Ttom sent in some demo code for or picking up items in 3d. You can download the code and demo from here. Thank you ttom!
I corrected some small typing errors in the Splitscreen tutorial causing code fragments like <s32> disappear in the code.
The external terrain renderer has now it’s own homepage, it can now be found here: zenprogramming.tripod.com. I added this link to the download section.
And finally, as you can see on the screenshot at the left, I had some time to work on 0.4.2, and built in curved surfaces. Dean P. Macri sent in code for this, and I adapted it a little bit. Looks really nice. You can find a big version of this shot in the screenshot section.

Brian Conner sent in some impressive shots of a project he is doing with the Irrlicht engine. I made one of the shot of the week, you can see it to the right. I also added the shot to the screenshot section.
If you would like to use the portal rendering method with the Irrlicht Engine, you are now able to do this: Maarten Bosma sent in an Addon to the engine, which does portal rendering. It is not yet finished and a little bit unstable and Maarten is asking for help to bring it to an end. You can find a link to it in the offtopic forum.

I added some new tutorials on the tutorials page:
If you need a physics engine in your program or game, you should take a look at the new tutorial, which was written by Matthew Couch. It shows how to integrate Tokamak into Irrlicht.
Saigumi wrote a Howto on orthogonal 3D rendering with Irrlicht. You can find it at this homepage, saigumi.net. It shows that it is quite easy to create isometric games with the engine. I added links to all his tutorials on the tutorials page too.
And as you can see, we’ve got a new shot of the week. I stole it from Shane Parker’s venom page. It shows a scene created with venom (a phyton binding using Irrlicht) with only 13 lines of phyton code.
And last but not least: There are a lot of new game projects using the Irrlicht engine: “Project 84 Shadows of the past” made by Carlos Jose Ortiz and his team, a fps/RGP game, located at sls.webcindario.com. “Raptor“, which will be a remake of the cool game by Cygnus/Apogee, there is already a small demo waiting for you at the raptor homepage. “Heartland” by saigumi and pharoseer, which uses the orthogonal 3D technique described in the new tutorial. You can find some nice screenshots of the game on the homepage of heartland. In addition, I added links to the already mentioned projects “Monsoon” and “The Scout“.