Scene Descrption Language?

[Atom]

HI All,

Does Irrlicht have a scene description language like Lux, Yafaray or other open source render engines?

I am looking to write an ascii exporter to use Irrlicht to render 3D scenes from Houdini.

Does Irrlicht work that way?

Thanks

[mongoose7]

Nope. Irrlicht is a realtime renderer. Yafaray, for example, is ray-tracer. To explain the difference, when you open Blender, what you see is real-time rendering. If you run Yafaray (I guess), you get an image that can take seconds or longer to complete. But realtime rendering must complete in a fraction of a second.

[CuteAlien]

Your best chance in many cases is to use Collada which is mostly supported by Irrlicht.
Irrlicht has an .irr format, but it's not really documented.