Irrlicht Engine - A free open source 3D engine » Releases http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net Lightning fast realtime 3D engine Tue, 21 May 2013 16:04:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Irrlicht 1.8 is released! http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/2012/11/irrlicht-1-8-is-released/ http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/2012/11/irrlicht-1-8-is-released/#comments Thu, 08 Nov 2012 22:48:00 +0000 CuteAlien http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/?p=1245 Irrlicht version 1.8 is finally here :-)

Some of the new features are:

  • New loaders for mdl, wal, smf
  • Cg support
  • Support for custom hardware cursors
  • Improved support for 64-bit platforms
  • Major OSX device improvements
  • Occlusion culling
  • Improved collada support
  • Improved shadows
  • Polygon offset support
  • ISceneLoader interface
  • Supporting now MSVC 2010 and 2012
  • New versions of support libraries
  • Video driver attribute query interface
  • Increased stability (lots of bugfixes!)

See changes.txt in the SDK for details.
Happy downloading!

]]> http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/2012/11/irrlicht-1-8-is-released/feed/ 17 Irrlicht 1.7.3 released! http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/2012/02/irrlicht-1-7-3-released/ http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/2012/02/irrlicht-1-7-3-released/#comments Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:08:35 +0000 Strong99 http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/?p=1180 We just released Irrlicht version 1.7.3. This version contains numerous bug fixes and will hopefully be the last update before 1.8.

All users which are using an 1.7 Irrlicht version should update to this version for the best experience. See changes.txt in the SDK for a complete list of changes.

Happy downloading!

]]> http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/2012/02/irrlicht-1-7-3-released/feed/ 19 Irrlicht 1.7.2 released! http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/2010/11/irrlicht-1-7-2-released/ http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/2010/11/irrlicht-1-7-2-released/#comments Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:08:12 +0000 hybrid http://test.bitplane.net/?p=189 We just released Irrlicht version 1.7.2, fixing a few bugs of the latest major release.
All users of 1.7 should update to this version.
See changes.txt in the SDK for details.
Happy downloading!

]]> http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/2010/11/irrlicht-1-7-2-released/feed/ 0 Irrlicht 1.7.1 released! http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/2010/02/irrlicht-1-7-1-released/ http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/2010/02/irrlicht-1-7-1-released/#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 hybrid http://test.bitplane.net/?p=61 We just released Irrlicht version 1.7.1, fixing a few bugs of the latest major release.
All users of 1.7 should update to this version, because it also fixes a severe bug in the aabbox collision test which causes reduced rendering speed. In addition, a compilation problem on Mac OS X was corrected.
See changes.txt in the SDK for details.
Happy downloading!

]]> http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/2010/02/irrlicht-1-7-1-released/feed/ 0 Irrlicht 1.7 Released! http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/2010/02/irrlicht-1-7-released/ http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/2010/02/irrlicht-1-7-released/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 hybrid http://test.bitplane.net/?p=64 We just released Irrlicht version 1.7.

New features are:

  • Added Multiple Render Target (MRT) support
  • Added support for geometry shaders (OpenGL)
  • Addes possibility to access texture mipmaps and to provide custom mipmaps
  • Ogre .mesh format animations now supported, and Ogre 32bit indices as well
  • NPK (Nebula device archive) support added
  • New VertexManipulator interface for simple creation of vertex manipulation algorithms
  • Added Separate TextureWrap modes for U and V coordinates and the option to mirror wrap
  • Added Bzip2 and LZMA support and AES encryption
  • Added options to 2D drawing like thickness, anti-aliasing and filtering.
  • VBO Support for skydomes and similar
  • Support for external windows in Mac OS X
  • Lots of other improvements and bug fixes

See changes.txt in the SDK for details.
Happy downloading!

]]> http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/2010/02/irrlicht-1-7-released/feed/ 0 Irrlicht 1.6.1 released! http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/2010/01/irrlicht-1-6-1-released/ http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/2010/01/irrlicht-1-6-1-released/#comments Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000 niko http://test.bitplane.net/?p=71 We just released Irrlicht version 1.6.1. This version contains a lot of bugfixes and corrections, like improvements with the GUI Environment, Lightmap rendering and DMF loading, and keyboard mapping under Linux.

On a related note, a new version of CopperCube has been released today as well, which now supports exporting scenes to .irr files. It also features a special property window to edit Irrlicht scene node properties and materials and can be used as world editor for Irrlicht.

]]> http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/2010/01/irrlicht-1-6-1-released/feed/ 0 Irrlicht Maintenance Release 1.5.2 now public http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/2009/12/irrlicht-1-5-2-released/ http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/2009/12/irrlicht-1-5-2-released/#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 hybrid http://test.bitplane.net/?p=74 We just released an update to the 1.5 branch of the Irrlicht engine, version 1.5.2. It contains several updates and bugfixes, related to terrain smoothing, joystick support, OS/XCode updates and MS3D loader fixes. Happy downloading!

]]> http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/2009/12/irrlicht-1-5-2-released/feed/ 0 Irrlicht 1.6 Released! http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/2009/09/irrlicht-1-6-released/ http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/2009/09/irrlicht-1-6-released/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000 hybrid http://test.bitplane.net/?p=81 We just released Irrlicht version 1.6. As always, this version contains a lot of bugfixes and corrections, but also some new features:

  • New mesh and image loaders (.PLY mesh loader, .RGB, .RGBA, .SGI, .INT, and .INTA textures)
  • New Material properties ColorMask, Mipmap LOD, Depth test function, AlphaToCoverage, selective Anti-Aliasing
  • New console device and possibility to create different devices from the same library
  • OverrideMaterial for changing material properties globally
  • New Filesystem with tighter integration of different archive types
  • Improved Software rendering engine

See changes.txt in the SDK for details.
Happy downloading!

]]> http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/2009/09/irrlicht-1-6-released/feed/ 0 Irrlicht 1.5.1 Released! http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/2009/08/irrlicht-1-5-1-released/ http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/2009/08/irrlicht-1-5-1-released/#comments Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000 hybrid http://test.bitplane.net/?p=86 We are happy to announce that we just released Irrlicht version 1.5.1. This version contains a lot of bugfixes and corrections, but also some new features:

  • Support for Range Fog in OpenGL
  • Improved X11 support
  • Better .x, STL and Collada file loading
  • 32bit indices for large meshes
  • Terrain rendering using hw buffers
  • A lot of bug fixes and corrections

See changes.txt in the SDK for details. Happy downloading!

]]> http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/2009/08/irrlicht-1-5-1-released/feed/ 0 Irrlicht 1.5 Released! http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/2008/12/irrlicht-1-5-released/ http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/2008/12/irrlicht-1-5-released/#comments Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000 niko http://test.bitplane.net/?p=105 We are happy to announce that we just released Irrlicht version 1.5. This version contains a lot of new features, here are some few highlights:

  • Vertex Buffer Objects, i.e. storing meshes on the GPU
  • Joystick support on all platforms
  • Added support for collada 1.4 and LWO files
  • 32bit indices for large meshes
  • Added an .obj writer
  • Improved software rasterizer (burning video)
  • Improvements for dynamic lights, particle systems, LMTS, PNG and PCX loading and writing
  • Added FSAA for OpenGL
  • OGRE .mesh loader improvements
  • Nicer and faster terrain rendering
  • Volume lights
  • Various improvements for the WindowsCE port
  • Shared depth buffers for RTT in D3D
  • Added a font creation tool for Linux

See changes.txt in the SDK for details. Please note that we also updated all Irrlicht tutorials on this website now thanks to hybrid’s script.
Happy downloading!

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