There is no skeletal animated mesh included in the Irrlicht SDK, to show of what the engine is able to do with skeletal animated meshes. Because I am currently working on .x file loading and displaying, and I want to add a new tutorial in the upcoming Irrlicht 0.5 SDK, I need a free animated .x file.
Yago already sent in his model of a dwarf, you can see it on the left. But to make it fair, I’ll announce this here in public.
If you think your animated model is also nice or even better, it should be included in the next SDK and your name placed in the credits, then send it to me (remove the .nospam in the adress).
You can create it in any 3d animation package, which is able to export .x files, like Maya or 3DS MAX. The exporter is included for example in the full DX9.0 SDK in DX90SDK\Extras\Direct3D\Plug-Ins\, or you can download it separetely as DXSDK Extras from microsofts homepage. To check if you exported it correctly, you can open it with Microsofts mesh viewer, also included in the DX9 SDK at DX90SDK\Bin\DXUtils\mview.exe. Note that some other 3d packages have native support for .x file exporting, and don’t need the exporter plugin.