Sphere Mapping looks really ugly :(
Sphere Mapping looks really ugly :(
In these two shots, you can compare a shot with Blitz3D using sphere mapping, and a shot with IrrLicht using sphere mapping... why does the IrrLicht version look that ugly?:
Why do people want to compare irrlicht to blitz basic all the time. Firstly Blitz basic is a commercial product with a paid development team. Secondly Irrlicht is only at version 0.6 so it shouldn't be all that suprising that some features don't work or need improvement.
Also please post the code you used for sphere mapping. It is possible that the problem is not in irrlicht but in your code. I haven't used sphere mapping before so i don't know if this problem is normal
Also please post the code you used for sphere mapping. It is possible that the problem is not in irrlicht but in your code. I haven't used sphere mapping before so i don't know if this problem is normal
Here is the code:
I compare Blitz3D to IrrLicht for the obvious reason that i pretend to move my project from Blitz to IrrLicht, and if find something that seems a bug for me, i post it so it can be fixed and IrrLicht improved. The sphere mapping in that shot looks ugly, compared to Blitz or not. I simply posted the shot of Blitz because that was an example of how it should look.
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#include <irrlicht.h>
using namespace irr;
using namespace irr::core;
using namespace irr::video;
using namespace irr::scene;
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
// Create Irrlicht Device
IrrlichtDevice* device = createDevice(EDT_DIRECTX8, dimension2d<s32>(640,480), 32, false, false);
IVideoDriver* driver = device->getVideoDriver();
ISceneManager* sceneMgr = device->getSceneManager();
// Default engine config
device->setWindowCaption(L"IrrLicht Sphere Mapping Example");
driver->setTextureCreationFlag(ETCF_OPTIMIZED_FOR_QUALITY, true);
// Main cam
ICameraSceneNode* cam = sceneMgr->addCameraSceneNodeFPS();
// Main object
IAnimatedMesh* objMesh = sceneMgr->getMesh("torus.3ds");
ISceneNode* obj = sceneMgr->addMeshSceneNode( objMesh->getMesh(0) );
obj->setMaterialTexture(0, driver->getTexture("autobahn.jpg"));
obj->setMaterialFlag(EMF_LIGHTING, false);
obj->setMaterialType(EMT_SPHERE_MAP);
// Main loop
while(device->run() && driver) {
driver->beginScene(true, true, SColor(0, 150, 150, 150));
sceneMgr->drawAll();
driver->endScene();
}
// Destroy device
device->drop();
return 0;
}