more efficient culling algorithm. That would help with my problem.

Basically, I'm dynamically generating a map, for a strategy game. It's made up of square tiles. Problem is, a map that is 50x150 tiles ...

I'm under the impression that OctTreeSceneNodes optimize meshes, combining multiple polygons into into one if possible, and rendering only those polygons that are within the FOV at any given point.

Is it possble to combine multiple meshes into a single OctTreeSceneNode so that they are optimized if ...

Strange, I use CreateDeviceEx under linux and it works fine. Maybe you could post some code from where you call the function? That would help.

That gives me a zero as well.

I've replaced the several globals with the single struct, which is a little better I guess. But I'd still like to limit the global objects to the device itself if at all possible. Is there any way to access these parameters directly from the device, rather than using the seperate object to store ...

I feel dumb asking this, but is there no function that returns the current resolution of the irrlicht device? It seems like it would be simple and useful, but after searching the forums, API documentation, and the source itself for a little while, I cannot seem to find it.

I suppose it wouldn't be ...

Got it fixed. Thanks a lot hybrid! The makefile didn't have the -lGLU option anywhere. Now that it is in there, I'm getting almost 200 fps.

That last one was me

EDIT: I think you're close hybrid. Looking again at the other tutorials, the performance isn't that much better.

Hello everyone, I recently downloaded the engine and started playing around with it a bit. In the second tutorial though, I get horrible performance when using the openGL rendering option. As slow as 2-4 fps at times. (Software rendering is much faster, but it looks like it only makes a polygon ...