Irrlicht Engine - A free open source 3D engine

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.

31-Aug-10Monthly Screenshot Contest – July 2010

Here is the winner of the Screenshot of the Month contest for July 2010: Nova – Lava Factory. A clear winner this month, where screenshot and game are definitely worth it. Congrats! As always, you can find the screenshot and all contestants in the forum and the gallery.

Please also note that strong99 has taken over the monthly contest supervision. Thanks for helping out here, this should avoid situations as we had with the last contest.

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19-Jul-10Screenshots April-June 2010

Here is the winner of the Screenshot of the Month contest, this time for months April, May, and June 2010: borges – humble screen. Due to time problems on our side, we had to reduce the amount of contests for the last month. Nevertheless, this is a very nice winner. Keep it up. As always, you can find the screenshot and all contestants in the forum and the gallery.

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05-May-10Monthly Screenshot Contest – March 2010

Here is the winner of the Screenshot of the Month contest for March 2010: wing64 – Ready to Fight. Another win for wing64′s game engine. Well done! As always, you can find the screenshot and all contestants in the forum and the gallery.

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25-Apr-10Monthly Screenshot Contest – February 2010

Here is the winner of the Screenshot of the Month contest for February 2010: Sash – Low alt hovering. A close competition between this technical screenshot against an emotional second place. Congrats! As always, you can find the screenshot and all contestants in the forum and the gallery.

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09-Mar-10Monthly Screenshot Contest – January 2010 and Best of 2009

Once again we have two winners of the Screenshot of the Month contest. This time it is the first in 2010, and the best of all screenshots from 2009! For January the winner is Mel – Olimpus Asteroid. Under all winners of last year, Suvi with Gekkeiju Online was chosen as best screenshot of 2009. With just one vote ahead, this was a very tight race with wing64 on runner ups. Congratulations to all of you, you made brilliant scenes.
You can find the screenshots and all other contestants in the forum and the gallery.

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17-Feb-10Irrlicht 1.7.1 released!

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!

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03-Feb-10Irrlicht 1.7 Released!

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!

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23-Jan-10Monthly Screenshot Contest – December 2009

Here is the winner of the Screenshot of the Month contest for December 2009: Firgof – New Year’s Celebration. Very nice! As always, you can find the screenshot and all contestants in the forum and the gallery.

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13-Jan-10Irrlicht 1.6.1 released!

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.

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16-Dec-09Irrlicht Maintenance Release 1.5.2 now public

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!

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