Irrlicht Engine

Hi all, If one wanted 6 to 8 human custom (i.e. not stock) character models, fully textured, not super-high poly, but not too simplistic either, and they can to a certain degree be variations of one basic model - how much would that typically run? And what about rigging, or getting them animated in ...

It's coming... but let me give the ant a proper AI first, otherwise it wouldn't be fair... :) ...or fun to watch :) anyway, there'll also be a leaf floating around that the ant can use for rescue (the shadow at the bottom of the puddle looks quite amazing as it is, but I still need to get the moveme...

Hi CuteAlien,

Thanks for your changes in r5227, I'll check those out (literally and figuratively) asap!

Cheers,

npc239

Yes, precisely

Happy New Year, guys! Just posted a video on youtube that shows the ants in their first action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cZd66dH0H8&feature=youtu.be - they make their appearance in the last third of the video (there's also some grass growing and water animation before that). The ants don...

@hendu: Ah, I get it, thanks! Memory shouldn't be an issue, since all the ants look the same anyway, and the complexity comes from the movement, which can be re-used for all of them. So yes, there is plenty of CPU to either pre-calculate, or dynamically calculate for certain nodes if needed. @chrono...

Hi Hendu, Can you elaborate a little bit more? A little background: yes, it is for a RTS of some sort, it's an ant colony with hundreds of individuals, most of them controlled by some machine learning AI, which I run on a (beefy) server and use a wrapper around Irrlicht as the client. The thing abou...

Hey guys,

Thanks for your feedback, that really helps a lot! I think I'm all set for now (and it looks quite impressive ), but I'll definitely look into skinned meshes too, as that seems the way to go in the future.

Cheers,

npc

Hi mongoose7, Thanks! Yes, you are right, it does animate even if there isn't anything to be animated, and that's the issue - the MD2 animations look quite good, too, but it's somewhat of an overkill for what I am doing. I'll look into skinned meshes, but I found a solution that works very well for ...

Hmm, 2 or 4 billion models would be nice, but for now, I'd settle for a couple of hundred :) Anyway, the issue here has nothing to do with the animations themselves. If I place 20 ms3d models (with or without mesh caching, chronologicaldot, it makes no difference other than affecting load time) on t...

Hi guys, This might sound like a simple question, but I'm too stupid to figure it out :( so hopefully one of you knows the answer right away :) I want to have models with a very simple frame-based animation walk (or better crawl) around a map. The model is not huge, it has 1,700 vertices and 3,400 f...

Hi primemOver, I'd be quite curious to hear more about your approach, yet I have to admit that from what you posted earlier, I'm quite skeptical already. For one thing, why don't you go down the Open Source/Free Software route? In my experience, this is the easiest way to find collaborators, and I h...

Hi all, Quick update, if anyone is interested. Here is a short video showing how mesh models can be controlled from the outside, i.e. each vertex in each model is updated dynamically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eav_k3prKVM Still a number of things to work out (bugs in collision), but the great ...

Thanks again, the vertices (and indices) are really easy to get to, and easy to manipulate.

P.S: I also have to say that the irrlicht engine is a true marvel in its design!

Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for!! :) By the way, the physics and NPC engines will be freely available under GPL as soon as they are halfway complete. If anyone is interested in using them (a network communication layer is also included so that the whole thing can be distributed, it's ...