Irrlicht 1.8 released!

Posted on:November 09 2012

After quite some time, there is a new release of the Irrlicht 3D engine available today: version 1.8. Yay! The Irrlicht team did quite some work on this, the changelog for this version is about 5 screens long :) Some of the new features are:

New loaders for mdl, wal, smf

Cg support

Support for custom hardware cursors

Improved support for 64-bit platforms

Major OSX device improvements

Occlusion culling

Improved collada support

Improved shadows

Polygon offset support

ISceneLoader interface

Supporting now MSVC 2010 and 2012

New versions of support libraries

Video driver attribute query interface

Increased stability (lots of bugfixes!)

You can get the new version from the official irrlicht engine website. Thanks to the irrlicht team for all this hard work!

Comments:

Good to see another release of irrlicht. Sadly, it seems like there is still now native support for post-processing effects?

What ever happened to all these projects (XEffects..etc)?

Kai Mast

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2012-11-09 12:09:00

congrats Niko! Hope more projects to use this engine

jon

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2012-11-12 12:33:00

Not sure, I don't actually have a lot to do with irrlicht anymore. Don't have that much time. This release was done completely by the irrlicht developers, without me.

niko

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2012-11-15 16:53:00