Irrlicht Engine

To Murphy:
I won't argue why you would put a sleep in your mainloop, but in some cases it can be a necessity and in some cases its just bullocks to do it.
But splitting up the operations can be quite nice. For example I find it unacceptable to scan for user input with the same rate i refresh the ...

so let me get this straight usleep() works on both windows and linux?
so it's good to use this instead?


The unistd.h defines standard routines used in a unix environment, and it contains unix specific code. You probably wouldn't use it on a windows machine.


"Do not #include <unistd.h> as it ...

hi

just for completenes, the equivalent to the windows Sleep() on a *nix system is the usleep().
The sleep() defined in unistd.h has only seconds precision while the usleep() takes a msec argument. The highest precision is about 10 msec dependent on the granularity of the linux scheduler. When ...

I had a similar problem with the 3ds format, exported from wings3d, couldn't get dynamics light to function proberly - it seems that every surface material had its emmissive color set to something different from zero, and therefore ligting up by itself. I solved this by setting

node->getMaterial ...