Kjapi officially released!

afecelis · Post by **afecelis** » Thu May 19, 2005 12:49 pm

yup, it's finally an official release. free for non-commercial use. Great engine BTW.

http://www.kjapi.com/

r2d2 · Post by **r2d2** » Thu May 19, 2005 3:39 pm

It's a nice OOP style Engine... The only thing which is not so good is that it often takes several months till they release a new version. Let's hope that they will speed up development now.

stodge · Post by **stodge** » Thu May 19, 2005 6:37 pm

Does this use Irrlicht?

afecelis · Post by **afecelis** » Thu May 19, 2005 7:55 pm

no! it's a separate engine. But Irrlicht is getting very close graphically to it

katoun · Post by **katoun** » Fri May 20, 2005 9:36 pm

Nice Engine.
But I would realy like more an IrrNature

Irrlicht has TerrainSceneNode.
Well we need:
-I very good space partitioning(PVS,bla bla bla.)
-fast rendering for trees(with LOD)
-grass with LOD
-my new water (with LOD)
-new water that simulater waves created by wind(with LOD)
-LOD for every mesh(SceneNode)

What the hell

we need LOD

and nothing more

Fast culling.....

MastaKilla · Post by **MastaKilla** » Sat May 21, 2005 2:14 am

It looks nice, I love the offset bumpmapping, can Irrlicht do that or will it be able to soon?

afecelis · Post by **afecelis** » Sat May 21, 2005 2:21 am

Irrlicht does bump mapping and 0.10 will do parallax mapping!

AlexL · Post by **AlexL** » Sat May 21, 2005 4:51 pm

I have been in the kjAPI beta testing program since the very early stages, and I have to say it's a very wonderful engine. It's great to hear that someone has lisenced the engine for a commercial project, as now they have more insentive to release updates to the engine and it's tools. But, I am still hooked with Irrlicht as it's open source, and thus I can release and sell projects without having to pay a fee

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat May 21, 2005 6:00 pm

afecelis wrote:Irrlicht does bump mapping and 0.10 will do parallax mapping!

parallax mapping = offset bumpmapping

i would like better support for bumpmaps in general... for now only models can use them! have you ever tried to bumpmap a model with several tiling textures like a complete level? i think its not possible right now

and what we need most: better linux support! (only a question: why is the water non-transparent in linux and why do the waves move only every sec instead of every frame?)