Irrlicht Engine

well yeah, my aim eventually is to have it split into broken bits that go flying, but first i need to learn how to dynamically break apart the quad or triangle.
How do I do that within irrlicht?

I guess i need explained how to add vertices to any mesh at any point so that i can make a hole.
If its ...

I have a quad/triangle/anything, and I want to actually put a hole in it, not decals or anything, when a cannon goes through it. This means i have to change its geometry dynamically, but I have little knowledge as to how to do such a thing.
Can someone explain the basics and/or how to go about this ...

I did download that one (the water and perpixel lighting one), but from what i could see the render target texture is put on the mesh and used that way ...i may be wrong though, but if that is the case, then that is not what i was after:

I don't want to have to add my shadow map texture as a 3rd ...

which one is it? i downloaded the hardware ray trace 2 one but it had no source, and i downloaded the per pixel lighting example with water one, and it sent the texture normally by putting it on a model (as far as i can tell anyway).
I have slow internet so i would rather not download them all just ...

I have figured out the projection stuff.
For the next bit i have run into another problem. I have created a render target of the depth of the scene...now i need to access it from a shader.
How can i send texture data to a shader without having it on the model?

I am sure this is possible as it seems ...

thanks, i will check it out

it wasn't the shadows i was concerned about, i just want to know how they managed to overlay the lights point of view correctly onto the cameras point of view...but i will check out some examples in the mean time

well, i was having a look at shadow mapping, and that started me thinking on all the stuff i don't know..
and that led me to wondering how on earth the texture is projected.

from this wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_mapping

there is this picture:
http://upload.wikimedia.org ...

what was the FPS to start with? because a drop from 2000-1000 is not the same as a drop from 10 to 5.

why not just use node->setVisible(false); ?

I am positive i have the same problem, none of the gui elements do anything, the tabs dont change, the buttons dont click, etc
But i am returning false, and the problem bit of code is a addInOutFader() from the gui environment. When i run that, the rest of the gui doesn't work.
This is with irrlicht ...

I am making a RTS game but such a large game takes a long time to make, and so i am not annoucing anything yet as it is not complete enough to play properly. Perhaps other people are in similar situations?

i dont even have a microphone so i am out
Guess i will have to stick to the irc...

I just used IrrWizard for my RTS game. The core pack worked perfectly and i just built from there.

check out getSceneNodeFromRayBB in the collision manager. Just give all selectable nodes a unique bitmask and non-selecable nodes a different bitmask.

I dont see a problem with it using the bounding box...it will still return the first node it hits. You said the it wont hit the level because the ...