We just released Irrlicht 1.1, together with irrEdit 0.3. Some very nice new features can be found in there, here are some highlights:

• Scene graph (de)serialization, the possibility to save and load whole scenes including scene nodes, materials and animators to and from .irr files. Those files can also be edited by irrEdit, the Irrlicht Editor, which just has been released in a new version.
• OGRE .mesh file and .B3D import support
• Screenshot making
• Improved .3ds, .obj and .ms3d mesh importers
• New scene nodes: Spheres and SkyDomes
• Support for up to 4 textures as material parameters
• Cross .dll boundary container support
• Lots of bugfixes and other improvements

For a complete list, please take a look at the changes.txt file. You can download the release from the download page. The development page and the tutorials have been updated (there is also a new one) as well.

I just released irrEdit 0.2, the Irrlicht Editor. Further news:

• Di Jabolo - A Diablo 2 remake in 3D with subcultures instead of monsters. Added screenshots to the screenshots section.
• There is a new, italian Irrlicht community, Irrlicht Italia. They also have some translated tutorials there.
• The german Irrlicht.de community has move here.

I also updated the link and author page.

• Added some Gekkeiju Online screenshots, it is a Free-to-play Fantasy based 3d Multi-User Dungeon that has been running since 2003. The game is full of totally unique features never seen in any Graphical Online Role-Playing Game before, and made using Irrlicht of course.
• Added some Arena screenshots, a fantasy hack & slay mutliplayer game created Drunken Knights Games, using Irrlicht.

Also updated the author and tutorial page.

• Hybrid and Bitplane (you should know both already if you) received SVN accounts and are now actively improving Irrlicht; they are now a part of the team, thanks for helping out! An update of the author page will follow soon.
• Also the forum staff has become a new member: Afecelis promoted Jam to admin, being an excellent spam hunter and moderator.
• There is a youtube.com group of Irrlicht videos started by veegun.
• David Wellin is developing Claymod, a 3D modelling program using Irrlicht.
• University of Parma, Italy developed a simulatation for bionic devices, and used Irrlicht for it.

I just moved Irrlicht to the sourceforge subversion server. You can access it via https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/irrlicht, online repository browsing works too. The Irrlicht version at that server is merged Irrlicht 1.0 and Irrlicht for MacOS 1.0, together with some new features like loading and saving of the scenegraph into .irr/.xml files, OGRE mesh loading, allocators and a lot more. I also reorganized the directory structure, and only some VisualStudio 7.1 files have been updated. Also please note that the CVS will no longer be used from now on.

I also just released a pre-alpha version of irrEdit, a scene graph editor for .irr files which is also capable as being used as particle system designer, meshviewer, game world editor and more. More informations on the irrEdit homepage.

Etienne Petitjean just finished Irrlicht 1.0 for MacOS, and this time there are again some new features in it:

• Includes universal Binaries (runs on MacIntel and MacPPC machines)
• The keyboard handling code has been completely rewritten
• Added support for native copy, cut, paste for the 2D GUI

Happy downloading. Thanks to Etienne for all the work.

I added screenshots of two games using Irrlicht to the screenshots section:

• Bolzplatz2006 (german), SlamSoccer2006 (english) or CoupDeFoot2006 (frensh) has been released recently by Xenoage Software and is a free comic-style 3D-football-game created using Irrlicht/Jirr. It has a lot of nice features and is fun to play.
• SilentFuture is working on an impressive looking game named High On Racing which is using the Mupolis Engine, which again is based on Irrlicht. Added some pictures of it.

I finally uploaded the Irrlicht 1.0 API documentation to this website. Further news:

• Sjef van Leeuwen translated the Newton tutorial to Irrlicht.NET, download it here
• Afecelis created a tutorial showing how to create a terrain in blender for irrlicht.

I just released Irrlicht version 1.0. It includes some few new features and bugfixes since the last release and has been carefully tested. Some of the new features are:

• Enhanced software rasterizer: 32 bit rendering, dynamic lights, more materials (Thx to Thomas Alten!).
• Support for the Code::Blocks IDE
• Microsoft .dll hell awareness (no more abort and 'd3dx9_xx.dll not found' messages), Irrlicht will also operate if some of these dlls can not be loaded.
• Better support for orthogonal rendering and drawing to foreign windows, useful for creating 2D games, editors and 3D tools using Irrlicht.
• Improved Irrlicht.NET (root scene node, view frustrums, bounding boxes, ...)
• More precise picking
• gcc 4 support
• Bugfixes, other small implemented feature requests

For a complete list, please take a look at the changes.txt file. Happy downloading. I'm quite happy to get this release out, and also wrote down a small summary of the development of Irrlicht until now, why Irrlicht 1.0 has been released now, and what will be done in the future, on my blog.

