Irrlicht Engine

Hi there IvoPereira

http://www.irrforge.org/index.php/Irrlicht_Tutorials_in_VBNET
here is a site with some vb.net code to work with.

As far as setting up your compiler,

Start a new console application

right click on the project and click add reference
choose irrlicht.net.dll

also you will ...

Well I looked into irrlicht.net cp, a great wrapper but This has the same memory problem as irrlicht.net

When i create a new terrain selector there is no way to release the memory properly. So my program gains 2 megs everytime i recreate the terrain collision map.

In c++ version of irrlicht ...

Thanks guys, I will look into them, Also there is me learning how to actuly do this hehe but if its already done and has what i need it will deffiantly save some time.

Thanks for the reply, I did a bit more research and found that one way to fix this would be to make instance of the irrlicht unmanaged, then make a second wrapper to convert it to managed(can be done in the same code). Always deleteing itself in the desconstructor. I think over all it would make for ...

I have sucessfully compiled both irrlicht and irrlicht .net
I did a comparison of the terrain example in both c++ and vb.net
(modified both to handle terrain scaling and recalculating the collisions and found)

in the .net I can not release any memory for anything even it is droped.
gc.collect ...

Got the .net.dll to compile in express

Pm me if anyone has questions on how to get both source's to work in express, took me a while to get it all working, Maybe I will make a tutorial.


Working on changing and brining over some features for my collision reset when terrain is morphed.

There is a function in the source , i think its accessible in c++ setworld, in the source it drops the world if there already is one then creates a new one, This is exactly what would help me refresh the collision map. Its not implemented in .net

I have been trying to compile the .net with the ...

This maybe a simple fix but im trying to scale my terrain in realtime, which works fine terrain.scale = scale (in the event handler)

The problem is the collsion map for the terrain
Dim selector As ITriangleSelector = device.SceneManager.CreateTerrainTriangleSelector(terrain, 0)
anim = device ...

Trying to convert the parallex demo to vb.net

Im not for sure if this is possible sence i can not find these 2 things that are used in the code for .net

'node.GetMaterial(0).MaterialTypeParam = 0.2F - says i can not pass a value to this.
'device.VideoDriver.makeNormalMapTexture(tex,9.0f) - no ...