Game development with Newton Game Dynamics and Irrlicht tutorial

15 Oct 2018

As there was not a high load on my tutorial on game development with Irrlicht and Newton Game Dynamics engines as a separate site, I have decided to merge them with my blog and proceed with occasional updates to both as a whole.

So far, these are the changes to the tutorial in comparison to what it used to be (long time ago):

moved all the build instructions to CMake
added scripting with Lua
upgraded the whole tutorial to match latest Irrlicht and Newton versions
added chapter on modelling with Blender

The things which are already done (just not published yet), in progress and the future plans for this tutorial include:

comparison of different build systems for C++ (including CMake, Bazel and Buck)
a better approach to application architecture (plus the comparison of different scripting languages - AngelScript, Squirrel, Lua, ChaiScript and Python)
a sane 3D modelling in blender lessons (preserving texturing and adding advanced materials, possibly even animation!)
advanced topics in Newton Game Dynamics featuring character controller and joints

Tutorial chapters (yet to be updated):

Introduction

    <li>
        <a href="/irrlicht-newton-tutorials/2015/08/26/application-architecture.html">
            Application architecture
        </a>
    </li>

    <li>
        <a href="/irrlicht-newton-tutorials/2015/08/27/first-application.html">
            First application
        </a>
    </li>

    <li>
        <a href="/irrlicht-newton-tutorials/2015/08/28/first-script.html">
            First script
        </a>
    </li>

    <li>
        <a href="/irrlicht-newton-tutorials/2015/08/29/prepare-to-add-some-newtonianity.html">
            Let's add some physics
        </a>
    </li>

    <li>
        <a href="/irrlicht-newton-tutorials/2015/12/15/making-simple-level-with-blender.html">
            Modelling simple level with Blender3D
        </a>
    </li>

    <li>
        <a href="/irrlicht-newton-tutorials/2015/12/16/finishing-the-first-scene.html">
            Finishing the first scene
        </a>
    </li>
</ul>