Irrlicht Engine

If HL2 does not use fov, you better not use it too. I dont remember UT using FOV.

I am trying to write code to perform zooming by cam movements. I wrote a simple code, used setPosition func. and it worked but then I decided to add collision detection to the code. The problem is that the collision ...

In all the FPS games I have played zooming has been achieved by reducing (not increasing) the FOV, whether it was a built in function or a user made macro.

Could you please name some games? Irrlicht's camera works properly. When you increase the FOV, a larger area must be shown in the predefined ...

Why setFOV cannot be used for zooming

Take a look at the following pics.
1st pic: no change in fov or zoom
2nd pic: effect of increasing FOV
3rd pic: effect of zoom back (performed by cam. movement)

http://www.geocities.com/as15ir/fovnzoom2.jpg

Notice the degradation of the tiles in second pic ...

I think setFOV cannot be used as zoom. Because increasing the FOV yields a panorama cam which is different from what we expect from a zoom function.


I find it funny that you ask us if fov does what we say it does, and then when we say yes, you tell us we are wrong
I was not sure about this, and ...

Thank you all for your answers. I examined the setFOV function more. The problem with this function is that the setFOV changes the position of the camera.

What is Field Of View? Try to put your eyes half closed. This changes your field of view. There is no zoom or translation in your view. But in ...

Dear friends

As I searched in Irr forums, I found that some people use setFov function for zooming. But it seems that these are different things. Consider a real camera, the field of view is related to the lens area (i.e. fish eye camera), but zoom depends on distance of two internal lenses used ...

I run the Johnnyappleseed's editor, That could turn to a great program. I am waiting to see the released code. Do you know if this program will be updated or not? You know there were some bugs and a huge cpu usage.

Dear Friends

Has the source of IrrEdit been published? If not do you know any other editor for irrlicht with source code?

Guys, the maximum fps I reach on a GeForce4 MX 4000, is 70 with a movie playing. How do you manage to get fps higher than 200?

aerial,

I'm afraid i have only tried WMVs not any of the other formats and my problem simply turned out to be me trying to use 32-bit colour format AND the stencil buffer ...

to funcdoobiest

I've got the same problem, Movie colors blend in fullscreen mode. But I have noticed that if I use avi file, every thing works right. But using other formats brings the problem.
It seems that you have managed the problem, Could you guide me to fix it?[/quote]

Dear Friends

I want to show a video file with irrlicht.
Unfortunately I could not find this feature on Irrlicht.
Could anyone help me if Irrlicht supplies video displaying and if not can I change it to show video files?

Best Regards

Thanx for your guidance,

That my friend is the zbuffer problem.

Firstly try enabling StencilBuffer - that SHOULD get rid of it. However that is not ideal for low end systems. So you can either implement 24bit nostencil in your renderer or SCALE DOWN your mesh a large amount - the smaller mesh ...

Dear Friends

I made a scene with 3ds max & exported it to my3d format.
It's ok, loaded in Irrlicht,
The problem is I don't like the quality,
for example when 2 perpendicular surfaces join together,
the joining line between them is not a smooth line,
Please see the picture I uploaded from the ...

Dear friends.

I know this maybe a very elementary question and maybe answered before
but I could not find where.
I have no experience on graphic designing, So I dont know how to
export from 3ds max to a format which can be used in Irrlicht,
I tried using my3d exporter , but I dont know what to do ...