A running dwarf in Bmax
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| Look! I have a running dwarf in bmax. Not running in the screenshot though ;) The dwarf-model is made by Psionic and the rendering is done with a little help from the Irrlicht engine. :)  |
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| Looking nice! |
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| did you import the Irrlicht engine in BlitzMax? |
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| I wrapped a small part of it the same way I wrapped Tokamak. So I should be able to setup the scene above in Blitz3D & Blitz2D as well. |
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| sounds interresting.. are you going to release the source so we can play with it too?!? :D |
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| Please ?!?!?!, /Alienforce |
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| Here it is, but It's far from finished. http://svenberra.net/IrrWrapper.zip I have just wrapped the functions I needed to make the scene above. The wrapperDll is made with Dev-C++. |
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| Sweenie, Are you going to "wrapp" the whole engine ?? /Alienforce |
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| Wow, you have self-shadowing in there! Does that take much of a hit to the frame-rate? |
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| Are you going to "wrapp" the whole engine ?? I'm gonna try at least. I'm thinking about writing a helpertool to make the wrapping a bit easier/faster (yes, I'm a lazy person). Wow, you have self-shadowing in there! Does that take much of a hit to the frame-rate? With the crappy intel gfxcard I'm using here on my computer at work, yes it does. Can't wait to get home and try it out on my Geforce 6800 GT. I really must convince my boss that designing databases in Lotus Notes requires a highend gfx-card. ;) |
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| Frmo a profesional: Lotus Notes R5 and above require High-end Graphics cards to display the technologically advanced buttons. ..Or.. Maybe not. [edit] I can't spell Frmo.... |
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| Lotus Notes R5 and above require High-end Graphics cards to display the technologically advanced buttons. I do believe so. ;) |
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| Add some color to the poor guy's armor. I thought he was in black and white for a moment. :) Looks great and irlicht is a good choice to add to bmax |
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| @Sweenie - I thought BMax had gotten rid of the need to 'wrap' things like this :( Why was it necessary here? |
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| I tried to do it without using a wrapper dll but I'm not sure it can be done unless the dll has interfaces in it, like DirectX has. I tried to access DirectX using the method they used in Powerbasic , and I almost made it(managed to get a DirectX error returncode which means I got contact with the "internal" functions) But I got "scared" when I realized just how much work it would take to actually create a Directx binding. But I'm sure someone will eventually do it. |
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| good job so far when I get home im downloading this :) I hope you finish it. |
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| Look really great!!!! Please continue the wrapping /Alienforce |
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| sweeny which powerbasic version ? post some pb sources ? hmm interesting.... |
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| Sweet! I just downloaded Irrilicht last week for using with DevC++ to try it out, and it seems pretty cool so far! By the way, do you have any tutorial on how to wrap stuff from C++ (Or another language) to Blitz3D (Or Plus, 2d, ect.)? There are some things I've been dying to use in Blitz. Thanks in advance if that's possible :) |
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| sweeny which powerbasic version ? post some pb sources ? Just enter the powerbasic forums and do a search for directx. I just downloaded Irrilicht last week for using with DevC++ to try it out, and it seems pretty cool so far! I have checked Irrlicht several times in the past and I think that with the latest release(0.8) it has become a pretty mature engine. Though I think the media they use in the demos is a little bit on the poor side and that has a tendency to "scare" some people away. But hey, don't judge a book by it's cover. By the way, do you have any tutorial on how to wrap stuff from C++ (Or another language) to Blitz3D (Or Plus, 2d, ect.)? There are some things I've been dying to use in Blitz. Thanks in advance if that's possible :) Try this one... http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=38319 |
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| i thought about wrapping the irr engine but then i said no. its not too much work for me but ill need a good reason to do so. its a powerful engine though. |
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| Hey! Cool! I never saw that before! :D Thanks! |
