Coloured cubes

[FyShu^]

Hello!!
As you can see, I'm really new to Irrlicht, and fairly new to C++, in fact, yet not new to programming.

I'm trying to make a 3D Tetris game with irrlicht, something simple to start me off, ya know

So, for Tetris, obviously I need coloured blocks. I have my own funky beveled block I modelled (and phew was that hard ) which I loaded into irrlicht as a IAnimatedMesh (... lol, i don't even know why, I should be using IMesh really) and subsequently made a IAnimatedMeshSceneNode... Looks nice, even without lighting =]

As you would expect, it's just grey.
How can I make this IAnimatedMeshSceneNode take on another colour, like, red, cyan, and blue? I suspect that it's to do with Materials, but I can't see anywhere in the SMaterial struct any options for setting a colour, only everything to do with lighting.

Basically, if you don't use a texture, how do you define a plain colour?

Many thanks for your attention and I hope I didn't waste too much of your time ;p

[Robert Y.]

Welcome to Irrlicht, FyShu^ !

You can do that in two ways:

1. Use smgr->getMeshManipulator()->setVertexColors().

or

2. Create a simple texture for your model like this: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8S32FZEB

[FyShu^]

Thank you for your reply

the weird thing is, my little block is an IAnimatedMesh.

setVertexColors() only accepts IMesh as an argument.

So how on earth do I load a model as an IMesh anyway, when getMesh() only ever returns IAnimatedMesh

and an IAnimatedMesh isn't even derived from an IMesh, so no luck there.

[Dances]

getMesh("filenamehere")->getMesh(0);

[FyShu^]

Ahhh Thank you, I understand now