[SOLVED] Shooting a Gun

[rubenwardy]

First thing: I know irrlicht is not a game engine, its a 3D render.

I am making a FPS, and have decided that animating bullets to come out is a bit unrealistic.
So what i want to know is if irrlicht, or a "plugin" can be used to take a pixel of the screen, and see what object is painted there.
(A bit like in BlitzBasic 3D).

If this is not possible then please tell me, or if this is a bad move.

[smso]

Please clarify your question.

Regards
smso

[hybrid]

If you want to check if the bullet hits, you don't need a mesh or animation. Simply use a ray and some collision checks there. If it's jsut 2d you can also check pixel colors, but for 3d you need to have the correct projection for distance.

[Mel]

Erm... pull the trigger? and make sure you have the safety disabled?.

Well i don't know how blitzBasic3D is doing things, but i think you are refering to ray checks. Take a look at the collision manager of the scene manager.

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/docu/cl ... nager.html
This is what you may be looking for;
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/docu/cl ... 68a462f4a0

[rubenwardy]

Thank you, this appears to be what i want.
I will check it out, thank you for the quick reply