Irrlicht Engine

Lets hope NIKO appreciates your work setting it up etc ....

The CVS at http://www.irrlichtnx.mmdevel.de/ now contains a nice fix for locking the frame rate to that of your monitor !

It is only win32 / openGL only at the moment.

It is done by driver->setVSync(bool) and will limit the frame rate as you require. Idea for 2D drawing!

Hi JapanFred

I started a thread on tjhis subject at http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3247

Using the timer in the posted code (zip file) you can limit the game to whatever FPS you require - BUT - although it limits the FPS it does not lead to a smooth gfx update. - as my ...

Interesting threads over at www.gamedev.net.

Highlighting our need in Irrlicht for a VSYNC setting. (well for 2D drawing)

http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums ... _id=195562

With or without the timer function active - I still get a tearing and a judder on the main part of t.he landscape.

If I do the same in something like BLITZ3D - it works fine until I turn off the VSYNC - then it does the same as in Irrlicht

So im thinking that Irrlicht needs a similar Vsync wait ...

Ok Ive tried making it move in gradual steps as suggested - but alas the same problem of tearing appears....

ive posted the source if anyone wants to see what Im talkiing about ....

http://www.baa.ovine.net/scroll.zip


any help would be appreciated ( I see someone else in the beginners section ...

Thanks for the heads up.

Ive been doping some testing of both Irrlicht and Blitz to compare - and yes speed doesnt seem to be an issue. - we shall not be doing a state of the art FPS in the near future (or ever !) - so some of the shortcomings of Blitz are no real concern.

The new material system ...

Are all your "tiles" not the same size ?

If not you must know the size of each of the tiles to place them on the screen ? - if so just create an array of x,y,x1,y1 ?

Do you mean to create DECALS ? OR do you want the "billboard" to rotate around the Z Axis ?

Is it better that you should be looking at your 2D map rather than selecting textures from the screen ?

i.e. translate your 3D cursor pos into 2D co-ordinates and look those up in your tilemap array.

Im setting up a simple 2D parallax effect using the 2DImageDraw.

In pseudo code I do this



image setup

while(1)
{

UpdateTimer()

if ( Timer > xxx)
{
move X offset
timer reset()
}

Draw2DImage( using X offset )

draw scene.........

}


* timer updates from "m_device->getTimer ...

Have you used scale to make the water plane larger ?

Any X-Blitz3D developers here ?

I ask as we are currently moving into the 3D side of games writing (from 2D stuff) and we are currently looking at C++/Irrlicht and Blitz as our future dev language/engine

I’ve been used to using quite high level languages – which have the benefit of me ...

Excellent news soconne ... keep us all informed of your progress

Nice and smooth here on an XP2400. over 300fps in DX mode.

Any chance of sharing your Camera code ? - in particular the "Roll" code used in the cockpit view ? Theres been quite a few posts asking how todo it