Complete Level File

[willyp]

Hi, I'm very new to this and have tried googling the question but:

Is there a pre-exiting format/system to save a "level" or "area" that can record and then subsequently load into the scene manager. Should be able to load up buildings, terrain, placement of models, lighting etc. Or is there a better way of doing this?

I've seen the quake level format, is this the way to do it, or is there a better way? Looking for an expandable solution.

Thanks in advance, Will.

[RdR]

Irrlicht has a irrscene loader and writer.

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        //Load scene
        smgr->loadScene("filename.irr");
        
        // Save scene
        smgr->saveScene("filename.irr");
 

Better example here:
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/docu/example015.html

You can build an entire scene with this editor:
http://www.ambiera.com/irredit/

Or just manually add them in the code and saveScene() to a file.

[Cube_]

hehehe.... I would make the mesh in blender and just import it to place lights and particles (I don't think that irredit can be used to make stuff more advanced than primitives and terrain...)

[Radikalizm]

hehehe.... I would make the mesh in blender and just import it to place lights and particles (I don't think that irredit can be used to make stuff more advanced than primitives and terrain...)

Maybe because irredit is a tool used for compositing scenes, and not for building geometry?
Building an entire scene in blender and importing it as a single mesh is something you'll probably not want to do, better to build separate meshes in blender and then composite a scene using these meshes in irredit

[Cube_]

well yes. but I still make all the mesh in blender (Separate files so I cane asily reuse the same mesh though )

[ACE247]

@aaammmsterdddam get yourself the irrblender 0.6 Blender plugin from pc0de's svn (Tubras game Engine) and you'll never need to use irrEdit again.
Its my preferred scene Editor, does it all, even more if you just tweak the script a little.

[Cube_]

would it also export lights and particles? (Even if it wouldn't I could manually place those in irredit. or even better just hardcode their locations!)

[ACE247]

It exports anything! aaammmsterdddam... Anything!
Lights, Animations, Physics Userdata, skydomes skyboxes, volume lights water surfaces, custom node types, you can setup all irrlicht material(includes per-pixel parralax/bump) settings within irrblender,all textures, all lighting... The list goes on. Oh and animation paths and cut scene style animation user data. Its by all means the best Irrlicht scene editing method. Puts it all in one neat .irr file or even in a packed zip ready to load with the engine. It can also export things like meshes and nodes to irrlichts irrmesh or irrbinarymesh or irranimatedmesh format if you add the loaders and writers provided.

[Cube_]

**Jaw dropped four floors**
o.0
that is indeed VERY awesome.
thanks for the tip!

[Grumpy]

ACE247:
Could you drop us a link to the irrblender 0.6 Blender plugin from pc0de's svn ???
Thanks.

[Cube_]

I'd have to agree with grumpy, I have been searching like a madman... I found IrrB 0.4
that's all I found.

[ACE247]

Here you go, put this into irrlichts plugin directory and off you go.

http://code.google.com/p/tubras/source/ ... rrlicht.py
BUT GO TO THE LINK, do NOT just save the link, then copy out that code in the appropriately named file in your blender plugin directory. (For the Noobs)

And explore this directory more under tools, for extra stuff:
http://code.google.com/p/tubras/source/browse/

[mongoose7]

There is a link on the page to view the raw file. Might need that as well.

[serengeor]

Here you go, put this into irrlichts plugin directory and off you go.

http://code.google.com/p/tubras/source/ ... rrlicht.py

You meant blender's plugin dir, didn't you?

[ACE247]

yeah did... Oops
Must have been awake through the whole night