Irrlicht Engine

I ran across this quick library for loading FBX which might be suitable as an extension to Irrlicht:
https://github.com/ufbx/ufbx
It's a C library, but compatible with newer C++ (C++11). It might be wrappable.

I know some people use IrrAssimp, but last I tried that, stuff was broken. Maybe that ...

For future reference and downloading, here are the links to the gltf stuff:
https://github.com/jordan4ibanez/irrlicht/tree/feat/gltf-loader/source/lib/tinygltf
relevant files:
https://github.com/jordan4ibanez/irrlicht/blob/feat/gltf-loader/source/lib/tinygltf/json.hpp
https://github.com ...

Nice to see another space sim!
Someone else on the forum was doing a space sim too, but I forget their username. "gravity"?

As you may know, back in the old days, programmers tried to be more efficient because they were conscientious about the limitations of their hardware. Alas how we've been spoiled by great tech.

Yeah, I'd like GLTF also, and I've come to the conclusion that if I want it, I have to add it. Thus, I may be the one who gets around to doing it (long before CuteAlien).
More discussion here: viewtopic.php?t=52928

Most likely because of the huge pipe Unreal crams everything into. Although I wonder if there's a deliberate cap on FPS so that it can use frames for extra effects.
Irrlicht is like riding an old motorcycle: it still has more acceleration than the sports car, but it doesn't come with doors, a trunk ...

@n00bc0de
Nice projects you got there, at least from the screenshots. :)

I guess I shouldn't be too concerned with Apple since they do their own thing anyways.
I've read on the Khronos forums that it's not likely OpenGL is going to completely disappear. It's more like Vulkan is there for those who ...

Doing some browsing, I stumbled on RmlUI:
https://github.com/mikke89/RmlUi
It's basically a maintained fork of libRocket, which does UI web style (including animations). In libRocket (and presumably RmlUI), the UI data is rendered to a texture and vertice data that you then control how to render ...

Thank you for sharing this!
I haven't used it yet, but it's nice that it's available.

For 3D, the main issue with Irrlicht was that there was no proper support for modern animations. If I could understand the stupid cryptic specks for glTF, I would have probably written an importer for Irrlicht a long time ago.
I have heard complaints about irrlicht's animation system but I can't ...

I'm glad there's still interest in support for the engine. When I posted, however, I felt like the Engine didn't fit my needs. No matter what project I had in mind, Irrlicht seemed to be missing something essential that other engines seemed to have. Of course, I didn't try out all the other engines ...

In case someone wants to create a gltf loader, I have a JSON loader in my Irrlicht extensions on Github:
https://github.com/chronologicaldot/IrrExtensions

I actually considered doing this for Irrlicht since it's very useful in games. Looks like someone beat me to it. Thanks for the code!

fragMotion supports Game Studio .mdl ???? Wow! I haven't seen that format in ages.
Too bad fragMotion is only for Windows. As a Linux user, I sometimes feel like Irrlicht is still for the Windows platform all the tools were created for.

This actually reminds me of a game called Atmosphere:
https://games.digipen.edu/games/atmosphere