How to open irricht

Kojima Pro · Post by **Kojima Pro** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 11:31 pm

Hello everyone i am brand new at programming and very lost, i recntly downloaded Irrlicht and was wondering how do you even open the program irrlicht? im lost...

Please help me please!

rogerborg · Post by **rogerborg** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 12:28 am

Irrlicht is a software library, not a "program". You need to learn the very basics of programming, and of how to use (at least) a compiler and (for any serious use) an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) before you can do any useful development, involving Irrlicht or otherwise.

I suggest that you start with a hello, world tutorial, then move on in small steps from there.

Kojima Pro · Post by **Kojima Pro** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 12:29 am

I tried "Helloworld" they don't specify what i need to do. THey said open up irrlicht....i don't know how.

rogerborg · Post by **rogerborg** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 12:40 am

Forget about Irrlicht for now.

Obtain and install a C++ compiler / IDE. If you are using Windows, then I recommend Microsoft Visual C++ Express 2008. Start downloading that now.

While it's downloading, watch this YouTube video tutorial on how to use Visual C++ Express to create a Hello World program. Once you have done so yourself, you are ready to move on.

JP will be along in the morning (UK time) to answer your followup questions. In the meantime, please bear with us.

Kojima Pro · Post by **Kojima Pro** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 1:37 am

Thanks allot rogerborg! but i can't read what he typed which suck's. But once you do scripting in visual c++ and you save it, how would you import it to irrlicht? how would that work?

THank's again man.

Kojima Pro · Post by **Kojima Pro** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 2:28 am

OH and one more thing, if it's software and it emits a helpful tool, then thats called a "Program" buddie...

FreakNigh · Post by **FreakNigh** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 3:20 am

This isn't the place for that basic of C / C++ friend.

dlangdev · Post by **dlangdev** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 4:31 am

Dude!

Stop barking up the wrong tree.

Kojima Pro · Post by **Kojima Pro** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 4:55 am

Clever...

JP · Post by JP » Thu Oct 09, 2008 8:26 am

How do you do it Rogerborg... so calm.. so composed

Kojima Pro, i would really say you're not ready for Irrlicht at all yet. Irrlicht is basically a collection of useful code which you 'include' in your own code to get graphics rendering on screen. The program you use is called an IDE, such as Visual Studio, Code::Blocks, DevC++ etc. These are programs which allow you to write code and then get it compiled into a .exe, that's your program which you can run. Irrlicht is not a program in any form.

If you didn't know this stuff already then i'm assuming you know nothing about programming. That's fine, we all have to start from somewhere, right? If you don't know any programming, least of all any C++ (the programming language you use if you want to program with Irrlicht), then you'd be better off googling some tutorials to learn C++, it's not the easiest language to learn so that will take you some time, at least a few months i would say before you're ready to start with Irrlicht.

If you really want to wack out a game quickly then you'd be better off with some game engine/maker/creator which doesn't require any programming, it's not something you can just pick up in a few hours. In fact making a game anywhere near decent would probably take you upwards of a year...

jontan6 · Post by **jontan6** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 3:58 pm

maybe try java first when learning how to program. its much easier.

try also reading books of Walter Savitch. I think he has programming books on several languages, and he writes good introductory to programming books.

jontan6 · Post by **jontan6** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 3:59 pm

googled it: http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&search- ... tch&page=1