Irrlicht Engine

I think shadow mapping & BSP light mapping are two very different things. BSP lightmapping is pre-compiled for static BSP scenes, where shadow mapping is a technique for generating dynamic shadows. The BSP lightmapping is trivial & is just a multitexture, shadow mapping is harder & requi...

Porting Irrlicht to support managed C++ would be useful, because you then get all the .NET supported languages and platforms. It would also be interesting to see how fast the managed .NET framework is in a 3D app.

Brad

Do you mean a full C# version, or just C# language bindings?

I personally don't see the point in having 2 different versions of the same thing, unless they cover different niche areas, like Python & Jython.

Brad

I use Linux almost exclusively. A game needs to be really, really compelling to get me to boot to windows (I usually just sleep my laptop, and don't switch off). I do all my development in Linux, and since the things that spin my wheels are playing with programming and development not playing window...

If you've unpacked Venom, you can just go to the bin directory I think? There should be a _venom.so file there. Start a python interpreter there & "import venom"

This is under linux, dunno how to do this kind of thing in windows.

Brad

I'd be interested in your version, and a little later when I come to integrating Irrlicht I'd be willing to help maintain Venom.

Cheers
Brad

Hmm, I'm possibly going to use Venom. If I do I'll probably end up taking maintainership

Brad

Name : Brad Beveridge Age : 24 Location : New Zealand Graduated my local university 3 years ago and have been working as an embedded programmer since then. I spend most of my work time tooling around with ARM chips, WinCE drivers and system boot loaders. I spend what little free time I have playing ...

Just wondering what the status on Venom currently is. Is it up to date on Irrlicht0.5?

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Brad

Dude, face it - you're screwed. Almost any software done in 20 days is going to be a piece of crap. I just looked at what you have so far - I've not used A5 before, but it is an out of the box development setup right? You are expecting far too much from both Irrlicht and IrrlichtRPG, from what I kno...

One is the transpose of the other. I am not 100% sure, but I believe that OpenGL and directX use opposite conventions for row/column order.
I think the left matrix is OpenGL's style, and the right DX style.

You can move between the two by using rows as columns and columns as rows.

Brad

Good protocol, I like it. Could I suggest another type "bugfix", where you are fixing a bug in Irrlicht & not submitting new features? Only thing that is a little lacking is a directory structure, for example (I don't know the layout of the Irrlicht code) what if I make changes to irrl...

yay! Does this mean we will get CVS?
PS - even though I am editing this post, I get the message that I can't post again so quickly.

Brad

Well, there is an unused CVS tree here at Irrlicht :) Niko would you mind turning over the keys to CVS to someone here? Though it may cause a few issues when Irrlicht comes online in CVS, I can't see why we can't have a patches branch & a code base branch. BTW - patches will be in CVS as well as...

saigumi - excellent idea on the unit tests. A demo of the mod not only tells you how to use it, but proves that it works. I think that should almost be a manditory part of the submission.

Brad