Cumber Syntax in Irrlicht.NET

thomascheah · Post by **thomascheah** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 6:14 am

I noticed that Irrlicht.NET uses structure extensively for some lightwight data structure like lights, material, matrix, vector, etc., which is good, but there are place that makes it very cumbersome. A good example will be when one attempt to modify the object's material.

Let's say I wish to modify merely the EmissiveColor of an object. I have to do the following,

Material mat = myObject.GetMaterial(0);
mat.EmissiveColor = new Color(255, 255, 0, 0);
myObject.SetMaterial(0, mat);

Things would be much simpler if Material was made into a class. Then one can achieve the same thing above via,

myObject.GetMaterial(0).Color(255, 255, 0, 0);

Any comments on that?

Cube3 · Post by **Cube3** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:02 am

You will find you will need to wrap not only the structures.

Firgor · Post by **Firgor** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 7:19 am

I think

myObject.GetMaterial(0).Color(255, 255, 0, 0);

is very difficult to read, better is

myObject.SetMaterialEmissiveColor (0, new Color(255,255,0));

In the above case you can capsulate the complete code and everybody knows what you want do do (hopefully)