Irrlicht Engine - A free open source 3d engine

Team
This is the team behind the Irrlicht Engine. We are developing the Irrlicht Engine and managing the Irrlicht Community, the websites, the documentation, the wiki and a lot more in our free time. And we don't get any money for this. If you would like to join the team, please take a look at the FAQ entry.

If you have any questions regarding the use of the engine, please post them into the forum. Niko is also running a blog, where he is posting development news of the engine from time to time too.
If you have further questions, send the team members an email. They are getting lots of mails so we would appreciate if you would post your questions into the forum first. But don't wait to send niko links of related projects or additions and contributions. He is trying to answer mails as fast as he can. So if you didn't get an answer within a week, it may have been identified as spam by his very agressive configurated filters. Simply resend it, and be sure to include a word like 'Irrlicht' or 'engine' into the subject.

Team
	Nikolaus Gebhardt - niko; Project Lead Location: Austria/Vienna; blog; Niko founded the Irrlicht Engine project in 2002 and for 4 years and 18 releases, he designed and developed it on his own. Still continuing with the 'iron fist' project style, the Irrlicht software development is now done team based and a bit more open. Niko has worked as programmer for several game development companies and has recently switched into the application development industry. With Irrlicht, he is following his passion to create 3D and game related technology in his spare time.
	Christian Stehno - Hybrid; Contribution Coordinator/Developer Location: Germany/Oldenburg Hybrid takes care of submitted bug fixes and feature enhancements from the community either on his patch page, on the SF Trackers, or by integrating stable code into Irrlicht's development version. He also contributed to the Linux part of Irrlicht and some new mesh file loaders.
	Gareth Davidson - Bitplane; Developer/ Forum admin Location: England/Southport Gaz joined the Irrlicht team in Jun 2006 but has been well known in the community for contributing lots of enhancements (realtime 3d clouds, grass scene node etc) and bugfixes to Irrlicht for quite some time before this date already. Its great that he joined us to actively improve Irrlicht further.
	Alvaro F. Celis - Afecelis; Community Manager/ 3D Artist Location: Colombia/Bucaramanga; blog; depot; Afecelis takes care of the Forum, making sure that he is the only spammer in there. :) He is known for his useful (video) tutorials and is also the one coming always up with new fantastic realtime 3D scenes set up especially for Irrlicht and is using the engine for architectural visualization, as a tool to show a project to potential customers. Without him, the Irrlicht Engine Community would surely look different.
	Luke - Developer Known from his B3D loader and several other Irrlicht contributions, Luke joined the team to help to improve the skeletal animation system of Irrlicht. Altought he seems to prefer to stay anonymous (see his picture) he now is a regular Irrlicht developer. ;)
	Jam - Forum Moderator Jam takes care of moderating the forums and keeps them clean from those evil spammers.
	Dean Wadsworth - Varmint; Developer, Mac OS port Maintainer Location: Canada/British Columbia Dean joined the team after we announced that we needed a mac os maintainer because the project has grown so big that no one of us had the time to do this additionally. Dean then created a Irrlicht 1.4 mac os package in record time and sent us the link. Short story: We were impressed and asked him to join our team and we are glad he did ;)
	Thomas Alten - Ing. Apfelbaum; Developer Location: Austria/Vienna Ing. Apfelbaum joined the Irrlicht Engine team by creating the apfelbaum software rasterizer. As professional game development veteran, he is specialized in programming every crazy piece of hardware and squeezing the last little bit of performance out of it.
	John Goewert - saigumi; System and Forum Admin Location: USA/Saint Louis With his huge technical knowledge, Saigumi did lots of contributions to Irrlicht. He writes tutorials, is helping with the administration of the forum and is also the maintainer of the Irrlicht Wiki.

Acknowledgements

Because the engine is based on some other very useful libraries, and a lot of people have been supporting the engine in different ways, I want to say thank you to you all. Here is a (hopefully complete) list of these people. Thank you very much for supporting the engine! (Did I forget anyone? Just send me a mail.)

