Irrlicht Engine

I'm working on a port of my old editor to support Irrlicht. I will prob use XML to store/describe the levels it creates which will then be read by a simple framework that I'll chuck together.

If anyone has written a editor style camera class I'd love to see the code as I'm currently having trouble converting 'CCameraMayaSceneNode' over to a WorldCraft style free roaming camera.

Any suggestions and code snippets etc will be appreciated....

See my website for details.

Wish me luck

good luck

what website?


check out this thread for info on editor cameras
real time editor thread

^^ Click the little button under my username

www.novacoder.com

Thanx for the link, I'll check it out.

It would be great to have an Irrlicht-only level editor. Good luck!

You got any plans on level format? I mean, bsps, lightmaps, etc.

you got a feature list of planned stuff?

ask for any help here in the forums, I'm sure there are lots of pepople willing to help.

Nope, no feature list or solid plans really, so far all I've got is it loading up a quake map and showing it in a 3D view (MFC based app).

I prob just start off by developing a basic level format and the ability to navigate the levels in 3D then add support for 2D views + adding models to levels and just see how I go. I'll prob need to add some kind of scripting support to allow properties you change in the editor to be viewable in a 3rd party app.

The editor is based on WorldCraft so it will have a similar interface.

you might find these 2 sources of level editors interesting:
tread 3d: opensource and free for any use
http://www.fileplanet.com/dl.aspx?/plan ... _v2.4f.zip

it's a multi-game level editor (Quake1,2,3,sin,HL). Ca3dengine is modding it to make a new version for their engine.

Qoole 0.99:
http://files.volved.com/qsr/Qoole99-099src.zip

very similar to worldcraft, with a great opengl window navigation. Also free and opensource

cheers!

For scripting, I would suggest LUA with toLua++ for bindings. They are fantastic together.