A running dwarf in Bmax

I'm currently trying out a more objectoriented way of wrapping irrlicht which means that it won't be very pleasant to use in Blitz3D.
But I believe theduck will cover that part.

Anyway, here is an example on how to load a quake3 map and load a dwarf.
Currently the wrapper only supports dwarves ;)

Import "-lirrwrap"
Include "IrrInclude.bmx"

Local Device:Irr_IrrlichtDevice = CreateIrrlichtDevice(800,600,32,False,False,False)
Local Scene:Irr_SceneManager = Device.getSceneManager()
Local Video:Irr_VideoDriver = Device.getVideoDriver()
Local FileSystem:Irr_FileSystem = Device.getFileSystem()

Local Mesh:Irr_AnimatedMesh = Scene.GetMesh("C:\dwarf\dwarf1.x")
Local Node:Irr_AnimatedMeshNode = Scene.AddAnimatedMeshNode(Mesh)
Local Camera:Irr_CameraNode = Scene.AddCameraNodeFPS()

FileSystem.AddZipFileArchive("C:\q3levels\meatpak\meatpak.pk3")
Local LevelMesh:Irr_AnimatedMesh = Scene.GetMesh("maps\whitemeat.bsp")
Local LevelNode:Irr_SceneNode = Scene.AddOctTreeSceneNode(LevelMesh)

While Device.Run() = True 

 Video.BeginScene(True,True,Null)
  Scene.DrawAll()
 Video.EndScene()

 FlushMem()

Wend

Device.Drop()

//Edit

Just wanted to mention a little about the method I'm using.

Basically I break down the whole namespace/class structure of Irrlicht into a set of "plain" functions.

I export these functions and create declarations for them in Bmax.

Then in Bmax I reconstruct the whole structure again using Bmax types and methods which call the declared functions.

So far it works pretty well and I will do some performance tests to see if this method have any significant impact on the performance or not.

Wrapping this way is a tremendous amount of work but I'm currently working on a tool that will do this for me.

The wrappertool should theoretically be able to wrap any kind of C++ Api this way but that is a later project.