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[-LeetGamer-]

Can you use Irrlicht to make online games, if so does it costs money to hosts servers, and where would I go about learning this.

[Lonesome Ducky]

Yes, of course you can, Irrlicht is only a graphics engine. Just get a network library and you should be good to go. As for learning, just look up some tutorials on whatever network library you choose. Now, to me this sounds like you want to make an MMO, and while I say good luck, I also say it's doomed to fail

[Virion]

Yes, of course you can, Irrlicht is only a graphics engine. Just get a network library and you should be good to go. As for learning, just look up some tutorials on whatever network library you choose. Now, to me this sounds like you want to make an MMO, and while I say good luck, I also say it's doomed to fail

what lonesome ducky said is true. the workload for an MMO (even the simplest one) is huge and the whole process is much complicated than single player game.

[grumpymonkey]

wow he hasn't even mentioned the word MMO yet and there are already two members putting him down
well, yeah...don't make those...

irrlicht just puts a picture on the screen, and you tell it what picture to put. Combine that with a networking library and you can put nodes at positions sent from a server

some networking libraries you should look up:
winsock
raknet

and some random ones I've never heard of that I just found on google:
http://mikhailberis.github.com/cpp-netlib/
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html

[Virion]

Can you use Irrlicht to make online games, if so does it costs money to hosts servers, and where would I go about learning this.

saw the plural terms there? i think its MMO