Irrlicht Engine

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My game allows only 2D movement, so they are scalars. If they were vectors representing Euler angles, you'd end up with angular speeds on every axis respectively (but Euler angles have some problems with representing 3D orientation, you might consider using matrices or quaternions. Then the basic ru...

I store position, linear velocity and acceleration and orientation, angular velocity and acceleration in my own class. I set accelerations when player presses buttons, speeds and postion are computed from it (it's very simple). So as you see it's a bit different approach. If you don't want to change...

I'm interested

I guess more people are, it would be great if you could put in somewhere on the web.

Yes, linear function is enough, all I had to do was adding rotation on X axis based on angular speed: node->setRotation(w*0.4, angle/GRAD_PI2, 0); where w (its omega, heh) is angular speed, 0.4 is just a coefficient, I chose it by trying different values till it looked good, and angle is the orienta...

Thanks for answers.

Once I have the base of my test-game working, I'll try to extend Irrlichts or write my own particle system it (or use IrrlichtNX, if their particles are working by then).

Heh, good idea, I'll do that too

I think one could just make the bank rotation to be a simple function of angular velocity, even linear might be good for start.

I'll post, when I have something that looks good.

You could easily add your own LOD, just load all your textures into the game and then change the texture of the mesh according with the distance the camea is from the object. This is not mesh LOD as Electron explained, rather sth like mip mapping, but how about doing the same thing to meshes? I mea...

Hehehe, wait till you add a plane with background, it becomes unplayable ;) Or rather don't wait, I've found a solution to this same problem just yesterday. I have to call updateAbsolutePosition() on both the camera and object after changing their positions (I call it for all objects after changing ...

Is it possible? I couldn't find anything that would do this in the API docs (maybe I haven't been looking hard enough?). I want to make a rocket engine "trail", but only when the player is pressing the accelerate button, when he stops pressing it I want the fire to fade out (so deleteing t...

This line is wrong: IrrlichtDevice *device = createDevice(video::EDT_OPENGL, core::dimension2d<s32>(800, 600), 16, false); You should specify your event receiver as the 6th argument, like this: IrrlichtDevice *device = createDevice(video::EDT_OPENGL, core::dimension2d<s32>(800, 600), 16, false, flas...

Check API documentation for irr::core::list<T> and irr::core::list<T>::iterator. Basicly it would look like this (I'm assuming you have a list of ISceneNodes, same rule applies to other classes): irr::core::list<ISceneNode>::iterator i; i = MyRootNode->getChildren().begin(); while(i != MyRootNode->g...

I'm making a simple xpilot-like game and I need a top-down orthogonal view that would scale to contain all player objects on the screen. Everything's fine but the camera is "jumping" and when there are more more than one objects on the screen and they get a bit far away they sometimes star...