Irrlicht Engine

Electron: I was afraid I might offend with that; sorry. Extensibility - the more I learn about how MS and C++ work the more I think my annoyance with Irrlicht is just that the symbols aren't exported from the DLL by default. I have an old abhorrence of touching anything in library code, even as mino...

Yep, mm765 had already pointed me at Lightfeather in a pm, but I wanted to finish at least one toy project with Irrlicht before looking at another engine, especially since Lightfeather seems to be Irrlicht-derived. At first glance, though, that'll be my problem with it, rather than a nice carryover ...

So I'm interested in rendering very large terrains, and was poking through CTerrainSceneNode.cpp to understand how it worked and figure out how well it matches up with the GeoMipmap paper. I noticed that during the pre-render phase it was regenerating its index list from scratch every frame. This se...

So I was working with the terrain code to figure out how to load my 6+-megapixel terrains, and I see a reference in CTerrainSceneNode to CTiledTerrainSceneNodeManager, which is exactly what I want. But the named class is nowhere in the codebase, and forum search doesn't find me any posts about it. W...

Umm, one of the classic ways to do this would be closer to: * keep the list of events sorted for which comes soonest; this is O(nlogn) and probably performs much better than that, depending on the exact distribution of event times you've got. * you're probably not going to want to set an interrupt t...

OK, so I can either compile my own new code into the library, change the library interface so the classes are exposed, or just inherit from the ICameraSceneNode interface and reimplement all the behavior myself? None of those is a very maintainable route to extension, since either will require expli...

But CCameraSceneNode is from the original Irrlicht scene node. So you seem to have messed with the Irrlicht source (or made too much copy&paste from the original code). The error message occurs while trying to link txCCameraSceneNode , which is the new class I created. It inherits from CCameraS...

three questions todo with a FPS camera and animator. How do I... Jump?: Probably been asked, but it needs collision detection ect I'd look at irr::scene::CSceneNodeAnimatorFollowSpline. You could either set up a spline for the path you want the camera to follow, or just use it as an example. Doing ...

So, I set up a project from scratch, copied and pasted tutorial 12, and everything built & ran just fine. I decided I wanted to change the camera behavior. Rather than hacking Irrlicht internals, I created my own class (txCCameraFPSSceneNode) and added it to the project. After much cursing at th...

Age: 33 Occpuation: Assistant Professor of Computer Science Location: North Carolina Languages: C/C++ long ago (pre-namespace, pre-template), Java, whatever else needs doing Why Irrlicht: I want to play around with a game engine over the summer, and one of my colleagues used Irrlicht to teach a gam...