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1999ish

Sinbad realises that his DIMClass project, a project to make an easy to use object-oriented Direct3D library, has become so abstracted that it really doesn't need to be based on Direct3D any more. Begins planning a more ambitious library which could be API and platform independent.

25 February 2000

Sourceforge project registered, OGRE name coined. No development starts due to other commitments but much pondering occurs.

October 2000

Full-on design starts, refactoring of DIMClass begins.

December 2000

Major design pieces are in place, main classes like SceneManager, RenderSystem, SceneNode are all identified concepts with CRC cards to call their own

February 2001

First platform manager complete (Win32), D3D7 is now the first rendersystem

February 2001

OGRE becomes completely dynamically loaded, rendersystems & platform managers as plugins

4 March 2001

First test render of refactored OGRE system

30 March 2001

Started using Doxygen instead of ccdoc to generate API docs

1 April 2001

Made an important design decision to separate the class hierarchies of spatial structures SceneNode and scene contents (MovableObject) and join them through attachment to reduce dependencies and improve flexibility

May 2001

Entity / SubEntity / Mesh / SubMesh system created

13 June 2001

FrameListener and FrameEvent introduced

3 July 2001

OGRE 0.6 released

17 July 2001

Moved away from 4x4 matrices in nodes to separate position / orientation / scale, and switched to quaternions for all rotations

September 2001

Bezier patches and multitexture / multipass blending work

November 2001

skyboxes, skydomes and skyplanes

December 2001

BSP support finished

14 January 2002

Controllers introduced

Feb 2002

cearny joins the core team

March 2002

OGRE 0.98b - Material scripts make their first appearance. ROAM landscape engine appears (later dropped in favour of geomipmapping). Billboards. First time STLport is required because of increased STL compliance.

April 2002

temas joins the core team

June 2002

OGRE 0.99b - Particle systems and misc stuff

September 2002

OGRE 0.99d - Linux support, OpenGL renderer, skeletal animation, Milkshape exporter, Codec structures

October 2002

janders joins the core team

October 2002

OGRE 0.99e - XMLConverter appears, octree scene manager appears, D3D8 renderer, spline animation interpolation, font rendering via Freetype

December 2002

Mesh LOD, Geomipmapping terrain, stencil operations

January 2003

First release of Blender exporter

February 2003

OGRE 0.10.0 (version reformatted) - 3DS Max exporter, D3D9 renderer

Mid 2003

cearny & janders leave project (inactive)

June 2003

OGRE 0.11.0 - SceneQuery added, ODE collision demonstrated in BspCollision, Maya and Wings exporters, lots of small enhancements

May 2003

_mental_ joins the core team

September 2003

OGRE 0.12.0 - hardware buffer interfaces, vertex declarations, complete geometry system overhaul. First time we branched the codebase into maintenance and development branches

January 2004

OGRE 0.13.0 - major material overhaul, vertex & pixel shader support for assembler (D3D & GL), Cg and HLSL, XCode support

May 2004

OGRE 0.14.0 - shadows, hardware skinning, projective texturing

July 2004

wumpus joins the core team

October 2004

OGRE 0.15.0 - binary mesh format made more flexible, GLSL support, Radian/Degree classes,

November 2004

SoftImage agree to sponsor the OGRE project and allow free access to XSI SDK.

February 2005

OGRE v1.0.0 Final Azathoth released - resource system overhaul, hardware pixel buffers, HDR, CEGui, XSI exporter

March 2005

OGRE is 'Project of the Month' on Sourceforge

July 2005

Jeff 'nfz' Doyle joins the OGRE Team

September 2005

Sinbad announces Kadath, a commercial scene manager and exporter tool for use with OGRE, XSI and Blender.

May 2006

OGRE v1.2.0 Final Dagon released

September 2006

Enrichments by Google Summer of Code 2006

March 2007

OGRE 1.4.0 Final Eihort Released

April 2007

Google Summer of Code 2007 projects announced

March 2008

Google Summer of Code 2008 student applications open

November 2008

OGRE 1.6.0 Final Shoggoth released

July 2009

David ‘masterfalcon’ Rogers joins the team, brings iPhone support

August 2009

Google Summer of Code 2009 projects announced

October 2009

Noam 'Noman' Gat joins the team

More information can be found in the blog of the www.ogre3d.org homepage.

To see release information (change log / history) you can use this link or have a look at the Roadmap here in the wiki.