Irrlicht Engine

Not to be to presumptuous here, but I'm wondering if you really understand what a game engine truly is... it's nothing more than a collection of libraries (usually) which handle different aspects of the "game" being run.

The question is, what features do you need?

Irrlicht is a rendering engine ...

I want the widest card support can get for this.

To be clear, the project is not shader intensive, but they play an integral role in the asthetic I'm shooting for, which is an odd blend of NPR techniques.

Obviously, I'll read from the card during execution and shut off shaders for those with non ...

This is going to take more research on my part, but I'll post my results when find the time to try this.

Here's the possible pipeline:

Rendermonkey -> HLSL -> DX Assembly -> OpenGL Assembly

Got this idea when I realized that this tool was available from Nvidia.

[Edit]

Now that I look again, I ...

I'm definitely looking to convert to OpenGL assembly (ARB_vertex_program & ARB_fragment_program respectively).

Unfortunately, there don't appear to be any tools available to convert GLSL -> assembly... which sucks since I really need the cross-platform capabilities of OpenGL.

Ironically, I could ...

Yes.

Greetings fellow Irrlicht(ers?).

First let me say that I've been around the block once or twice with numerous game and rendering enignes and Irrlicht just plain knocks the socks off anything I've used to date! =)

On to the point:

I have a very simple shader, consisting of a vert and fragment ...