Irrlicht Engine

Just a quick warning... its a lot harder than it seems....

I've seen a bit of talk about how it is impossible to rotate a billboard... and this kinda sucks for all of us making fps's... all i need to do is rotate the billboard along the z axis... has anyone created a fix for this? i looked into fixing it myself but i only screwed it up more

AthlonXP 2000+, 512MB RAM, GF4 Ti4200 64MB 1024x768, 32bpp, fullscreen DX8: Avereage FPS: 56 Avereage TimeDelta: 0.0102891 DX9: Avereage FPS: 64 Avereage TimeDelta: 0.0133095 OpenGL: Avereage FPS: 443 Avereage TimeDelta: 0.00216076 I was realy suprised with OpenGL result, but i used FRAPS and get s...

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Afecelis is doing my mapping

the reason it looks crappy in irrlicht is because in irrlicht, the textures are automaticly 16 bit, and they should be 32 bit, there is a fix for it.

I just changed it so that there is a seperate node for every weapon, and it works great... thanks!

But if you ever need help, I'm online a lot

but IAnimatedMesh as no ->setVisible() function, only ISceneNode does, and I need only a single node for the weapon!

Basicly what I'm trying to do is change weapons for my fps, I have an array of IAnimatedMesh* of the meshes of the weapons, and one node which is a child of the camera. In my change weapon function, i want to remove everything in the weapon node, and then add the correct mesh... but removeAll() make...

Here's a brief update: I rewrote the whole thing :).... it is now much cleaner and better. The whole engine is based upon an entity manager that I wrote, it is very easy to modify and add to this entity manager. Now that school is out, I will have a lot more time to work on my engine... I will have ...

In my first person shooter engine I want to add an entity manager for entity types such as the player, other clients (for network play), ammo, weapons, lights, bots. particle emiters. But I have no idea where to start! I searched google for a tutorial or article with some info on how an entity manag...

It depends on what type of map you want. A 3ds map wouldnt have as good quality lighting as bsp... bsps is created in a program called GTK-Radiant.

did you make those textures?

The modeler I always use is Lightwave 7.0, I love it... I personaly think it is the best modeler out there but.... for my FPS engine I am making with Irrlicht, I need a good model format with bone animation, the only format that popped to my mind was .x! but I only found one plugin for lightwave tha...

i guess ill have to add gamma ajusting capabillities