What other tools needed with the Irrlicht Engine?

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Simpsons4261
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What other tools needed with the Irrlicht Engine?

Post by Simpsons4261 »

Okay, I downloaded Irrlicht Engine, and I am looking to make a online FPS game. Now, I have GIMP for textures, Dev C++ for C++ compiling, and Blender3D for models/animation. What other programs will I need in order to create a high quality online FPS game?

Thanks!
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Post by sudi »

a lot of time....
u might want to look at some network and physic libs to save u some time.
but there isn't anything more then just time.
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Post by franklyn »

you will need : -
a physics library - Newton,Bullet,Physx(not free) .
a sound library - OpenAl , fmod , irrklang .
and a network library - raknet .
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Re: What other tools needed with the Irrlicht Engine?

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...and about another 10+ employees.
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Post by sudi »

@franklyn
not true at all. u don't need that stuff. u can write everything yourself. for example the physics lib. When u only need box collision it is way faster to write some own code than use this havy lib.
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Post by Luben »

Sudi - Then he won't get a high quality game[/u]
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Post by Simpsons4261 »

Is irrEdit the best level editor, and RakNet is not free so what is a free networking thing?
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Post by Yarcanox »

Doing the network stuff manually using sockets needs some time, but thats the way I do it. And so I dont need any special network libraries or similar
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Post by RapchikProgrammer »

I would recommend irrNet, an irrlicht enet wrapper! It looks promising!
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