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Welcome to the Irrlicht Engine
The Irrlicht Engine is an open source realtime 3D engine written in C++. It is cross-platform, using D3D, OpenGL and its own software renderers. OpenGL-ES2 and WebGL renderers are also in development. It is a stable library which has been worked on for nearly 2 decades. We've got a huge community and Irrlicht is used by hobbyists and professional companies alike. You can find enhancements for it all over the web, like alternative terrain renderers, portal renderers, exporters, world layers, tutorials, editors, language bindings and so on.
And best of all: It's completely free.
18-Sep-03Irrlicht Engine 0.4.1 released!
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I released version 0.4.1 today. It comes as non-sdk-release, which means that there are no examples, media, tools and tutorials in it. And there are no very big changes, just some little new features and lot of bug fixes. Here is a short overview:
For detailed descriptions, take a look at changes.txt. You can find a link to the release in the download section. I also updated the author page with a new credit, and added a new screenshot showing new gui elements in action. |
14-Sep-03New SotW and 0.4.1 development
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I am currently working on a new release (0.4.1), already implemented are: Faster input event processing, compressed TGA loading (thanks to Jon Pry), collision helper methods, more GUI elements, version checking, refactored event receiver system, bug fixes and a lot more. I think 0.4.1 will be out next week, so stay tuned. |
08-Sep-03Terrain renderer
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Knightoflight wrote a terrain renderer for the irrlicht engine and is asking for help to extend it. You can contact him using the forum. Download the renderer from the download section. |
06-Sep-03Irrlicht and Codewarrior
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There is a new tutorial written by André Simon, which describes how to create applications using the Irrlicht Engine with Metrowerks CodeWarrior. Thus, now 5 IDEs are supported: The last 3 versions of Microsoft Visual Studio, Bloodshed DevC++ and Metrowerks Codewarrior. |
04-Sep-03Irrlicht Engine 0.4 released!
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A new version of the engine has been released. Download it from the download page. There are more new features and changes in the 0.4 version of the engine than in any other release before. The highlights are:
For a detailed description of all changes take a look at the changes.txt file. I uploaded some new screenshots of the new version into the screenshot area, the two new tutorials into the tutorial section and the development status on the development page. In addition, there is a new shot of the week, showing a terrain renderer created by knighttoflight. |
27-Aug-03New SotW & sourceforge issues
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Again I uploaded a new shot of the week. It has nothing to do with the current development, it simply looks cool. It is not possible to make a shot of the now implemented collision detection and response, and as long as nobody sends me screenshots of his project with the engine, I’ll have to upload my own shots. 🙂 The forum seems to work well, and the sourceforge server problems also other sourceforge sites are encountering are getting better. I added a link to saigumi.net on the link page. |
22-Aug-03New forum
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Because of a user request, I set up a new forum. I chose a phpBB2 Forum with a Irrlicht-style adapted VB2 skin, hope you like it. This new forum will replace the sourceforge forum, so it would be really nice if you could go there, check it out, and post some messages into it. Also, it does not look nice as empty as it is, so post as much as you can. 🙂 |
20-Aug-03Better picking and collision detection
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As you can see in the screenshot on the left, picking now works really good. Picking is already 100% implemented and I am currently working on collision detection and response. I hope it will be possible to go through a 3d map like in first person shooters in the next release. I updated the development page for you to be able to watch the progress of version 0.4. |
15-Aug-03New shot of the week
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I uploaded a new shot of the week, again showing the particle system. Yesterday, I played around with stencil shadows and added the option to choose between ZFail and ZPass method, to be able to move the camera into shadow volumes without errors. This will be included in the next release of the engine. |
12-Aug-03New Project using the Irrlicht Engine
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A new game called ‘The ReShock Project‘ using the Irrlicht Engine is being created by Christian Lins. It is a Fan-Fiction game to System Shock 2. Find more information on the games website, which now is linked from our link page. |