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Welcome to the Irrlicht Engine
The Irrlicht Engine is an open source high performance realtime 3D engine written in C++. It is completely cross-platform, using D3D, OpenGL and its own software renderers, and has all of the state-of-the-art features which can be found in commercial 3d engines.
We've got a huge active community, and there are lots of projects in development that use the engine. You can find enhancements for Irrlicht all over the web, like alternative terrain renderers, portal renderers, exporters, world layers, tutorials, editors, language bindings for java, perl, ruby, basic, python, lua, and so on. And best of all: It's completely free.
27-Feb-15Sci-Fi racer coded with Irrlicht got open sourced
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The complete source code for the Sci-Fi racer H-Craft Championship is now availabe at irrgheist.com/hcraftsource. |
22-Feb-15IRR RPG Builder release alpha 0.31
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IrrRPG Builder is a simple and powerful tool designed to help people new to programming and/or players who want to create RPG games without advanced knowledge in programming languages. |
16-Dec-13Irrlicht 1.8.1 makefile version number fix
08-Dec-13Monthly Screenshot Contest – November 2013
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Here is the winner of the Screenshot of the Month contest for November: SteffL with his “Star Sonata 2″ screenshot. As always, you can find the screenshot and all contestants in the forum and the gallery. |
20-Nov-13Irrlicht 1.8.1 released
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Irrlicht version 1.8.1 is out. This is a bugfix release. It improves stability and speed and doesn’t change interfaces. For discussions about it please check this forum thread. Happy downloading! |
07-Sep-13Monthly Screenshot Contest – August 2013
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Here is the winner of the Screenshot of the Month contest for August: Suvi with her ”Gekkeiju Online” screenshot. As always, you can find the screenshot and all contestants in the forum and the gallery. |
06-Jul-13Monthly Screenshot Contest – June 2013
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Here is the winner of the Screenshot of the Month contest for June: Sodandk with his ”’Build A World – Sodan Design” screenshot. As always, you can find the screenshot and all contestants in the forum and the gallery. |
21-May-13Move of Irrlicht repository and SF update
10-May-13Monthly Screenshot Contest – April 2013
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Here is the winner of the Screenshot of the Month contest for April: Zprg with his ”’Simple little logolike interpreter for voxelgraphics” screenshot. As always, you can find the screenshot and all contestants in the forum and the gallery. |





