Irrlicht Engine

I"m working on a space sim too still lurks around every once in a while.

Nice to see a fellow space explore. If you need any help with solar system scale rendering and simulation hit me up I'd be happy to help if you need.

Yes I needed a lot of Dx10 and later features as well as instancing.

My own project is based on the shader pipeline branch and is still close enough to irrlicht that porting back is not an absolute impossibility. If there is an interest for it. I would be glad to help port back features from my ...

An other thing that might not have helped is that alot of the non core members that contributed from times to times required features that are not even in the irrlicht roadmap for our own projects.


I know of at least the BAW team and My self that forked away from irrlicht

There is an updated and more recent version of the fork but work on is postponed until irrlicht 2.0

If you are using ogl devsh fork has 3d texture and 2d arrays
if you are using dx i there is a version of the shader pipeline branch that has 3d texture and 2d arrays support

Another thing that will need a sure revamp is the material systems, the new API are stateless, now the settings are stored on objects that may change at runtime, thus the materals can no longer be simple structures, or perhaps, they would serve only as a frontend to a more complex "behind the ...

the dark area are the hydrogen gas light absorption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_nebula

also there was no z sorting on the clouds when i took that screen shot but the picture are still incredibly great so i could not resist posting them

WIP procedural nebula

good to know
however I'm stuck on the FVF for now to many features are missing from the trunk i cannot jump back

Also currently there is no way to set the value of the zbuffer it always clear to 0.

this would be usefull tor everse the zbuffer

somewhat like with the dx11 driver if you compile shaders with dx9 compatibility then they will run fine in dx11 and 12.


Also is there a repo for the said vulkan dx12 experimentations?

I'm stranded in the valley of a far far distant moon

Usual from my space engine apply everything you see you can run in a straight line to

Is there anything new on this?

because currently it seem like i'm stranded on on an increasingly diverging version of irrlicht

For my part dx11 and instancing are both missing from the trunk so until both are ported i'm stuck on the shader-pipeline

it depends highly on what you are doing i'm so damn cpu limited it's ridiculous