Wondering if these features will be added eventually?

Spartacus · Post by **Spartacus** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 8:18 pm

I was wondering if the game engine will support height maps in the future possibly?

I also was wondering if there was a way I could get a non box shaped skybox I was hoping to create 2 spheres one inside another with the sphere that is inside the other to be mostly transparent and have clouds on it and the surrounding sphere to have a night to daytime transiton so that I could rotate each sphere differently to simulate day and night, while also making the clouds appear as if they move

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saigumi · Post by **saigumi** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 12:33 am

The skybox is just a box set to the limits of your draw area with the viewable side aimed inward. Just create a sphere the same way and attach it to the camera.

Spartacus · Post by **Spartacus** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 2:09 am

easier said then done.

saigumi · Post by **saigumi** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 1:29 pm

No, it's not.

I use SkySphere's myself. Look at the code in the irrlicht engine source on how skyboxes are made and you should be able to handle it.

This is the advanced forum, so if you are having problems with a task such as making a custom scene node you may want to post it in the other forum.

Spartacus · Post by **Spartacus** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 10:08 pm

and then the next verison comes out and i end up doing it all over seems like waste of time to me. And I already know how skyboxes are made.

saigumi · Post by **saigumi** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 1:26 am

Why would a new version of irrlicht break your custom skysphere scene node?

It would be external from the Irrlicht engine itself.

Spartacus · Post by **Spartacus** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 2:18 am

stuff gets changed therfore i must recode it over.

DarkWhoppy · Post by **DarkWhoppy** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:51 pm

Err... Copy and Paste??

saigumi · Post by **saigumi** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 11:35 pm

Not even copy and paste.

I highly doubt that the basics of a custom scene node is going to change so massively. Besides, you don't add the code for a custom scene node to the Irrlicht source.

I bet there is even a tutorial on the tutorial page about custom scene nodes.

November235 · Post by **November235** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 8:13 am

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