Irrlicht Engine

Hi, Correct my if im wrong,

FREEWORLD is a good apps, I downloaded the FREEWORLD demo,
and since we cannot save a file from the demo version,
I cannot tell if file can be loaded easisy directly to irrlicht.

"I think the only thing I can do is to place the object from
the terrain. which is I ...

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bitplane wrote:getting a 404 on the "Download FreeWorld3D today" link
other one works okay tho

Here's the direct link
http://www.freeworld3d.org/setup.exe

Going to the website works as well. Try it again.

Well Irrlicht's geomipmapping code was taken directly from my Freeworld3D SDK. Spintz simply adapted my code to work with Irrlicht. So yes, you can load the terrain directly into Irrlicht.

As for other support, Irrlicht supports the Direct .X mesh format and Freeworld can load that in as well ...

Freeworld3D 2.0 has just been released with an array of new features, including: Undo/Redo system, 10x faster terrain editing, 10x faster terrain painting, up to 50x faster lightmap generation, over 9 3D model formats supported, real-time water rendering and much more.

Freeworld3D is an all purpose ...

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Does the file format produce by FreeWorld can be
load to irrlicht?

The exported data is in XML or ASCII format and is very easy to read in. All the exported data consists of is things like mesh positions, skybox, skydome, skyplane information, water, fog, lighting info, ect....

When I release ...

I just thought I'd let some of you guys know that I've released a BETA version of my terrain editor, Freeworld3D 2.0. I would really appreciate anyone that will beta test it and report any bugs or suggestions for improvement before the final release. You can dwonlaod it here along with 2 sample maps ...

You can download Borland's C++ Builder 6 as an evaluation as long as its not used for commercial purposes.

seriously ?

Well the popping is not really causes by vertices jumping to a new position, its caused by vertices being "taken out". That's what causes the popping. In order to reduce the effect, you would need to base the decision of which LOD to use for a given patch based on a screen space error formula.

My heightmap is 65*513. Works fine.

Any news on a editor for heightmap "ingame"? IE some way to access the pixels in the actual image, change'em and then update the terrainNode?

Beam

You could use my terrain editor :-)
http://www.freeworld3d.org

After all the terrain scene node in Irrlicht is ...

I use firefox and can get there just fine.

Check the wiki site for terrain tools
http://www.irrforge.org/index.php/3D_Terrain

You could try a terrain editor with a built in lightmap creator, such as http://www.freeworld3d.org[/url]