Irrlicht Engine

Hi all, how's the driver going? What's left to do?

if we go from my version almost everything works but i'm not sure how to properly package a patch the changes from the base driver to this are so extencive

Sounds good, do you have your version packaged up for easy install along with Irrlicht and a working sample or two?

I could start doing some testing until the official version is ready.

well there is a full download a couple pages back

Went back 4 pages, Nadro listed the pipeline download link, but there are a lot of bug reports from then til now.

it's on page 43 ... a dropbox link I posted

Ill update my dx11 work to the lates svn and publish a patch that fix transparency issue for good after i'm done with my session next week


also there is this hapening

10, 11, 12... How about finishing one before starting another?

11 is mostly complete I debugged the transparency a while a go and all feature should work but since I got no feedback on my build I sorta got stuck there

I'm starting work on the dx12 one in hope we get a functional driver before dx13 happens

Two questions:

1). If I use your Directx10 driver would I still be limited to ps_3.0 and vs_3.0?

2). Does it work with shader-pipeline as I'm sure you know I don't use regular Irrlicht version?

there is no dx10 driver as the dx11 driver can run on all hardware all the way down to dx9 and support all feature of dx 9 ,10 and 11

if you are using the dx11 driver on dx10 hardware you should be able to use vs_4.0 and ps_4.0 amd has some cards suporting dx10.1 so ps/vs_4.1
dx11 hardware can use ps/vs_5.0 and my lates upload has hull and domain shader enabeled to allow tesellation on dx11 hardware

A few pages back some one mentioned compiling troubles with ming-gw and dx11. I found a guide on configuring ming-gw to compile for dx11.
http://blog.fourthwoods.com/2011/08/11/ ... r-directx/
Didn't have time to try yet.

That works for DirectX9.
The problem with DirectX11 is that it is included in the "Microsoft Windows Kits" now (no special DirectX11-SDK any more). That itself is not the real problem (only changing the include and lib paths), but it does not compile any longer because of strange defines Microsoft uses.
I asked this question before, because the engine Urho3D also has DirectX11 now and compiles WITHOUT any Microsoft SDK! The files included with the mingw-64 distribution are sufficient. I will try the newest mingw-64 (version 5.1.0) and see if it works.

Granyte what do I have to do to use this project with irrlicht?

Do I need to download a special copy?

you can download the shader-pipeline branch from irrlicht SVN or go a couple pages back and try the archive i uploaded