Hi about Irrlicht Engine

bcb902146 · Post by **bcb902146** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 11:54 am

well,
do the Irrlicht supported Chinese ??

from taiwan

JP · Post by JP » Mon Nov 13, 2006 12:02 pm

In what way? Chinese font?

Midnight · Post by **Midnight** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 1:13 pm

I like won-ton soup if thats what you're asking?

omar shaaban · Post by **omar shaaban** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 7:39 pm

i think u mean to program in chinese language well as i know all the programming languages,game makers,3d-2d engines are with english

seno · Post by **seno** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 12:45 am

Asking about Chinese font? Then, no.

But you can find out the multi byte language(Chinese, Japanese, Korean and etc) support modification from the project page. Use Keyword 'TrueType'. Hmm.. If i remember correctly the project is only for Irrlicht 0.14 or 0.12. But i am sure that you can get some clues to modify Irrlicht Engine to be able to use multi byte character.

IPv6 · Post by **IPv6** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 7:25 am

since i succesfully using russian fonts in my game with irrlicht i can give you 2 hints:
1) there is no true unicode support in irrlicht
2) it can be used with other languages quite easy. you just have to "pack" 7-bit version of your standard codepage (i know there is simplified chinese that can fit into 128 characters) when sending wstrings to Irrlicht and "unpack" them when getting wstrings from irrlicht.

to generate font with characters of your language just modify irrFont tool. if you look into Code snippets section you can find some examples, inculding modified version of this tool (just change codepage inside sources to get Chinese characters in font)