Irrlicht Engine

I have a scene with an animated mesh (30 frames), an ambient and a diffuse light.

The first frame in the animated mesh is not enlightend by the diffuse light, the other frames are just fine.

The ambient light is fine for all frames.

This problem only occurs with dx8, not with opengl.

Also, the ...

Nothing works

I had to uninstall the dx9 SDK and completely remove and reinstall the dx9 runtime.

Now it works

... typical 'gates' stuff

For a small icon, modify like this:

How can I add lighting to a scene with a mesh, proceduraly created at runtime? The mesh has to be semi-transparent, something like colored glass.

If I don't set the ambient light, the part of the mesh that isn't lightend remains black. I want the black to be transparent. How?

Hi,

I'm 28 years old, maybe very old to some.

I've started out on a shitty HP laptop when I was 10. The laptop weighted over 20 kilo's, so you can imagine...

Then I bought a Commodore AMIGA when it hit the street. I coded for over 10 years on that machine(!!!), mainly in amos, some sort of ...

There's something nasty with PM_QS_INPUT, I've commented it out, restored the run() function to 0.4 and it works again.

Is PM_QS_INPUT anything important?

Now it's 'back_face_culling'

Sorry, I did a search on 'backface' instead of 'back_face', and that returned nothing. Tnx SuryIID!

Yes, backface culling, that's it.

Didn't find it in the doc, so I assume it isn't there.

I used to define my main loop like this. I copied this from a tutorial.
while(device->run())
{
driver->beginScene(true,true,SColor(0,100,100,100));
smgr->drawAll();
driver->endScene();
}

This worked fine in 0.4, but I've upgraded to 0.4.2 and this loop never exits anymore! If you close the app ...

I've also tested Ogre, it has a lot of functionality, but: fully deployed and compiled, the package took 1.3G on my harddisk. There isn't such a thing as "out-of-the-box" for ogre. It's all or nothing. And it has a major dependency problem too!

TrueVision: rather good, but there's a watermark ...

I have a custom mesh, wich is half a sphere. There's only a wireframe visible at the moment. Normaly, you should see the outside of the mesh, and also the inside (because it's only half a sphere).
In my app only the outside is painted, not the inside.

I assume this has something to do with culling ...

K I'll try to recompile. I have DX9 though, not version 8.

For now, I use DX on one and openGL on the other. Can be interesting too...

Doh, I forgot, it wasn't Windows XP Beta 2, it was this application called GameXP, that tweaks all of the settings in XP to make it run faster. Even after uninstalling it, whatever change it made on the DX subsystem destroyed DirectX and caused me to start getting those "Unable to create a DirectX ...

Fullscreen or windowed doesn't make a difference.

Machine A runs on 1280x1024x32, machine B runs on 1024x768x16.

It has nothing to do with Release/Debug mismatch, tried dx in both configurations.

Even stranger...

DT_OPENGL works! Eventhough I cannot remember I ever installed the openGL drivers