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This is one of the big reasons I am trying to make Irrlicht work out even though it's dated. I am hoping shaders and some other stuff will help upgrade the appearance of my program even in Irrlicht.

I mean if they were serious about open engines they might fund a DirectX 12 upgrade for Irrlicht or something.

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How does it compare to Godot Engine? https://godotengine.org/features (Free and Open Source under MIT license)

I've spent quite a few hours with games based on the Irrlicht. Nice to hear it's still being improved. Have you looked at the work the SuperTuxKart devs have done to add shader support?[1] I've played a few round and the new tracks are gorgeous.

[1] https://supertuxkart.net/Antarctica:_Technical_Details

It actually looks like they are a good portion of the way towards replacing Irrlicht with their own engine focused on shaders.

I really like Irrlicht so nice to see a mention. I played around with it a while back, using GDAL to read raster data and Irrlicht to display/animate it in 3D, and was very impressed by its simplicity even for someone coming to it with no C++. I learnt so much just from a few days hacking.

There's OGRE as well of course, but I seem to recall there was some weird preprocesser step to compilation that put me off it: https://www.ogre3d.org/

Looks like the focus is more-open engines, not more open-engines reading the source blog post.

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