can somebody give me some advise?

dujimache · Post by **dujimache** » Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:44 pm

hello,everyone!now i want to program a 3d home editor,it can create walls,and there are two rulers on the gui,including the top horizontal ruler,and the left ruler,like sweet home 3d's ruler.when you scale or zoom use your mouse the ruler changes with your operation.and grids change too.can somebody give me some advise on it?what kind of tools should i use?can irrlicht engine itself realize the functions?and should i use mfc?

cheshirekow · Post by **cheshirekow** » Mon Sep 07, 2009 5:40 pm

I think you can definitely handle all of that using irrlicht. Take a look at the tutorials and some of the different camera animators to see how to use the mouse to zoom in and out. You may want to make the distinction between "panning" and "zooming" (panning actually moves closer to the object, while zooming may require changing the field of view).

I would stay away from MFC. I don't think you need it for this and since irrlicht works well on other platforms, if you can stick to standard c++ you'll find yourself with a cross platform program, and not something that is stuck to windows.

dujimache · Post by **dujimache** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 12:48 am

cheshirekow wrote:I think you can definitely handle all of that using irrlicht. Take a look at the tutorials and some of the different camera animators to see how to use the mouse to zoom in and out. You may want to make the distinction between "panning" and "zooming" (panning actually moves closer to the object, while zooming may require changing the field of view).

I would stay away from MFC. I don't think you need it for this and since irrlicht works well on other platforms, if you can stick to standard c++ you'll find yourself with a cross platform program, and not something that is stuck to windows.

thank you !i will try