Has Irrlicht trunk has hardware instancing?

[christianclavet]

Hi, I would like to know if the svn trunk of Irrlicht has support for HW Instancing for the openGL driver. I would like to take meshes of trees and instance them in my scene, doing this by the CPU is too slow. (600-700FPS no trees, down to 30 fps with some trees)

I've seen some thread talking about patches that were proposed to have this, but it is there?
Second question (if it was implemented): Is there any simple example on how to use it?
Thanks.

[hendu]

No, trunk does not have that. You can try my patch. It includes an example with a few hundred cubes.

edit: Linky: http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/forum/v ... =2&t=48690

[The_Glitch]

Will this work with direct3d9 and shader pipeline? It would be great for grass and trees and scenery.

[Granyte]

Shader pipeline dx9 suppport instancing rightnow dx11 will do as soon as i upload it

OGL still need a devloper

[hendu]

Will this work with direct3d9 and shader pipeline? It would be great for grass and trees and scenery.

Neither, but check Granyte's answer. My patch only supports GL.

[The_Glitch]

Shader pipeline dx9 suppport instancing rightnow dx11 will do as soon as i upload it

OGL still need a devloper

Okay so do I just need to update my shader pipeline version then as I know mine is not the most recent version.

[Nadro]

After some modifications Hendu's hardware instancing patch will be part of shader-pipeline branch. The same situation applies to the texture arrays patch prepared also by Hendu.

[christianclavet]

Thanks! I'll try the hendu patch then. Since I need this for OGL. @Nadro, do you think these patches will have the time to be integrated in trunk when 2.0 will release? (instancing, texture arrays)
Is the support for cubemaps is implemented in trunk or it is in the shader-pipeline branch?

[Nadro]

@christianclavet
Yes, v2.0 will have all features from a shader-pipeline branch (hardware instancing + texture arrays too). At now cubemaps was implemented in ogl-es branch, but it will be available in trunk before v1.9 release.

[christianclavet]

Cool! Thanks. Will there be a simple example to use it?

[Nadro]

Of course, I'll add example when instancing will be ready in OGL, D3D9 and D3D11 drivers.