Irrlicht Engine

c++98 updated version:
// File: bake_halton_distance_normal_fixed.cpp
// Converted to C++98 and Visual C++ 2010 compatible

#include <irrlicht.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <cmath>
#include <algorithm>
#include <vector>
#include <map>
#include <fstream>
#include <sstream>
#include <queue ...

I was reading in multiple shader books talking in favor of branchless programming due to better latency, better performance in general... this is the same for older CPUs, but not for modern CPUs... in fact it generates latency many times... I asked ChadGPT about this and he answered something ...

https://i.ibb.co/1JYZ9kyP/triplanarxd.png

The program uses an .obj model and a texture as a reference and replicates it procedurally and continuously, then bakes the result into the model's uvmap in a new texture and saves it in the project directory. Edges are still visible on the islands, but I ...

If those in the zip don't work ... that's strange. Usually only happens if D3D9 is not installed at all on the system. Don't really remember if it was installed back then by default.


Irrlicht 1.9.0 managed to work well with directx9 from 2004 and xeffects, all this was to know which version of ...

The shaders in irrlicht 1.6.1 work perfectly, apparently Windows XP does not have d3dx9_43 installed, it only brings from d3dx9_24 to d3dx9_36, for now I will stay on irrlicht 1.6.1.

I don't want to have to force anything to be installed, I like people to come and use what they have installed.
Also ...

If those in the zip don't work ... that's strange. Usually only happens if D3D9 is not installed at all on the system. Don't really remember if it was installed back then by default.


There are official versions of Windows XP where the directx9 runtime is installed, that is, d3d9.dll, but not ...

Do you get the same error when you run bin\Win32-VisualStudio\10.Shaders.exe from the official irrlicht1.8.5.zip? (with options: D3D9/high level/no Cg)

And how did you build this? You checked out svn trunk I assume. But which compiler? Code::Blocks or native gcc? Or some Visual Studio version? I ...

I was using Windows XP, and I noticed that despite having Directx9, which is installed by default, it does not allow me to see examples with shaders since it asks me for a specific Directx9 library(d3dx9_43.dll). For example, I cannot see the shader examples from the irrlicht examples works. However ...

Sho_VT wrote: Wed Nov 19, 2025 7:23 am Wow, that looks so amazing!

If you want the same result but without this shader, you can achieve it by playing with ambient light and a model with normal maps and shadow volume (with a closed topology model to take advantage of Irrlicht optimizations)

The Steam overlay must be able to "inject" itself before the renderer (DirectX/OpenGL/Vulkan) has already initialized/hooked graphics functions. If your app creates a GL/D3D context (for example, by creating a GLFW window or creating the Irrlicht device with context) before Steam has been able to ...

https://i.ibb.co/zT0SBP1Y/bandicam2025-11-1311-18-57-881-ezgif-com-video-to-gif-converter.gif

#include <irrlicht.h>
#include <cmath>

#ifdef _IRR_WINDOWS_
#pragma comment(lib, "Irrlicht.lib")
#endif

using namespace irr;
using namespace core;
using namespace scene;
using namespace video;
using ...

Adding more lights and placing them in the right spots, have you ever heard of the term "fakeosity" ;)

http://www.k3n.com.br/3d/fakeosity.jpg

It is much more of an artistical resource than computational but when it is well used it produces almost the same results, and the lights still work on ...

So yeah - Alt+F4 not working in fullscreen either on my system. So needs a small event-receiver like this at minimum:

class MyEventReceiver : public IEventReceiver
{
public:
MyEventReceiver() : Quit(false) {}

virtual bool OnEvent(const SEvent& event)
{
if (event.EventType == EET_KEY_INPUT ...

It could be that Irrlicht sets an actual fullscreen mode where it changes the display resolution and that could cause issues with the compositor. I haven't had any issues with fullscreen on linux but I use SDL2 to open the window and use the SDL_WINDOW_FULLSCREEN_DESKTOP flag to set a fake ...

Will test later when I'm back on Linux. But you can usually leave with alt+f4 (knowledge which is admittably more and more lost these days)


I wrote the post precisely because Alt + F4 wasn't working, and I couldn't switch windows either(this only happens if I use render to texture; by default ...