Irrlicht Engine

Let's see. You need:
gravity, collision, joints, constraints and !!!SPEED!!!.
This is one I would recommend using ODE. The guy has been working on it for quite a few years and it's good stuff and you can compile it statically. That way you can actually write a game before you're 90.

Namespaces are used to prevent name collisions. You probably don't need to worry about that. Sometimes it's necessary, but do you really want to keep writing namespace::something every time you use it? If you use:using namespace whatever; you've pretty much nullified it.

I'll try the demo and decide. I'm mastering about every aspect of Lightwave exept theses tools (character animation rig/vertex weighting ). I'm able to create a basic rig, but it take ages. I've contacted the author to ask if they still work on this. For my project (First-King), this could help me ...

Here's two tutorials I would recommend, even though I haven't gone through them other than looking:

http://www.montagestudio.org/video_tutorials/

Theres a tut on low poly character modeling on this page and also a follow along character modeling

http://www.blender3dclub.com/index.php?name=News ...

I'll second that, even though I haven't tried that particular software. Blender is a little hard to get started on, and it's hard to find the right tutorials, but it's a great package. It takes time and patience to learn it, just like any software. I lucked out and started with a tutorial that made ...

Funny thing with this Ron-Paul-fanboyism is, most people who now cry out for ultimate libertarian freedom would be very surprised to see, that they'd actually be loosers in such a system.

That's a lot of garbage. Most of the people that want him to win aren't looking for some free ride, they're ...

This is just my way of doing it, but I start building fences when too many sheep are in the pasture so to speak. If I write similar code more than once, I make a function. If things start getting messy, I make a class to get rid of some of it. I think the inheritance thing is overdone, but you ...

Macintosh is a GUI system, which uses a lot of horsepower, that's why I said a mac person would feel that way. You're just taking it overly personal. It's a stupid OS. It isn't your race or anything. Are you going to tell me that people that own Macintosh's don't love the bells and whistles? Some ...

I'll give one point to windows, Visual Studio, especially well configured, is really good.

Kind of figures a Mac person would like something that ostentatiously bloated. If you don't have a high end system, it's like walking in molasses, and what makes me mad is the weight has nothing to do with ...

I think I'll be going back to linux soon. Yeah, there are little differences here and there that cause incompatibility. Once you get set up, you're all right, and most people that use it know their stuff so they can fix things that are wrong sometimes. There's one decent software installer that ...

Um, I don't understand much of that, but isn't there supposed to be a delete in the destructor if you use a new in the constructor?

Don't know if anyone is interested but I did a little ODE demo. It's a bunch of blocks falling from the sky on a plane so don't get your hopes up too far. It's just the execute without the Irrlicht.dll. You'll have to get that out of Irrlicht1.4/bin/win32-gcc. The main file is there too if you want ...

I'm a little confused. Here's the link from the Irrlicht main page to the wiki.
http://www.irrlicht3d.org/wiki/

Where is the manual listed on that page? Or is it all the manual?

It works for me and I'm not too emotionally scarred. I just get less crashes that way.

That's not really true, especially since pointers are the pinnacle of optimized programming.

I agree they are necessary. I just try to keep it to a minimum. A lot of the time you can pass by reference. I think people get carried away with them. If I create an actual object, then the program takes ...