Irrlicht Engine

I'm sorry about that, I didn't get the third tutorial needed in there that showed more of the special effects.

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/tut011.html

Specifically, look at the portion labeled "add light 1 (nearly red)" and "add light 2 (grey)" of tutorial 11 and "create light" of tutorial 8 ...

I'd like to point out that the term hack derived from two different places, both of which are covered at http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=hack . One was someone who rode a horse in a specific way, which is where the term hack to describe cab drivers came from. The other is from writing ...

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/tutorials.html
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/tut007.html
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/tut008.html

Everything you are wanting to do is clearly and brilliantly outlined in the tutorials. I highly suggest walking through each tutorial, in the order posted. I also ...

This might be wrong, and I hope it is, but here we go anyways. I've been actually looking at this exact thing. If you use Irrlicht's built in gui objects (buttons, windows, text boxes) you can scale them when they are created (easily done if you use variables to hold the values rather than ...

What you did was move your mesh and node variables to be local to that function only. With that style of function, you would need to make smgr, mesh and node global. Another method would be to simply pass them as parameters.


With the variables global:

int CreateMesh()
{
mesh = smgr->getMesh ...

I just looked at this pretty quickly, didn't have much time for more right now, but shouldn't it be

//snip unrelated
if (mesh)
{
node = pCore->getSceneMgr()->addOctTreeSceneNode(mesh->getMesh(0));
}
if(node)
{
node->setPosition(pos);

if (trans)
node->setMaterialType(EMT_TRANSPARENT ...