What libraries do you need?

[dudMaN]

Hi everyone.

i'm trying to make a lib that will go with irrlicht to make a full game engine(or atleast close).

currently i have networking done, but what else do you need? (please, not physics)

Thanks

Aight ive started on pathfinding:

* Networking
& Pathfinding
[* = done, & = working, $ = in progress]

-dudMaN

[Dances]

A complete engine would involve Graphics, Physics, Sound, Networking, and AI.

There are a few wrappers around already; you really could just grab them and mash them all together.

[CuteAlien]

Inputlib (Joysticks!) is still missing.
Also TrueType fonts are rather useful, but might be part of the GUI sometimes.

[dudMaN]

ok, truetype sounds good, i'll have to study the file format and see if i can write a parser capable of parsing it..

joystick input lib might be possible, but it would be painful to get it working on windows and linux.

and sound sounds pretty hard

-dudMan

[Dances]

Someone already made a TTF importing thingy... but it was only DX I think... you could work with that as a base if you want to go that way.

There is a cross platform joystick library as well as many others here: http://plib.sourceforge.net/whats_inside.html I was hoping to take a shot at it with one of my games but haven't gotten that far yet.

[JPulham]

for sound try IrrKlang http://www.ambiera.com/irrklang/index.html
Its written by the guy who wrote Irrlicht, has the same coding style and is supported by irrlicht. (oh... and its cross platform )

[GameDude]

Improving the Input of the system would be nice. Also need some kinda of advance physics engine or really good one that can handle all types of physics simulations.

[3ddev]

I recommend using a separate input system. SDL's IO Library is what I have tried with good success. You can find it at http://libsdl.org/

[lester]

Someone already made a TTF importing thingy... but it was only DX I think...

you're wrong, I have successfully attached the freetype rendering under linux, thanks to CuteAlien for how-to