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| Oooh - I tell you what - I like the way the Dwarf casts a shadow on himself. I want a dwarf. The shadow on his chest looks a bit dodgy though. |
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| hahahaha... yeah, shadowed dwarfs for everyone... seriously though, nice job Sweenie... very niiice... you're just interested in wrapping the rendering functionality, right... or are you looking into the whole magilla... --Mike |
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| Wow, so many 3d engines already for BMax :) That open-endedness is a great thing. |
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| By the way -- Sweenie, Check your email! :D |
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| Nice job sweenie :) I suppose just using already made 3rd party engines is a pretty good way to get some decent 3d into bmax. |
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| sweenie any chance of a demo ? I saw the code aboev but the level and dwarf werent included. |
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| The level can be found in the Irrlicht sdk and the dwarf can be found on Psionics freeware models page. |
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| Really cool Sweenie.... Irrlicht seems really good. Please more wrapping :) I would like to know more about "how to wrapp" do you have any good links... ? Sweenie Tutorial :) ? /Alienforce |
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| Alienforce, Check the link a few post above... Red Ocktober, I will try to wrap as much as I can. |
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| "Tack så mycket" Sweenie /Alienforce |
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| "Tack så mycket" Sweenie Ingen orsak ;) |
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| what functions does this wrapper have right now is it the ones you have in the demo or is it more like particels and shaders |
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| Pleas post if you make any more changes woulde love to see it i think this is great! Bra jobbat! <-Swedish |
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| Sweenie downloaded the tutorial, Looks like a good starter for wrapping.. Thanks alot for sharing your knowledge. "Mycket bra jobbat, vill se mer :) " Swedish /Alienforce |
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| I will try to wrap as much as I can. great news... you are now 'the man'!! --Mike |
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| Well post as soon as you have something more pleas! |
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| I'm currently trying out a more objectoriented way of wrapping irrlicht which means that it won't be very pleasant to use in Blitz3D. But I believe theduck will cover that part. Anyway, here is an example on how to load a quake3 map and load a dwarf. Currently the wrapper only supports dwarves ;)
Import "-lirrwrap"
Include "IrrInclude.bmx"
Local Device:Irr_IrrlichtDevice = CreateIrrlichtDevice(800,600,32,False,False,False)
Local Scene:Irr_SceneManager = Device.getSceneManager()
Local Video:Irr_VideoDriver = Device.getVideoDriver()
Local FileSystem:Irr_FileSystem = Device.getFileSystem()
Local Mesh:Irr_AnimatedMesh = Scene.GetMesh("C:\dwarf\dwarf1.x")
Local Node:Irr_AnimatedMeshNode = Scene.AddAnimatedMeshNode(Mesh)
Local Camera:Irr_CameraNode = Scene.AddCameraNodeFPS()
FileSystem.AddZipFileArchive("C:\q3levels\meatpak\meatpak.pk3")
Local LevelMesh:Irr_AnimatedMesh = Scene.GetMesh("maps\whitemeat.bsp")
Local LevelNode:Irr_SceneNode = Scene.AddOctTreeSceneNode(LevelMesh)
While Device.Run() = True
Video.BeginScene(True,True,Null)
Scene.DrawAll()
Video.EndScene()
FlushMem()
Wend
Device.Drop()
//Edit Just wanted to mention a little about the method I'm using. Basically I break down the whole namespace/class structure of Irrlicht into a set of "plain" functions. I export these functions and create declarations for them in Bmax. Then in Bmax I reconstruct the whole structure again using Bmax types and methods which call the declared functions. So far it works pretty well and I will do some performance tests to see if this method have any significant impact on the performance or not. Wrapping this way is a tremendous amount of work but I'm currently working on a tool that will do this for me. The wrappertool should theoretically be able to wrap any kind of C++ Api this way but that is a later project. |
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| This is really looking better and better Sweenie.. I like the OO approach on it.. That way, it would be very easy to follow other (C++) tutorials and examples on Irrlicht. :) |
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| have you wrapped some more functions in yet? Just wondering |
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| Currently the wrapper only supports dwarves ;) cheeky |
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| Why not Elfs and orchs? |
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| actually... i think they prefer to be called 'little people'... --Mike |
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| Neither Elfs nor Orcs have beards. Perhaps the wrapper only supports bearded models so far. |
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