Irrlicht Engine

You Really need CEGUI (Crazy Eddies GUI) SDK and CEGUI Layout Editor.
CEGUI is specifically designed for "in game GUI" like LifeBar,HealthIndicator,
,TotalScore et cetera . You just need to design your GUI in the CEGUI layout editor.
Many game libraries like OGRE have there whole model so defined so ...

VC Toolkit 2003 7.1 command line compiler(around 27 MBs) is free and produces highly optimized and compact code for irrlicht .

Then install Codeblocks IDE latest version(around 3 MBs) . Codeblocks will automatically detect your VC compiler(you can have MinGW or DMC).Unzip Irrlicht so that you get ...

No , (atleast i didnt try this , and dont think it is feasible)

You can try making one base character(for ur project) , then to make another character just delete that mesh and replace it with another Mesh, so you change only Mesh characteristics and Armature remains intact.

However , i assume ...

There'll never be a 3ds max version for linux (unless a total rewrite of the program takes place, which shall never occur).
Yes , its quite difficult to make 3dsmax 8 work on Linux.
But, currently i can play Quake 3 Arena reasonably well on SuSE 10 through
Wine.(i think its even possible is ...

Because in Irricht, the graphics rendering quality is worse than Ogre, I just want to use the graphic redering part if possible.

I dont think so. Because be it OGRE or Irrlicht , both are in a sense
OpenGL and directX wrappers to make life of productive programmers easy.
So that we dont have to ...

VC Toolkit 2003 7.1 command line compiler(around 27 MBs) is free and produces highly optimized and compact code for irrlicht . Then install Codeblocks IDE latest version(around 3 MBs) . Codeblocks will automatically detect your VC compiler.Unzip Irrlicht so that you get C:\Irrlicht directory ...

Hi !
I am new to Shaders .I just started learning nVIDIA's Cg Shader language . But in the documentation of Irrlicht only GLSL and HLSL are written.
Is anybody using Cg(C for Graphics) with Irrlicht ?