There is now a new project available at sourceforge net, named IrrExt. Although the status message on the project page indicates the contrary, the project is active and its SVN contains a collection of extensions to the Irrlicht Engine, like scene nodes, animators, GUI elements, materials, shaders, mesh loaders, physics wrappers and more. It is managed by bitplane and Zeuss, and extended constantly. The official forum announcement can be read here.

Following the release of Irrlicht 1.4, the package for Mac OS is now available as well: download Irrlicht 1.4 for Mac OS 1.4.
The dmg file contains all source files but no precompiled binaries, you need to compile it yourself using XCode. It was created by Varmint, and we are happy to announce that he now joined our team to keep on maintaining the Mac OS version of Irrlicht.

We just released Irrlicht 1.4. It includes all features from the beta version such as

• A rewritten unified skeletal animation system with some more sophisticated long awaited features such as manual joint animation.
• Irrlicht's own file format: .irrmesh, for static meshes.
• Mesh writing support: Write collada, .stl and .irrmesh files. Irrlicht now can also read .stl files and be used to convert any file it can read into these file formats.
• Enhanced Particle System reintegrated from the irrSpintz fork
• Improved GUI: Keyboard control support (tab, shift etc), SpinBox,
• PointSprite support
• Improved collada, .obj, .my3d and loaders
• Tons of bug fixes and other feature enhancements

Happy downloading!

We just released the first beta version of Irrlicht 1.4. Basically, this is revision 1012 from the subversion server, with precompiled binaries, examples and documentation. Irrlicht 1.4 will have the first major (breaking) API changes as we are moving towards a better engine, so we are releasing this beta for all people to try it out and to help us to improve it until the stable release.
Thanks to all people helping out, and especially to all members of the Irrlicht Team. Happy downloading, and please be aware that this release is beta only.

We are currently working heavily on the next Irrlicht Engine release. But in the meanwhile, take a look at these new or updated Irrlicht releated projects:

• AMELIA is a project for High-Energy physics featuring the ATLAS detector at CERN, the world's largest particle physics lab. It uses Irrlicht for 3D graphics and irrKlang as sound engine.
• Galactic Dream: Rage of War has been released, a commercial realtime strategy space game using Irrlicht
• Stefan Dingfelder released Jirr 1.3.1, the Irrlicht 3D engine for Java. It is now compatible with Irrlicht 1.3.1, and includes more demos such as a physics demo using JNewton, and an examples on how to load and display .irr files. It also now supports JDK1.6 and script languages (Javascript).
• irrKlang 1.0, the audio library with Irrlicht integration has been released.
• GameIterator published the first part of an article on how to create a computer game, it uses Irrlicht as example.
• Amulet of tri color is a a cool looking commercial game by WiredPlane Labs team, Razinkov Ilya. It will soon be published in Russia.
• A new version of irrEdit, the Irrlicht Editor, 1.4alpha has been released
• Loris Bognanni created an alternative irrlicht font tool.

Support for Irrlicht.NET, the wrapper written in Managed C++ which makes Irrlicht available for .NET languages such as C#, VisualBasic and similar will be dropped with the next release. Instead, we encourage to use Irrlicht.NET CP, which is a separately maintained sourceforge project with much more functionality than Irrlicht.NET. It is very easy to switch from Irrlicht.NET to Irrlicht.NET CP, and it also has the advantage that your projects will run on Mono and on other operating systems such as Linux as well then. Extending Irrlicht scene nodes is also possible with this library. The latest release, Irrlicht.NET CP 0.8 also supports Irrlicht 1.3.1.

Thanks to all of you, Irrlicht has been nominated for the Sourceforge.net Community Choice Awards! Now you need to vote for the nominees, please go to the nomination voting page and vote for Irrlicht again, in the categories "Best Project for Multimedia" or if you like "Best Project for Gamers" in addition.

Please vote for Irrlicht in the SF.net 2007 Community Choice awards. Please click this link or below and select 'Best Project for Multimedia'. Thanks!

