RFC on new flexible ILightManager

varmint · Post by **varmint** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 3:38 pm

w00t

Sorry for not reply'n earlier. we ere with out power for about 25 hours. Big fire near our place. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columb ... -fire.html... it was like camping but in our own home

Maybe the Light setup method should go into ILightSceneNode? I was also thinking about a change there and add a setRadius method (in favor of the SLight value for radius, which would also set the attenuation initially). This was suggested by Question (sorry, don't remember ATM, maybe BlindSide?). This sounds reasonable and would make the lights more reliable across the drivers.

sweet

Yaw the light setup would go better in ILightSceneNode. And I think a setRadius would be good addition to ILightSceneNode, to setup attenuation and all that. Lets hammer out some stuff on the ML

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Oh, another request on this topic: Can someone write a nice tutorial for light effects and light nodes. I'd like to put a new tutorial up concerning these things (maybe including shadows, also good for testing Smile )

As for a tutorial, I'm working on some light FXs right now for KO.

A tutorial would be a good test case for the ILightManager. For something like this starting with a good test cast is golden

Steel Style · Post by **Steel Style** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 1:13 pm

Any chance to get a .rar with the file, I tried adding the patch and I get this message "An unknow line type was found in the line 630!".

rogerborg · Post by **rogerborg** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 11:28 am

I'll refresh the patch against the latest SVN when I get a chance. The intention is to commit it eventually, but likely after 1.5 is cut.

Steel Style · Post by **Steel Style** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 9:50 pm

I won't be boring but do you have an idea of when it's will be commited ?

rogerborg · Post by **rogerborg** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 1:36 pm

Steel Style wrote:I won't be boring but do you have an idea of when it's will be commited ?

... wait for it... wait.... NOW.

Mirror · Post by **Mirror** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:16 pm

rogerborg wrote:
Steel Style wrote:I won't be boring but do you have an idea of when it's will be commited ?
... wait for it... wait.... NOW.

great rogerborg. thanks for the commit. some loud thinking : maybe it would be better to add features in the solid version ( 1.4, 1.5, 1.6 ) so the fixes for the bugs of those features be fixed in the next bugfixing versions ( 1.4.1, 1.5.1, 1.6.1 ). what i'm saying is that maybe it would be better to have added it before 1.5 was cut because that way many ppl would have tested the lightmanager. those who test and work with svn trunk are very few.

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:03 pm

Well, the idea of stable versions is to make them stable. Hence, development versions (which is trunk and some dev branches) are for new features. We test them in trunk, and when we think that we have tested enough, trunk becomes stable

That's for todays program of development in the large

Steel Style · Post by **Steel Style** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:06 pm

I don't know if that should be correct but that what I get

Choice : Number of FPS
1 : 242 FPS
2 : 170 (debug mode = 100) FPS
3 : 200 (debug mode = 170) FPS

rogerborg · Post by **rogerborg** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:59 am

For the information to be useful, I'd have to know what driver, what OS, what compiler, whether that's debug / release builds of your user application and/or Irrlicht, and finally, what your point is.

Steel Style · Post by **Steel Style** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:33 pm

Oh sorry so Irrlicht compilation was RELEASE mode for those test.
Using Microsoft Visual C++ Express edition with Dx9 on Microsoft Vista 32bit.
The example was "20.Managed Light".
About my laptop spec Core2Duo T9300 3.Go Ram and Nvidia 9500M Gs