Irrlicht Engine

Thanx for helping! I hope I'll be able to implement all this in a game, it's by far the most ambitious project I did up to now.

@dhenton: you mean that I should first make all the seperate parts, then swap them out and save every combination as a model file? Or did I misunderstand you?

#Guest: would that mean using several scene nodes for my model: would that be very bad for performance?

Thanks for replying.

Try going to Project Settings (or whatever that is in .NET, I use vc++), going to c/c++ and adding /nodefaultlibs to the list of Project Options. This is how I recall solving the problem, not sure if it works for you.

I usually make a gamestate variable, just like you. Then I define possible values for it like this: #define GS_MENU 1 #define GS_INGAME 2 #define GS_PAUSED 3 #define GS_WHATEVER_STAGE_YOU_WANT 4 I store it in a seperate class along with other global variables, and it works fine for me. Now I can set...

If you're talking about the main game character which needs to be moved with the W button, choosing for the FlyStraight animator probably isnt the best choice. I don't know how to solve your problem, but I advise you to write a game loop instead that makes the node move (*constant* x elapsed frame t...

For a third person shooter project I've been thinking about, it would be really cool to have a mix of custom and predefined animation on the player model (eg the character would be aiming and looking at the mouse cursor, but his legs would still move with a run animation). Before I start this projec...

I get an error when trying to run any of the 3 binaries in the game:

"Unable to initialize program (0xc0000135). Click to end application."

Wow, you development studio has a great office building

I think that plane3d in Irrlicht is only used for calculations (intersections with lines etc), I haven't seen a visual representation of a plane onscreen yet. Is the water scene node really that slow?

you should probably start out with reading and understanding the tutorials that you think contain useful information for your project. Tutorial 1 is a must, and you should also look at Movement, Collision, and Quake 3 Map tutorials. That should give you a basic idea of what to do first.

nvm that, I found the correct way to do it. It seems to work fine, only I get the idea that there is an invisible border around the quake 3 standard level: my ship now explodes when trying to enter the level from outside. Ill make my own level and try again.

Thx, that might just be what I need. Ive got one little problem tho: how do I pass an array of triangles to the function? should it be done like this: triangle3d<f32> triangles[2]; aabbox3d<f32> box = ships[i].shipnode->getTransformedBoundingBox(); s32 trianglecount; levelts->getTriangles(&trian...

I guess so, I usually make seperate "groups" in my skin for differing colors. Nice model! It looks a lot like one I just made yesterday for my space game .

From what I see in the API, it looks like this function is just like a collision response animator: it determines the new position of the ellipsoid, based on collision, gravity, sliding etc. In my spacegame, I want ships to explode when hitting level geometry, not slide, gravitate or anything like t...

When using "if" or "while", you should change: "gamestate = 2" to "gamestate == 2". "=" assigns a value to a variable(even in an if statement). therefore, when stating "if(gamestate = 1)", gamestate will be set to 1 and the if statement wil...