Could you help a begginer to start from scratch?

eNano · Post by **eNano** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 12:04 am

Hi, (sorry for my english) i´m new in this community and i really want to learn irrlicht.
The problem is that i don´t know to much C but i have "Very" basic knowledges of game programming. What confuses me it´s basicly the needed tools part.
I need to know wich IDE you recommend to use for an easy integration with Irrlicht, and exactly what tools i need to be able to make an application. I never used any C++ IDE and i want to stick with one and use it until i die.
I readed the CodeBlocks tutorial but MSVC toolkit 2003 doesn´t exist anymore and i don´t know if VS 2008 its the same. The tutorial was made in 2005 and i don´t know if all the tools listed are still necesary.
Is there any updated tutorial or any other easy way to get irrlicht running?
Thanks a lot to everyone.

Broodingspark · Post by **Broodingspark** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 12:29 am

I would suggest DevC++, Bloodshed. It's one of the most friendly and simple to get started in environments I've ever used (and it's free).

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/tut001b.html

Just follow that tutorial and you'll be on your way in no time (or rather, a couple hours, max).

The only notable updates would be that you don't need these libs anymore:

# libjpeg.a -- the Independant JPEG group library
# libz.a -- the zlib compression library

- so don't worry about finding them, just use the first libIrrlicht.a (which I think is in a different path now, but not hard to find.

Acki · Post by **Acki** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 12:51 am

for a list of tools you can have a look here: http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... php?t=2963
also there is a thread about 3d-editors: http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=13019
you'll see this threads are all FAQs/Sticky, so you should also read the FAQs first...

there are also many threads about "the best IDE"...
but I suggest you to use Code::Blocks !!!
it's free and much, much better than DevCpp !!!

and btw DevCpp is dead, no more new versions, but I think there was a wx version out that still is under development...

for C::B you can find tutorials with links on my web site !!!

eNano · Post by **eNano** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 7:47 pm

Thanks a lot! I think i will try both, after all I don´t have any parameter to choose

I have downloaded codeblocks before because I "tryied to try" Ogre (to complex for me at this time) so i will see that option to.

eNano · Post by **eNano** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 3:53 am

I think both of you was right, dev is much more easier but CB is more complete. I´m using dev for now because it caused no problems. I guess I will use CB when I learn some more of C++.

I have another question:
I need to create an ICursorControl pointer, but i need to call it from a function outside of the main function. Is that posible?
Is posible to create an IrrlichtDevice outside of the main function to make it globally accesible?
As you can see I´m still trying to understand how all of this works. Thanks for any help.