Irrlicht Engine

Irrlicht doesn't do this!

It will only capture the mouse when you insert a FPS camera because this camera has to keep the cursor centered and then calculates rotation based on how far you've moved the mouse.

If you want to have a FPS camera but toggle the input off, use camera ...

Well that sounds REALLY great and I'm very EXCITED about the OPPORTUNITY (sorry, couldnt resist :p), but remember this is a programming community and personally I program because I enjoy it.. Using a tool to make games for you takes away the fun and the challenge of writing a c++ application. Not to ...

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You can pass char *'s to functions that ask for a c8 *.

A physics engine does exactly what it says on the tin - it controls the physical behaviour of object. It has nothing to do with the graphics engine.

The modern wave of physics engines deal with "rigid bodys", and can produce extremely realisic interaction of objects (balls colliding on a pool table ...

You're only setting the frame number, it is going to carry on playing the same sequence (and looping it) until you use setFrameLoop()

Running a spline animation along with collision responses does not sound like a good idea! The spline will force an object one way while the collision forces it the other way.. Turn off collisions while using a spline animation.

As for stopping at the end of the animation, I had this problem too ...

// If you keep a pointer to bulletStat you can just change the text when you want.
IGUIStaticText *bulletStat = guienv->addStaticText(L"", rect<int>(5,-2,640,38), false);


Read the comment :) I'm guessing that you've pasted that code in and you're creating a new static text element every time ...

Audiere is the easiest audio library to use I think. You can have it working minutes after downloading it :)

HawkNL is quite powerful but you'll have to write more low-level networking stuff.
GNE is incomplete and hasnt been updated in years now.
I've downloaded RakNet but never actually got it to ...

nope nothing like that in irrlicht yet, fraid you'll have to code it yerself

Avereage FPS: 72
Avereage TimeDelta: 0.0137453

Athlon 2000xp (ish)
Geforce 4 ti4400
512 ddr ram

Looks quite cool

Get yourself a copy of Visual Assist from http://www.wholetomato.com/

It enhances all aspects of visual c++, especially the intellisense. I really recommend it!

I guess you could use some existing 3d sound code that adjusts volume based on distance from player, but perhaps add a few lines that do a raycast from the player to the sound origin and see if it collides with the world geometry; if it does, then do whatever adjustment to the sound.

Thats the ...

Counter-Strike? /me shudders :p

Interesting idea.. it does seem like theres several of us all working on similar fps engines but I suspect everyone has different ideas on what the final game should be like :) Personally I am just developing iEng as a fps engine - I have no plans to actually make a ...

Theres 2 approaches to bullets in a FPS game - projectile based and hitscan based.

Hitscan weapons simply cast a ray when the player shoots and see if the ray collides with anything, it means your gun instantly damages whatever its pointing at, and its a good technique to use for pistols, machine ...

Octree cannot cast shadows and even if it could it would be incredibly slow :p I think you need the doom 3 engine for something like that...

I'm guessing your light isnt illuminating the level mesh because you're using a level mesh with lightmap textures? (bsp)