Irrlicht Engine

Sorry.. I know I said I should shut up...

Could we move this into a feature or alternate thread. I am interested on implementing a long term solution to this and I am decent enough programmer to be able to do so(a crappy 3D person though;))...(or as we like to say..still learning)...

I agree that ...

I am not sure what your application is ..and I don't really like nit-picking..not all cards support this function which makes chunking the only viable way to ensure interoperability over a wide variety of cards.

I look more in this as NOT a quick hack, but as a long term solution that works over ...

I don't want to confuse anybody..but anyways..

Doing a little research on my part..looking at how other engine handle it..

Believe this is handle by 'chunking' textures..basically spliting textures multiple power of 2 texture chains....

For example if you have a texture of 800x600..could chunk it ...

The examples compile to the 'bin' directory. If you check under the properties(project) and check the linker(general) doodad..you should see the output file..

in the bin directory is the dll.

It's 6 developers if you check the authors page, and lots of contributors as well. But of course we need the input from the community as we cannot keep up the pace without. And bitplane and I are also developing new things (check bitplane's homepage for several interesting new scene nodes, I've ...

It's 6 developers if you check the authors page, and lots of contributors as well. But of course we need the input from the community as we cannot keep up the pace without. And bitplane and I are also developing new things (check bitplane's homepage for several interesting new scene nodes, I've ...

Check the driver you are using...

When I use the default software one, transparency seem broken...

When I use the apel(wacha macallit one) software renderer...trasprencies are fine..
Works with directx, opengl as well..

Could be a driver issue with specific cards...not sure? Only have about 2 ...

Ya,

Seem like it doesn't..Did a debug track of the driver..looks like it is sticking it into a 512 x 512 texture. I was thinking of re-sizing scaling the image..but I suspect that's is what is being done already.

Here are the screenies:

DirectX: Notice the artifacts along the edges and the planet ...

From what I know:

1) Have your source image be able to support an alpha channel (i.e. PNG or TGA). Make sure the alpha channel is properly set oon the image
2) OR designed a specific color to be transparent(I use 255,0,255(rgb).
For this make sure all parts of your image that you want transparent ...

I was trying out the idea of re-writing my 2d game into 3d(after using SDL) and I am running into a snag I knew I should have forseen.

Currently my 2d game has alot of assets of various sizes..the worse though are full screen 800x600 sized. When I was playing around with blitting the textures, a ...

Doing a:
gDriver->draw2DImage(mSource->pSurf, core::position2d<s32>(nX+mOriginX, nY+mOriginY), mRect, 0,video::SColor(255,255,255,255), true);

where mSource->pSurf is a 24 PNG with alpha channel. Using the Software2 renderer the texture is rendered properly. Using the Software1, the alpha channel ...

Hi,

Probably a stupid question, but not asking is worse.

I know you call driver->getTexture(X) to load a texture but I don't see a 'clear'/release texture function. I am assuming that the engine does texture management for us? Still I am building a surface management class and would like to be ...