3DS file problem

none · Post by **none** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 12:43 am

Ok, i changed the code, and took out the /3, but i'm still not seeing all the polygons!

vitek · Post by **vitek** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 4:16 am

You need to recompile Irrlicht and then copy the new .dll somewhere where it will be loaded instead of the old one.

I tested and this does fix the missing polygon problem that I'm seeing with all of my test files. Now I need to decide if I want to make an 3DSAnimatedMeshLoader or if I just want to fix the issues that come up when you load a 3ds that has submeshes and joints.

Travis

nomad · Post by **nomad** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 10:50 am

Good luck with fixing the animated mesh problems, I'm not looking into that at the moment. But I guess I should post this as a small bugfix sometime.

none · Post by **none** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 12:38 am

vitek wrote:You need to recompile Irrlicht and then copy the new .dll somewhere where it will be loaded instead of the old one.

I tested and this does fix the missing polygon problem that I'm seeing with all of my test files. Now I need to decide if I want to make an 3DSAnimatedMeshLoader or if I just want to fix the issues that come up when you load a 3ds that has submeshes and joints.

Travis

You mean to say, theres a new version of the engine?

luckymutt · Post by **luckymutt** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 1:30 am

none wrote:You mean to say, theres a new version of the engine?

There will be when you recompile it

...what he is saying is that if you look about in your Irrlicht folder you will find all of the source code that makes the Irrlicht.dll.
After making the changes mentioned above, you will need to compile the engine, and you will get a nice, new shiny Irrlicht.dll, as well as new Irrlicht.exp and Irrlicht.lib (the libraries you must link to when you compile your own application)

Your new Irrlicht.dll goes with any *.exe that you make with it.

none · Post by **none** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 1:57 am

luckymutt wrote:
none wrote:You mean to say, theres a new version of the engine?
There will be when you recompile it
...what he is saying is that if you look about in your Irrlicht folder you will find all of the source code that makes the Irrlicht.dll.
After making the changes mentioned above, you will need to compile the engine, and you will get a nice, new shiny Irrlicht.dll, as well as new Irrlicht.exp and Irrlicht.lib (the libraries you must link to when you compile your own application)

Your new Irrlicht.dll goes with any *.exe that you make with it.

I think i get it - but how do i compile the source into the DLL and lib files?

vitek · Post by **vitek** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 2:47 am

After you extract the source, you should be able to find the necessary pieces to rebuild the library in there. There will be Visual Studio project files, makefiles and the like.

luckymutt · Post by **luckymutt** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 2:52 am

well...like anything else.

In the source/irrlicht folder there will be a Irrlicht.sln (Visual Studio solution file) and a Irrlicht.dev (project file for Dev-C++) and in Irrlicht 0.14 I believe there is also a project file for Code::Blocks.

Start your compiler and then open the appropriate project file, and it will load the Irrlicht project. Make whatever changes you want to make (unless you already did so outside of the IDE) then hit "build"
Go grab a sandwhich and a Dr. Pepper, and by the time you come back that will be that.

Of course you will also need the DirectX SDK in order to have DirectX driver usage - and the latest few releases of DXSDK no longer include support for Direct3D8, but Irrlicht calls for it.
To get around that, you will either need to find an older version of the DirectXSDK (not sure how long ago they dropped DX8 support...you'll have to look around on MSDN) OR you will need to take out DirectX8 from the Irrlicht source files.

none · Post by **none** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 3:33 am

luckymutt wrote:well...like anything else.

In the source/irrlicht folder there will be a Irrlicht.sln (Visual Studio solution file) and a Irrlicht.dev (project file for Dev-C++) and in Irrlicht 0.14 I believe there is also a project file for Code::Blocks.

Start your compiler and then open the appropriate project file, and it will load the Irrlicht project. Make whatever changes you want to make (unless you already did so outside of the IDE) then hit "build"
Go grab a sandwhich and a Dr. Pepper, and by the time you come back that will be that.

Of course you will also need the DirectX SDK in order to have DirectX driver usage - and the latest few releases of DXSDK no longer include support for Direct3D8, but Irrlicht calls for it.
To get around that, you will either need to find an older version of the DirectXSDK (not sure how long ago they dropped DX8 support...you'll have to look around on MSDN) OR you will need to take out DirectX8 from the Irrlicht source files.

umm, problem is that i dont use VC++

Im using dev cpp

vitek · Post by **vitek** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 5:09 am

Read the previous post very carefully...

none · Post by **none** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 2:55 pm

oh yeah

I am such an idiot...
thanks for pointing that out, i stopped reading the post as soon as i saw the word "Visual C++"

none · Post by **none** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 2:50 am

Ok, i did what lickymutt said, i have opened the Dev C++ project file, and made the neccesary changes, now, how do i build it into a DLL with dev c++

luckymutt · Post by **luckymutt** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 3:31 am

um...just build like you would any other project.
hit build or rebuild or what ever DevC++ command is.
It is already set up in the project's settings (the one you opened) for it to be built as a dll

HOWEVER...RE-READ THE LAST PARAGRAPH FROM MY PREVIOUS POST!!!!

DO NOT reply back syaing "hey, I found the "build" button, but now I got an error about d3d8 not being found"

good luck

none · Post by **none** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 3:26 am

Ok, im about to give up on this engine

The d3d8 thing wasn't a problem, i made the neccesary changes to fix the 3ds loading, and built it into a dll.

same problem....

luckymutt · Post by **luckymutt** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 3:49 am

OK then, if the DLL you made is working (your app. is starting up with it) then lets go back to your model...
did you make it, or is it something you downloaded?

Can you post the model file?

It may well be that there was a problem with the export to 3ds.

Perhaps that should have been suggested first off - I only joined in when there was talk about building the engine. (hey, at least you learned a few things about the engine and how it works

)

eitehr post it or e-mail it to me, and I'll have a lookie