Irrlicht Engine

Hi, all,

friends of mine plan a strat game which would be heavily GUI based, but with some 3d graphics intermingled. Now they look for an engine whioch can do this.

When looking at the GUI examples which comes with irrlicht, I see that all elements seem to have the same color etc.

Is it possible ...

Hi all,

I try to build the irrlicht dll and fail.

Irrlicht fatal error LNK1104: Datei 'libci.lib' kann nicht geöffnet werden

What I use:
- VC++ 2003
- DX SDK 9c

MSDN says that libci.lib contains the old-style iostream objects. I searched the sources and did not find any references to stream ...

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I use it at work and at home for source code engineering, mainly for class ...

Hi all,

is there a way in irrlicht to change texture coordinates dynamically? I.e. having a large texture and only displaying portions of it somewhere on a mesh?

I actually want to do two things: One is the effect of fluid motion of water surfaces, which I'd like to do by moving textures around ...

probably some game construction kit like Darkbasic ( http://www.darkbasic.com ) or similar would be the right thing for you - though you will have somewhat less freedom in what you do (programming a game in pure C++ atop of directX or a small layer like irrlicht gives you a lot of freedom) (and ...

Hi,

this addresses a topic which has been a sore spot for me with Irrlicht too. But your approach requires a lot of work:

For every new official irrlicht release, patch programmers would have to go through all their patches and check whether they are still valid for the new release. Potentially ...

keless, thanks! I have to think about this a bit more...

Did anyone ever try to use 64bit integer vectors with irrlicht? I tryto simulate a solar system, and 32bit integers don't cut it. floats/doubles are too unprecise...

Niko:

debug build:
*********time to bark: 38

*********time to meow: 33

release build:
*********time to bark: 6

*********time to meow: 4

keless: the explicit cast does not bring anything. And it does not matter whether you use references or pointers, same result. AFAIK the overhead comes from ...

Hi folks,

I just wondered what the real overhead of virtual function calls is and I was surprised:


#include <time.h>

// performance tests for virtual functino call overheads

class Animal
{
public:
virtual void sound () = 0;

};

class Dog: public Animal
{
int ntimesbarked;
public:
void ...

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Yes, programming games is fun, because it involves all the cool things other ...

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Hi,

Yeah, you try to copy a singlebyte string into a Unicode string. Compiles fine, because swprintf simply takes the next pointer on the stack, whatever that is, and, seeing %s, tries to interpret it as a pointer to a zero-terminated Unicode string.

Simple solution 1:
use mbtowc() to convert ...

hey cleves, looks nice. I notice that in your new screenshots, the stars look better - did you higher the skybox texture resolution?

use a 32bit tga or png instead of bmp .. what a waste of memory!

dumb question: does it really matter? I always thought DirectX uncompresses the bitmap anyway before putting it into texture memory... I can't imagine the graphics card doing e.g. jpeg nucompression on the fly while rendering. So ...