Other news:

• Frank Dodd created a FreeBasic wrapper for Irrlicht.
• Guest accounts on the irrlicht forum are disabled now.
• A new version IrrGI, a gui editor for Irrlicht has been released

• Andrew J. Santa Maria wrote a tutorial on how to integrate Ageia Physx with Irrlicht. Also available at the tutorials section now. There is also an impressive video available here.
• Afecelis did it again: He created a tutorial on how to create Q3 maps for Irrlicht without having Quake installed.
• World of Ideas is a old-school fighting game created by Ambroise Garel, in which fighting characters are famos philosophers. 3D graphics by Irrlicht.

Bitplane and SkaterX29527 now are official Irrlicht Forum moderators, and try to help out to make the forum a better place. Welcome on board!

Some other, related news: If you are a registered Irrlicht Forum user but haven't posted anything until now, your account might have been deleted recently by mistake because we are trying to fight spammers.

Etienne Petitjean invested lots of hours of his spare time and created a complete Mac port of the Irrlicht Engine. The result can now be downloaded as separete irrlicht-0.14.0-macOs SDK. It includes the full source and precompiled binaries of the engine and the examples. The port is not checked into the CVS yet, so the download will be the only source of the MacOS version of Irrlicht for now. Happy downloading, and a lot thanks to Etienne!

Other news: Jirr, an java binding for Irrlicht has been released in version 0.6, providing interfaces to the full irrlicht-0.14.0.

Josh Turpen just released IrrLua 0.6 for Irrlicht-0.14. IrrLua is an attempt to provide a nice Lua front end to the Irrlicht Engine and now supports all the examples and the demo included in the SDK. IrrLua is one of the the furthest along of all the language bindings of Irrlicht and it also now supports dynamically extending Irrlicht at runtime.

Some other news: Bloodgiver, a game created using Irrlicht won the Polish red cross competition.

I'm glad to announce that there are several changes in the software development process of Irrlicht:

• Irrlicht now is accessable via CVS. You can grab the latest development version of the engine directly as described in this FAQ entry and it is also possible to browse it via html.
• We've now got an Irrlicht Engine team, I've updated the author page. If you would like to join the team, please take a look at the FAQ entry. Currently, we would be glad to find someone to create and maintain a Mac port, for example (also mentioned in the FAQ entry).
• I've written some basic Irrlicht coding rules you may want to look at, if you want your additions to be merged with the development code.

And last, I've finally managed to upload the version 0.14.0 API documentation.

I've added a new project using Irrlicht to the screenshots section. It is named Bloodgiver and is a Gothic style RPG with lots of NPCs and (polish) dialogs, developed by Delan. The game is finished and can be downloaded and played freely.

Some other news: Ing. Apfelbaum created a short video showing a WIP version of Irrlicht with an interesting new feature.

I released the new version of Irrlicht, version 0.14.0. That's right the last version was 0.12.0, and I skipped one number. There are multiple reasons for this, but to keep it short: There are so much great new features and enhancements in this new version that it is nearly worth two version numbers. And after all, it has been a long time since the 0.12.0 release. :) So, here's an short overview of the new stuff, have fun:

• Irrlicht now includes a full featured, complete software rasterizer. It is able to do everything you need: correct 3d clipping, perspective correct texture mapping, sub pixel correctness, bilinear texel filtering, huge material support and more. It is named Apfelbaum Software Renderer and was contributed by Thomas Alten, thanks a lot! This makes Irrlicht now one of the few usable open source 3D software rasterizers.
• Highly improved rendering quality. Internal convertions, loading and filtering precision has been improved.
• Visual Studio 2005 support. (Also as Express edition)
• 2D drawing support in textures. You can for example render 2D user interfaces in 3D with that.
• Anisotropic filtering.
• Irrlicht.NET now supports shaders: HLSL, GLSL, VS, PS, Fragment & Vertex programs. Everything you'll ever need.
• Improved and faster terrain rendering (thanks to Spintz!)
• Lots of bugfixes
• Revised tutorials and documentation
• And more goodies like improved GLSL support, directional lights, alpha channel buttons, better dmf loading and and and.

