Newbie question, is Irrlicht suitable for this project...?

Nuada · Post by **Nuada** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 1:30 pm

Hi all, I have a final year project coming up for school and to build a 3d model of a local theatre where users can walk around inside, kinda to check out where their seats are and get a feel for the place because it's pretty big and the architecture is quite impressive. The irrlicht engine seems perfect for it after reading through this forum but I just want to be sure because I have NO C++ experience. I'm willing to learn but doubt I'll get too much time to concentrate on this part.

I'm building the model in Cinema4d and it imports into irredit with no problems. I don't need network code or physics but how easy is it to add sound? I won't need any interactivity, just ambient sounds for the foyer and the 3 different theatres. Also can this 'level' be called from director and then drop the user back to the director menu as they exit?

The project is planned as a CD or DVD based advertisement so I'm guessing file size shouldn't be a problem.

Thanks in advance..

Catprog · Post by **Catprog** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 1:47 pm

http://lists.evolt.org/archive/Week-of- ... 20464.html to call an .exe from within director

http://www.commandline.co.uk/cmdow/ allows you to control windows(programs) from the command line.

http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/ind ... 92081.html how to call command line from within c++

Can't help you with sound though.

Nuada · Post by **Nuada** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:37 pm

Thanks for the fast reply man, that's a big help. I'll build away then with a view to using irrlicht and hopefully the sound will be easy implement. I'm sure it will be seeing as what I need is pretty basic but it's all in the know-how as always

Likort · Post by **Likort** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:51 pm

For sound implementation you could take a look at irrKlang: http://www.ambiera.com/irrklang/