Protoyping in Ogre

[Lonewolff]

Recently I have been working on a little project using Ogre (http://www.ogre3d.org).

Once you have used Ogre for a bit it is hard to turn back. I have been restling with DirectX for the last couple of years with minimal result.
I am going to use this scene as a testbed for the Winsock part of the Community Project. This was I'll be able to get programming on the network side with minimal scene setup.

Here is a screenshot of what I have whipped up so far (in total approx 1 day of coding).



Let me know what you think so far

[Hieran_Del8]

This is awesome. Nice work, Lonewolff! I've never really looked into Ogre, but if it's that quick to build 3d apps, you may have just converted me. Again, excellent!

[Lonewolff]

Yes, certainly is pretty easy to do.

I have also built the Ogre source to use Summer 2003 DX SDK. So, you know what that means! No nasty DirectX redist files to distribute!

In this little screenshot I have used the moon as a billboard, plants as a quad, and terrain as a heightmap. The plants and main player are placed on the terrain through a rayscene query.

I'l l keep you informed with updates.

[lp rob1]

It looks very interesting, but what about the level of control in a project? Dealing directly with DirectX (pun intended " gives you complete control over how the game will look, does Ogre allow the same flexibility? Or can direct DirectX functions be called along with Ogre ones?
eg.

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LPD3DXMESH mesh = OgreLoadMesh();
mesh->DrawSubset();

Or does the Ogre engine define its own types?

[Lonewolff]

You can call DirectX (or even OpenGL) calls directly, if you want. But, the Ogre API is massive and chances are that you wouldn't want to. I am currently using DirectInput with this project and it works seamlessly.

[lp rob1]

Not Raw Input?

[Lonewolff]

I plan on using raw input but I had an onld DI class I created a few years back. It was the fastest way for me to get something up and running.

[lp rob1]

Cool