Irrlicht workshop

The Irrlicht Engine

• An open source high performance realtime 3D engine written in C++
• Completely cross-platform, using D3D, OpenGL, and its own software renderers
• Has all of the state-of-the-art features which can be found in commercial 3D engines
• A huge active community, and there are lots of projects in development that use the engine
• It's completely free
• http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net

Workshop project

Purpose

• Easy to use collection of wrappers around Irrlicht 3D rendering engine

Classes

• workshop::engine
  • responsible for creating and configuring Irrlicht framework and fixed level map
• workshop::camera
  • the interface to position engine camera on the level map according to user needs
• workshop::object_handle
  • handle to 1 of 4 fixed characters (position, rotation, highlighting, etc.)
• workshop::selector
  • connection between engine and the object used by collision detection
• workshop::event_receiver
  • detects events generated by the user (i.e. keypress)

Goal of the workshop

• Create 3D engine
  • light
  • camera
  • selection laser
  • main loop
• Add 4 different characters
  • when selected by the laser they should be highlighted and their name should appear in a label