Help..... New here with irrlicht

smartwhiz · Post by **smartwhiz** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 6:34 am

i tried out the engine it's cool .......
I hav a suggestion or it can be also asked as a question of how?
v can create the device with the given createDevice() funcion for a specified one.
Can't a function can be written so as to get the possible resolutions and API in a system so that the user will able to select anyone of that....?
If so how?

tstuefe · Post by **tstuefe** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 6:56 am

not sure whether its part of the irrlicht engine (I'm not at my development PC currently) but you can use plain DirectX functions to enumerate the supported resolutions. See DirectX SDK Documentation.

Thats true for Windows/DirectX. No clue about OGL and Linux.

saigumi · Post by **saigumi** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 1:20 pm

You can enumerate the video modes using getVideoModeList()

Search the docs for "irr::video::IVideoModeList".

smartwhiz · Post by **smartwhiz** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 6:17 pm

Thanks for that!

qwe · Post by **qwe** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 8:44 pm

you'll have to create a device first though, which is what the null device is for

smartwhiz · Post by **smartwhiz** » Sun Jan 18, 2004 5:27 pm

any tuts on it?

saigumi · Post by **saigumi** » Sun Jan 18, 2004 10:17 pm

Wouldn't be much of a tutorial because all you need to do is switch your deviceType in createDevice() to irr::video::EDT_NULL

Most likely, you have either EDT_DIRECTX8 or EDT_OPENGL in there now.