I haven't seen Irrlicht mentioned here at all, so mabye people aren't aware of it? Anyways, it seems to me to be a great 3D engine that is just lacking LOD in it's terrain. Overall, it is a VERY easy to use 3D engine, take a look! http://www.irrlicht.sourceforge.net

Irilicht is an engine, this forum is for API's. I can understand the confusion. but if you like it, go for it. most of the people here make their own engine.

Personally, I'd disagree - Irrlicht has as much of a place in this forum as libraries such as SDL. I guess when Dave asked what the purpose of this forum should be, he was leaving it up to us to decide. I can see engines such as Irrlicht being talked about here, afterall, CrystalSpace is an 'engine' and that has topics here :)

As for Irrlicht, I think I'll check it out sometime, it seems to have a cult following :)

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Original post by PnP Bios Irilicht is an engine, this forum is for API's. I can understand the confusion. but if you like it, go for it. most of the people here make their own engine.

No, it's for libraries and middleware. Irrilicht more than qualifies.

I'm downloading the Irrlicht SDK as I type this. I'm interested in hearing about anyone's experiences with this engine - has anyone used it extensively? Are there any pros/cons to it?

Niko governs with an iron hand.

I've used Irrlich since its first public release. Although I havn't had the time to create any large projects with it, I have learned alot about 3D engines that I didn't know before. It's very lightweight' quick, and easy to build, unlike OGRE. Comes with a handful examples (although I wish there were a few more for some of the newer features), and the material system is getting a complete rewrite in 0.7.

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Original post by PnP Bios Irilicht is an engine, this forum is for API's. I can understand the confusion. but if you like it, go for it. most of the people here make their own engine.

In an attempt to make you eat your words :) I shall give this example:

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Alternative Game Libraries For discussion related to SDL, Allegro, FMod, OpenAL, ODE, Ogre, CrystalSpace, etc.

Notice OGRE in the forum description? And what does OGRE stand for? Object Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine...so It seems that engines are allowed discussion in this fine forum.

You can now hate me. ;)

Thanks for posting a link to this. I stumbled upon it quite a while back but thought nothing about it at the time. After hearing all of the comments about it, though, i'm in the process of downloading the SDK right now :).

I've been casually observing the progress in 3d scenegraphs and engines for a few years and am impressed how far things have come, but i still haven't found any good compare & contrast with some of the more popular, and have found that the way the respective devs describe the features isn't conducive to comparing on that basis alone.

That said, i believe that CrystalSpace is a more complete "game engine", while Ogre is simply a rendering engine/scenegraph, with Irrlicht somewhere in the middle. Is that right? Are there any significant feature differences?

The only thing that worries me about adopting Irrlicht for my project is that with a single "iron-fisted" dev, if said person were to drop the project or get hit by a comet or something, the development may be permanently crippled.

Thoughts on that?