This year, Irrlicht applied for participation in Google Summer of Code(tm). In case we are elected by Google, we will host some Irrlicht related development projects, e.g. those listed on our Ideas list. Students who want to work on one of those projects have to apply as well, starting on March 23rd until April 3rd […]
The winners of the Irrlicht In Motion competition are found. randommesh: Flocking boids omaremad: Coin jump strong99: The Island blindside: Against the tide fmx: Miku in Motion zillion42: irrSolarSystem Ion Dune: WarEngine RTS night_hawk: Power Pong 3dmodelerman: Demo eye776: Platform CONGRATULATIONS! Thanks to all participants! It was really much fun to play around with your […]
We are happy to announce that we just released Irrlicht version 1.5. This version contains a lot of new features, here are some few highlights: Vertex Buffer Objects, i.e. storing meshes on the GPU Joystick support on all platforms Added support for collada 1.4 and LWO files 32bit indices for large meshes Added an .obj […]
The MacOSX package for Irrlicht 1.4.2 is now available for download as well. Happy downloading.
We are happy to announce that we just released Irrlicht version 1.4.2. This version contains a lot of bug fixes and improvements: Unified handling of the zwrite enable flag for transparent materials for compatibilit with older Irrlicht versions. There are now functions in IVideoDriver and ISceneManager to enable/disable ZWrite flags of transparent materials. Improvements of […]
Irrlicht has been nominated in the Sourceforge.NET 2008 Community Choice Awards in two categories: ‘Best Project for Multimedia’ and ‘Best Project for Gamers’. Please vote for us!. In other news, Mac Burns just let us know that the Irrlicht nightly build server is now up and running. Thanks for all this work!
Irrlicht 1.4.1 for MacOS is now available at the sourceforge servers. It comes as 85MB sized .dmg file. Happy downloading.
We just released Irrlicht 1.4.1, it is now available at the sourceforge servers. Happy downloading. Version 1.4.1 is mainly a bugfix release and includes: Improvements to the COLLADA 1.3 loader, support for Milkshape 1.8 files, Enhanced .3ds, .obj loaders, Microsoft .x file animation playback improvements Added X11 support on OSX Several speed optimizations Tons of bugfixes, […]
There is now a new project available at sourceforge net, named IrrExt. Although the status message on the project page indicates the contrary, the project is active and its SVN contains a collection of extensions to the Irrlicht Engine, like scene nodes, animators, GUI elements, materials, shaders, mesh loaders, physics wrappers and more. It is managed […]
Following the release of Irrlicht 1.4, the package for Mac OS is now available as well: download Irrlicht 1.4 for Mac OS 1.4. The dmg file contains all source files but no precompiled binaries, you need to compile it yourself using XCode. It was created by Varmint, and we are happy to announce that he now joined […]