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@Tutorial Doctor
I see.

Yes if you don't already know the wiki syntax you would have to take the time to learn that so yes, it's other time spent. It's not difficult though. But really, never edited Wikipedia? I've learnt there.

I did this http://wiki.maratis3d.org/index.php?tit … ng_GUIDemo but it's C++ not Lua. It uses that function.
BTW the function itself it's very simple, you have a point in your scene, let's say where your game character is, let's say it's P(50,50,0). You do

MVector3 position = camera->getProjectedPoint(MVector3(50,50,0));

and what you get is the screen 2D coordinates stored in the variable "position". Z is of course not counted.
As simple as that.
If then you want to display something (a text for example) at such position, it's a bit trickier since Maratis don't have a 2D GUI "engine" yet, but you can use my tutorial linked above to see how to do it with the current version.

A room can be a mesh. A big terrain with some houses could be a single mesh loaded as an entity. Performance issues.
Generally you create separate entities for the houses, but that's not always the case. In Ogre3d, for example, you have the "static geometry" object which can be made of a lot of meshes linked togheter at the game startup and the result is a single very big object (entity), and it's optimized with GPU techniques, since it's static there's no need to do some processing stuff so it's a single big object which "stays there". It's one entity.
Another example, you can just model a big environment in blender and load it as a single mesh and so as a single Maratis entity.
Maratis doesn't actually have things like "static geometry" and in some tutorial pages it's specified that it's better to render the scene in smaller parts, so I may edit the wiki maybe.
But in general, an entity can be anything.

You can use the "History" link in the wiki on every page to see the contributions for that page.

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They are graphic libraries. Which of course have an API, which is just the interface that you use to access the libraries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applicatio … _interface

It would be cool because since the code in the wiki is meant to help users, it should be easy to read.

That will be a pain lol.

If you could do some examples/tutorials for Lua in the wiki that would be cool, since I'm planning to do the C++ part.
Here you go:
http://wiki.maratis3d.org/index.php?tit … _.28Lua.29

It's me who has provided the link. LOL ^^
Actually I've only linked that because heartseed named doxygen. If you want to look at the source code then you should bookmark this:
http://code.google.com/p/maratis/source … dev%2FMSDK
It's up to date and you can actually see the content of the .cpp files.

@heartseed
Sorry but if you don't know C++ you will have a hard time doing anything even if a documentation is provided.
For example, if you're not sure how pointers work, you couldn't use certain functions anyway. Unless the wiki is VERY verbose and contains A LOT of examples. But that would be too much work and IMHO not really necessary, because if you want to do complex games you are supposed to know C++ (in the case of Maratis) and programming in general.

I was considering (if I find the time and the will) to write something in the wiki so I think this discussion could be useful to understand which level of information/help people need.
But IMO if you (impersonal you) think you could do good things with Maratis without knowing C++ or having a good understanding of programming in general then you're wrong.

To me it seems that http://wiki.maratis3d.org/index.php?tit … tions_list is almost complete; some pages have also examples. All functions are mostly self-explanatory due to their name.
So IMO one should be able to develop with no big problems using scripts.

BTW the Maratis source code is so simple and clear that writing a wiki which tells you "the function getMaterial() is a function that gives you a pointer to a material" seems pretty useless to me. The "m_type" for which I've opened this topic is an exception for obvious reasons.

So, I'm asking, what do you/anael/committers think about this and what's the level of details/information/help/examples you expect from the wiki?

Problem is I hate google asking for your cell phone.
I would prefer something like http://www.mantisbt.org/

Looks cool, thanks.