For a complete list, please take a look at the changes.txt file. Happy downloading. Update: If you are a Linux user and have some problems, you'll find some solutions in the wiki, thx to saigumi.

There is a world map for Irrlicht users at frappr.com. Lots of people already added themselves, now what about you? Would be interesting. No registration required.

I just released irrXML 1.2, the xml parser used by Irrlicht. This release adds support for CDATA sections and some small bug fixes and improvements. Of course, irrXML 1.2 will be also part of the next Irrlicht Engine release.

Some other new Irrlicht related websites and projects:

• The latest release of the great C++ IDE Code::Blocks includes an Irrlicht project wizard.
• Dhenton created a website providing some Irrlicht compatible recources like .x files, physics demos and more.
• Another website extends Irrlicht with controls like a chat box control, an expanded tab control, edit box and scrollbar.
• Irrwizard™ is an Irrlicht project creation wizard which produces a game project skelleton based on the Irrlicht rendering engine. It creates all the necessary source code, project files and dll's at the click of a few buttons.

I also updated the development page with the current progress.

Stonefish Entertainment and Thunderbolt Tactical are providing hosting packages for any Irrlicht projects that wish to have a web presence. You will get 50 MB webspace and FTP access to it, MySQL, PHP, CGI, XML, and Frontpage support is options. For details, see this thread in the irrlicht forum or the announcement in the stonefish forum and the details.

Some other news:

• Abusoft created an extension to Irrlicht which makes it possible to modify bones of .x models in Irrlicht during runtime, for example for the creation of rag dolls.
• Escaptor released version 0.3 of his RAD tool for Irrlicht which makes it possible to edit lots of scene nodes, animators and effect Irrlicht offers visually.

• Afecelis wrote a detailed tutorial on how to compile Irrlicht using Code::Blocks. I added it to the tutorials section, and you can read it here. In addition, it lools like an Irrlicht project template has been added to CVS version of the Code::Blocks IDE.
• Added a link to gg.Irrlicht / gg.IrrBMAX, an Irrlicht wrapper for BlizMax, created by garritt.
• Jirr, an Irrlicht bindng for Java has been released in version 0.5. It now supports the latest version of Irrlicht and D3D.

I just released Irrlicht 0.12.0. This is probably the version with the most new features and implemented user requests in it. Here is a short overview of the most exciting changes:

• Support for GLSL. This means Irrlicht now supports all major shading modes/languages: ARB Vertex Programs, ARB Pixel Programs, HLSL, GLSL 100 & 110, VS1.1 - 3.0, PS1.1 - PS3.0
• 64 bit support
• OpenGL RTT support (which means that finally all renderers are able to do RTT)
• It is now possible to have multiple scene managers
• Vertex and Pixel shader version 3.0 support
• Detail map support, nice for terrain rendering.
• Irrlicht.NET improvements: Terrain rendering, realtime shadows, bug fixes and more
• Enhanced timer for features like 'bullet time' support
• Improved .dmf and .ms3d loaders
• Access to the mesh cache
• Lots of bug fixes and a lot more. For a detailed list, see changes.txt

Thanks to lots of people how contributed code for this release, I added them to the author page (If I forgot one, then I'm very sorry, please don't be shy and send me a mail!) I also updated the development page with the roadmap for the next release and the tutorial page with the new/updated tutorials. Happy downloading.

The next version of Irrlicht (0.12.0) is doing some progress, I hope to have some more time to release it soon (for big values of soon). Here is a screenshot preview of a new feature in Irrlicht 0.12.0. Other news:

• Jerky created JohnnyAppleseed: Irrlicht Terrain Editor. For more information see this thread in the forum. It also features a scene graph reader and three tutorials, worth a look.
• Linked Dave Andrew's Tutorial about Irrlicht and Raknet from the tutorial section.
• The russian Irrlicht webpage moved to irrlicht.kytron.com

• Martin Gonzalez created some spanish tutorials for Irrlicht for the web community of the Game Developers from Argentinia.
• Jorge Alexis Viqueira translated three tutorials into Castellano/Español, you can download them here as .pdf files: HelloWorld.pdf, Quake_3_Map.pdf, Custom_Scene_Node.pdf.
• Thanks to the Irrlicht Engine community, it is now also possible to use D3D 8 and 9 with Jirr, an Irrlicht binding for Java.

