software renderer woes

trueleowdeo · Post by **trueleowdeo** » Sat May 01, 2010 6:17 am

whenever i use the software renderer with examples that involve loading a quake3map eg example 3 in the irrlicht tutorials ,it shows less than desirable images. Is it just me or is this a known issue. Does it have a solution?

DtD · Post by **DtD** » Sat May 01, 2010 8:05 am

Which software renderer? If it is the Irrlicht Software one (EG: Not Burning's) then it is supposed to be very basic. It can't render triangles that extend past the screen. It is more suited for pre-game menu screens and such (as it is used in the main Irrlicht demo program.)

Linkin Puck · Post by **Linkin Puck** » Sat May 01, 2010 11:39 am

The Software Renderer should be renamed, really. Burning's one should replace it as THE Software Renderer.

CuteAlien · Post by **CuteAlien** » Sun May 02, 2010 7:05 pm

I think we even considered renaming it once, but well, you need a very good reason to break downward compatibility and it's not that easy to find a better name anyway. But read documentation for EDT_SOFTWARE (and other device types), I think it tells the differences rather well.

burningreggae · Post by **burningreggae** » Wed May 05, 2010 8:56 am

your are not allowed to rename burnings video.
it's mine.

greetings!