Irrlicht Engine

Blue text on black background is VERY hard to read, and grey text on black background also...

I agree, but I have a remark.

If you don't use the 'using namepsace' statement and instead qualify the calls it would make it easier to locate where something belongs to. So it is more to write, but easier to understand I think.

Second, you define some global variables, but they are only used ...

It's just impolite (or even nasty) to flame posters for their bad english. Mostly they can't do better, and as long as one can understand what they mean it's mostly OK isn't it? If I don't understand some detail I'm going to ask, or read on if I can't help anyway.

I must say that I'm fed with all ...

Probably the wrong directory structure. If you run the app from within the IDE, the working (current) directory is NOT where the exe resides, but one level up (if you didn't change the default settings).

Please post some more details about your directories to confirm this conjecture...

You mean allegro?

Head over to their forum on http://www.allegro.cc , it's a lively and friendly community. Someone will help you with pixel collision detection for sure.

As for the image loading, you only have to attach libraries for the image formats you want to use. I found it easier to ...

Thanks for all the info, and William, thanks for the source code sample! I'll have a closer look into that tomorrow, because I don't have a wirking java installed at home.

Anyway, the examples coming with Irrlicht are quite instructive, so I think I can find a good start there: The 2DGraphics ...

Thanks for the offer, William! Have sent a PM already...

I have looked around the forum yesterday, and it seems indeed that quite a few people are actually using 2D only or mixed with 3D. I've looked into the CrystalSpace3D also, and there it seems to be different...

So may I ask for advice? I ...

Well, this is what I have seen - but not thoroughly looked into - but what I really wanted to know is: Is there someone doing essentially 2D with Irrlicht? What are the experiences?

Hi all, I'm new here (but not new in programming). Got the link from somewhere in the allegro.cc-forum, and was happy to see that 1st there's an active community and 2nd there is a tutorial about 2D-usage of Irrlicht.

So now I'll start to dig in the postings, but my main question is: Does anybody ...