We just released Irrlicht in version 1.3.1. This is intended to be a bug fix release, but there are also some new features:

• Works seemlessly with the also just released irrEdit (0.7.1).
• Support for Ogre 1.4 .mesh files
• Added an optional SDL device, to let Irrlicht run on not yet natively supported platforms like embedded devices.
• Added support for more texture creation flags in OpenGL
• Cloning of whole scene graphs is now possible
• Improved GUI editor
• Multiple dozens of bug fixes and other small improvements

For a detailed list, please take a look at the changes.txt file. Happy downloading.

Ever wanted a shirt with an Irrlicht Logo on it? Or ever wanted to support the Irrlicht Engine development? That's now finally possible: Go to the Shops (there are two: an European and an American, to reduce shipment costs for you).
There are various Irrlicht, irrKlang, irrEdit and Ambiera shirts to choose from. For each shirt sold, we get something between 3 and 4 euro, which we will invest into hardware, software, books and similar.

irrKlang 0.9, the free audio library and irrKlang pro has just been released. New: Support for DirectSound8, sound effects (echo, reverb, flanger etc), doppler effects, sound frequency/playback speed, sound events and more. 'irrKlang pro' is now also available as version for commercial licensing. See the related blog entry for details and background.

Here are several irrlicht related news:

• Pyrr is a new python wrapper for Irrlicht 1.3. Added to the langauge binding list.
• Solar model is a realtime modeling of a solar system. It renders a beautiful 3D space environment using Irrlicht. Added screenshots to the screenshots page.
• CivilFEM is a commercial Civil Engineering program. In the part 'CivilFEM Structural Designer', Irrlicht is being used ad 3D engine. Also added to screenshots page.
• Ilham Abiyasa Suhardi created 'Tokusatsu Agent' a 3D platformer game featuring super-deformed anime characters. You can download the game (including the source code).
• irrKlang 0.8.1, the free 2D/3D audio library has been released, it is now compatible also with irrlicht 1.3.

We just released version 0.7 of irrEdit, the free lightmap generator and world editor for Irrlicht. It is now compatible with Irrlicht 1.3, supports terrain scene nodes and has the ability to show, edit and store custom scene nodes via plugins.

Here is a list of new irrlicht releated projects and updates of them:

• I've added a new project to the screenshot section: 3D office created by yoran, a design application which allows to create your virtual office.
• Jirr 1.3 has been released by Stefan Dingfelder, supporting Irrlicht 1.3 and is based on Java 1.5.
• Fabian Beutel created a german irrlicht engine portal at irrlicht3d.de
• A new version of irrKlang, the free 3D sound engine has been released, now supporting module file formats and the .NET plaftform.
• There is a new 3D editor available for irrlicht, named sourena
• Afecelis again created one of his well known video tutorials, this time on how to compile the engine with codeblocks+msvc toolkit 2003.

In other news: The official Irrlicht Engine wiki now has a lot more content, thanks to all. We are already working on the next version of Irrlicht and irrEdit, currently.

We just released version 1.3 of the Irrlicht Engine. The following new features can be found in the SDK:

• Improved font support: Anti aliasing, alpha channels, different character sets, and a new font tool
• Enhanced GUI system: serialization, a first version of a GUI editor, element alignment, tool tips and more
• BurningVideo (the 2nd Software Rasterizer) speed improvements and new features: VertexCache, Bilinear Dither, Clipping test, ...
• Several speed enhancements
• A lot of API breaking changes (for example to ISceneNodes and Materials), so be careful when updating
• Literally hundreds of bug fixes

For a detailed list of changes, please see changes.txt. You can download the package from the download page.

jirr, a binding making Irrlicht 1.2 usable in java has just been released in version 0.9 by Stefan Dingfelder.
In addition, Stefan is already working on jirrklang, a java binding for irrKlang, the free 3d audio engine, a demo can be already seen/heard in the techdemo of jirr. And if this would not be enough: A new release of irrklang (0.5) including several new features such as Linux support has been released as well now on ambiera.com.

