What are the plans for Irrlicht 1.8 and further?

[B@z]

and if we talk about ogre, what about setting different animations for joints in the same node? e.g. running while shooting. thats an important feature for almost all kind of games where u control a human.
i have a solution for that, but that isn't too good for performance i think...

[ent1ty]

It might be a good idea to have ITimer work with microseconds instead of miliseconds. This is sometimes just not precise enough.

[hybrid]

Some people are already suggesting to remove the one millisecond precision and come back to 10-15 ms, due to the problems with HighPrecisionTimer or whatever this is called. But how would one go beyond this 1ms limit?!

[ent1ty]

But how would one go beyond this 1ms limit?!

Well I suppose there are some libraries out there that can do it, just try google.
Or did you mean something else?

[CuteAlien]

Well I suppose there are some libraries out there that can do it, just try google.

The high resolution timer is the best you can get from Windows on PC's. But well, maybe there are tricks to get beyond that of which I never heard.

[ent1ty]

Ok, so it might be harder to implement than I thought, if at all, but I would still love this.

[BlindSide]

It's not hard, it's unreliable, read more from our friend at VirtualDub: http://www.virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=106

[ent1ty]

Maybe you could add a setScale func that takes as parameter a float and sets x,y and z scale of the object to the value. This should be easy to implement and would make my code much more readable on many places.

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ISceneNode::setScale(f32 nscale)
{
  this->setScale(nscale, nscale, nscale);
}

[Lonesome Ducky]

entity, you could just do this:

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node->setScale(vector3df(2));

[ent1ty]

which is still longer than

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node->setScale(2);

[Lonesome Ducky]

Informing you in case you didn't know

[3DModelerMan]

I think we need custom particle affector and emitter serialization support.

[CuteAlien]

I think we need custom particle affector and emitter serialization support.

Plus custom font and custom skin serialization support. And probably should go through other classes to check if we miss some more.

[3DModelerMan]

Yeah, that would be awesome. We could do nearly anything from an editor.

[stefbuet]

I saw 3DmodelerMan asking if you'll add cube map support.
I "up" this question, because it would be really cool to produce shadows fastly.