Irrlicht Engine

I know this thread is a few days old, but I've been trying to get blindside's method to work. I can't get it to work quite right. I put it into the 2d demo that comes with Irrlicht and tried it out. Here's what I did:

I added

CSprite mySprite;

mySprite.getMaterial().setTexture(0, driver ...

Never would have guessed it would be that simple...Wow this is one easy engine.

I saw in the demo that comes with Irrlicht a few minutes after I posted that it can use zip files with the method addZipFileArchive. But I'm a bit confused as to how it's used. The file has two jpeg's, but neither are referenced in the demo program. Note that I'm not talking about loading a 3D map ...

I don't know how many here are familiar with Allegro, but it has a nifty feature: It has built-in support for datafiles so users can store graphics, fonts, sounds, etc. in a single data file so files aren't thrown everywhere. I really like Irrilcht but the only data files that Irrlicht supports as ...