Tutorial 7

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Zitzu
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Tutorial 7

Post by Zitzu »

here it is :)

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/*
In this tutorial, I will show how to collision detection with the Irrlicht Engine. 
I will describe 3 methods: Automatic collision detection for moving through 3d 
worlds with sliding, stair climbing and sliding, manual triangle picking and manual 
scene node picking.
*/
using System;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;

using Irrlicht;
using Irrlicht.Video;
using Irrlicht.GUI;
using Irrlicht.Core;
using Irrlicht.Scene;

namespace _07._Collisions
{
	class Program
	{
		string path="../../../../media/";
		IrrlichtDevice device;		
		/// <summary>
		/// Main entry point for the program.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="args">Arguments to pass the software.</param>
		[STAThread]
		static void Main(string[] args)
		{
			Program prog = new Program();
			prog.run();
		}

		public void run()
		{
			/* At first, we let the user select the driver type, 
			   then start up the engine, set a caption, and get a 
			   pointer to the video driver.
			*/

			// ask user for driver
			DriverType driverType;

			// Ask user to select driver:
			StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
			sb.Append("Please select the driver you want for this example:\n");
			sb.Append("\n(a) Direct3D 9.0c\n(b) Direct3D 8.1\n(c) OpenGL 1.5");
			sb.Append("\n(d) Software Renderer\n(e) Apfelbaum Software Renderer");
			sb.Append("\n(f) Null Device\n(otherKey) exit\n\n");

			// Get the user's input:
			TextReader tIn = Console.In;
			TextWriter tOut = Console.Out;
			tOut.Write(sb.ToString());
			string input = tIn.ReadLine();

			// Select device based on user's input:
			switch (input) 
			{
				case "a":
					driverType = DriverType.DIRECT3D9;
					break;
				case "b":
					driverType = DriverType.DIRECT3D8;
					break;
				case "c":
					driverType = DriverType.OPENGL;
					break;
				case "d":
					driverType = DriverType.SOFTWARE;
					break;
				case "e":
					driverType = DriverType.SOFTWARE2;
					break;
				case "f":
					driverType = DriverType.NULL_DRIVER;
					break;
				default:
					return;
			}

			// Create device and exit if creation fails:
			device = new IrrlichtDevice(driverType, new Dimension2D(1024, 768), 32, false, true, true);

			if (device == null) 
			{
				tOut.Write("Device creation failed.");
				return;
			}

			/*
			Get a pointer to the video driver and the SceneManager so that
			we do not always have to write device->getVideoDriver() and
			device->getSceneManager().
			*/
			
			ISceneManager smgr=device.SceneManager;
			IVideoDriver driver=device.VideoDriver;

			device.FileSystem.AddZipFileArchive(path+"map-20kdm2.pk3");

			IAnimatedMesh q3levelmesh = smgr.GetMesh("20kdm2.bsp");
			ISceneNode q3node = null;
			if (q3levelmesh!=null)
				q3node=smgr.AddOctTreeSceneNode(q3levelmesh.GetMesh(0),null,0);

			/*So far so good, we've loaded the quake 3 level like in tutorial 2. 
			 Now, here comes something different: We create a triangle selector. A
			 triangle selector is a class which can fetch the triangles from scene 
			 nodes for doing different things with them, for example collision 
			 detection. There are different triangle selectors, and all can be 
			 created with the ISceneManager. In this example, we create an 
			 OctTreeTriangleSelector, which optimizes the triangle output a little 
			 bit by reducing it like an octree. This is very useful for huge meshes 
			 like quake 3 levels.
			 After we created the triangle selector, we attach it to the q3node. 
			 This is not necessary, but in this way, we do not need to care for the 
			 selector, for example dropping it after we do not need it anymore.*/

			ITriangleSelector selector = null;
			if (q3node!=null)
			{
				q3node.Position= new Vector3D(-1370,-130,-1400);
				selector=smgr.CreateOctTreeTriangleSelector(
					q3levelmesh.GetMesh(0),q3node,128);
				// not implemented but not necessary
				//q3node.TriangleSelector=selector;
			}

