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Irrlicht - Fast Realtime 3D Engine

Posted by michael on from the do-it-yourself dept.

Surye writes "Though a few days late on the release, Irrlicht has released version 0.7 of its engine. The site describes it as '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.' Bindings for java, perl, ruby, and python, and it is platform independent (only implemented currently on Windows and Linux, but when it moves to other platforms, the code will be completely portable). The feature list is simply amazing, and since it's still being quite actively developed, I can see this becoming a major player soon."

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  1. Within three hours of Irrlicht's release by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    3D Realms issued a press release saying that they had standardized on it for the final engine to be used in Duke Nukem Forever

    When asked whether the move to Irrlicht would interfere with the work already done since their announcement last week that DNF had standardized on the Mario Party 6 engine, 3D Realms declined to answer, instead apparently becoming distracted by and taking chase after a rabbit running through the grass nearby

  2. Re:game applications by theparanoidcynic · · Score: 1, Funny

    Read the . . . . read the website?

    You must be new around here. :p

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  3. Bah... by elFarto+the+2nd · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...wake me up when we've got some hardware raytracers

    Regards
    elFarto
    1. Re:Bah... by Maljin+Jolt · · Score: 2, Funny

      Wake up! You have two of them just at the front side of your head.

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  4. Re:Portable 3D Engine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    When your karma is so low that you post at -1, it's time to create a new account.

  5. rotfl by jbellis · · Score: 2, Funny

    "If PERL 6 and Parrot are able to get really mature in the next 6 months to a year"

    perl6 won't even be beta within a year.

    *cough* vapor *cough*