Irrlicht 1.5 released!

GameDude · Post by **GameDude** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 5:58 pm

Nice Job. I just realized that there were quite a bit of changes, and I like the new and clean code. I also like how the tutorioals on the main page were updated, but I noticed that in the download package they weren't. Are they going to be updated for the next release? The tutorials I'm talking about.

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 8:35 pm

Oh

Could be that I forgot to copy those files to the repositories

Mirror · Post by **Mirror** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:08 pm

well done! Thank you all guys for the hard work and the efforts!

MasterGod · Post by **MasterGod** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 10:19 pm

Great Job! Never cease to amaze us with your wonderful work.

I'm very glad to be part of this awesome community.

Good job everyone!

xsinick · Post by **xsinick** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 4:14 am

Joystick!

Revan1985 · Post by **Revan1985** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:27 pm

little question...
the "# 32bit indices for large meshes" means that now we can use meshes larger than 65535, it's true?

Mirror · Post by **Mirror** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:56 pm

Revan1985 wrote:little question...
the "# 32bit indices for large meshes" means that now we can use meshes larger than 65535, it's true?

yes! finally we can

, actually AFAIK it is some kind of automatic, luke so called them "dynamic" meshbuffers, meaning that it automatically detects if it has less than 64k polys it uses 16bit if it has more it uses 32bit. correct me if i'm mistaken pls.

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 10:24 pm

Well, it can be switched between those two modes, but as of now we only use this meshbuffer type in terrain scene node - with several bugs already showing up. So be aware that you can only use those meshes when builcing geometry manually, and you might face incompatibilites and previously unfound bugs...

Mirror · Post by **Mirror** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 7:18 am

hybrid wrote:Well, it can be switched between those two modes, but as of now we only use this meshbuffer type in terrain scene node - with several bugs already showing up. So be aware that you can only use those meshes when builcing geometry manually, and you might face incompatibilites and previously unfound bugs...

hybrid, would moving to strictly 32bit without this dual approach iron out most [if not all] of these bugs ?

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 8:57 am

No, not at all, because the problems don't show up because of type mismatches, but due to lack of support of 32bit indices on some hardware etc. Moreover, using 32bit indices everywhere kills performance, as I've shown several times already. Not even thinking about our embedded and mobile system targets here...

Mel · Post by **Mel** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 11:11 am

65536 vertices can give quite a lot of polygons too. I really doubt that a mesh buffer, out of a particle system, would even use such amount.

matgaw · Post by **matgaw** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:15 pm

Mel wrote:65536 vertices can give quite a lot of polygons too. I really doubt that a mesh buffer, out of a particle system, would even use such amount.

Actually the terrain scene nodes use them frequently. 65k vertices bounds us to max (in practice) of 129x129 heightmaps. This is unsatisfying very frequently, as we would like to use 513x513 or even 1025x1025 almost all the time. So this has been an awaited feature.

Dorth · Post by **Dorth** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 4:45 pm

Why do I always feel as if I was the only one to think that small terrain patches are better? To split them up is a joke and it permits you to more easily do LOD, hide stuff, alter them, etc. There's just no real reasons to use a huge terrain unless someone else already did all the hiding, lod, etc. for you. But since there's no guarantee it'll match your needs, you're better off coding that yourself anyway.

cdrwolfe · Post by **cdrwolfe** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 5:51 pm

Now if only someone could port it over to Irrlicht.NET

Regards Wolfe

christianclavet · Post by **christianclavet** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 8:27 pm

Wow! Great!

I've just tested the demos one by one on my OS (Vista 64). Everything work perfectly. I didnt see any display errors!

I find that great that you updated the demos and added new ones (too few but its a very good start). The Shader demo didnt gave me error this time (Because MS removed support for old shaders)

Also great that we can have the tools already compiled (font, GUI and model viewer) compiled so we can check theses right away.

For Vista user, that's the most compatible version I've seen so far!
You've done a great job!