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Acki · Post by **Acki** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 11:30 am

fullforce wrote:do I unzip the source and try to find the project source file and give it that?

Right (how would you recompile the dll without unzipping the source ??? )

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 12:47 pm

fullforce wrote:(Btw if you find why it won't accept my .bsp map (in a .pk3) let me know.)

This is a 'Raven BSP' while Irrlicht only loads 'IdSoftware BSP'. It's a similar, but different file format. So either use some bsp tool to convert it, or implement the changes in the bsp loader.

fullforce · Post by **fullforce** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 7:29 pm

You wouldn't happen to know how to implement those changes? (working on compiling the .dll)

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 9:25 pm

Read and understand the Q3Mesh loader, find a documentation of the raven bsp format and adapt the loader to this format. Cannot sa much more, but it's probably not that hard if you have a good file format description.

fullforce · Post by **fullforce** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 2:01 am

I ran Acki's IrrExtensions (looks like a great program) and I believe it gave me a make file (didn't check to see if it wasn't before) I know I can't just run the project file through codeblocks now that it has a good makefile (because I tried it and got about 2 billion error messages) so I guess I have to use Mingw? (there are no additional mingw libraries needed to compile just cd C:/Irrlightsource then jam?

ST3d

Acki · Post by **Acki** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 2:30 pm

If you want to use DX you'll have to download and install the DX9c devpak !!!
It's avilable somewhere for download, check my homepage again for a link...

fullforce · Post by **fullforce** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 2:27 am

Ok Thanks

I looked on your site and found the link to
http://irrlicht.spintz.com/
and downloaded the "DX9 DevPak for Dev-C++"
and it's DirectX9.devpack
I know devpack isn't a extension so I was wondering if it was .zip, or .exe...
(What exactly does IrrEdit mean for the every day programmer, I know it's a map maker (something like GTK radiant), but does it actually help enough to learn how to use it?)

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:02 am

devpak is an extension, basically everything after the last dot is an extension. It's simply a program or library which is used by dev-c++ to install libraries and include files, etc. It should be useable with dev-c++ without problems.

Acki · Post by **Acki** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 12:02 pm

Code::Blocks has an plugin for DevPaks...

devpak is actually a tar archive (filename.tar)...

fullforce · Post by **fullforce** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 3:40 pm

I've looked for the plug-in several times in Google and on the main codeblocks site, I don't see it anywhere. Once I can open the direct X files though I suppose I put them in the same folder as the source then build with codeblocks?

(what does Irr edit mean to the beginner, I know it can edit worlds and view models but is it worth enough to lean it?)

fullforce · Post by **fullforce** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 12:34 am

Ok I have looked for a long time for a way to open this .devpacks file and then what to do with it to use it in the irrlicht re compiling of the .dll
Could someone tell me where I can find the codeblocks add on or and if I should even use Direct X (if I need it, or it has advantages). If I need to how do I use the .devpak file with the compile of the irrlicht dll.

Acki · Post by **Acki** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 1:13 am

Have you tried the Dev-Pak import plugin from C::B !?!?!

fullforce · Post by **fullforce** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 6:55 pm

I haven't been able to find it on the web, even on there own site.

"Add-ons

Code::Blocks plugins, templates, and anything that helps you improve your programming experience.
Third-party Plugins
(No files)
Project Templates
(No files) "

fullforce · Post by **fullforce** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 7:33 pm

I have also been trying to use irr edit as a world editor instead of the original quake III editor. Whenever I tell it to retrieve the map though it says that .irr is not a supported format.

Will it see a .x as a map file if I use it that way? If not what format can I export to use it as a map?

I'm looking for a way to export a map directly from 3D max and I see no my3d format in export as suggested in the mapping with max tutorial.

bitplane · Post by **bitplane** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 5:38 am

if you use gcc and windows, you can try this binary http://bitplane.net/dump/temp/Irrlicht- ... n32-gcc.7z
otherwise, compile the latest source from subversion- download and install TortoiseSVN and check out the source from https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/irrlicht