Irrlicht Engine

Well...

Do you want dynamic self-shadowing on a moving/animating object?
Do you want simple 'baked-in' lights for this object dependant on the lights around this object in the world (and the lights don't change...)?
Do you want to just bake some shadows in using a 3D package...and then place this ...

It seems to me that I had problems with textures having an alpha channel rendering correctly. Are you using openGL? DirectX?

In either, case the problem didn't seem too hard to fix. But, in general, I think IrrLicht could really use some work on the material system.

Hmmm, and you need this for?

I know that with many First Person Shooters, guns for the first person player have a tendency to clip into walls, which is really nasty looking. Consequently, games like Quake end up using a depth hack to 'solve' the problem.

More specifically, I believe it's ...

As far as I know, .md3 files are not supported.

Last I knew, not every IrrLicht demo does that.

Anyway, if you are talking about the FPS style demos, capturing the mouse and resetting the position to the center of the game window is a common feature in any FPS engine.

So, I'd imagine all you have to do is disable that feature, say like in ...

Something like a 50/50 blend of a w-buffer and a z-buffer would be perfect, because you are right. z-buffers usually have far too much precision close up .....whereas, a w-buffer usually doesn't have enough close up and too much off in the distance.

Anyway, there's nothing stopping you from ...

I haven't seen anything about w-buffers in IrrLicht.

As you've pointed out, a w-buffer ( 1/z ), will have much better resolution in the distance, because 1/z values are essentially linear.....whereas with a z-buffer, you end up with a lot of precision close up and not very much the further away you ...

Right, I posted some code in the 'bug' section even though it wasn't exactly a bug. By setting the timeScale factor to 0 in the presented code, the engine can be made to be paused.

It would be easy enough to make pause/un-pause their own methods as well.

IGUIEnvironment* guienv = gDevice->getGUIEnvironment();

// 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);

// set custom font...The irrLicht download contains a font generation ...

Yes, enabling vsync will typically prevent your game from exceeding whatever the monitor refresh rate is.

I pasted your code into my application and it worked fine. Any other details? Such as, which is the line that causes the crash?

Of course, I'm going to assume you've initialized your flashlight variable to 0, false, etc. I did as well, and no crashes.

Otherwise, if it's a random value at game ...

Of course, I was looking into why the billboards don't exhibit this bug and I noticed the same thing in CBillboardSceneNode::render(). So, just by changing the 'facing camera' code with the simplified equivalent version, I noticed about a 2 fps increase in a scene that uses a lot of billboards just ...

My opinion so far, after looking at IrrLicht for a couple of days now, is that materials are really the biggest weakness. I've only looked at the OpenGL implementation, but I have a couple of thoughts.

1)The code currently tries to minimize GL state changes, which is a good thing. I'd suggest that ...

it a little bit boring to ear always the same thing...
-adding more format...
-adding a scene format...
- more tutorials...

tired with this stupid asking stuff... While I don't agree with your tone, I do agree with the content of your post.

Having the engine support every single format under the ...