Irrlicht Engine

Hi TheMormegil, Thanks. I have been trying to learn, but doing long hours in angularjs at work has been sapping my attention span grr LOL. I am only trying to build a shader which can use texture, a normalmap and can use 4 or 5 lights, as the standard shaders in irrlicht can only take light from one...

Hi devsh, I had a look at Shader Toy but it was only for GL shaders and my project is directx, so I need to use HLSL shaders. I haven't got much farther at this point. Getting a bit disappointed with my terrible efforts so far LOL. I have messed with fx composer and produced some simple shaders, but...

Hi CuteAlien, I found where the problem was, it was in the callback. I am not even sure how the callback functions, and what the purpose for it, other than it calls back LOL. Anyway to cut a long story short I have now altered the callback class and now it crashes on startup doh. I haven't posted my...

Hi CuteAlien, You are right, and I don't even remember changing them. I know I still have something wrong though because I got this error. I am going though the code now to see if I have missed something else. Once I got the base one to load again, I will at least have more of a channce when I start...

Hi CuteAlien, I have just tried to load d3d9.hlsl which is the one in tutorial 10, and even that one is not compiling, so that leads me to believe that when I cut my code down to just load hlsl I am doing something wrong, so here is my code    #include <irrlicht.h>     #include <iostream>     #inclu...

Hi CuteAlien, Thanks for the reply. Your explanation was clear, and it seems I have to find some older tutorials that are specifically for dx9. I have spent about a month trying to get this to work, and failing miserably. Just tried the H-craft game. It has improved a lot since I first played it a f...

Hi CuteAlien, Well it is a 3ds max shaderfx shader exported to HLSL. I even exported it as an older hlsl 3 standard. The problem is how do I know what works in irrlicht. Like I said I have read lots of posts saying there is no such thing as an irrlicht shader and learn hlsl. The problem is that I do...

Hi, I have just built a shader in 3ds Max using shaderfx. It exports to HLSL 3 and 5. Now the problem is that so far I haven't worked out how to get the code working in irrlicht for shaders. I have tried pulling apart tutorial 10 and trying to load my shader into it, but I think I am doing it wrong ...

Hi CuteAlien, Just a thought. Wouldn't it be a good idea to have a shader library on the irrlicht site. I am sure a lot of people have already written nice shaders, which of course could be modified, and shader text files don't take a lot of room. I have been playing with fx composer, but haven't go...

Hi CuteAlien, It would be a shame to have to use another engine when I have learnt so much about this one. In fact I came to irrlicht after trying many engines and not getting on with them. I did quite well with unity, but I prefer C++ to C#; I have started reading about HLSL but it is hard to find ...

Hi Cutealien, Thanks for the help. I only used directional lights because it was one of your suggestions. I was quite happy with the point light. So for this project I am just going change it back to a point light and put a few point lights at the sides to light up the sides of my models. I do want ...

Hi cutealien, Well the whole room, the table and board are one model with multi sub textures. Here is the code I use to load my scene though. void LoadManager::loadScene(ISceneManager* smgr,IVideoDriver* driver,const wchar_t* modelname) {     mesh = smgr->getMesh(modelname);       ((scene::ISkinnedM...

Yes I tried 90,-90,180 and I even put in a key to rotate the light around all the way, and the board always stays black with the directional light. By the way anything other than 90 and the table is in darkness so I know 90 is the correct direction. I think if the light was pointed upwards I wouldn'...

Hi cutealien, Well I thought I had put a direction light in the scene, but it was actually a point light because I had forgotten to put the setLightData line in. There is however a problem. Obviously I have only one light at this point and I know I need more, but the problem is this. I add one point...

Hi cutealien, Just put one direct light in the scene which seems to give better light than the point light. So I am setting up some controls to move my light around via keyboard so that I can fine tune it. Going to echo the coordinates to the screen and get my light in the right position. Will let y...