Loading an obj file

[Vesuvian]

Hi

I have no 3d programming experience at this kind of level and have only just touched Irrlicht today!

Basically I wanted to manipulate the hello world tutorial to use an obj instead of md2 since I don't really want to go to the trouble of compiling Quake 2 models.

What I have written is:

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IMesh* mesh = smgr->getMesh("data/models/brick.obj");
	if (!mesh)
	{
		device->drop();
		return 1;
	}
	IMeshSceneNode* node = smgr->addMeshSceneNode( mesh );

My program quits instantly as it can't open the file. What am I doing wrong?

Also, I had to guess at the functions to load a static mesh. Is there any documentation that lists every function in Irrlicht?

Thanks

[ent1ty]

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/docu/index.html

[freetimecoder]

If the mesh cannot be loaded, there should be a note in the console. "Couldn't open mesh.." something like that. Depending on what it says, the path or the model format might be wrong.

greetings

[Vesuvian]

I had my model in the wrong part of the project folder.

Thanks for the documentation link.