custom node in editor(solved)

[3DModelerMan]

Hi I was wondering if any one knows how to use irredit with custom scene nodes?. Like loading custom scene nodes into it so they can be placed in the editor?. And if irredit dose'nt do that could someone tell me about one that does?.
Thanks .

[tonic]

Check out the plugin examples which come with irrEdit and make your own custom node by modifying the example one. Then register the same custom node class factory to Irrlicht in your own project, after that the custom nodes loaded from .irr files work fine.

[JP]

Yep, basically it just requires writing a scene node factory for your custom scene node, which requires very little actual effort on your part, you just need to copy the way the plugin does it and make some small changes to fit your custom scene node.

You have to make sure that you register the factory in your application BEFORE you call loadScene as the factory tells the smgr how to deal with your custom scene node so it obviously needs to know how to do that before it's asked to load them

[3DModelerMan]

WHEW!...After posting this thread I was starting to lose hope that it was possible. Do you think you guys could maybe point me to an example of how to use this?

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... stic+water

Thanks for the help so far .

[JP]

as tonic said look at the plugin examples that come with irredit.

are you trying to use elvman's water scene node in irredit?

[3DModelerMan]

Yeah, whats wrong with Elvmans water scene node? it looks cool!! .

[JP]

I'm going to assume that you thought i was disapproving of Elvman's water node? I'm certainly not, it really does look pretty incredible.

Incidentally if you did have trouble turning it into a plugin for irredit then you could always just place a dummy node in irredit where you want the water to be, maybe just a cube scene node stretched out to fill the space you want the water to fill. Then you could give that cube a specific name such as water_node and then after you've loaded the scene into irrlicht you find that node, remove it and replace it with the node as you would usually in irrlicht. Obviously it would be nice to have the water node in irredit but you obviously don't have to see everything in irredit as it would appear in-game.

[3DModelerMan]

Thanks I'll mark it as solved.