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I am curious about that 'node' variable.. Is it going out of scope? How is it declared and defined?

jjp wrote: UE3 does use something what they call "deferred shadowing", which is why UE3 games don't support anti aliasing when DX9 is used. Crysis also does primarily forward rendering. GTA 4 is a good candidate for deferred shading since a city scenery clearly is a case where being able to use many lights helps Relatively few games actually use deferred shading; STALKER is the canonical example, and there are a few...

jjp wrote: Any rasterization can be considered as "the first bounce of a raytracer". And even though I don't want to start another discussion on that topic: ray tracing is not the future, it is one technique among several which is advantageous under certain circumstances. It is unlikely that "pure" ray tracing will ever be the first choice for real time graphics. UE3 does use something what they call...

Thanks Praetor. I had a look at Microsofts XBLA just as a reference point. Seems they started out offering 70%, which was considered very high, but have since dropped to 35% for indie releases. It sounds like the contracts are generally... not awesome.

If you set the Ragdoll class to use convex hulls it'll generate them dynamically from the ogre mesh skelton, so it's very little work in the xml to set up. Primitives are more fiddly. If you only spawn a ragdoll once in a while it's great, but it's not as fast as the primitives when spawning the ragdoll. But unless you're doing a left for dead style game it won't matter (NOT the australian version though )

Which diagrams are you talking about?

So I checked out the Fresnel application (very cool, not sure how I didnt see that one in the numerous times I have looked through the demos) and researched this for a while. It seems rather complicated, but would be an effect I would really like to do. So I guess you basically have to do a RTT, apply the Refraction effect, then something else, I cant remember the third step, been reading for too long. It seems the issues that would come up...

Bug solved, the problem is the default option of config screen: RTT Prefered Mode of OpenGL. If i change from FBO to other, it run normal and now i can debug. Thanks ppl.

prchakal wrote: Oh man...thanks very much! I forgot the 'this->' on method 'setPlayer'. The real solution is to name your member variables differently from local variables so that they don't get shadowed. A common idiom used is to prefix with 'm' or 'm_' or '_' to keep them seperate, like mPlayer. Doing 'this->' every time is not really a solution IMHO.

like that for example.