I just released Irrlicht 0.11.0. This release contains lots of bug fixes and improvements, and not that much new features. The highlights of version 0.11.0 are:

• Improved Linux support: Mip mapping, Shared Object make target, speed improvements, bug fixes.
• Enhanced Irrlicht.NET: Besides other small additions, the SceneCollisionManager is now available as well as the first big parts of the GUI System.
• Antialiasing is now possible when using the D3D8 or D3D9 renderer.
• Skinnable GUI environment: It is now possible to change the appearance of the graphical user interface easily. Besides the old skin, Irrlicht also includes now a new, metal shaded GUI skin.
• COLLADA file loading simplified.
• Lots of other bug fixes and improvements, see changes.txt for a detailed list.

You can download Irrlicht 0.11.0 from the download page. I also uploaded the new API documentation and API.NET documentation, and updated the development page.

Two short updates:

• Eve is a simulator for a modular robot project called YaMoR which has been developed at the EPFL (Lausanne / Switzerland). Eve uses Irrlicht as 3D engine for the simulator and ODE for the physics. I've added screenshots of Eve to the screenshots section. There are also some interesting videos of the project on their project website.
• Philipp Schneider wrote a tutorial on how to integrate Newton and Irrlicht using Dev-C++. I've added it to the tutorials section.

I just released irrXML 1.1, the xml parser used by Irrlicht. This release adds some small bug fixes and improvements.
Other news:

• The 'Colombian Developers' created a irrlicht language binding for fenix.
• The anarkhia project is developing games also using Irrlicht and is searching for some more members.

There are some new projects using Irrlicht:

• Galactic Dream is a space-based strategy game created by Evolution Vault in which you can play in a majestic universe, entirey 3D, giving you multiple perspectives over the battlefield, rendered of course using Irrlicht. Added three screenshots from the game to the screenshots section.
• Virtual City is a engine intended for real time rendering of large urban environments, based on Irrlicht. Added screenshots of it to the screenshots section.
• The BCXDX Team created a Irrlicht Engine language binding for BCX which is a basic like language.
• A new russian version of irrlicht.sf.net is available.
• IPTeam is working on a game using Irrlicht.

Time for some community news:

• jirr, a a Java(tm) binding for Irrlicht has beend released in version 0.4, which supports Irrlicht 0.10.0 and includes source and documentation and all 12 translated examples. Thanks to Stefan Dingfelder for his work.
• The first 10 Irrlicht tutorials have been translated into italian by Hangman.
• The german Irrlicht Engine forum is now located at irrlicht3d.de.
• Peter Müller released his art project LeoPig which uses Irrlicht. Source included.

I just uploaded Irrlicht 0.10.0 to the sourceforge servers. This release of Irrlicht is maybe the one with the most new useful features in it. I implemented lots of user requests, hope you like it. The highlights are:

• Five new built-in materials. The most interesting new material type is parallax mapping (screenshot) known from the Unreal3 demos. Implemented for the D3D8, D3D9 and OpenGL drivers. A demo in the SDK demonstrates this feature.
• RTT (Render To Texture) support.
• Built in DeleD (.dmf) and COLLADA (.xml, dae) mesh importers. The latter one is even able to load not only meshes but complete scenes with light and camera setup. This means that Irrlicht now is able to load 12 different 3D mesh formats directly.
• .PNG texture loading support.
• Specular highlights.
• The possibility to run Irrlicht inside an existing Win32 window/widget.
• Highly extended Irrlicht.NET support: Added animators, font drawing, collision response, and triangle selectors.
• Two new tutorials. This means there are now 17 tutorials/examples in total in the SDK.
• Software renderer with support for transparencies.
• Enhanced XML parser (irrXML).
• Lots of speed improvements and bug fixes.

For a complete list, please see the changes.txt file. You can download Irrlicht 0.10.0 from the download page. Updated also the features page, the author page, the tutorials, and the development page. And I also uploaded the new API documentation for Irrlicht and Irrlicht.NET.

