Irrlicht Engine

I want to know what a game engine contains? what it does? I don't know, lol. Does it contain the libraries that have pre defined functios and classes so you don't have to write your own physics calculations and all the other stuff?

Man I feel like the biggest n00b, lol.

You know us noobs so well

Thanks, I'll look again. I check wiki on game engines, just wanted more places than one

Anyone have a good, up to date, website or article that describes a game engine in detail? Before I start messing with this I want to understand a game engine and whats inside of it well.

Thanks!

the include paths for direct x? I did have it updated to 9 like the previous post told me... except i'm sure it was at 9 since just bought my laptop a week ago. Anyways, let me know what to do next

weird no one else has had this problem!

Thanks for the quick responses!!

EDIT: Nevermind.... it didn't work! haha. It still gives me the error that it can't open 'd3dx9tex.h' 'd3dx9shader.h' and 'd3d8.h' because it just isn't there.

what do the DX8 and 9 compilation options do? And how difficult is it to install them?

When I try to run the Demo in example I ge this:
Error 1 fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'd3dx9tex.h' : No such file or directory c:\Users\PaNDa\Downloads\irrlicht-1.5\irrlicht-1.5\source\Irrlicht\ CD3D9Texture.cpp 13 Irrlicht
Error 2 fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file ...