Irrlicht Engine

I'm currently working with WTL, which is similar to MFC, but slightly more c++ oriented. Basically a wrapper around the native Windows API. Works mostly OK, thought I do run into some troubles once in a while (but getting Windows UI to do what you expect it to is often surprisingly hard). MFC probab...

Qt is open source. You just have to be fine with gpl or lgpl 3.0 license: https://www.qt.io/download-open-source In short - as long as your software is also open source you are free to use it. KDE desktop on Linux does use it for example. edit: Actually the parts under lgpl should also be useable in...

Tons of differences between 1.8.5 and 1.9, but most stuff works the same.
The .sln files are for different Visual Studio versions. Use the latest unless you have a specific reason to use an older VS (like developing for Window 98 or something).

Good question... please write once you figured it out :-) From what I get from Microsoft website it sounds like legacy Direct X SDK is a bit update version compared to 7.1 SDK. But no guarantees.

Irrlicht should probably user multimedia timers on Windows some day. I'll look into that at some point. But unlikely for Irrlicht 1.9. Falling through floors is an old thing in 3d, not just new engines ;-) And it's sometimes, but not always about timers. The timer part can be avoided by using a fixe...

OK. To get back to your original question once more. You can get the IMaterialRenderer* from the video-driver via driver->getMaterialRenderer for a given material (SMaterial::MaterialType). It doesn't pass through the opengl stuff, but as you seem to be allowed to modify sources: in your case IMater...

You don't need normals? I tend to need those (edit: thought I learned recenly how specific optimized voxel engines can work when watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40JzyaOYJeY I guess Irrlicht starts getting more in the way than helping once you go that far). May I ask what the Con...

Not 100% sure I get what you try to do there, but I think you go a bit against the flow there with Irrlicht. Irrlicht really only has 3 vertex types it supports well, S3DVertex, S3DVertex2TCoords and S3DVertexTangents. Just one of those early design decisions which make some things easier and other ...

Note this is about shaders, not directly Irrlicht. I'm not sure when you get that error (seeing the shader code might help). But from what I can see on google it might not be supported by ES1 and ES2 - which are the only drivers Irrlicht supports so far in case you work with GL ES. If it's not about...

Maybe check example 23.MeshHandling. The part where it fills the meshbuffer is in the addstrip function. But in short: Meshbuffers have Vertices, Indices and a Material and you need to set those all. Vertices are usually in the S3DVertex format and set the 3 corners of your triangle. Or 4 corners of...

Spell checking maybe in your browser? I don't think we have that in the foorrummm (see?).
Good luck with Sum Up Griddy! ;-)

Yes it moves the position, so no need for seek.

Great. One day we'll add 3rd party integration examples I hope :)

The my_mat() case... don't use the brackets. Just my_mat; Otherwise it looks like a function call for this to c++. And yeah it's a bit confusing as it works with parameters but not with an empty constructor. Just a c++ thing, stackoverflow has more info about that: https://stackoverflow.com/question...

Thanks, but seriously, no need. I totally selfishly work on Irrlicht because I actually use the engine myself.