This tutorial will try to introduce you to the basic features of irrEdit.
Edit from the future: important note, you need to have normalize normals(or normalize normals in the code) activated for the effect to affect the model correctly, this is also necessary for a correct lighting. You can also increase the brightness of the texture of the model by 10%, and increase the contrast and reduce the brightness of the hdri used, this can be done with gimp, once you understand this you will get good results.
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You can download irrlicht here: https://www.ambiera.at/downloads/irrEdit-1.5.zip
You can find all the content of the asset Golem1Example.rar for commercial use here:
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Personally I use irrEdit to have a real time look at the values I modify, scenes created in irrEdit(.irr) can be loaded from irrlicht(example 15 from irrlicht documentation), although it does not have the feature to include addShadowVolumeSceneNode() (or so I think). Also you can't modify the opacity of many functions that inside irrlicht you can, but not inside the editor.
Even so, irrEdit is a tool that makes things easier when it comes to setting up our scenario in code.
Well, let's start the dissertation.
Once we have unzipped irrEdit and Golem1Example.rar, we can begin to use them.
Delete the cube testCube by selecting it, make sure it is correctly selected by viewing the properties.
We import our Golem1.x animated model, I will use the one in the TexturesRed folder.
Once loaded we change its position for convenience, I will leave it at 0,0,0. I will also change the FramesPerSecond to 0.1
We go to Materials and change from solid to reflection2layer. As its name indicates, the second texture in the material will be the reflection.
Add the texture "christmas_photo_studio_01_4k.jpg" from the TexturesRed folder to the scene.
Once added, it will be selected immediately, you can select by clicking on the image and the selected image will be highlighted in yellow.
Once selected we add it to the second available slot of the 1/7 material.
We do the same with materials 1,3,4,6 and 7.
We can disable the Bilinear filters if we don't like the effect, these filters help to reduce the pixelization of the images and offer better performance in comparison than without them.
Ready, we now have our animated character with textures with reflections.
We can visualize our models with lighting by activating "Lighting" in the properties of each material, activate them for 1,3,4,6 and 7.
Once this is done our model will become dark with no light sources, so let's add light.
We configure the attributes of the light we add and position it at our convenience.
Ok, now let's reduce the Shininess values of materials 1,3,4,6 and 7, as well as their color from the Specular values.
We can reduce the attenuation to create a smaller light source but with a resolution uniform to its size, although it would require us to clone the light source to better illuminate the area.
We can make an animation on the lighting rotating on a radius, from the options offered in Animators, make sure to first position the light at the center of the circumference you want it to rotate. Once done you can modify the values as you like.
You can add some ambient light to the light so that it gradually illuminates whatever is within its radius.
Inside the file Golem1Example.rar you can find the c++ code of this tutorial implemented in irrlicht 1.8.5. Also an executable that changes animation when holding left click
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