Irrlicht Engine

ok... now i sound noobish... this is what i understand... HDR is blooming the brightpass... and using the LDR to fade into the new luminance, to get the whole gamma adjustment effect... is this correct? No, not quite. Bloom is an effect that works on LDR and HDR, but used correctly it can make HDR ...

from what I've read LogLuv is the way forward in terms of easy HDR storage with limited render buffer support.
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I prefer 'links'... has graphics mode that uses the framebuffer!!!
we're getting into high tech stuf here

I like open source because I gives you a chance to learn from others. It also enables us to develop a lot faster that if development was restricted to only a few paid programmers (although the argument goes the other way, depending on how popular the software is).

Also cuz I'm cheap

I have a generic structure in C++ that desicribes either a VBO or vertex array in OpenGL. Can I use the void* pointers to vertex/index array (client side) as GLuint's specifying VBO id's when using VBO's? Do I just bitwase & 0xffffffff to use only 32 bits even on 64 bit systems. More importanly....

I've been reading this PDF on CryEngine2: http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1290000/1281671/p97-mittring.pdf?key1=1281671&key2=9942678811&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618 It mentions Shadow masks. From what I can tell, you render the shadow maps into a depth texture (a...

How can I create games that are vista compatible? what do I need to be aware about?

I know there is a 'game explorer', but, where do I put my files? How do I find the App Data folder programmatically etc?

Cheers.

if you go to the edit panel with the camera selected there is a near and far value you can edit.

basically my game offers HDR/LDR options. All surfaces use a shader (directional radiosity and shadowmapping). The shader can then use either HDR textures and render to a 'fake' HDR target, which is used in combo with a bloom shader, or the LDR equivilent uses LDR textures and no bloom.

I was thinking of using the fake HDR found here: http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/Faking_HDR This uses RGBe in the alpha channel. Basically I wanted to know which textures should be encoded this way. once I've encoded them.. can I just expose them (exponential exposure) for LDR use? it should wo...

wow! that's A LOT of things you covered, but one Q. Does that book cover C++ programming? Or is it just about game design? the books code is written in C++. It covers basics of 2d,3d, pointers and resource management etc. The 2nd edition now out even covers networking. Graphics in DX I'm afraid but...

well... [lifestory] I wanted to make may own games so asked around. some one recommended C++ so I got an IDE of the net. Started with simple console apps and learnt the language. Got my hands on a commercial borland C++ builder 4. Then I entered the world of Open Source and the internet. In around 2...

how can this be done? do I add it into the irr source code (change the enums etc)?
If the extra data is only begin used in a shader could I just overload S3DVertex and do some kind of cast as and when needed?

When modelling game environments for HDR game play.. what textures need to be in HDR format?
I know EnvMaps need to be.
Does the Lightmap need to be (probably yes ) and does the diffuse map need to be? (I might be able to get away with LDR diffuse).

I thought each face on the ambient cube was 1px (an average of the full render)