Add a user data member to the SMaterial structure

[3DModelerMan]

I think that Irrlicht's material system needs some better user data handling. It would be nice if it had a member like: "void* UserData;" that could be set just like with Bullet's user data. Or maybe a pointer to an IAttributes object?

[mongoose7]

I need it today!

[randomMesh]

Will never happen (see the other 4375983457 threads about user data). Instead, use a irr::core::map or hack the source and recompile the engine.

[3DModelerMan]

Why? What do the devs have against one extra member in the SMaterial struct?

[serengeor]

Why? What do the devs have against one extra member in the SMaterial struct?

You could just add it yourself, unless you need to update irrlicht by svn often, but even then I think you could pull it off by writing automatic script or some tool that would patch the smaterial struct for you.

[3DModelerMan]

Oh yeah. An automatic patching script would work. I never thought of that.

[hybrid]

void* user data members are the least well designed concepts, and SMaterial is one fo the most size constrained structs in Irrlicht (just check the implementation, we work with bitfields etc). And we try to avoid void* members completely in the engine.

[3DModelerMan]

I guess I could just write a user data manager using a std::map instead.