Irrlicht Engine

Nice. Any chance that you could integrate this into the engine proper for real-time sprite generation, i.e. imposter support? That way you could dynamically replace complex far-away geometry with a sprite, on the fly. See
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=116872&sid ...

Missing lod isnt a problem also as im going to use lua scripts to do the paging of terrain and objects and i want to use 3 levels of terrain lod.


This sounds really interesting, as I've been thinking about something similar (also using Lua).

How many tiles do you plan to keep in memory at once ...

Not to rain on your parade, but I would advise against buying a laptop for game development. Sooner or later you'll want to upgrade the graphics card and with a laptop, that means buying a new computer. I've been doing 3D programming for several years now and each time I bought a laptop and each ...

I just keep thinking to myself... why all this effort for a freaking tram simulator... I mean trams are so exciting... is this for a job or something??

You might be surprised at how popular these kind of games are in some parts of the world. For example, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let's_Go ...

Regarding the splitting of the code into separate libraries, I think the criteria for whether or not this is a good idea is the dependencies between the thus-created libs. Is every lib needs every other one to function, there's no point, IMHO, in a split. If, however, every library can be ...

You might want to read up on "Adaptive Object Models", e.g.

http://www.adaptiveobjectmodel.com/WICSA3/ArchitectureOfAOMsWICSA3.htm

Scott Bilas of Gas Powered Games also describes his dynamic object system: http://www.drizzle.com/~scottb/gdc/game-objects_files/frame.htm

You might want to consider ...

This sounds interesting. A couple of thoughts...

Wouldn't a fork make it harder to keep up with new Irrlicht developments? There's also the issue of community - e.g. Lightfeather, an Irrlicht fork, seems to have far fewer users than the main Irrlicht trunk. So forking Irrlicht would likely (at ...

Regarding lightmapping solutions, I noticed no one has mentioned Sunflow on the Irrlicht forums. I just wanted to point it out:

http://sunflow.sourceforge.net

There is an exporter for Blender that saves Blender scenes as Sunflow files. Sunflow then calculates global illumination based on different ...

Sorry, I think I posted this in the wrong forum . After re-reading the forum descriptions, it looks like this should be posted under "FAQs, Tutorials, Howtos, and external tool lists". Could a moderator move the post to the correct forum please? Thanks.

I haven't seen this mentioned here - thought it might be useful. Someone has released a Lua-to-ODE binding at http://sourceforge.net/projects/luaode . Right now it appears OSX-only, but it comes with source so it shouldn't be too hard to write a Linux makefile. It supports ODE 0.7, with plans to ...

I'd like to see imposter support (implemented in a cross-platform, widely supported way) in an upcoming version of Irrlicht.

Here's a good link: http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20060 ... s_01.shtml

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Then you'd have doodoo loads of .dll's in your main game executable location...That's not exactly nice-looking or anything.

I guess it would be better to have one big, monolithic file called Game.exe, right? Why even have a dll? Static link! No directory structure, no media files ...

Gaining passion back for a project? Yeah somebody help me :) irrlua is still at irrlicht version 1.1. I've been working on a lot of different things and it's hard to get back into it.


As far as I know my previous patch brought IrrLua up to 1.2 in a reasonably complete way. http://irrlicht ...

You could try this technique - http://www.nothings.org/computer/vfog/

Or check out Klasker's demo at http://www.wc3jass.com/asger/page.php?10 and ask him for some hints