Irrlicht Engine

If you're gonna make a CS clone , why don't you use the graphics engine CS was made with - Half Life? Half Life is already geared towards FPS games, so it will be easier, look better, and run faster.

Irrlicht is an all-round graphics engine. You can make ANYTHING with it, but your type of game (say ...

Hm, I didn't think anyone payed that much attention to my posts - espeically since this is the first time I've posted here in months, cause I'm looking at another free graphics engine. But I still enjoy these forums. :)


Well maybe the people on the Cshop forum do mean "additive blending". You ...

Heh, I think you don't know what translucent means.

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A thing is translucent when it merely admits the passage of light, without enabling us to distinguish the color and outline of objects through it; it is transparent when we can clearly discern objects placed on the other side ...

Make sure you use image sizes power of 2 (For example 256x256). You may also call IVideoDriver::setTextureCreationFlag(ETCF_OPTIMIZED_FOR_QUALITY, true); Exactly. If your picture dimensions aren't a power of 2, they get resized by the video card, and you get yucky pixels.

Open up the textures ...

I would be inclined to devise a way of specifically making the chunks as individual squares to begin with.

Your level editor could hide this, and make it seem like one continuous terrain.

Well, this isn't the way commercial games do it, so you shouldn't either.

They make their own level data format, that consists of polygons generated when the level is compiled or loaded, and pre-built 3D files, like .3DS, .MD2, etc.

In your case, I have 2 suggestions. Both will most likley require ...

Cool - thanks for the links. I didn't know there was such a thing as "modern voxel engines".
Man, I can't wait to see this VoxLap demo *downloading*. Looking at these pages, I think voxels can still have their unique advantages, even if it doesn't look like Doom3.

Judging from your first post, it sounds like you haven't been through the examples yet. Well you said you went through the techDemo but it's very complex.

The examples actually step you through each process, just read the commenting in the code. There are tutorials on the website that are the same ...

I thought the terrain renderer in Irrlicht is in a buggy stage anyway at the moment?

At the moment, Irrlicht is very picky about it's model formats.

.X format is your best bet at the moment. Niko is focusing on making it work properly before all the others, because it is the most appropriate gaming format.

Otherwise, try using a combination of programs to make a file Irrlicht will ...

Yeah well, comparing Irrlicht, an all rounder engine, made by one guy, as a hobby in his spare time, to a commercial engine, focused on a specific game type, made by a team of proffessionals who are being paid to do so, is pretty pointless.

What IS a good bench mark, is that my 'crappy' computer ...

Do you have the same problem with other 3DS files?

If no, then try making a simple version of it, try it, add more things, try it again, till you re-produce the problem, and you may have a better idea, or help us get a better idea, of what's causing the problem.

Same principal for trying different ...

so I did the transformedboundingbox thing, and I still have the exact same problem -- the box will be attached to the most-recently-created node that's visible -- except NOW, the box floats way off behind and below whichever node it's attached to, which makes it even less useful. :(

Also, for some ...

AssiDragon, if you can manage C on your own, that's fine. But that's a very specific case. Teams of programmers will preffer OOP because they can work together more easily using it.

And I also support Niko's choice to focuse on .X support for now - it's easily the most 'bang for your buck' in terms ...

You use getTransformedBoundingBox, instead of getBoundingBox, simple. (read the help )