What are the plans for Irrlicht 1.8 and further?

ent1ty · Post by **ent1ty** » Fri Apr 09, 2010 5:47 pm

I think that at the moment, the thing that irrlicht lacks the most is pixel lighting shader for all materials.
But it would be nice to have also some new shadows system. The current one is from v 0.2 or so.

Insomniacp · Post by **Insomniacp** » Fri Apr 09, 2010 6:00 pm

I believe Blindside is planning on putting XEffects into the engine so that should improve shadows and lighting

ent1ty · Post by **ent1ty** » Fri Apr 09, 2010 6:17 pm

Then I hope that he will finally implement normal point lights

When talking about this, Sudi's deferred rendering ain't bad too, is it? It just needs shadows also for point lights. And some more options, like disabling VSM and disabling shadows for some objects etc.

Insomniacp · Post by **Insomniacp** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 4:13 am

yeah his looked good as well sadly i know next to nothing about shaders and won't until I need to start adding them

. That being said I can't argue what looks good and doesn't but the screen shots were nice

ent1ty · Post by **ent1ty** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 6:41 am

Deferred lighting is used commonly in today's professional games, so the technique is probably a good one. The other question is optimization though.

etal2009 · Post by **etal2009** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 2:59 am

I would like to see included per pixel shaders or post processing.

Lonesome Ducky · Post by **Lonesome Ducky** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 3:20 am

etal2009 wrote:I would like to see included per pixel shaders or post processing.

Irrlicht does have included normal mapping and parralax mapping shaders. It's quite trivial to implement your own if those aren't enough for you.

sudi · Post by **sudi** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 1:16 pm

ent1ty wrote:Then I hope that he will finally implement normal point lights
When talking about this, Sudi's deferred rendering ain't bad too, is it? It just needs shadows also for point lights. And some more options, like disabling VSM and disabling shadows for some objects etc.

Shadows for pointlights are comming

What else do you need. just post it in my thread. Now my exams are over and i have some time again to work on it.
btw. performance actually increased alot...dunno if i uploaded that version though.

Mel · Post by **Mel** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 5:32 pm

I guess it is not for the 1.8 because it would be pretty large, but i think it would be great that among the utilities of irrlicht, there was included a lightmapper.

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 11:37 pm

Mel wrote:...there was included a lightmapper.

i wish irrlicht would bake lightmap by itself.

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 9:25 am

A render engine is usually not supposed to do the content creation stuff as well. So let's better concentrate on the render side first. irrEdit does something like that, ask there for additional features towards content creation.

oginnam · Post by **oginnam** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 12:37 pm

... Syndey need cosmetic surgery

thespecial1 · Post by **thespecial1** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 4:42 pm

will GL_EXT_texture3D support be added in any future versions??

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 9:36 pm

Yes, of course.

gingerheadman · Post by **gingerheadman** » Mon May 03, 2010 3:02 pm

The top things I'd like to see in Irrlicht 1.8 are specular mapping, HDR rendering, decals, and post process effects like colour balance, bloom, motion blur, etc.

I know most of those things I listed aren't too tricky to implement yourself as long as you know a bit about shaders, but it would be really good if they were actually included in Irrlicht.