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Ohhh, this is super awesome. A new version of the Irrlicht 3d Engine (and no, I did not sneeze… seriously, that’s the name of the engine. Irrlicht.) has been released for the perusal of all you hard core 3d game fans.

Now, I personally have never used this engine, but apparently it’s got some pretty bad assed features including:

• Enhanced software rasterizer: 32 bit rendering, dynamic lights, more materials.
• Support for the Code::Blocks IDE
• Microsoft .dll hell awareness (no more abort and ‘d3dx9_xx.dll not found’ messages), Irrlicht will also operate if some of these dlls can not be loaded.
• Better support for orthogonal rendering and drawing to foreign windows, useful for creating 2D games, editors and 3D tools using Irrlicht.
• Improved Irrlicht.NET (root scene node, view frustrums, bounding boxes, …)
• More precise picking
• gcc 4 support
• Bugfixes, other small implemented feature requests

So, if you’re a fan of programming in a .Net atmosphere and would like to check out a new 3d engine, go ahead and download Irrlicht Engine and check it out.

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