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#1 2010-01-06 15:30:36
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XEffect in Irrlicht (BlitzMax)
Hello,
sorry for my bad english:
Is there any possibillity to use the XEffect Lib (C++) in BlitzMax with die Irrlicht.Core-Mod? :-)
I couln't find anything to this topic here in the board.
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Bastian
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#2 2010-01-09 09:19:17
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Re: XEffect in Irrlicht (BlitzMax)
greetings 
yes you would be able to use this library but a little "glue" work would need to be done. you will need to expose some functions using C/C++ (similar to how the Irrlicht mod is created) in order to be able to use it. if you are planning on using only a few features of the library this may go pretty quick. if you are planning on using all of the library this could take several hours.
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#3 2010-01-09 09:56:47
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Re: XEffect in Irrlicht (BlitzMax)
Ah :-) Thank you for reply 
I must recompile irrlicht, when I want to use the "extention", or?
Bastian
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#4 2010-01-09 14:40:52
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Re: XEffect in Irrlicht (BlitzMax)
greetings it wouldnt be in the base Irrlicht mod so you wouldnt need to recompile that. you would need to either make it into a mod or include the files directly in your project.
some news on this... this library was pretty interesting and felt it may be useful for the Irrlicht mod userbase so i went ahead and built a mod out of it took me a little over 5 hours so not bad! i will release once i have all the examples converted and running. probably sometime tomorrow. i already have the mod completed and the first example converted and running so its definately a go.
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#5 2010-01-10 03:38:28
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Re: XEffect in Irrlicht (BlitzMax)
Oh nice!
Thank you! :-)
But, when I want to rebuild the Mods I'm getting this error:
Code:
Building Modules Compiling:EffectHandler.cpp Build Error: failed to compile N:/........../BlitzMax/mod/irrlicht.mod/xeffects.mod/xeffects/EffectHandler.cpp Process complete
And I can't run the examples :-( It always crashes with an error...
MinGW and so on is already installed.
Thanks!
Bastian
EDIT: Ok, sorry, it was my misstake: MinGW hasn't been worked correctly.
But now, there is an new error:
http://paste.frubar.net/11708/txt
I have pasted it, because it's to big ;-)
Bastian
Editē It was my misstake to -> Not the newest Wrapper-Version :-)
Now I think, it works correctly :-)
Thank you!
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#6 2010-01-10 07:54:44
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Re: XEffect in Irrlicht (BlitzMax)
looks like i missed the fun great! glad its working for you
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#7 2010-01-10 09:51:46
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Re: XEffect in Irrlicht (BlitzMax)
Hmm...I don't know, but I think there is a bug:
When I'm use settarget or setposition of SShadowLight the light doesn't do anything...
I can fill the parameter with any value, but the light remains constant.
Do you have any idea?
Thank you!
Bastian
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#8 2010-01-10 10:17:52
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Re: XEffect in Irrlicht (BlitzMax)
it should work as that appears to be how many of the examples operate (see example 1 in the while loop). do you have sample code?
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#9 2010-01-10 10:32:46
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Re: XEffect in Irrlicht (BlitzMax)
Founded :-)
I saved the return of SShadowLight.Create. Now I use getShadowLight(index) and it works :-)
Thank you for helping!
Bastian
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