Irrlicht Engine

CuteAlien wrote: Sat Jul 18, 2026 10:13 pm Nice, will it be open source?

I'm planning on an LGPL2 license, something you can link to in commercial apps but the main library would remain free software.

I've been hard at work lately creating a UI framework that can be strapped onto any 3D engine you prefer, and of course, the very first one I bridged to is Irrlicht, which was quite easy.

https://www.pasteboard.co/kq06mZhDps32.png
https://www.pasteboard.co/kq06mZhDps32.png
(Note to self: This ...

I seem to recall there was a video player that someone created with Irrlicht, but that was quite some time ago and a number of versions of Irrlicht ago. Maybe Irrlicht 1.7? If you can find their code, you might be able to rehack and reintegrate it with Irrlicht. But alas, I'm sorry I don't have the ...

I don't suppose this code was ever added to the trunk. Pity considering that it's useful, but I recall it may have only worked with the software drivers because they use ImagePresenter.
Incidentally, I wonder if anyone tried to get this to work with Qt...

FastGLTF might be a better alternative than TinyGLTF. Hopefully it would support animations better than the latter.
https://fastgltf.readthedocs.io/

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 ...