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Irrlicht/Ruby interface && Paco Jones

Jerome Nichols created a comprehensive Ruby/Irrlicht interface. It is called Irr or IrrRuby and its homepage is located at irr.rubyforge.org. A good reason to try out ruby at least now. 🙂 Another good news comes from the Lemon Team. They created a game called ‘Paco Jones’ during a fast game competition. It is available at their homepage for […]

Irrlicht-Engine.com and video download

Again, there is more than one news to tell: Thanks to Joe Oliveri, this webpage is reachable now via Irrlicht-Engine.com too. Cool. The next version of Irrlicht will be able to do parallax mapping. I’ve uploaded a short video which demonstrates this new feature. In addition, the new shot of the week shows it. The link to […]

Unanswered emails

Maybe you’ve recently sent a mail to me and did not get an answer. This happens sometimes because of my spam filters and I’m very sorry for this. But during the last few weeks, not a single mail sent to me has been answered, because I simply haven’t received them. I had some problems with […]

Irrlicht Wiki

Saigumi created The Irrlicht Wiki. Wikis are currently quite popular, and undoubted usful. So it would be cool if some articles/tutorials etc get posted up there. Added it to the link section, which has also been restructured a little bit. Some other news: The Irrlicht Forum has been hacked for the second time. I updated, patched, modded and […]

Irrlicht 0.9 released!

Irrlicht 0.9 has just been released. There are lots of bug fixes in it, but also many new features. In addition, some of the most popular community extensions have been integrated directly into the engine. Some of the most important changes are: Irrlicht now includes a completely new and working terrain renderer. It is based on […]

More than 30.000 posts!

Hurra, now we’ve got more than 30.000 posts in the Irrlicht Engine forum! Some additional statistics: We’ve got 1517 registered users, 57.29 posts and 9.79 new topics per day, and a database size of 47.68MB. So our community is quite active. 🙂 Some other good news: Reinhard Ostermeier created a website with some of his extensions to […]

Localization and Tutorial updates

Major tutorial update and announcement of a new localization of this webpage: After the russian version of irrlicht.sf.net, there is now even a complete official irrlicht engine webpage in the czech republic, thanks to Filip Janek and Martin Kocí. It is a complete translation and must have been really a lot of work. Thanks! Updated first three tutorials […]

Related projects

Another short list of new interesting Irrlicht Engine related projects: Arena of Honor is a multiplayer first person shooter created by Artur Hallmann and Nils Keller which uses Newton for physics, RakNet for networking, Audiere for sound and, of course Irrlicht for graphics. The game already looks quite well and is entertaining, there is a […]

Small updates

There is a russian Irrlicht Engine webpage available, created by Panchenko “Andrushka” Andrew. He already translated big parts of the site and also some tutorials. Added the page to the link page. I added a sphere file to irrlicht.sf.net for the exWARE German Irrlicht Portal. And if you haven’t taken a look at the GMax Video Tutorials by afecelis […]

Irrlicht Forum hacked

Few hours ago, the Irrlicht Engine forum has been hacked. I don’t know exactly what they changed and how they did this, but it seems that they only changed the forum frontpage. I restored it, upgraded to a newer version of the forum and changed some passwords. That’s the only thing I can do. I […]