Irrlicht Engine

Well, one difference I've noticed with Ogre vs Irrlicht is that if your video card does not support shaders, It's much easier for Irrlicht to ignore the shaders than it is for Ogre. With Ogre your app is unusable...

I noticed on the OGRE web site that there is now a converter that will convert ...

quark,

Your comments are outside the context of my remarks. I am referring to products that are critical to the development of your game or more specifically game development engines. Basically, any product where once you have a lot of time invested it would be difficult to change directions ...

@Open Sorceror,

No

@punt,

You don't understand? I see nothing wrong with volunteering ones time but I wouldn't advise anyone to run their business with volunteers. Basically, there is nothing wrong with free products. However, relying on these products to run your business can be dangerous in ...

Generally, speaking I don't believe in Open Source; sure it would be great if we could all work on exactly what we want and we didn't have to worry about money. However, until we catch up with a Star Trek like society that is not the case. Therefore, I actually prefer products that are not free ...

Oz,

That was a typing mistake. I find Irrlicht to be newbie friendly; OGRE not so much.

Sorry

Please see my corrected post.

Electron,

That was a typing mistake. I find Irrlicht to be newbie friendly; OGRE not so much.

Sorry

PS: I edited my post above to reflect.

@sean
The reason the two communities are fairly inactive is cause no-one pays us to help I think! Still I think we are all lucky beggers, however you see it. :)

Just my 0.2c

Oz,

I agree with your comment and I think that is most likely the problem with Open Source Engines in general. Generally ...

At present, I am using the Truevision 6.5 beta. So far I have been pretty impressed and the support is far beyond anything I have ever seen. For the most part, you can have your questions answered in real-time by the developers of the product using their real-time chat.

I have to say that one of ...

Calagiri's game-specific modeler. Free version with .x export, though polys quite limited on free version. I consider ogre's restriction of certain modelers to use one of it's annoying points, though I've never used it beyond compiling osme of the samples, so i can't comment on much else about it ...

Oz (Not logged in) wrote:BTW
Dont forget to resave the X mesh with mview (A directX SDK tool) or it may not work in IrrLicht.

Why, what is the problem?

Robomaniac,

In OGRE is it even possible to get a 3DS or .X file into the engine. My understanding is that you have to use a plugin to same the model to a mesh file. However, if you use gameSpace there are no OGRE plugins?

OGRE doesn't seem to convert .x and .3ds files into OGRE's mesh format without using a modeling program plugin. Furthermore, they don't have a plugin for gameSpace?

I could be wrong?

So it looks like a release date of around September 19th, 2004.

Peter Müller wrote:

Sean Doherty wrote:Does anyone know the E.T.A. for release 0.7?

Everytime somebody asks, when the next version will release, a little cat dies

What is the release date for version 1.0? There goes a few little cats...

Does anyone know the E.T.A. for release 0.7?