Irrlicht Engine

hge looks nice.. may run on older PCs. Alot of us want to do a game, but are not able to do 3d modeling, we struggle enough with 2D. I may go to that engine. Unless I can figure out how to do a 3rd person game better using 3d stuff. I know there is the 3rd person camera, but can I do a 2d tiled map ...

How do you "Batch" all the draw2dimage calls (MeshBuffer)? And does it only worry about what is on the screen? what about layers, a player can go behind a tree or house during game play... That could make my 2D game run smoother as well.

Thank you,

Josh

are you only drawing the visible tiles? I have been working on a 2D game, here and there (dormant or now), and I saw similar results, when I finally drew the visible tiles only it worked much better.

also take out or condence any extra for loops..

JRM

looks nice, I am trying to do a similar game, 2D though..

JRM

Yeah supposedly M$ hired Borland's main developer.

JRM

If you do a "SELECT * FROM users WHERE un = WhateverValueHere" it will get all the rows for that record.

JRM

Here is where a free vb.net/c#.net compiler is: http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/

I have used it to do some c# games.

JRM

awesome! cool prog!

JRM

Ever Tried UPX? it compresses DLLs and EXEs. Can make it smaller. But is supposedly uses more RAM or something like that after it is compressed.

JRM

Will this wrapper work for 2d games as well? (3rd person looking down) I think I will switch from Raknet. I am looking through the documentation and files right now.

I Like the licensing more with enet.

Thank you,

JRM

Needs to be s32 instead of u32

JRM

What compiler and OS are you using?

JRM

That looks cool!

I am attempting to write a 2d game as well. Far from Completion, and fixing bugs to be testable. What Network library have you used? I am trying to use RakNet 3.0

JRM

Sticking with XP Prof. I don't have the money for Windoze Vista or a whole new computer to be able to run it. I may think about it more when a SP1 or SP2 for vista comes out.

JRM

Sudi good point on having something working early on. I did have a working game, driving around a map. But I am trying irrlicht 1.2 and I am having to fix a bunch of array stuff. Tempted to go back to .14. I agree with the new forums specific for games, apps, tools. or what ever others you can think...