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Irrlicht Nominated for Community Choice Awards

Thanks to all of you, Irrlicht has been nominated for the Sourceforge.net Community Choice Awards! Now you need to vote for the nominees, please go to the nomination voting page and vote for Irrlicht again, in the categories “Best Project for Multimedia” or if you like “Best Project for Gamers” in addition.

SF.net 2007 Community Choice Awards

Please vote for Irrlicht in the SF.net 2007 Community Choice awards. Please click this link or below and select ‘Best Project for Multimedia‘. Thanks!

Irrlicht 1.3.1 released

We just released Irrlicht in version 1.3.1. This is intended to be a bug fix release, but there are also some new features: Works seemlessly with the also just released irrEdit (0.7.1). Support for Ogre 1.4 .mesh files Added an optional SDL device, to let Irrlicht run on not yet natively supported platforms like embedded devices. […]

T-Shirts available

Ever wanted a shirt with an Irrlicht Logo on it? Or ever wanted to support the Irrlicht Engine development? That’s now finally possible: Go to the Shops (there are two: an European and an American, to reduce shipment costs for you). There are various Irrlicht, irrKlang, irrEdit and Ambiera shirts to choose from. For each shirt […]

irrKlang 0.9 and irrKlang pro released

irrKlang 0.9, the free audio library and irrKlang pro has just been released. New: Support for DirectSound8, sound effects (echo, reverb, flanger etc), doppler effects, sound frequency/playback speed, sound events and more. ‘irrKlang pro’ is now also available as version for commercial licensing. See the related blog entry for details and background.

Bunch of news

Here are several irrlicht related news: Pyrr is a new python wrapper for Irrlicht 1.3. Added to the langauge binding list. Solar model is a realtime modeling of a solar system. It renders a beautiful 3D space environment using Irrlicht. Added screenshots to the screenshots page. CivilFEM is a commercial Civil Engineering program. In the part […]

More releated projects

Here is a list of new irrlicht releated projects and updates of them: I’ve added a new project to the screenshot section: 3D office created by yoran, a design application which allows to create your virtual office. Jirr 1.3 has been released by Stefan Dingfelder, supporting Irrlicht 1.3 and is based on Java 1.5. Fabian Beutel […]

irrEdit 0.7 released

We just released version 0.7 of irrEdit, the free lightmap generator and world editor for Irrlicht. It is now compatible with Irrlicht 1.3, supports terrain scene nodes and has the ability to show, edit and store custom scene nodes via plugins.

Irrlicht 1.3 released

We just released version 1.3 of the Irrlicht Engine. The following new features can be found in the SDK: Improved font support: Anti aliasing, alpha channels, different character sets, and a new font tool Enhanced GUI system: serialization, a first version of a GUI editor, element alignment, tool tips and more BurningVideo (the 2nd Software […]

Irrlicht Wiki and several updates

We are providing now an official Irrlicht Engine wiki. It is empty yet, please help us to fill it. It also contains readonly access to development plans and internal discussions of the Irrlicht Engine team. Background: The wiki at irrforge.org is down for some time now and altough some very helpful people provided alternative wikis for […]