Image feature request.

3DModelerMan · Post by **3DModelerMan** » Thu May 14, 2009 8:39 pm

Would it be possible for Irrlicht to have it's own image file format? Like the .irrmesh format for meshes? A .irrimage format would be really nice.

Sylence · Post by **Sylence** » Thu May 14, 2009 8:43 pm

Why do you need this?
You can load almost any image into irrlicht so why bother designing a completely new image format?

Eigen · Post by **Eigen** » Thu May 14, 2009 8:44 pm

What would be the benefits of such format? I can't see a reason ..

FuzzYspo0N · Post by **FuzzYspo0N** » Thu May 14, 2009 9:27 pm

DENIED.

Lol, i agree. theres PLENTY of image support. No need to reinvent the wheel on something that low level, when its already native in every other aspect of your OS. You cant view irrImages in a preview tool, you would need to create a plugin for every operating system, and every existing editing package conceivable.

This means, no tools to create them. Except maybe, RTTTF (to file) which in essence, is already possible. If you want an image you cant actually edit, feel free to implement the format

3DModelerMan · Post by **3DModelerMan** » Fri May 15, 2009 1:27 am

Well if there was an image converter that could change from maybe, .bmp to .irrimage it would be nice because people wouldn't be able to steal your media files as easy.

B@z · Post by **B@z** » Fri May 15, 2009 2:04 am

1) easy, coz we have a converter xD just they have to downlad the converter, and way to steal xD

2) ultimate picture stealer: print screen

FuzzYspo0N · Post by **FuzzYspo0N** » Fri May 15, 2009 5:42 am

i think he meant textures...you cant screencap those.

And if you worried about people stealing the data, dont be. Companies with billions of dollars waste a TON of it on security, yet there is always an illegal version somehow. You can compress/encrypt the image files and decrypt them when you load them, but the texture still exists in memory, as well as in the GPU... programs like NVProf and others allow you to intercept things to the gpu, shader code, images etc. dont worry about losing images... If someone wants the images, they can most likely find a way anyway.

Most times, companies use a binary format file packer, which combines all resources into large packed files, that compresses and encrypts them. This will stop 90 % of people doing anything about it

klaudia · Post by **klaudia** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 2:51 pm

Ya there is plenty of Image fileformats, and irrlicht.dll growth and growth.

How about create procedure like:
registerImageFileFormat(PNGFactoryProc), registerImageFileFormat(JPGFactoryProc) or similiar.

these JPGFactoryProc etc would be in another static lib. like, irrpng_plug.lib etc. these solutions already in "wxWidgets.dll and purebasic"

and everyone will be use these fileformats what use in game.
I only use DDS files. then PNG,JPG for me is useless, and bunch of others.

then even will be possible creating my own fileformat, without recompile irrlicht.dll.

there could be procedures also like... registerMeshFileFormat etc . ?

(sorry, for my bad english)

Sylence · Post by **Sylence** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 3:33 pm

There is a method for adding an image loader without recompiling the engine. And you can disable the bmp/png/jpg/whatever loader by modifying the IrrCompileConfig.h file.

christianclavet · Post by **christianclavet** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 8:23 pm

Instead, you could ask that IRRlicht could read encrypted archives.

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Image feature request.

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