Irrlicht Engine

Electron

I think both are right here. EK is entirely correct that Newton is a a rigid body simulator. Yes it allows one to set material elasticity and softness, and this is all that is required for many effects, but that does not, as EK has been pointing out, make it a soft body simulator. Others are right h...

Electron

Node transforms can be speeded up by only updating nodes that have actually changed since the last update. Code for this was posted somewhere, but I'm afraid I do not remember where

Electron

I dislike the fact that hte base vertex class in LF is pure interface and I may change it some time (all the renaming stuff is a hassle though). It's not really that bad tho b/c you don't by any means generally need ot call getPosition on ever vertex every frame. THe whole buffer is rendered as a vb...

Electron

Baal Cadar is right about a vertex-free format. It's much more flexible to simply store a vertex buffer containing user-specified vertex elements. For example, http://lf.mmdevel.de/lf/documentation/apidocs/classlf_1_1res_1_1IVertexBuffer.html and http://lf.mmdevel.de/lf/documentation/apidocs/classlf...

Electron

fast depends what you're comparing it to. Irrlicht will be slow in large scenes unless it gets better culling Currently it has only a rough aabb of frustum vs aabb of node and no occlusion test. It could benefit from. . . 1) real frustum planes vs aabb test 2) BHV tree 3) portals (requires setup in ...

Electron

by literal definition, an rpg is a "role-playing game". You pretend to be a character. Of course, most FPS's are also role-playing games by this definition, but I see no need to absolutely requite leveling up in an rpg. Of course, most ppl enjoy leveling up

Electron

supposedly Ben Omari, the original author, was fixing it, but I haven't heard any more about that from vermeer

Electron

wind should prolly be done on a shader. . .

Electron

no, irrlicht provides no triangulation. You must triangulate meshes before loading them into irrlicht (actually, some loaders may provide triangualtion in the loader, I'm not really sure, but it's still better to triangulate ahead of time)

Electron

Nice, Very similar technique to parts of what's described in a GPU Gems 2 article

Electron

I'm not sure exactly how much help it would be for implementing multi-pass rendering in irrlicht, but one of you might want to have a look at the way renderpasses are done in Lightfeather http://lf.mmdevel.de/content.php?article.7 and http://lf.mmdevel.de/content.php?article.13

Electron

I think the only thing that baking the action to the IPO curve does is alows one to play the animation in blender. I'm not positive tho, blender always confuses me.

Electron

http://irrwizard.sourceforge.net/tut09.html
It's specific to his framework of course, but it's still valid

Electron

They don't require extra classes to use, and you can change the function pointer to point to different functions in the same object, while for a similar system with virtual functions you must create several different classes overriding the virtual function differently and create an object of each. C...

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char name[256];
// fill name array with data
// ...
const wchar_t *string = irr::core::stringw(name).c_str();

The problem with this code is that you are storing a pointer to memory allocated for a temporary object. Try this instead

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stringw tmpName=name;
const wchar_t* wname=tmpName.c_str();

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