more primitives!

beginner · Post by **beginner** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 4:25 pm

hi,
how can i obtain more primitives like sphere, tetraeder, cylinder ( cone ), torus, teapot, armchair... ?

i'd like especially the sphere.

Isometric God · Post by **Isometric God** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 4:59 pm

are you sure that the teapot is a primitive ?? Why don't you create a model in 3ds and load it into memory using Irrlicht ?

stampsm · Post by **stampsm** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 7:19 pm

if you can't afford 3d studio use anim8or it is free and can export .3ds
www.anim8or.com

beginner · Post by **beginner** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 12:48 pm

no, its no fun having to import a sphere or torus.
i rather meant: is there a way having the engine create primitives other than a cube for me.
scalable complexity would be nice too...

am i asking too much?

Isometric God · Post by **Isometric God** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 12:52 pm

For primitives yes. For meshes NO. Just my 2 cents ..

stampsm · Post by **stampsm** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 10:47 pm

well i just figured out how to modify the custom scene node to show different shapes how to show wireframe and how to texture them (still working on how to get the textures to show up properly)
when i finish i could write a custom scene node to show different primatives
with a format like
createPrimatives(parent,scene manager,id,texture,primative,wireframe);
i'll start working on it after i figure out my texture problem
see ya

zoschfrosch · Post by **zoschfrosch** » Sat Nov 29, 2003 8:56 pm

Hi stampsm,

I'm very interested in your results. I want to create a space scene, this is very easy if you have sphere nodes with satellite fotos from earth or other planets as textures.
I would be happy if you could notify me when your code works