The development of the Xtra is still ongoing, yet I am working on another project which will pay my bills. In the meantime, another programmer which is a friend of mine is re-working the initialization routine.

So stay tuned, new releases are coming up. I want to wrap this sucker up.

Pulled down the latest source tree from the Irrlicht SVN server and recompiled it into the Xtra.  I do this as there are intereseting new methods in there, albeit they may not work just yet (like loading and saving a scene, or taking a screenshot) .

What follows is the change file of the Irrlicht 1.1 release, so these are things that you can expect to be in the Xtra. Will wire them up, Xtra is now 684Kb in size.

Changes in version Irrlicht 1.1 (??? 2006)

- Added support for making screenshots in all video drivers and a general
possibility to save any IImage to several file formats.
Some image writers are not yet implemented. As a testcase screenshots
are now available in the demo by pressing F9.
This code was contributed by Travis Vitek.

- Changed EAMTS_OCT to EAMT_OCT.

- Improved .3ds and .obj file importers.

- Added support for .b3d (Blitz Basic) submitted by Luke Hoschke and
.pak (Quake archive) files submitted by skreamz.

- Added sky dome implementation contributed by Anders la Cour-Harbo (alc).

- In addition to the Cube scene node (formerly test scene node) there is now also a sphere scene node available,
with an adjustable amount of polygons. Use ISceneManager::addSphereSceneNode to create it.
Thx to Alfaz93 for making available his code on which this node is based on.
Note that both nodes now use default material settings, e.g. lighting is enabled by default.

- Fixed Linux keyhandling for many keys.

- The aspect ratio has been inverted in the matrix, which means when setting a new aspect ratio
for cameras, set it to screen.width/screen.height now instead of screen.height/screen.width
as previously.

- added support for reading/importing binary .x files.

- .ms3d and .x normals are now correctly transformed in animations, bounding
boxes are slightly better transformed, but not yet correct.

- Added possibility to load and save Irrlicht scenes to and from xml files via
ISceneManager::saveScene and ISceneManager::loadScene. Note that not all
scene nodes are supported yet, but most features should already work.

- Bounding box of the Skybox corrected (set to null)

- The SMaterial structure now supports 4 textures. (Currently ignored by the renderers and their materials.)

- Test scene node renamed to CubeSceneNode.

- Added scene node animator factories. This is the same as scene node
factories, but for scene node animators.

- Added scene node factories. This is an interface making it possible to dynamicly
create scene nodes. To be able to add custom scene nodes to Irrlicht and
to make it possible for the scene manager to save and load those external scene nodes, simply
implement this interface and register it in you scene manager via ISceneManager::
registerSceneNodeFactory

- Introduced IMeshSceneNode interface with the possibility to set readonly materials to make
it possible to use the mesh materials directly instead of overriding them. In this way
it is possible to change the materials of a mesh causing all mesh scene nodes
referencing this mesh to change, too.

- Added possibility to load OGRE .mesh files directly, thanks to Christian Stehno who contributed
a loader for this.

- Merged with Irrlicht 1.0 for MacOS

- Added a method getType() to ISceneNodeAnimator.

- There is now a system to serialize and deserialize attributes of scene nodes. In this way
it should be quite simple to to expose the attributes of your scene node for scripting
languages, editors, debuggers or xml serialization purposes.

- Irrlicht containers and strings now have allocators, making it possible to
use them across .dll boundaries.

- Changed the name of scene nodes from wide character to to char* for speed and memory reasons.

- Renamed IStringParameter class to IAttributes and enhanced it to be able to
serialize its content into and from xml.

- Textures now have a method getName().

- Added the methods getTextureCount() and getTextureByIndex() to IVideoDriver.