• We did several updates to this website, also providing a page with tools like irrKlang and irrEdit now.
• Two updates to irrKlang have been released in the mean time, and we are working on a irrKlang Linux port currently and of course on the next release of Irrlicht.
• During the last months, a lot of new projects have been created using Irrlicht. Lee Zhi Eng made a list of them, thanks a lot. Here is a short version of it:
  • H-Craft Championship, a high quality impressive looking commercial 3D racing game (related forum post) created by irrgheist. Screenshots added.
  • SiO2's impressive Irrlicht Demos, mostly using state of the art shader technology and techniques like Dynamic Glass Refraction, Hardware Skinned Meshes, Hardware Ray Tracing, Depth Of Field, Dynamic Water Reflections, Toon Shaders and more. They are so impressive so we had to add them to the screenshot section.
  • Warboard, a turn based 3D game by warchief.
  • A XBox360 controller for Irrlicht games, created by lug
  • Mythorgia, a MMORPG by strong99
  • Lug's GUI editor for creating irrlicht 2D GUIs.
  • Battleheart a stylish cartoon shooting game
  • Cubo! The Jungle, commercial game by thegreatstudio.com

We just released version 1.2 of the Irrlicht engine. Here is a short overview of what you'll find in the package:

• Sun Solaris/SPARC support
• improved .3ds, OGRE .mesh, .ms3d and COLLADA loaders
• hardware texture coord manipulation and non-power-of-two texture support
• possibility to run Irrlicht on Linux servers without X11
• additional new UI skin
• speed optimizations (FPU)
• basic mipmap support for software driver 2
• hundreds of bug fixes, enhancements, performance improvements and a lot more

In addition, irrEdit 0.6 (including a free global illumination lightmap generator, can also be used for non-irrlicht projects) and irrKlang 0.2 have been released some days ago which are compatible with this release. You can download the package from the download page. For a detailed list of changes, please see changes.txt.

Two nice Irrlicht related news:

• jirr, a java binding for Irrlicht has been released in version 0.8 by Stefan Dingfelder, making Irrlicht 1.1 available for java programmers.
• ARIES, higher school of computer graphics is using Irrlicht in their one year game programming session. You can find more info in their pdf on page 13/19.

irrEdit 0.5 has been released. It includes some new features, several bug fixes, and a few added user requested features. It is also back compatible with Irrlicht 1.1 now.

Other news:

• irrlicht.fr, a Frensh irrlicht community is fully online now.
• Witch, a game using irrlicht, created by Nick Hodges is available for download.

A bunch of news:

• Shameless plug: irrKlang 0.1 has been released. It's a free 3D sound engine, usable also easily with Irrlicht. Written by niko.
• Irrlicht .NET CP now has its own homepage. This project is Emmanuel Bossière's bindings for C and cross platform .NET for Irrlicht.
• R. Kusterer wrote a tutorial on how to use Irrlicht 1.0 on MacOS.
• Ares, an open source first person shooter using Irrlicht has been released.
• A group around Sebastian Vargas made a game developers toolkit using Irrlicht.

irrEdit, has just been released in version 0.4, including a fully functional free lightmap generator. See the irrEdit website for details. Some more Irrlicht related news:

• Added Jam on the Irrlicht team page - he is supporting us as forum moderator since some time now and fighting those nasty spammers :)
• There is an extension available for Clickteam's "Multimedia Fusion 2", making irrlicht available in that tool. More info on this thread.
• MyPictures3D is a screensaver featuring photos in a picturesque environment of stunning 3D galleries rendered with Irrlicht Engine
• My Pictures 3D Album is a program for creating highly customizable 3D photo albums (rendered with Irrlicht) for sharing them with family and friends.
• The project 'Arena' (using Irrlicht) now has a website.
• Anorasi is an open source racing game using Irrlicht, created by Andrej Krutak

The page with screenshots of projects has been updated as well.