Time to give back something to the community!!!

afecelis · Post by **afecelis** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 4:49 am

Ok guys!!!

Since I'm so grateful for all your help and I still haven't gotten permission to use the textures from the level I created (skybox author already did), I'm uploading a modified version of the specialfx tutorial which clarified a ton of stuff to me about textures, animators, models, dynamic lights, etc etc etc. It's basically my first Quiz in Irrlicht engine. The only thing I didn't include was the water effect, but WASD navigation is also there. Source included. Hope you find it useful.

WARNING!!!

The code is commented in extreme newbie terms, so programmers don't laugh. This is newbie oriented stuff!!! h ehe he he he

use WASD to move the camera and Alt+F4 to quit

Screenie:

http://www.theshower.nl/cgi-bin/genesis ... is/fx1.jpg

File:
http://www.theshower.nl/cgi-bin/genesis ... play3d.zip

download it fast cause my space is getting full and I'll have to "flush" it!!!!

Hello · Post by **Hello** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 5:19 am

Very cool! Thanks!

Cool demo with cool effects!

But it's slow... It run at 7 fps (really more if I go out of the room and don't look it)...
I suppose that it is because of all the effects and the shadows...
But surely it is only because my computer is slow.

Also thanks for the source, it is very well done and easy to understand.
I don't think that anybody will laugh at you.

LordNaikon · Post by **LordNaikon** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 5:25 am

thx for your gift

the shadow effecs are looking good . . . and its nice dokumented

etcaptor · Post by **etcaptor** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 6:28 am

Very good,
Water is almost ready if you only include water and stone textures

Slow frame rate is going mainly from shadow effects.

Unarekin · Post by **Unarekin** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 6:32 am

Mirrored:
http://www.blackspork.com/files/display3d.zip

afecelis · Post by **afecelis** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 12:50 pm

ok guys, thanks for the comments. I had forgotten about lower spec systems, sorry for that guys. No wonder they say you should develop your stuff in a not-so-fast machine for testing purposes. I'm getting 135 fps constant and assumed that was standard. I'll keep that in mind from now on.

on the other hand, I was very excited with my image as sotm so I felt like I had to give something in return. If Niko gave us a whole engine for free why not give a bit of lines of code? he he hehe e

ps. If someone uncomments the water part in the code and getsit to work please tell me how they fixed it. (code)

@Unarekin: thnx for mirroring the file

cheers!

ps2. I just noticed the link to the screenshot was wrong. Just corrected it.

Armen138 · Post by **Armen138** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 12:56 pm

i (re)compiled it on linux, but i only get a white screen

Peter Müller · Post by **Peter Müller** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 1:05 pm

Actually downloading

afecelis · Post by **afecelis** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 1:37 pm

@Armen,
Sorry, dunno sh...t about linux. This project is windows based, and was compiled both with VC++6.0 and VC++.net

Armen138 · Post by **Armen138** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 2:02 pm

i got it to work on linux now, just comment out the directx line and uncomment the opengl line

afecelis · Post by **afecelis** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 2:03 pm

great!!!!

Hello · Post by **Hello** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 2:05 pm

When I said that it run at 7 fps when I look the shadows, I forgot to give you my computer specs:

-pentiumIII 1Ghz
-256MB RAM
-GeForce2 MX 64MB

Armen138 · Post by **Armen138** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 2:05 pm

actually, to get the shadows working correctly as well, just change DIRECTX to OPENGL

looks good afecelis

disanti · Post by **disanti** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 2:19 pm

@Armen,
Sorry, dunno sh...t about linux. This project is windows based, and was compiled both with VC++6.0 and VC++.net

Maybe you should learn

Windows isn't everything you know.
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etcaptor · Post by **etcaptor** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 2:30 pm

afecelis,
I wonder, whet is diffucult for you with water code - you have it in your demo..
ok

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        scene::IAnimatedMesh* mesh =   smgr->addHillPlaneMesh("myHill",
               core::dimension2d<f32>(20,20),
		core::dimension2d<s32>(40,40), 0, 0,
		core::dimension2d<f32>(0,0),
		core::dimension2d<f32>(10,10));
               scene::ISceneNode* waternode =0;
	waternode = smgr->addWaterSurfaceSceneNode(mesh->getMesh(0), 3.0f, 300.0f, 30.0f);

	waternode->setPosition(core::vector3df(0,7,0));
	waternode->setMaterialTexture(0,	driver->getTexture("./data/water.jpg"));
	waternode->setMaterialTexture(1,	driver->getTexture("./data/stones.jpg"));

	waternode->setMaterialType(video::EMT_TRANSPARENT_REFLECTION_2_LAYER);

I perceive, that you have not been sleeping whole night

Like me