			/*We add a first person shooter camera to the scene for being able to move in 
			  the quake 3 level like in tutorial 2. But this, time, we add a special 
			  animator to the camera: A Collision Response animator. This thing modifies 
			  the scene node to which it is attached to in that way, that it may no 
			  more move through walls and is affected by gravity. The only thing we have 
			  to tell the animator is how the world looks like, how big the scene node is, 
			  how gravity and so on. After the collision response animator is attached to 
			  the camera, we do not have to do anything more for collision detection, 
			  anything is done automaticly, all other collision detection code below is 
			  for picking. And please note another cool feature: The collsion response 
			  animator can be attached also to all other scene nodes, not only to cameras. 
			  And it can be mixed with other scene node animators. In this way, collision 
			  detection and response in the Irrlicht engine is really, really easy.
			  Now we'll take a closer look on the parameters of 
			  createCollisionResponseAnimator(). The first parameter is the TriangleSelector, 
			  which specifies how the world, against collision detection is done looks like. 
			  The second parameter is the scene node, which is the object, which is affected 
			  by collision detection, in our case it is the camera. The third defines how big 
			  the object is, it is the radius of an ellipsoid. Try it out and change the radius 
			  to smaller values, the camera will be able to move closer to walls after this. 
			  The next parameter is the direction and speed of gravity. You could set it to 
			  (0,0,0) to disable gravity. And the last value is just a translation: Without 
			  this, the ellipsoid with which collision detection is done would be around 
			  the camera, and the camera would be in the middle of the ellipsoid. But as 
			  human beings, we are used to have our eyes on top of the body, with which 
			  we collide with our world, not in the middle of it. So we place the scene 
			  node 50 units over the center of the ellipsoid with this parameter. And 
			  that's it, collision detection works now. 
			 */
			ICameraSceneNode camera = smgr.AddCameraSceneNodeFPS(null,100,300,0);
			camera.Position=new Vector3D(-100,50,-150);
			ISceneNodeAnimator anim = smgr.CreateCollisionResponseAnimator(
				selector,camera,new Vector3D(30,50,30),
				new Vector3D(0,-3,0),new Vector3D(0,50,0),0);
			camera.AddAnimator(anim);

			/*Because collision detection is no big deal in irrlicht, I'll describe how 
			  to do two different types of picking in the next section. But before this, 
			  I'll prepare the scene a little. I need three animated characters which we
			  could pick later, a dynamic light for lighting them, a billboard for drawing 
			  where we found an intersection, and, yes, I need to get rid of this mouse 
			  cursor. :)*/
			//disable mouse cursor
			device.CursorControl.Visible=false;
			
			// add billboard
			IBillboardSceneNode bill = smgr.AddBillboardSceneNode(
				null,new Dimension2Df(20,20),new Vector3D(),0);
			bill.SetMaterialType(MaterialType.TRANSPARENT_ADD_COLOR);
			bill.SetMaterialTexture(0,driver.GetTexture(
				path+"particle.bmp"));
			bill.SetMaterialFlag(MaterialFlag.LIGHTING,false);

			Material material = new Material();
			material.Texture1= driver.GetTexture(
				path+"faerie2.bmp");
			material.Lighting=true;

			IAnimatedMeshSceneNode node = null;
			IAnimatedMesh faerie = smgr.GetMesh(
				path+"faerie.md2");
			if (faerie!=null)
			{
				node=smgr.AddAnimatedMeshSceneNode(faerie,null,0);
				node.Position=new Vector3D(-70,0,-90);
				node.SetMD2Animation(MD2AnimationType.RUN);
				node.SetMaterial(0,material);

				node=smgr.AddAnimatedMeshSceneNode(faerie,null,0);
				node.Position=new Vector3D(-70,0,-30);
				node.SetMD2Animation(MD2AnimationType.SALUTE);
				node.SetMaterial(0,material);

				node=smgr.AddAnimatedMeshSceneNode(faerie,null,0);
				node.Position=new Vector3D(-70,0,-60);
				node.SetMD2Animation(MD2AnimationType.JUMP);
				node.SetMaterial(0,material);
			}

			material.Texture1=null;
			material.Lighting=false;

			//Add a light
			smgr.AddLightSceneNode(null,new Vector3D(-60,100,400),
				new Colorf(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f,1.0f),600,0);

