Headless Irrlicht?

tompalmer · Post by **tompalmer** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 3:20 pm

Hello. In looking around at 3D engines, Irrlicht seems most applicable to my needs, especially how it has no dependencies.

I do have a couple of questions. The main one on my head at the moment is that I'd like to be able to render graphics with or without an on screen window. That is, I'd like to have the option for pure render-to-texture mode.

I searched "headless" in the forums and got some hits, but I'm not sure it covers what I'm asking here. That is, I don't want to turn off rendering. I just don't want rendering to the screen.

It's not an immediate need, but I'd like to have the option for certain use cases I foresee.

Thanks much for any advice.

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 3:34 pm

It might work already when creating a special window on the user side, and passing it to the driver via creation parameters. But that heavily depends on the driver. Of course it would work if you just open a window, but don't show it.
PBuffer support is not yet implemented, but will come in one of next versions for sure.

tompalmer · Post by **tompalmer** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 5:04 pm

Thanks much for the suggestions. I'll keep these in mind when considering the subject.