Irrlicht Engine

Christmas is coming!




By the way, did you see this game?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B6oqSAwpe4

Indeed it is, and it feels like forever since I worked with irrlicht. *sigh* I miss my darling. X)

I know there are a few people from Bavaria, as well from Germany. In the company where I work, we need to hire two part-time (20 hours a week) PHP developers based in Munich. Here is the job offer: http://bit.ly/1a38LiV

If you know somebody who would be interested, let me know or send him/her the link, please We do not need any formal education in that field, so anybody who just can do things parctically will fit.

Thanks!

Edit: also need Linux sysadmins: http://bit.ly/1cVQRiU

Since this is fairly off-topic, I'll post it here

https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... ured&hl=en

It's an Android GPU fractal explorer I created as a school assignment. However, it does not use Irrlicht at all, so that's why it's off-topic. I figured maybe someone would be interested in checking it out had somebody told them about it

I have a few improvements planned for it in the (hopefully) near future, but any constructive criticism is very much welcome (especially since this my first android app).

@ent1ty - Looks good. Better than my junk. Of course, recently I've spent WAY more time in Java, particularly trying to make 3D fractals. I exported some fractals from an existing fractal program to Povray and got some... minorly satisfying results.

Hey that looks pretty cool, have you tried with more/different shapes? Also I checked out Povray, looks interesting, I was hoping to implement a ray tracer myself one day as well

Warum ist der Knödel rund?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es0Ybl11lN8

We now have irc stats again: http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xkrupick/ircstats/
As CuteAlien correctly pointed out, the NSA may very well thrive off them, so don't go to #irrlicht if you're a terrorist... Or a "hacker", posting url links and such.

As for the rest of you, come join us in the channel!

P. S.: I'm hoping to obtain older logs for the stats, ping me in #irrlicht if you have any

Yes, terrorists please join #irrlicht-terrorist instead which is less monitored and won't be found by the NSA!

In the cubicles representin' for my Java homieeeeees!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-Cr0EWwaTk

Anyone else hear of the D programming language? I read that it's similar to C++ and combines the benefits of higher-level languages with the speed of C++ because it compiles. While it's not ideal for the front-end of a website, it's been used for the back-end of facebook.

Article I read: http://www.wired.com/2014/07/d-programming-language/
Official website: http://dlang.org/

What do you guys think?

Hang around https://news.ycombinator.com/ or reddit.com/r/programming or reddit.com/r/cpp and you'll run into posts about D every few weeks :-) Walter Bright (the D author) and Alexandrescu (the standard library developer for D and the guy evangelizing it at Facebook) constantly write and answer posts about D in those forums. I've been somewhat interested in it already for a few years, but haven't found a project yet to use it (problem is that it's so close to c++ that I always use that for my projects as I know it already well).

CuteAlien wrote:Hang around https://news.ycombinator.com/

-_- I knew I should have read that site more often and didn't. *sigh* Now I feel behind the times...

CuteAlien wrote:(problem is that it's so close to c++ that I always use that for my projects as I know it already well).

I was thinking that too. There is some convenient syntax sugar, but it doesn't look like it takes full advantage of the interpreted language quirks like Python's inline for-loops and such. You'd know about it more than I would, obviously. Do you think it has potential other similar languages don't or is it just another lang?

No idea about it's potential. I'm pretty sure it would allow for faster development than c++ if it had all the libs and IDE support which c++ has. Which it hasn't so far. And personally I dislike that they made their standard library depend on garbage collection. But I've heard they work on a version which no longer does that. Before they get there it's hard to use it for serious games., otherwise one has to write own core-libraries like Irrlicht did back in the times for c++ (which was a rather debatable choice especially in hindsight).

Time to revive the Tapeworm!