Irrlicht Engine

hahaha, awesome!

Niko has decided to discontinue support for the .Net version of Irrlicht. But thanks to our friends at Irrlicht .Net CP we have nothing to worry about.

I've actually just recently converted from Irrlicht.Net to Irrlicht.Net CP and it was fairly painless, and runs just as good, if not better.

So ...

The modeler that I'm working with currently, is using XSI to export all of our .X files, they import into Irrlicht just fine, but we have yet to texture and animate yet.

Well for the circle, you can just create a circle image, with the outside of it a color that will be safe to set as the transparency key.

That way it will appear circular.

All that video did was make me want to play Portal even more...

But that is quite sweet!

My C++ skill is limited, but i believe you do this:

I would set the visible property of your node to false until after your 10 seconds is up. then set it to true. That should fix your problem.

and that way you don't have to mess with drawing stuff individually.

ah, interesting, thanks for the info - now. how do i create a shader? lol totally new to the shader stuff..

Sounds like the easiest way for you to accomplish this, is to use the iSceneNode.Rotation method. just make a loop increasing your rotation until it is 45. that way it will actually turn on screen.

Something like this:

for I = 1 to 45
node.rotation(new vector3d(i,0,0))
next


You could always ...

Just declare two different materialtype variables globally, so they can be accessed elsewhere not just during your graphics init. Make one with the pretty shader stuff, and the other normal. Then based on some logical test, like if the mouse is over the node or whatever. Set the material type to one ...

I have a mesh that i want to kind of have a pulsing glow. Would i have to use sharers to do this? If so, can somebody point me in the right direction to find a shader that can do this?

Any ideas on the subject are most helpful.

Thanks

The way i go around this, was just to create two different materials in memory, then depending on the situation i change the material between the two on the model.. i don't know if this is the most efficient way to do it. but it seems to be working.

Ok, so i've gotten your code to work to set a meshes alpha so that its translucent

but how do i change it on a node after i've added the mesh to it?

I believe you are looking for something like this?
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=22426

Well i'll see if i can help you out a little :)

1) The easiest way i've found to change the way your model is facing is to use the node.rotation property and send it in a vector3d of how many degrees you want it to rotate on each axis.

2) I'm not 100% on this, but you should be able to add ...