Irrlicht Engine

Hey there! This sounds really cool. I just have one question. Is it really necessary to mock-up your own sensor bar? I mean, you are building it specifically for your projector screen, right, so couldn't you just translate the perceived mouse coordinates to the coordinates that you want?

Hi, just a quick question that I can't seem to find any documentation on.

It is my understanding that when loading a Mesh with the SceneManagers "getMesh" function, Irrlicht first checks to see if the specified Mesh has already been loaded, and if it has, simply uses that copy. Correct me if I'm ...

Xaryl said, it is most likely because the keyboard only fires events when the key is pressed or released. It does not continuously fire events indicating that a specific key is held down.

Depending on how flexible you want your event management system to be, you could store only information ...

Alright guys. Thanks for the info. I'll give it a shot and see what I can come up with!

I'm actually trying to do some funky stuff with the mesh itself, so that probably won't work out for me.

However... is it possible to edit the vertices of a TerrainSceneNode after loading it from a heightmap? That might be the easier way to go, if it can be done...

Seven wrote:vector3df.getLength()? seemed to easy........

//! Get length of the vector.
T getLength() const { return core::squareroot( X*X + Y*Y + Z*Z ); }

Oh, haha. I figured there would be a function for it. Looks like i'm still retaining my math fairly well though

I think you mean that you want to know the magnitude of the vector (ie the "length" of the line from your current position to the one indicated by the vector)?

Doing that, if I remember my math correctly, is fairly simple. Just square all the values, add them together, and then take the square root ...

Thanks for your responses.

I realize that there is a TerrainSceneNode with which I could use a height map. This isn't suitable for my needs. Basically, I want to replicate what the TerrainSceneNode does, but I have a few things that I need to alter in the process. I'm not worried about LOD'ing it ...

Alrighty, first let me say, yes I know that tutorial 23 shows how to make a custom heightmap.

My question is, is there any benefit to doing it this way, rather than deriving a new SceneNode and creating the geometry manually?

I've done a bit of forum searching and it seems that when someone wants ...

Ah, thank you guys, I've got it working!

Hey. I've been trying to find out how to repeat textures over a cube, but have been unsuccessful.

I think you can guess what I want to do, but in case you can't:

I want to create a CubeSceneNode and then apply a texture to it. However, I'm using this cube as a floor, and each level is a different ...

DoF is there to create a movie illusion not real life through the eyes (things go out of focus and that gets you looking in the right direction where the director intends).


Exactly. Which is why I don't think it has any real place in a game unless you are specifically trying to give the illusion ...

I don't like DOF blur effects :) They quit detail from where there should be.

depends on how it's implemented, i agree that there are some really awful DOF effects which can completely ruin a scene, but when implemented and tweaked just right it can create a very realistic effect
Agreed

The ...

I'm just wondering if someone is trying to pull the wool over my eyes, or if I'm blind :P

I could have sworn that two days ago, the newest posting on the Irrlicht website was that CopperCube was free for Irrlicht users to use as a level editor. Today, there are several postings ranging from ...

haffax wrote:You have to start to move before the car hits the ground, else it is stuck.

Ah yes, that was indeed the problem. I was able to test it out this time and it was pretty fun to play around with!