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Welcome to the Irrlicht Engine
The Irrlicht Engine is an open source realtime 3D engine written in C++. It is cross-platform, using D3D, OpenGL and its own software renderers. OpenGL-ES2 and WebGL renderers are also in development. It is a stable library which has been worked on for nearly 2 decades. We've got a huge community and Irrlicht is used by hobbyists and professional companies alike. You can find enhancements for it all over the web, like alternative terrain renderers, portal renderers, exporters, world layers, tutorials, editors, language bindings and so on.
And best of all: It's completely free.
05-Jun-12Monthly Screenshot Contest – May 2012
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Here is the winner of the Screenshot of the Month contest for May 2012: Squisher with Ships MMO. |
08-May-12Monthly Screenshot Contest – April 2012
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Here is the winner of the Screenshot of the Month contest for April 2012: Escen with Overheat. While the competition submissions were regarded as very high quality, Escen won with an impressive percentage of the votes: 64%. As always, you can find the screenshot and all contestants in the forum and the gallery. |
05-Apr-12Monthly Screenshot Contest – March 2012
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Here is the winner of the Screenshot of the Month contest for March 2012: Nikoomba with Rin’s Quest. Its a nice and retro block style game. As always, you can find the screenshot and all contestants in the forum and the gallery. |
06-Mar-12Monthly Screenshot Contest – February 2012
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Here are the winners of the Screenshot of the Month contest for February 2012: mel with PSM, the Perspective Shadow Mapping algorithm and Auria with SuperTuxKart: The Zen Garden Pond. Like last month, two winners and a close third. As always, you can find the screenshots and all contestants in the forum and the gallery. The previous winners were lost in the news posts, so here are they again, the winners for January are desmoines with the Gooli Game and RdR with The Crater. |
23-Feb-12Irrlicht 1.7.3 released!
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We just released Irrlicht version 1.7.3. This version contains numerous bug fixes and will hopefully be the last update before 1.8. All users which are using an 1.7 Irrlicht version should update to this version for the best experience. See changes.txt in the SDK for a complete list of changes. Happy downloading! |
05-Jan-12New website!
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Irrlicht’s website is now powered by WordPress, which means we don’t need to edit the raw HTML each time someone (usually Christian or Niko) posts a news update. Now that any of the devs can post news and edit pages without risk of destroying the site, you should see lots more news updates! You can now use a feed reader to keep an eye on Irrlicht releases and/or news, and chat with the team and other users right here on the site. Enjoy! |
24-Nov-11Irrlicht beginners book completed!
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Some of you might have been waiting for this. Johannes Stein and Aung Sithu Kyaw have completed The Irrlicht beginner book from Packt Publishing. Take a look if you need a kickstart for your Irrlicht development. |
29-Jun-11Forum upgrade installed
29-Jun-11Irrlicht .NET wrapper available
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There is a new Irrlicht.NET wrapper available. It makes it possible to use Irrlicht from any .NET language like C# or VisualBasic.NET. It is implemented in C# and supports Irrlicht 1.7.2. |
09-Feb-11CopperCube 2.2.3 released
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CopperCube, the editor which can be used for free by irrlicht users (it exports to .irr scenes even if the trial period is over) has been released in version 2.2.3, and includes now many new improvements to the 3D editing tools. Also, its free WebGL library now resembles a bit more the Irrlicht API. |