After lots of user requests, I've created a separate project for the Irrlicht Engine xml parser. I extended it with lots of new features and bugfixes. I named it irrXML and created an own homepage for it. It is now completely independent of the Irrlicht Engine but still has all the nice features which made it popular. If you are searching for a descent, small, fast and simple xml parser, take a look at it.
And of course, all the features in irrXML will be in the next Irrlicht Engine releases. In fact, the whole irrXML SDK is being automaticly created from my Irrlicht development version with a click on single batch file which just copies files, runs doxygen, etc.

Another note: irrLua 0.1 has been released. It is an attempt to provide a nice lua front end to the Irrlicht engine. The current version is only set up to build under linux, at the moment. Linked this from the link page.

I updated the Irrlicht related projects page with some screenshots and links people sent me during the last days and I found in recent threads in the forum.
If you want your project added there too, just drop me a mail: .
Additional updates:

• Updated link to irr.ag-dev.com
• If you didn't try it out yet, take a look at Penuin, the treasure hunter. It's a small complete game by x4861 created with Irrlicht.
• Another interesting one, but only a prototype is DungeonTech.
• The german netvader irrlicht engine forum now is located at irrlichts.de
  

I've worked a little bit on the layout of this website and I think I improved it. Besides the obvious design changes it is now a lot more clearly arranged. Other big changes are:

• Rearragend the tutorials and moved some externals to irrlicht.sf.net
• Added 'OSI certified' and W3C logos
• Added Wiki link
• Added google search-this-website link (right upper corner)
• Removed shot of the month
• Added project screenshots. Currently under contruction and quite empty.

About the shot of the month removal: I've recieved a lot of submissions every month and it was always difficult to choose the best and not to make any one angry because of this. So I decided to drop it. Instead, I created a new section on the screenshots page, where I now want to add shots of projects using Irrlicht, together with short descriptions. I also removed the game links temporarily because of this. So, if you created / are creating a game with Irrlicht, please send me a link and shots of it, so that I can add it. Would be very nice. And free advertisement for you.
I tested the new page with FireFox, Opera and IE, but if you encounter any problems, don't hesitate to tell me.

• Thanks to Joe Oliveri, this webpage is reachable now via Irrlicht-Engine.com too. Cool.
• The next version of Irrlicht will be able to do parallax mapping. I've uploaded a short video which demonstrates this new feature. In addition, the new shot of the week shows it.
• The link to the devpack for dev c++ I posted last time was incorrect. Now it should work.

• Jirr 0.3 for Irrlicht 0.9 is out. It's Irrlicht for Java if you don't know it yet. Thanks to Stefan Dingfelder.
• Irrlicht Engine SDK 0.9 DevPak for Dev-C++ has been created by Rob Loach. Includes official 0.9 examples, includes, libraries, a template project, help documents, tools, everything.
• A long and useful list of Irrlicht patches has been compiled by hybrid. Thanks!

• The Irrlicht Forum has been hacked for the second time. I updated, patched, modded and restored it some hours later, and (nearly) no data has been lost. Now we really know that script kiddies do not have any respect for free open source software. Sorry for any inconvenience.
• Andrew Yee is creating a 3D fighting game for University of Victoria named Stickman Fighters.

Irrlicht 0.9 has just been released. There are lots of bug fixes in it, but also many new features. In addition, some of the most popular community extensions have been integrated directly into the engine. Some of the most important changes are:

• Irrlicht now includes a completely new and working terrain renderer. It is based on the GeoMipMapSceneNode by Spintz which is based on Soconne's terrain renderer.
• Multipass rendering for SceneNodes is now possible, which means a scene node can now contain multiple types of materials (transparent/opaque) but all parts will be rendered in the correct order. This was previously only possible by creating spearate scene nodes for transparent objects.
• A lot of external importers have been integrated into the engine which means Irrlicht can now load a lot more file formats directy. The new ones are:
  • FSRad (.oct) file loader
  • Cartography shop 4 (.csm) loader
  • Pulsar LMTools (.lmts) loader
  • My3DTools 3 (.my3D) file loader
• If the now 9 supported formats are not enough, there are some exporters for 3DSMax, Gile[s] and Blender included in the SDK.
• Multitexturing support for Linux
• A new tutorial (about terrain rendering) and an updated tutorial which shows how to use HLSL in Irrlicht.
• Lots of other things, please take a look at changes.txt for details.

You can download the release from the download section. Ignoring the tradition, the API documentation has already been uploaded. In addition, the new tutorials are also already online and the new shot of the week shows a scene from the newly added tutorial.