Loading meshes other than the ones in Hello World example

[Ean]

Hello. I have decided I wish to try Irrilicht. I have downloaded 1.4.1 and am using Dev C++ to compile. But no matter what I put for the mesh, it keeps loading the same sydney mesh! When I click "Clear" or "Rebuild All" (options in the Dev C++) I get unexpected error and game crash!

[floppyfreak]

if you have a freshly compiled program and changed the mesh to load you definitly shouldn't see the old lady .
The compile was error free?

[Ean]

if you have a freshly compiled program and changed the mesh to load you definitly shouldn't see the old lady .
The compile was error free?

Yes.

[floppyfreak]

sigh.
let us see your code

[Ean]

sigh.
let us see your code

It is exactly the same as the Hello World example but sydney.md2 is replaced with mymesh.ms3d, "mymesh" is in the same directory as sydney

[floppyfreak]

Hello. I have decided I wish to try Irrilicht. I have downloaded 1.4.1 and am using Dev C++ to compile. But no matter what I put for the mesh, it keeps loading the same sydney mesh! When I click "Clear" or "Rebuild All" (options in the Dev C++) I get unexpected error and game crash!

Sorry, I see a contradiction here. How can you say you have a correctly compiled program with this kind of problems?
What errors? Your program mustn't crash if you wanna see mymesh.dings

[Ean]

There are no problems with the compiler when this happens. The Irrlicht displays the error message. Besides, this does not occur unless Rebuild All or Clear is initiated.

[d3jake]

To try and track down the source line(s) of the issue, you can #include <iostream> and then before and after each chunk of code from the example, you can place a

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cerr << "I am before this line, that does x" << endl;

And continue that through your program. Compile and run your program, it should crash as usual, but it should also spit out a text file. You can open that text file and see about where in your code it stops, because after that point you shouldn't be able to read your

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cerr << "Comments about the lines of code they are near" << endl;

[floppyfreak]

most likely this is a problem with your mesh. Try antother one, try other formats... Once you will see where the problem with this one was. You can also try basic functions like addSphereSceneNode. for testing purposes these are good.

[Ean]

most likely this is a problem with your mesh. Try antother one, try other formats... Once you will see where the problem with this one was. You can also try basic functions like addSphereSceneNode. for testing purposes these are good.

No no no-it also malfunctions the same exact way with the Sydney mesh! And
Irrlicht gives the error NOT Dev C++!
I even deleted all of the mesh loading code and it still renders the mesh! It is like it does not clear it from memory even after a call to "drop" and "endscene" AND exiting Dev C++ AND the program!

I also noticed Dev C++ automatically saves any changes when I exit, WITHOUT asking my permission!

What are the parameters for addSphereSceneNode?

[floppyfreak]

No no no-it also malfunctions the same exact way with the Sydney mesh! And
Irrlicht gives the error NOT Dev C++!

I guess so. thats why I say, it might be a problem with your mesh, not with the code.

I even deleted all of the mesh loading code and it still renders the mesh! It is like it does not clear it from memory even after a call to "drop" and "endscene" AND exiting Dev C++ AND the program! I also noticed Dev C++ automatically saves any changes when I exit, WITHOUT asking my permission!

now how can this be. Your code has no line that loads the mesh, but the mesh is loaded? than its really to freak out . Are you sure you compile the lines that you edit? Read the dev-c++ basics.

What are the parameters for addSphereSceneNode?

you find it in the docu:
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/docu/cl ... r.html#a22

[rogerborg]

There are no problems with the compiler when this happens. The Irrlicht displays the error message. Besides, this does not occur unless Rebuild All or Clear is initiated.

What error message?

If you simply build your (modified) code, you still see sydney.md2? If so, then you're not running the modified exe. Really, you're not. That's most likely an issue either with Dev-C++, or with your understanding of it.

Either way, these are your issues, so you can either continue shouting! at us, or you can start problem solving step by step.

[Ean]

I click compile and run. And it renders the sydney mesh no matter what.

To make sure the Dev C++ is completely refreshed I click Clear or Rebuild All. But after that Irrilicht gives me Unexpected Error and crash!

[JP]

Use the DevC++ debugger to work out where it's crashing.

Click the debug tab at the bottom of the screen and then the debug button that pops up.

Also does the console output tell you anything at the point of the crash? Alt-tab to the console window when the crash happens and see if it says anything unexpected.

[Ean]

Use the DevC++ debugger to work out where it's crashing.

Click the debug tab at the bottom of the screen and then the debug button that pops up.

Also does the console output tell you anything at the point of the crash? Alt-tab to the console window when the crash happens and see if it says anything unexpected.

ive just researched and rebuild and clear isnt what I need, but compile and run should update the mesh but it wont.