Irrlicht Engine

I'm usually not getting a lot of mail from the Commercial Court of Vienna (aka Handelsgericht), but today I did. Letters from this institution look pretty scary, and finding this one in my post office box made me shortly hold my breath and let me ... [More] think 'omg, what did I do wrong?'. The big fat characters on top of the letter, reading B E S C H L U S S (german, 'decision') didn't really help to calm me down either. But reading on, it only was a notice letting me know that they acknowledge that the Ambiera office now has moved to the new office. Thanks, Handelsgericht. Wouldn't it be even cooler to let those letters be delivered by police men? Just for those of us with dicky hearts? :) [Less]

I'm planning to add a new feature to CopperCube: 2D Overlays, in order to make it possible to easily create 2D menus, buttons, health indicators and similar. For this, I need an editor for 2D elements, since CopperCube currently is only able to edit ... [More] 3d scenes. I thought about using an external editor or writing a simple 2d editor directly integrated into CopperCube, but I found a better way: Simply reuse the 3d editor and make it also edit 2d items: The 2D item on the left also has those arrows as the 3D item on the right and in fact, this is the same object. The editor doesn't really know anything about that item being 2D instead of 3D, only the code of the arrows needed a bit of adaption to let them draw themselves in 2D. I was quite surprised after everything worked already with very few code adaptions. And I think this also works great from a user perpective: The 2D editor works exactly as the 3D one, no need to new short cuts or special menu items. I hope this feature makes it into a release before the end of the year. [Less]

Recently I received the following complaint about a Darkness Springs account: Purchased the Darkness Spring premium account for my daughter...inputed the liscense key in. The key failed to open the account. Attempted several times, always ... [More] restarting from the begining. I will allow 24 hours for the issue to be resolved... after with time I will dispute all charges, and list the game as a scam on the boards. Obviously, this guy tried to enter the license key where he should enter either his user name or password. And then threatens me to list my game as scam because he is a bit too stup unexperienced to do what hundreds of people were able to do without any problem before. What would you answer? Here is my mail: [Skipped: Friendly description of what he probably did wrong and what he should do to go on playing.] I will allow you 24 hours for the code to be correctly entered, after which I will list you on the 'no-game' list and you will no longer be able to purchase any computer game for life. Unfortunately, I didn't get any response after this. But you never get back anything from those people once their problem is resolved, not even a thank you or 'sorry'. :/ [Less]

Niko Rosvall just made his audio player voize open source. It's now hosted on google code and using the MIT License. It's using irrKlang as audio library.

Maybe you've read this already - tonic mentioned it in the comments on this blog, but just to be sure, I'll blog it here again: Secret Exit Ltd created Stair Dismount for the iPhone using Irrlicht. I played the original game back then in (probably?) ... [More] 2002 and had a lot of fun :) If you don't know what this game is, there is a short video showing the main features of the game. [Less]

Blind Point is a commercial 3D space racing game that was build on Irrlicht, created by Bandit Rogue Interactive Ltd. Looks interesting.

... because of (swine?) flu. Will be opened again if I survived.

The Ambiera Office is currently moving. Needed more space after some of the projects need a bit more attention, like CopperCube and irrKlang. About two years ago, I blogged a picture of the first working infrastructure after I moved to a new ... [More] appartment, so here is a similar picture showing how the new ambiera Office currently looks like Still a bit of work to do, but the most important parts are already working. [that is, HTTP and Email :)] [Less]

Issam Lahlali wrote a comprehensive article in which he analyzes Irrlicht with CppDepend, a Static Analysis Tool for C++. Of course, the blog post is a kind of advertisement for cppdepend, but it's nevertheless quite interesting, I didn't even ... [More] know that tool exists. Also, issam seems to come to the conclusion that Irrlicht is quite well designed, so it's worth a read [Less]