Irrlicht Engine

Thanks for all your help... I have Vis Studio pro so that should bring the cost down.. What I mean when I said compiler is this (.map to .bsp or .x to .pak3) or something like that.

I really need to know the tools to get me started on this great quest.

tools I need would be(sites to where I can find these would be great)
--a map maker
--a model maker
--a skinner
--a compiler for all of these.

I am looking for the cheapest and easiest to learn. Thanks for your help.

yea I'm interested in this as well but if you need to set up your IDE there is a guide to set it up. its here just keep looking...

I'm just wanting to load a CS map and walk through it but I don't know the code for it (its bsp) how would I code it to load bsp from the bsp file itself? its a counterstrike map so any help will be nice. The quake help shows how to load the pk3 I don't want that but yea...thanks for your replys

Thanks It works now now to find some kick a$$ models for this.

yea I'm new to this engine and VB C++ 6.0 but this is my problem. I tried to compile and build helloworld.cpp and VB said no warn or errors. but when I try to run the program I get this...This application has failed to start because Irrlicht.dll was not found. Re-intalling the application may fix ...