			/*For not making it too complicated, I'm doing picking inside the drawing 
			  loop. We take two pointers for storing the current and the last selected 
			  scene node and start the loop.*/
			ISceneNode selectedSceneNode =null;
			ISceneNode lastSelectedSceneNode =null;

			int lastFPS=-1;

			while (device.Run()) 
			{
				if (device.WindowActive) 
				{
					device.VideoDriver.BeginScene(true, true, new Color(0, 200, 200, 200));
					device.SceneManager.DrawAll();
					/*After we've drawn the whole scene whit smgr->drawAll(), we'll do the 
					  first picking: We want to know which triangle of the world we are 
					  looking at. In addition, we want the exact point of the quake 3 
					  level we are looking at. For this, we create a 3d line starting at 
					  the position of the camera and going through the lookAt-target of it. 
					  Then we ask the collision manager if this line collides with a 
					  triangle of the world stored in the triangle selector. If yes, we draw 
					  the 3d triangle and set the position of the billboard to the intersection 
					  point.*/
					Line3D line = new Line3D();
					line.start=camera.Position;
					line.end=line.start+
						(camera.Target - line.start).Normalize() * 1000;
					Vector3D intersection;
					Triangle3D tri;
					if (smgr.SceneCollisionManager.GetCollisionPoint(
						line,selector,out intersection, out tri))
					{
						bill.Position=intersection;

						driver.SetTransform(TransformationState.WORLD, new Matrix4());
						driver.SetMaterial(material);
						driver.Draw3DTriangle(tri,new Color(0,255,0,0));
					}
					/*Another type of picking supported by the Irrlicht Engine is scene node 
					  picking based on bouding boxes. Every scene node has got a bounding box, 
					  and because of that, it's very fast for example to get the scene node 
					  which the camera looks at. Again, we ask the collision manager for this, 
					  and if we've got a scene node, we highlight it by disabling Lighting in 
					  its material, if it is not the billboard or the quake 3 level.*/
					selectedSceneNode=smgr.SceneCollisionManager.
						GetSceneNodeFromCameraBB(camera,0);

					if (lastSelectedSceneNode!=null)
						lastSelectedSceneNode.SetMaterialFlag(
							MaterialFlag.LIGHTING, true);

					if (selectedSceneNode==q3node||
						selectedSceneNode==bill)
						selectedSceneNode=null;

					if(selectedSceneNode!=null)
						selectedSceneNode.SetMaterialFlag(
							MaterialFlag.LIGHTING,false);
					lastSelectedSceneNode=selectedSceneNode;

					/*That's it, we just have to finish drawing.*/

					driver.EndScene();

					int fps = device.VideoDriver.FPS;
					if (lastFPS != fps) 
					{
						device.WindowCaption = "Irrlicht Engine - Quake 3 Map example [" +
							device.VideoDriver.Name + "] FPS:" + fps.ToString();
						lastFPS = fps;
					}
				}
			}
			/*
			In the end, delete the Irrlicht device.
			*/
			// Instead of device->drop, we'll use:
			GC.Collect();    
		}
	}
}
the_bob
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Location: Michigan

Quick question...

Post by the_bob »

Zitzu,

I noticed only one thing that seemed a bit wierd. The particle sprite seems to go into the walls and floors halfway. The only reason I noticed was that this did not happen in the binary's included with the SDK.

I'll look at it more later, but for now, I'm not sure if it's something to do with the .net wrapper or if something is different with the calculation of the sprite's bilboard.

Other than that, it looks great! :D
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Zitzu
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Post by Zitzu »

You're right the_bob, I didn't noticed.

I added the line

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bill.SetMaterialFlag(MaterialFlag.ZBUFFER,false);
after this one

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bill.SetMaterialFlag(MaterialFlag.LIGHTING,false);
(It should be at line 181) and it seems better...
temaz
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Post by temaz »

Hi guys, please help me with this tutorial.

I am getting an error

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No overload for method 'GetSceneNodeFromCameraBB' takes '2' arguments
in line

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selectedSceneNode = smgr.SceneCollisionManager.GetSceneNodeFromCameraBB(camera, 0);
And if i am deleting it, when i start application it flashes for 1 second (you can see Q3 level loaded), but then getting a grey screen.

What should i do?
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cylicht
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Post by cylicht »

add a third argument true. (or false?)

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[C#] 
public ISceneNode GetSceneNodeFromCameraBB(
   ICameraSceneNode camera,
   int idBitMask,
   bool noDebugObjects
);
I don't know what 'DebugObjects' are.
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