only simulation no gui

eco · Post by **eco** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 2:23 pm

Hi !

I'm looking for a 3d engine because I worked with ODE until now but this project is stuck. I would like to know if irrlicht is really dedicated to the visualisation of a 3d world or if it is well designed to do fast simulation without visualisation ?

THanks

Bart

Armen138 · Post by **Armen138** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 7:55 pm

irrlicht is a 3d graphics engine... what exactly do you expect irrlicht to simulate without 'visualization'?

eco · Post by **eco** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 1:15 pm

I need a 3d engine to simulate, for example during 30 seconds, a robot and to know how far it has been able to go. I don't need to see that, I just need to know the distance the robot has been able to cover. Is irrlicht useable in this case or not ?
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thanks

Barth

Nectar · Post by **Nectar** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 2:14 pm

irrlicht is a 3d graphics engine, so no you couldnt do any kind of physics at all with it. try one of the other physics engines like newton for your task
all irrlicht would be able to do for you is give you a graphical look at your robot moving, you would need to calculate the path, distance etc in some other means.

Unless I am reading you wrong, and you want to have a robot, and that robot moves say 30 units on the screen and you want that distance outputted on the screen, then yes you could probably do that

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 2:42 pm

OK thank you for your answer. i will try with Newton. I missunderstood the aim of irrlicht.

Barth

Midnight · Post by **Midnight** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 4:30 am

he is looking for some kind of simulation engine which to my knowledge doesn't exist. unless you count a task engine or something.