And Julio Gorgé has done it again: The Unofficial DirectX 9.0 Driver for the Irrlicht Engine 0.3 is released. A big ‘thank you’ goes out to him, spain and ZSgames. The files can be downloaded from the download section. In addition, I updated the link and development page.
I also want to thank all out there for sending in the ‘blackscreen’ reports, helped me a lot!

Back from holidays, looking at all the mail in my inbox, I see that there is a lot to do. I updated the shot of the week with a new screenshot from a program you can download here. It would help me to find a bug which occurrs with different gfx adapters, if you could start the .exe files in the archive and report any bugs and error/warning messages you get. There is a small .txt file included in the archive, descibing what to do. It’s the “black screen” bug I am trying to find, so its would be very nice if downloaded, ran the 4 programs and reported your results. Thanx!

The Irrlicht Engine is now able to do skeletal animations: It plays animations from Milkshape .ms3d files, which are loaded directly: No exporter is needed like in other engines. I also did some experiments on collision detection. But I am not really sure of the final interface, so I might do the next release without the long awaited collision detection feature.

The last some days I was working on the Linux port of the engine. And now its nearly complete, only some minor things like keyboard input and cursor control are missing. Everything works perfectly, you now can write your game code once, and your game will run on both Windows and Linux, without having to change one single line of code.