OGRE 3D 1.7 Application Development Cookbook

We as the OgreTeam are very happy to see yet another Ogre book being published by the open-source friendly online publisher PacktPub:

OGRE 3D 1.7 Application Development Cookbook

In contrast to the previously released OGRE 3D 1.7 Beginner’s Guide which aimed at teaching the basics of Ogre from scratch, this new book takes a different approach:

“This is a cookbook with over 50 recipes offering solutions to common application development problems while creating graphics using OGRE 3D, with explained sample code and screenshots added in. Each recipe teaches you about a particular feature of OGRE 3D.”
Quote by PacktPub

The book covers a multitude of different topics, such as:

  • Creation of minimal Ogre3D applications
  • Creation of Ogre plugins
  • Creation of custom Ogre Resource Managers
  • Various input methods such as mouse, keyboard and speech
  • Object and Scene management (e.g. scene loading from (Land)XML)
  • Light and Material handling
  • Various kinds of animations
  • Multimedia Integration (Video, Sound, Speech)
  • Much more, compare table of contents

More details about the book and their authors can be found directly at PacktPub: OGRE 3D 1.7 Application Development Cookbook

There is also a special deal to get both OGRE 3D books from PacktPub as a bundle with a nice discount. So if your are looking to start with Ogre3D, this might be a way to go. But even if you already have experience with our engine, the cookbook can be a good addition to extend your repertoire of techniques.

BTW: The fact that we just released Ogre 1.8, should not stop you from considering either of the two PacktPub books. With the exception of one or two recipes covering Terrain related topics, everything else will still be valid and applicable to Ogre 1.8 as well!

OGRE 1.7.3 [Cthugha] released!

Another six months have passed, and it’s time for another maintenance release to the 1.7 stable branch (codenamed ‘Cthugha’). You can find a list of all the bug fixes after the jump. As usual there are no feature changes or API breakage in this release – we save those for the unstable development branch – which of course you can grab from Mercurial if you want to join us on the bleeding edge.

So far the source releases are ready for download for 1.7.3, the SDK releases are coming soon. If you don’t want to wait, give the source release a try 🙂

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Ogre 2010

With the year 2010 soon coming to an end, it is time for us as the Ogre Community to look back on this eventful past year. It is time to think about all the amazing moments and the enormous progress we made, but it is also time to bring back some of the sad moments. Unfortunately, they are inseparably chained together in that funny thing called life we all struggle through.

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OGRE 1.7.2 [Cthugha] released!

Another six months have passed, and it’s time for another maintenance release to the 1.7 stable branch (codenamed ‘Cthugha’). You can find a list of all the bug fixes after the jump. As usual there are no feature changes or API breakage in this release – we save those for the unstable development branch – which of course you can grab from Mercurial if you want to join us on the bleeding edge.

So far the source releases are ready for download for 1.7.2, the SDK releases are coming soon. If you don’t want to wait, give the source release a try 🙂

Update 8 November: Prebuilt SDKs for Visual Studio 2008/2010, MinGW, OSX and iPhone are now ready for download, as are updated Ubuntu packages in our Launchpad PPA.

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OGRE 1.7.1 [Cthugha] Released!

We’re happy to announce the first maintenance release to the new 1.7 stable branch (codenamed ‘Cthugha’), delivering as per usual a plethora of bug fixes which you can find a list of after the jump. As you would expect there are no feature changes or API breakage in this release – we save those for the unstable development branch – which of course you can grab from Mercurial if you want to join us on the bleeding edge.

So far the source releases and some of the SDKs are ready for download for 1.7.1, if your SDK isn’t updated yet, please be patient as these will come online soon. Or alternatively, try using the source release, it’s really not that scary 🙂

[edit] cg.dll was missing from the early version of the SDKs for Windows, we’re fixing this now, check for updates after 2 May 2010.

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