Irrlicht 1.3

exal · Post by **exal** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 6:05 am

Hi

Just thought it was in place with a comment on the 1.3.

If you do break your Api I think you should go for version 2.0. Normally stepping a minor (in a mature application 1.0 ->) I would expect the Api to hold steady. Maybe with new Api function names for additions and improvements.

Great work otherwise!

Phant0m51 · Post by **Phant0m51** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 6:45 am

I voted no because even though there were API changes, nothing more than simply changing a few lines of code would fix the issues (not even adding any new lines). And 90% of the stuff that was released were bug fixes and small changes in code. I think the 'big' release (2.0) should be after Luke has finished his new animation system, DX10 compatibility (hopefully), and maybe more big stuff like a change in the Scene Manager to allow multiple render targets without affecting animations.

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:26 am

Since Irrlicht is still heavily changing underneath and almost every release brings some API breaking changes we use the minor level to distinguish all moderate improvements, while major level changes are really tremendous changes which require a lot of changes to user code as well. If we would provide a release with no API breaking chanes (except for additions) it would get a patch level, i.e. 1.3.x with x>0.

liger13 · Post by **liger13** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:54 pm

i voted no.. because there wasnt a very big structure change in the code.

CuteAlien · Post by **CuteAlien** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 1:49 am

I voted "yes", because we certainly all know the higher the version number the better the engine will be. Just imagine the power of an Irrlicht 10.3!

BlindSide · Post by **BlindSide** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:48 am

A big NO, mostly because the work wasnt carried out by Niko and since irrlicht is his project mostly a big step should incorporate atleast some of his work. Hybrid and Bitplane are awesome guys, (And any others i dont know about) But for some reason this release didnt work out as planned I dont think, and alot of people, me included, are sticking with 1.2 to avoid the apparent trouble and errors.

roxaz · Post by **roxaz** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 1:31 pm

i voted for NO because API changes were too small to get nervous about this. opengl messed up for me (garbage stuff in corners of skybox) but it doesnt matter since i can use dx9.0

belfegor · Post by **belfegor** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 11:07 am

I voted YES because i am satisfied greatly with new enchantments to
".b3d" format. My FPS jumps up about +80% higher with my bones animated humanoid.

CuteAlien wrote:I voted "yes", because we certainly all know the higher the version number the better the engine will be. Just imagine the power of an Irrlicht 10.3!

I agree but i am afraid that they might change it from "Open Source" to "pay 300$ for software" when that version comes out.

roxaz · Post by **roxaz** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 5:07 pm

300$ is not a problem if you saw this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O_h6N2Qms4

Irrlicht Engine

Irrlicht 1.3

Do you think 2.0 would have been more appropriet?

Irrlicht 1.3