First Screenshot using Ogre3D

Ok, you' ve seen this a lot of time, but there's an important difference: this screenshot was made using the Ogre3d engine to render the scene.
The source is very small, so small that i post it here!
And, if you examine the image you can see two important news:

- Shadows are in hi-res and very realistic.
- Anti-Aliasing is implemented

The source?

#include "ExampleApplication.h"

class TutorialApplication : public ExampleApplication
{
protected:
public:
 TutorialApplication()
 {
 }

 ~TutorialApplication() 
 {
 }
protected:
 void chooseSceneManager(void)
 {
  mSceneMgr = mRoot->createSceneManager(ST_EXTERIOR_CLOSE);
  ResourceGroupManager::getSingleton().initialiseAllResourceGroups();

 }

    virtual void createCamera(void)
    {
        mCamera = mSceneMgr->createCamera("PlayerCam");
        mCamera->setPosition(Vector3(0,10,500));
        mCamera->lookAt(Vector3(0,0,0));
        mCamera->setNearClipDistance(5);
    }

    virtual void createViewports(void)
    {
        Viewport* vp = mWindow->addViewport(mCamera);
        vp->setBackgroundColour(ColourValue(0,0,0));
        mCamera->setAspectRatio(Real(vp->getActualWidth()) / Real(vp->getActualHeight()));   
    }


 void createScene(void)
 {
        Entity *ent;
        Light *light;

   mSceneMgr->setAmbientLight( ColourValue( 0.1, 0.1, 0.1 ) );
           mSceneMgr->setShadowTechnique( SHADOWTYPE_STENCIL_ADDITIVE );

    
        mSceneMgr->setSkyBox(true, "Examples/SpaceSkyBox2");

        ent = mSceneMgr->createEntity("Station", "Mesh.001.mesh");
        ent->setCastShadows(true);
        mSceneMgr->getRootSceneNode()->createChildSceneNode()->attachObject(ent);

 light = mSceneMgr->createLight("Light1");
        light->setType(Light::LT_POINT);
        light->setPosition(Vector3(30, 150, -250));

        light->setDiffuseColour(1.0, 1.0, 1.0);
        light->setSpecularColour(1.0, 1.0, 1.0);



 }
};

#if OGRE_PLATFORM == PLATFORM_WIN32 || OGRE_PLATFORM == OGRE_PLATFORM_WIN32
#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
#include "windows.h"

INT WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInst, HINSTANCE, LPSTR strCmdLine, INT)
#else
int main(int argc, char **argv)
#endif
{
 // Create application object
 TutorialApplication app;

 try {
  app.go();
 } catch(Exception& e) {
#if OGRE_PLATFORM == PLATFORM_WIN32 || OGRE_PLATFORM == OGRE_PLATFORM_WIN32
  MessageBox(NULL, e.getFullDescription().c_str(), "An exception has occurred!", MB_OK | MB_ICONERROR | MB_TASKMODAL);
#else
  fprintf(stderr, "An exception has occurred: %s\n",
   e.getFullDescription().c_str());
#endif
 }

 return 0;
}

Nothing more.

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Eccovi la prima immagine ottenuta usando il motore Ogre3D. Lo so, e' uguale a un sacco di altre che ho postato in precedenza, pero' la novita' fondamentale e' che e' stata ottenuta implementando il mio materiale dentro al nuovo engine.
E la cosa sorprendente e' che e' stato davvero facile! Il sorgente che potete leggere qui sopra e' tutto cio' che serve per ottenere una telecamera mobile, uno skybox, una mesh e delle ombre.
Tra l'altro le ombre sono molto piu' precise di quelle che ho ottenuto io con l'approccio "fai da te". E tra l'altro e' arrivato "gratis" anche l'antialiasing.