Greg Roelofs	Created the zlib, used by the Irrlicht Engine to be able to read from .zip files.
The Independent JPEG Group	Created the popular free implementation for reading and writing JPEG image files, which is used in the Engine.
Guy Eric Schalnat, Andreas Dilger, Glenn Randers-Pehrson and others	Created libPng, the official PNG reference library used by Irrlicht to load .png files.
Chad Austin, Jacky Chong, Theo Reed, Ben Scott	Made Audiere, which is used in the tech demo of the engine for playing back the music.
Mark Jeacocke	Wrote lots of helpful comments and ideas in the forums and per email.
Julio Gorgé	Created the 'Unofficial DirectX 9.0 Driver for the Irrlicht Engine' 0.2 and 0.3, which is a big external code contribution to the engine.
Andy Spurgeon	Wrote the Dev-Cpp tutorial.
André Simon	Wrote the Codewarrior tutorial.
KnightToFlight	Created the unoffical terrain renderer addon for the Irrlicht Engine.
Jon Pry	Wrote the code to load compressed TGA files.
Saigumi	Wrote some tutorials for the Irrlicht Engine and more important: He is hosting eve-corp.com, which is providing free webspace for projects using the Irrlicht Engine.
Matthew Couch	Wrote the tokamak integration tutorial.
Max Winkel	Wrote the splitscreen tutorial.
Gorgon Zola	Wrote the ODE integration tutorial.
Dean P. Macri	Sent in code for curved surfaces and PCX Loading.
Sirshane	Made several bug fixes, sent in code for making the mouse cursor invisible in Linux.
Matthias Gall	Sent in code for a spline scene node animator and reported lots of bugs.
Mario Gruber	Suggested triangle fan drawing and sent in code for this.
Ariaci	Spotted out a bug in the ATI driver.
Dr Andros C Bragianos	Improved texture mapping in test scene node.
Philipp Dortmann	Sent in code for stencil buffer support for OpenGL.
Jerome Nichols	Created the Irrlicht/Ruby interface located at irr.rubyforge.org
Vash TheStampede	Sent code for missing Draw2DLine() implementation s
MattyBoy	XBOX support suggestions
Oliver Klems	createImageFromData() method suggestion/implementation
Jox	really, really a lot of bug fixes, and the LMTS file loader
Zola	Quaternion method additions
Tomasz Nowakowski	various bug fixes
Nicholas Bray	stencil shadow bug fixes with OpenGL
REAPER	mouswheel events for scrollbar
Calimero	various bug fixes like vector2d operators
Haddock	bugfix in the linked list
G.o.D	XML parser fix
Alvaro F. Celis	Lots of work in the community, for example video tutorials about Irrlicht, forum admin
Erik Zilli	Translated some of the tutorials from my stuttering english into real english. :)
Martin Piskernig	Linux bugfixing and testing
Soconne	Wrote the original terrain renderer were Irrlichts terrain renderer of Irrlicht is based on it.
Spintz	GeoMipMap scene node, terrain renderer of Irrlicht is based on it.
Murphy McCauley	OCT file loader, MIM tools
Saurav Mohapatra	IrrCSM, and lots of addons, suggestions and bug reports
Zhuck Dimitry	My3D Tools
Terry Welsh	Allowed me to use the textures of his 'Parallax Mapping with Offset Limiting' paper for the parallax demo of Irrlicht
rt	Wrote the original .png loader for Irrlicht
Salvatore Russo	Wrote the original .dmf loader for Irrlicht
Vox	Various bug reports and fixes
atomice	Contributed code for a ms3d loader enhancement
William Finlayson	OpenGL RTT, GLSL support and the reflection 2 layer material for OpenGL.
Delight	Various code contributions for Irrlicht.NET (particle system, basic shader support and more)
Michael Zoech	Improved GLSL support
Thomas Alten	Contributed the great Apfelbaum Software Renderer, lots of thanks for this!
Etienne Petitjean	MacOS port
Travis Vitek	Contributed screenshot functionality
Skreamz	Pak file support
Anders la Cour-Harbo	Sky dome
Alfaz93	Sphere scene node code base