Irrlicht Engine

have a search through the forums, this has been asked many many times before.

The most common would be something todo with weapons

yeah very true peter,i think roam 1 would be better than what irrlicht has now but i also think geomipmapping or even quadtree is a better way to go until roam 2 is finished. Either which way VBO support in irrlicht is a must if we want to implement any of the above with decent frame rates.

is that the book trent pollack (spelling??) wrote? ...if it is, that roam 2.0 implementation needs alot of work and considering Mark Duchaineau has not yet finished roam 2.0 it's pretty hard to implement it all.

Better off following mark's website http://www.cognigraph.com/ROAM_homepage/ROAM2/ if ...

here is a great little app to find your opengl extensions
http://www.realtech-vr.com/glview/

When I run the shader example with dx8 everything is fine. When I run with OGL I get a warning that pixel shaders are disabled because of missing driver/hardware support. I have a Radeon 8500. Does anyone know whether
1) the fault is in my video drivers

2) a radeon 8500 can't run pixel shaders at ...

where is the lod terrain?

haha not it this release, i am very dissapointed in this release of irrlicht :cry:

have a look around in the forums, i can't remember where but it's in here,someone is writing a new terrain class that i believe uses the quadtree algorithm although it ain't released yet ...

an Operation Flashpoint type of game? I mean with huge islands covering many kilometers and lots of trees and different vehicles/airplanes/weapons and of course multiplayer?

Second question: Is there a version of Irrlicht which already has a terrain in it so i could start building physics ...

look in the examples, "7.Collision"

Electron wrote:I believe LOD is coming in 0.7. Ogre may still be faster, but that should certainly help irrlicht's terrain rendering.

i hope so because i actually prefered using irrlicht.

i started using lirrlicht and now i use ogre, simply because irrlicht and large terrain's do not mix ....ogre slays irrlicht to the point it is almost funny when it comes to large terrain rendering

thanks mate i will try that ....i don't get this prob at work with an NVIDIA card only with the ATI card

when i display a skybox with opengl (1024x768:32)it looks like crap, it's like really grainy. Yet when i use directx9(1024x768:32) it looks great. I am using a radeon card with catalyst 4.8 driver. any ideas?

yeah i get this too sometimes with JPG skybox's

while you are at it check out quake2 source code,it's freely avaible and GPL'd. Graphics wise obviouslly it ain't up anywhere near where we r at today but still gives a good idea in what is involved in creating a FPS game