Irrlicht Engine

If you wanted to make stairs like on lemmings, it would be much easier to be able to add them to a bitmap being used as a mask for collision detection than to make an array or linked list of steps that you have to go through all the time to check if the character is on the stairs or not, because ...

How do you alter an image after you lock it?

I want to write a 2d game that uses simple actor-world collision detection by checking the color of pixels in a bitmap used as a level mask. I think I can just use IImage and getPixel (x, y) and check the color, certain colors for passable or unpassable ...

When you run an app from inside VisualC++ it runs from the same directory that the project is in even though the exe is actually stored in the /debug or /release folder. So, if you put the images in /debug and try to run inside VC++ they will not get loaded, and same problem if you run from /debug ...

Thanks. That works for the font size, but what about color? Do I have to change the color in the bitmaps?

How do you change font size and font color in guienv?