Irrlicht, Fast Realtime 3D Engine, v0.7 is released

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 renderer, and has all of the state-of-the-art features which can be found in commercial 3d engines.

Website: http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/
What's new in v0.7: http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/changes.txt
Feature list: http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/features.html
Slashdot comments: http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/04/09/18/1747257.shtml

Anyone ever tried or played around with this?
 
Spaceman-Spiff said:
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 renderer, and has all of the state-of-the-art features which can be found in commercial 3d engines.

Website: http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/
What's new in v0.7: http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/changes.txt
Feature list: http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/features.html
Slashdot comments: http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/04/09/18/1747257.shtml

Anyone ever tried or played around with this?

The 0.7 techdemo wasn't very impressing though (from a user point of view, since i'm not a coder) :)
 
Interesting demo, but I think it's too much to compare it to comercial engines. It doesn't even come close. The tech demo AFAIK didn't include half the features mentioned, and there were sparklies in someof the seams and bad z sorting.

unimpressed. Sorry whoever made it
 
cloudscapes said:
Interesting demo, but I think it's too much to compare it to comercial engines. It doesn't even come close. The tech demo AFAIK didn't include half the features mentioned, and there were sparklies in someof the seams and bad z sorting.

unimpressed. Sorry whoever made it

Is graphics the be all and end all for games?

I still play DOS games ffs. I'm finding myself playing older games more and more.

Baldur's Gate, Diablo 2, Warcraft 2. Neither have good graphics.
Hell, even Warcraft 3's graphics for it's time suck hardcore, even for a RTS game. I've seen at least 6x better graphics under some older RTS games.
 
K.I.L.E.R said:
Is graphics the be all and end all for games?

I still play DOS games ffs. I'm finding myself playing older games more and more.

Baldur's Gate, Diablo 2, Warcraft 2. Neither have good graphics.
Hell, even Warcraft 3's graphics for it's time suck hardcore, even for a RTS game. I've seen at least 6x better graphics under some older RTS games.
Um, he mentioned graphical corruption errors. That's worse than just old graphics.
 
It's also a Techdemo, these are supposed to show off what the engine is capable of. Even running in D3D9 mode this definitely fails to impress at any level.
 
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