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Nir Hasson joins the team (officially!)

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

We’re pleased to announce that Nir Hasson has joined the OGRE Team! Now, those of you who have been in the community for a while all know Nir anyway, and also know that he’s been contributing code directly for a while, particularly his RTShaderSystem component for generating shaders which made its debut in Ogre 1.7. As such, he’s been operating as a member of the team in all but name for some time, and he’s only held off accepting an official badge because his plans for the immediate future were uncertain.

So, we’re glad that he’s agreed to join the team officially now – welcome aboard Nir! In practice it’s business as usual, but he has his well-deserved official badge now :)

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We have an official mascot!

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

sinbad_ogremascotOgre’s been going for almost 10 years now, and in all this time we’ve never had an official mascot character. Well, now we do! :)

Zi Ye (aka ‘omniter’) has been with us since Google Summer of Code 2009, and has proven himself not only skilled in the art of coding, but also skilled in the art of.. well, art! He took it upon himself to create an animated character in the spirit of Ogre, and has clearly succeeded beyond anyone’s wildest expectations.

Zi has named the new character ‘Sinbad’, and modelled him on a hybrid of our original Ogre logo and that of a certain well-known sea-faring character, whose name Steve Streeting, the founder and project lead of Ogre, adopted as his development & community alias many, many years ago. He has animations for idling (strangely my personal favourite because it exudes so much character), walking, jumping, drawing and putting away his swords, 2 types of attack and, curiously, a dance routine :) He stars in a new sample where he can be controlled by the user, which  demonstrates character control and also using tag points to attach related items (the swords) to a skeleton.

This will all be included in the next release of Ogre 1.7, or you can access it now from the 1.7 Subversion branch. There’s also a video available of a slightly earlier version of the demo. ‘Sinbad’ is available for free use in other applications too so long as you don’t try to charge money for him.

Huge thanks to Zi for doing this! If you want to congratulate him yourself, here’s his development thread on the subject.

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Zero Gear Released, Free Week on Steam

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

This week marks the release of Zero Gear, the fun kart-racing game from NimbleBit that uses Ogre for rendering. Here’s their press release:

January 12th marks the official release date of the PC kart game Zero Gear by NimbleBit! For the low price of only $19.99 you can beat up your friends in 18 different levels, in customizable karts and characters. Play with physically based weapons, earn achievements and compete in many different game modes.

To help get you into the actions with your friends, Zero Gear is also offered in a 4-pack for $39.99. Thats 50% off each copy!

Still not satisfied? Take your friends and try the full game for FREE this entire week! Zero Gear will be free to play on Steam until Jan. 18th! If you are STILL on the fence, lets keep it 25% off for the entire week. Get Zero Gear now or be sorry later!!11!

Congratulations to the guys at NimbleBit on their release!

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OGRE 1.7.0 RC1 [Cthugha] Released!

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

ogre_17_logoWe said we’d try to get this out before the end of the year, and with only hours to spare we just about made it! OGRE 1.7 has been under development for over a year now, and the time has come to draw a line under it and get it shipped as a brand new stable version. Unlike the maintenance releases we’ve been issuing regularly for 1.6, this release includes a huge number of new features and enhancements, of which the headliners are listed after the jump. Edit: I forgot to mention that this release makes official our transition to the MIT License – we’ve been using it in Subversion for a while so it slipped my mind that this is the first ‘official’ release under that license. So that’s news!

As usual, plenty of people have been testing it direct from Subversion for a while now, but even so we’re issuing it as a Release Candidate to begin with. Due to time constraints, we’re also only issuing this as a source release for the moment – prebuilt SDKs will follow in a second Release Candidate or the final.

For those of you using Subversion, the new path for Ogre 1.7 is now https://svn.ogre3d.org/svnroot/ogre/branches/v1-7. Otherwise, you can find the new release on the source downloads page.

Happy New Year!

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OGRE v1.6.5 [Shoggoth] Released

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

ogre_16_logoWe just thought we’d sneak this one in before the end of the year! OGRE v1.6.5 is now officially released, which will most likely be the final official maintenance release of the v1.6 (’Shoggoth’) branch. As usual it’s a stability and bugfix release for those in production environments, full details of which are available after the jump. All of the fancy new goodies are saved for 1.7 which should be out in Release Candidate form very shortly – or right now if you want to access our repository before the official release.

Enjoy, and have a happy new year!

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Interview with masterfalcon on Ogre iPhone dev

Monday, December 7th, 2009

French 3D specialist site 3d-test.com have just posted an interview with our David ‘masterfalcon’ Rogers, where he talks about the Ogre iPhone port (in English :) ). Recommended reading if you’re interested in iPhone and iPod Touch development with Ogre.

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Thanks to 3d-test.com for running this interview and to David for doing such a great job on it.

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Torchlight launches today!

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Torchlight, a fresh new Action RPG franchise developed by Runic Games and using OGRE for rendering, is launching today! Torchlight has been developed in Seattle by a veteran team composed of the designers and leads of projects like Diablo, Diablo II, Mythos, and Fate.

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The single player game launches today, with an MMO version planned for 2010. Having played the single player game, it’s immediately obvious that it was designed by a team of veterans of the genre; it’s highly polished and a lot of fun to play, and we’re very proud that OGRE has been a part of creating this title.

Torchlight is available to purchase as a digital download from Perfect World, Steam, Direct2Drive and other partners. Go get it!

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Noam Gat (’Noman’) joins the team

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

We’re very pleased to announce that Noam Gat (aka Noman) has officially joined the OGRE team! Noam has been working with and contributing to OGRE for several years now, and was a successful student in our Google Summer of Code programmes for 2008 (geometry shaders) and 2009 (compositor enhancements). Noman will be continuing to build on the compositor work he’s been doing recently, and anything else he happens to fancy having a crack at.

Welcome aboard Noam!

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OGRE v1.6.4 [Shoggoth] Released

Monday, September 28th, 2009

ogre_16_logoIt’s maintenance release time again, a new release containing more bugfixes for those using the stable v1.6 (Shoggoth) branch. It’s available now in both source and SDK form at the usual place.

Full details of the changes in this release are available after the jump.

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“Game Engine Architecture” by Jason Gregory

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

gameenginearchitectureWe’d like to bring to the attention of the community that the new book Game Engine Architecture has just been released, extensively covering the practical issues associated with constructing a full game engine. In the book, Ogre is frequently used as an example of how various engine components can be designed and implemented. It covers subjects from OS and foundation systems, resource management and rendering, animation, collision and physics, and all the way up to the game world object model that ties them all together.  Target audience includes amateurs learning about game development, college students taking game engineering majors or minors, junior members of industry, and even senior folks who are specialized and want to learn more about the rest of the engine.

The book is written by Jason Gregory, a veteran of the game industry, programmer at Naughty Dog, and lecturer at the University of Southern California, where he runs a game development course which also makes regular use of Ogre.  We’re very proud to be featured in the book, which is currently receiving very positive reviews on www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk and www.amazon.de, and certainly recommend that you check it out!

While you’re at it, why not check out our full recommended reading list?

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