very basic help needed

[anubis55]

OK, it's night here, so the rest of the world is awake. (I'm in Australia). I have a very basic problem with IRRLICHT and IRR files.
Using IRREDIT is great and being able to oad an entire IRR file into the engine is wonderful, BUT........

Every time I create a node with IRREDIT and save it as an IRR file, I can't seem to load the textures I used in teh IRR file. So can anyone tell me where the textures need to be in order to get picked up by the engine?

I've tried putting the textures folder in the
D:\IRRLICHT\irrlicht-1.1\bin\Win32-VisualStudio folder, but then I get the shape but no texture. I've tried putting textures from other locations into the IRR file (scenenode) but all I get is a white object with no texture.

I'm pullling my hair out, and there's precious little left.

Can someone please give me som every basic help?

[bitplane]

try printing out your current working directory and see if it's where you expect to be (your compiler may set a strange path while debugging)

device->getFileSystem()->getWorkingDirectory()

you could change it through IFileSystem, but there's probably an option to set it somewhere in your IDE.

[anubis55]

Thanks Bitplane, I started programming back in the days of QBASIC and am a bit confused by some of the modern coding and syntax, especially for C++.

When you say
device->getFileSystem()->getWorkingDirectory()
how do I go about getting the getWorkingDirectory() as output somewhere?

As the topic says "very basic help needed"

Thanx

[Luben]

You mean you want to output the returned value? I don't mean to be mean, but if you dont know how to do that i suggest reading up on c++ a little bit.

Anyways, to output it do like this

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c8* Path;
Path=device->getFileSystem()->getWorkingDirectory();

printf("%s\n", Path);

Alternatively, if you feel like you want to be more c++'ish in your ways, you can change the last line for this

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cout << Path;

Or, if you want to output via irrlicht's own logging system, use this line instead

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device->getLogger()->log(Path);

Normally, with all three of the alternatives the output should be avialable in a console somewhere.

Also, i'm not sure about this, but when i used irredit last time, i think all my textures where set relative to the irredit executable's path.