Irrlicht Engine

This bug occurs with .x files where joints can influence more than one mesh. In CXAnimationPlayer.cpp, line 225, the line Joints[jnr].MatrixOffset = mesh.SkinWeights[w].MatrixOffset; assumes that there is one weight group ("SkinWeights" in .x file) which is linked to one particular joint. ...

I have the same problem, but it occurs only in fullscreen 32bits. I have tested only with DirectX9. The DX function CheckDeviceFormat (CVideoDirectX9.cpp) fails when checking stencil buffer compatibility, and then the stencil buffer is disabled. So, to get shadows, I run my application in 16bits, do...

I have an issue which can be solved by this piece of code: I would like to draw background images for an application which runs, let's say, at a resolution of 800x600. With the standard irrlicht method, a texture of 1024x1024 is created (512x512 in 0.5 version), and the content is scaled which leads...

If you want to use GetPrivateProfileString() or similar ini functions, you must include <windows.h>. Something must be wrong with the setup of your project or of your VC++ environnement. You shouldn't get these errors. With the VC++ wizard, try to create a simple windows application, and include <wi...

To explain my issue properly, here is an example taken directly from the last Techdemo: Without shadows http://www.win-at.com/images/shadow2.jpg With shadows http://www.win-at.com/images/shadow.jpg You can notice on the second image that the character has some artifacts (on its right upper arm and r...

I'm using volumetric shadow casted by an animated character, and the shadow is rendered correctly on the environment, but unfortunatelly also on the character : the part of the character which is not facing to the light, is much darker than the same character without shadow (I hope my explanations a...

Currently, extending the Irrlicht engine is a bit complicated... Let's take an example : I would like to extend the DirectX driver in order to support pixel and vertex shaders. I would write a CVideoDirectX8 derivated class, let's say CVideoDirectX8Ex, in which I write new methods. After that, I hav...

Yes, I know that this is a huge job. Animation is certainly is the most complex part in a 3D engine. The way I add .x file support is a bit dirty and non-portable. First, I port Irrlicht to DirectX9, which was pretty easy, in order to be able to implement DirectX9 sample. Second, I created a new ani...

Currently, Irrlicht is supporting skinned animation only by loading MS3D files, and if I am not wrong, a vertex can be attached to only one bone. To be able to get smooth animations, a vertex must have the possibility to be attached to more than bone, and must have a weight associated to each bone. ...

How can I do volumetric light with Irrlicht?

Thanks niko, it will be very usefull for the kind of game I'm developping with Irrlicht.

With DirectX8 and above, it is possible to create dynamic textures: writing into these kind of texture is very fast, and thus, they are used for procedural textures, textures displaying video sequences, or simple 2D sprites. In my previous job, where we used to develop 2D/3D mixed games, we made a r...

I'm trying to develop a scene editor built around Irrlicht, and I try to get Irrlicht running inside a windows created by a Win32 application. By default, Irrlicht create its own windows, with a call to the Win32 function CreateWindow. I succeeded in doing that by hacking the Irrlicht code, but is t...

I have just tried to compile the lastest version of Irrlicht with VC .NET 2003, and I got these errors (debug compile) : d:\DEV\irrlicht\source\fast_atof.h(68 ) : error C2666: 'pow' : 7 overloads have similar conversions d:\DEV\irrlicht\source\CCameraMayaSceneNode.cpp(246): error C2666: 'fmod' : 3 o...

Is there a way to add support for Max or Maya animation done with bones/joints? Only Milkshape is currently supported, but it's not the main 3D creation software used. Max and Maya are widely used in the game industry, and joint animation is also widely used. This kind of animation is more CPU hungr...