Rendering an Image of a Shadow

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 9:35 am

Greetings. I'm new to Irrlicht and was wandering if this was possible.

The Shadow tutorial is excellent and it's awesome that all Irrlicht needs is a call to addShadowVolumeSceneNode(). What I need to do however is try and render the resulting shadow to a bitmap (or other image format) and save it.

Is this possible in Irrlicht and if so, can anyone suggest what I start to look at to figure it out?

Thanks for any help.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 5:57 pm

Is Irrlicht not capable of doing this?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 6:15 pm

I need this Feature for making a kind of binoculars

c_olin3404 · Post by **c_olin3404** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 6:16 pm

I dont think irrlicht is capable of this.... but im just curious.... what would you need this feature for?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 8:12 pm

Thanks for the reply folks.

In answer to your question though, I'm using it to create images of a shadow, that will be added to another engine as a 'fake stencil shadow'. I was just looking for a means of writing an efficient tool to create the images from animated models. Irrlicht has excellent support for varied formats. It's a great engine.

Thanks again.