Irrlicht Engine

Hm, CAnimSprite.lua didn't do anything when I ran it. No window, no nothing.

I've been messing around with this stuff so I can start on a simple demo for my game and Irrlua looks really cool! No libraries, no includes! No compiling! I can just use Notepad++ and the command line. It looks pretty good to me. What's the down side of using Irrlua? Am I missing out on anything? W...

I'm going to go with Dev-C++. It's much simpler and I can actually get the tutorial to compile.

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You mentioned Quake, that really is great option if all you want to do is a simple FPS. Download one of the Quake 1, 2 or 3 engines and build a game from there. There's also Cube. Those are already built and even have multiplayer support built in. That requires the least amount of code or none at al...

Since you said for windows.. I use Visual C++ Express, the temporarily free version of it. It is free forever, but only available to get for a limited time. The IDE and compiler are commercial quality, but don't expect to run it in linux. I've heard of code blocks as well, which supposedly has a go...

For me the best IDE is DEV-C++ whith Ming-gw because is fully supported by Irrlicht and it is open-source. :D Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check it out. Eclipse with Cygwin is too big and complicated a mess (at least for this newb). I see that Dev-C++ already has the compiler all set up and ...

Yes, I already read those and attempted to follow them. They were of limited help and they certainly aren't helping with the errors I'm getting.

No, sorry. I wasn't aware that I'd start a flamewar. It was an innocent question. I'd like a straight answer but it doesn't look like I'm going to get one.

What is the best for working with Irrlicht and running on Windows that is also free? Are there easy to follow tutorials for setting it up? If so, where?

I'm very new to programming (except for two weeks I spent trying to learn Java) so please forgive me if this is ridiculously obvious to you. I'm using Cygwin and Eclipse (because they are free as in beer) on Windows XP sp2. I followed the "Hello World!" tutorial. I have also read through a...