   Irrlicht. is it good
  im wondering what peoples views on the Irrlicht game engine is.. it seems nice to me from someone who knows very little about programing, but im wondering if i can get other peoples oppinions on it..thanks   
  Not to sound mean but first off Irrlicht is a 3D Rendering Engine not a game engine.  You can use it as the 3D renderer for a game engine you want to create.  But game engines have Physics, Networking, Sound, Rendering, and a few other systems already built into them.  All Irrlicht can do is Render on its own.Now that this is cleared up...  Irrlicht is a awsome 3D rendering engine.  It is very simple to use if you follow the tutorials before using it.  It is organized in a easy to understand way.  The source code for the engine is actually quite awsome to look through if you want to modify the engine a little bit.  It does render very nicely but OGRE can do better.  However, OGRE is a little more complex to use compaired to Irrlicht.  Go on their website Irrlicht scope out some of the tutorials and screen shots to see if you like it.Then you can go to OGRE and look over what is on their site tutorial and screenshot wise.  Then you can choose the one you want to use.   ;  Hey there MG. I stumbled across a really neat and very easy to use game engine. It is open source so you can take a look at the inner-workings of the engine. Also it has systems like a Renderer, Sound, Input, Particles unlike Irrlicht which is just a renderer. Heres a link HGE;  Haaf's game engine is nice. But it is a 2d game engine and not a 3d game engine. And the OP seams to be looking for a 3d game engine.Lizard   ;Irrlicht is an amazing graphics library as it's just so easy to use.  I was going through some of the examples a while back and got a Quake map up on the screen in about 15 lines of code.Another option would be to use OGRE.  If you do use OGRE, you'll have more troubles getting something going as it's a much more complex graphics library.  Another thing you could consider are the dependancies.  Irrlicht just comes with one single DLL where as OGRE needs about 20 and a bunch of data dependancies.  Try both and see which one you like more.   