Irrlicht 1.1 - Help

[tsghost]

Does the GCC build included support for DX8/DX9?
I'm trying to upgrade my prog with the new irrlicht in hopes that the pre-compiled ver. of the DLL functions correctly.

I started programming my game around IRRlicht 1.0, have read the changes.txt, I looked everything over, changed the reflection on my waternode to "3"
(which is the only reflective surface in my game so far)

(using irr::, ...video::, ...core:: and all that are declared at the top of my prog)
The program seems to halt when I load meshes using
" IAnimatedMeshSceneNode* nodename = smgr->addAnimatedMeshSceneNode (smgr->getMesh("models/nodename.ms3d"));"
(then what i've been doing is wrapping everything in an "if (nodename) {position/scale/material stuff here}" statement)

I cannot get the DLL to work with my game. I looked for a thread to help me problem solve but got lost easily.

was there a change I might have missed?

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[No flame mail, please]

[Xandar]

I think no. You must recompile engine to include support for DirectX.

[tsghost]

still? ok
Have mega trouble doing that though, I tried for a week to get code::blocks to do it... but there allways seemed to be an error somewhere that would halt the compile.

I switched back to the 1.0 GCC build of the dll and it loads fine...
if someone finds a tidbit that might help me convert my prog to the updated dll that would be awsome... still no DX though

I'm new to programming. My primary facilitation is art, I have to learn how to use Irrlicht in order to create the game I want.

I'm thinking my prog crashes with the new dll because of the way it handles the textures/materials.