Irrlicht Engine

Is there any way to speed up shadow volume generation? My application takes much longer when I use shadow volume scene nodes.

Also, there seems to be a problem with shadow volumes, sometimes shadows have stray polygons stretching to the bottom of the view. Or, to be specific, 'sometimes' is when I ...

Thank you for response.

You may also be able to cull (remove) models that can't be seen because of the modles between them and the camera.
Hmm... I thought that Irrlicht would do that automatically. I guess I need a custom scene node for this, right?


3k polys is a lot for a RTS unit, usually ...

Hey everybody,

I'm developing an RTS game, and there can be hundreds of units. My current implementation is very naive and causes a lot of overhead because of large amount of nodes.


irr::scene::IAnimatedMesh* mesh = scnmgr->getMesh(meshpath + meshname)
return scnmgr->addAnimatedMeshSceneNode ...

Hey there. Here is some code I'd like to share. This is an animator for RTS-style camera. I didn't like the http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=17066 RTSCamera implementation (since it is kind of outdated), so I wrote my own.

It is still unfinished, but useable. On my todo ...