Welcome to the Irrlicht Engine
01-Jun-04New SotW & 0.7 development
I uploaded a new shot of the week, which shows a scene created by afecelis. You can find more informations in the Irrlicht engine forum in this thread. |
09-May-04More projects using Irrlicht
If you are new to Irrlicht, there is a very objective article available on freshmeat.net, giving a short overview about the engine. It was written by Ian Gowen and also comments my rusty english, which I commented in return. 😉
I also replaced the lemon team icon with a newer one. I chose the new shot of the month from a posting by s32_weaselType, it is a first person shooter he is working on. |
12-Apr-04Game Maker .DLL && Updates
Game Maker is a freeware tool for making it easy to create games. It seems to target at non-programmers, but I think this tool is also useful for quick prototyping. Xception now created a plugin .DLL for GameMaker, which makes it possible to use the Irrlicht Engine in this tool and to create 3d games with it. |
27-Mar-04Physic engine integration tutorials
Thomas Suter updated his Irrlicht Engine ODE tutorial to make it work with the new engine version. The irrlicht.sf.net copy of this tutorial is now updated too. Also, there is a completely new external tutorial available: Mercior wrote one, showing how to use Irrlicht with a new physics engine named ‘newton game dynamics’. |
17-Mar-04Doc upload and new IotM
Too late as the tradition demands, I uploaded now the documentation files of Irrlicht 0.6. Happy browsing. 🙂 |
14-Mar-04Happy birthday Irrlicht Engine!
Exactly 365 days ago, the first version of the Irrlicht Engine (0.1) was released. This means, the Irrlicht Engine today celebrates its first birthday. Time for some statistics:
As you can see, the engine is very young, compared to other open source 3d engines, but it is evolving rapidly.
Thanks to all users and supporters of the engine! All this would not be possible without you. Lets go on, for the next release. 🙂 |
09-Mar-04Irrlicht 0.6 released!
Today, I released Irrlicht 0.6. The new SDK can be downloaded from the download page. You might consider upgrading to the new version, if you need something from this list:
A detailed description of all changes can be read in changes.txt. I also uploaded the new tutorial to this webpage, where it can be read online. |
06-Feb-04Fog
During the last days I was adding some missing features to the engine. In fact, I had a long list with lots of user requests. One of the most basic missing features was fog. It was not very difficult to add, took me about 20 minutes to update the D3D and OpenGL renderer. In 0.5 it will be possible to choose between pixel and vertex, exponential and linear fog, and also range based vertex fog is supported. You can see the result at the left. |
03-Feb-04GUI Enhancements & 3D Game Editor
As you can see at the screenshot on the left, I am currently working on huge improvements of Irrlicht’s user interface environment. I already fixed lots of API problems and made it easier to use. And I added new widgets:
These will be included in the next release, hope you’ll find it useful. I added the screenshot to the screenshot page. |
31-Jan-04Email problem & updates
I am constantly getting more emails. Besides about 150 spam mails, there are also 5-10 mails from Irrlicht Engine users every day. I am using some very agressive configured spam scanners to get rid of the spam, and in this way some of real mails might get lost. I am trying to answer each mail sent to me, and this is consuming a lot of time. So if you only have a basic question, consider posting it into the forum, you might get an answer more quickly.
And last, but not least: I added a link to a new project of keless: IrrLichtRPG – Erring Light. I updated other parts of the link page too, for example the ICE Framework now has a new icon. |