CopperLicht Released

I just released the first version of CopperLicht, a new 3D engine implemented completely in JavaScript. It runs entirely in the browser and uses WebGL. (WebGL is a new 3d drawing API which is supposed to be supported in the next generation of web browsers.) Doesn't sound too awesome maybe, but look what CopperLicht can do:

Basically, it is pretty fast and can render huge maps like here a full quake 3 level in playable speeds. (If you notice, this one is the quake map from the Irrlicht SDK). You can try out the demo yourself here.

CopperLicht is free to use. You can use CopperCube as world editor, so you can edit your worlds in 3d and write your game with CopperLicht. The API of CopperLicht is pretty easy to understand, and if you ever tried out Irrlicht, you'll notice that those are very similar. The SceneGraph and Material API is nearly the same, and loading textures and extending the engine works very similar as in Irrlicht.

CopperCube has been released in a new version as well now, it now also supports publishing its 3D scenes as WebGL, using CopperLicht of course.

This is the first release of CopperLicht, and it's an alpha version, so if you have any suggestions, comments, feature requests and similar, please don't hesitate. :)

Irrlicht 1.7 released

Irrlicht 1.7 is out now. Some of the new features are:

• Added Multiple Render Target (MRT) support
• Added support for geometry shaders (OpenGL)
• Added 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

Happy downloading!

Another One: Fiona Finch and the Finest Flowers

It's always fun and interesting for me to see products using my software, so I'd like to share this game as well: 1morebee's Fiona Finch and the Finest Flowers has recently been released and is currently on the 2nd position on iWin's top10 list. It looks like this:

Not quite my personal type of game, but from the gameplay video, it looks like fun. Seems like gardening and farming games are currently in, hm?
Update: Forgot to mention which software the games uses. irrKlang, it is.

Austrian Army commercial

Most people who hang around in the depths of the Internet from time time have come across this ad from the Ukrainian Army (youtube).
Now, thee Austrian army created a copy. It's serious, real and even worse than the original. They even took out the sexism. I wonder how much they paid for creating this.

Armada 2526

Armada 2526 is a space opera game where you guide your race from its first interstellar journeys until it becomes a mighty galactic empire. It was recently released by Ntronium Games.

Why I'm blogging this? Because it's once again a released game using irrKlang, yay. :)

A tip to recruiters from a Software Developer

As self employed software developer, I get job offers from head hunters and recruiting companies on a regular basis. They usually give me a rough requirement description like


and ask me if I would be interested in that job. If it sounds interesting, I say "yes, maybe" and ask them for the name of the company or at least some more project details, because these are the only real factors which influence if I will do the job. It's the only way to roughly judge how the job will look like and what conditions I would have to work in during the next 3 months.

It's quite a pity that these recruiting companies never tell you the name of the company beforehand. Or at least some project details. The reason is that they fear you'll contact the company yourself to get the job without them. But with this, probably they shoot themselves in the foot:

I guess I'm not the only developer who started to simply say 'no' to the majority of job offers without any such details. It's simply less time consuming to skip offers of recruiters without any details and pick those few with in-depth descriptions.

Spacework - A game using Irrlicht

Spacework is commercial game buy EMBERGEP which uses Irrlicht as 3d engine. It has an interesting look:

The game runs on Mac OS X and Windows. Maybe worth trying out, there is a demo available.

Irrlicht Reddit

There is an Irrlicht Reddit available now. Quite empty still, though.

Photo bombing taken to the next level

If somebody can be called professional photo bomber, then this guy:



He seems to be known already in Portugal, he is called Emplastro.

IP Adresses and the Law

The law - I guess not only in Germany - is a bit schizophrenic regarding IP-Adresses. Some courts say webmasters must not store IP adresses because they are sensitive private data. Some other courts say that webmasters must provide them with IP-Adresses of users in order to investigate crimes and if they don't then it's against the law. Just some random thoughts.

In other news: This is the 1000th blog post on this blog (since 2005). Too bad I didn't copy the old posts from my first blog when I migrated to irrlicht3d.org, I would have reached this goal year(s) before. :)