Irrlicht Engine

i looked it up and yeah you're right. But when iheriting from IAnimatedMeshSceneNode i'm not sure if your custom object is stored as a Mesh so you can add Shadows with addVolumeSceneNode (but i really dont have much knowledge of this so im not sure).

i looked it up and yeah you're right. But when iheriting from i'm not sure if your custom object is stored as a Mesh so you can add Shadows with addVolumeSceneNode (but i really dont have much knowledge of this so im not sure).

Hi, i searched the forum for this and found something but the links were dead and the DirectX meshviewer save doesn't work.

I tried to load a xMesh into irrlicht but i get some strange errors:

"Unknown Data Object in Mesh in X File : FaceAdjacency"
->indeed the faces seem to have lost their ...

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I might be terribly wrong with this but your custom sceneNode inherits from the ISceneNode class so it does have the "addShadowVolumeSceneNode" function. Can't you just call it for shadows?

Thanks a lot. zfx.info seems to be quit useful for this matter.
BTW of course i use wikipedia in case of upcoming questions. But i searched something one can read in whole. (indeed like a book)

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Does anyone know a good page that explains all the basics you need for programming in 3d? I started off with OpenGl by doing NeHe's Tutorials but i discovered that there are stil very (very) much things i don't understand. (what are mipmaps?, what actually are shaders? and all that stuff). I ...

Hi,
I want to make simple levels with an level editor. My choice was DeleD as its format can directly be imported. But one thing bothers me:

When you use parallax or normal mapping with a heightmap is it possible to assign these heightmaps within DeleD? (or any other level editor?)
Or does this ...

Hi, i intent to make a simple FPS game with Irrlicht.

I want to make the levels with blender as I got some experience with it.

If I make a room for example and want to export it to a Irrlicht suitable format like md2 or .X is there any way to use more than 1 UV-Map ?
When they are only 256*256 ...

Hi, I already searched the forum but wasn't able to find a suitable answer:

When i use the boundingBox->getCenter() of a bounding box of a mesh,
I get strange results. The mesh is a simple circle. For indicating the center of the bounding box i set a billboard to the position returned by getCenter ...

Hi, I'm not exactly sure about this but the IGUIWindow class has a method called <<getCloseButton()>>.

So you could just check for Gui Button Clicked events and get the ID of The close Button with the mehtod mention aboved

if(id == nameOfWindow->getCloseButton()->getID() )
...

When you receive ...

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I tried to realize a simple program with a Mesh moving around in a Quake III Map. Camera was supposed to be third person. I tried it with the Parent Thing but I got quite strange results. The I tried to also reset the Cameras Position and Target To The moving Mesh. But the Camera moving doesn't ...

thanks i guess these tutorials will help me. By the way there isn't any real Irrlicht Manual or Am I mistaken?

Hi,

I'm sorry for bothering with this question that was propably asked several times before. Still I wasn't able to find a satisfying answer :

How to actually learn the Irrlicht Engine ?

I worked through the tutorials and i got vague knowledge of some basic methods now but not enough for ...