Irrlicht 1.4beta out now

Posted on:October 01 2007

Yee-ha, Irrlicht 1.4beta is out. A short excerpt from the news on irrlicht.sf.net, what's new:

A rewritten unified skeletal animation system with some more sophisticated long awaited features such as manual joint animation.
Irrlicht's own file format: .irrmesh, for static meshes.
Mesh writing support: Write collada, .stl and .irrmesh files. Irrlicht now can also read .stl files and be used to convert any file it can read into these file formats.
Enhanced Particle System reintegrated from the irrSpintz fork
PointSprite support
Improved collada, .obj, .my3d and loaders

Yes, this release is a beta, not the final 1.4 version yet, so be careful. I also updated the Irrlicht team page a bit, for those who are interested.
Thanks to all who made this release possible!

Comments:

Damn, Irrlicht is a cool engine, cant await the DX10 support ;-)

Q-efx

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2007-10-01 18:47:00

w00t!

Jena

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2007-10-01 21:41:00

It's always good to see a new Irrlicht release. As much as I like seeing advancement in new projects like irrEdit or irrKlang, Irrlicht remains the nitty-gritty. I was almost worried that there was too much distraction with these side projects. Good work niko and everyone else who worked on this!

Niko, I would like to hear about your findings on how the transition from one-man-project to team-effort, and how hard it was/is to get everything coordinated and/or to get people to join in on the project rather than fork. I think many developers would be interested in that.

Gothi[c]

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2007-10-02 01:49:00

Thanks for putting the pictures of the devs. Bitplane and Hybrid are both younger than what I thought! lol

Virion

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2007-10-02 06:55:00

but the pictures have been around there for some years now, I think :)
Gothic: that's an idea, lets see. :)

niko

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2007-10-02 18:53:00

I love you people
George

kukanov

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2007-10-04 00:34:00

I can't wait for irrlicht 1.4.. plus I hope you remember to add the new demo.. which was to be created with IrrEdit.. :-p
all the best Niko.

(sorry for the double post. I forgot to put my name)

leo

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2007-10-04 13:22:00

Give luke a picture!

BlindSide

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2007-10-07 10:35:00