I've made a new release updating some sound problems. It seems that there is quite a bit of interest in merging Ogre with a sound engine, so I also made up a new demo script showing off some 3D sound effects.

I have also intergrated some of Ogre's new GUI system. It's not much, but it's a start.

I have ported the changes I made from the Scripting Engine to NeoScript back again, so this latest release is built off the Ogre engine but is now up to date with the latest code. There has also been a name change from Scripting Engine to OgreScript.

For those who are confused, NeoScript is the same application built off NeoEngine, while OgreScript is built off Ogre. I probably won't continue development of NeoScript, so keep checking this page for the latest developments.

Anyway, grab the new demo and source code from the links to the right, or from the downloads page.

This new release brings a basic GUI system, and some enhanced memory management. The GUI system is very basic at the moment. It consists of a form and a button, and you can press the button to execute a function. In this example to button is used to start a flythough of a quake 3 level which is included in the ogre-media.zip file (extract this into the Media folder under Samples in the standard ogre distribution).

The memory management extends the idea of the shared and weak pointers which are included in the boost library. Basically the MemManager holds a list of all ManagedObject's in shared pointers. These pointers are used to delete the ManagedObject's either when the program ends (naturally or when an exception is thrown) or when one of the delete functions of MemManager are called. All references to a ManagedObject should be through a weak pointer, which isn't used for memory management. The concept here is largely conceptual (you can still delete the pointer held in a weak pointer), but it does provide a way to make sure all objects are cleaned up in the event of an exception.

I have been working on a basic GUI system for Ogre, and you can download a sneek preview of my current achievements - a form which you can move around!

Grab the demo (extract into the bin folder), and then extract the ogre-media.zip archive (see the quicklinks to the right) into the Media folder (you want to have a subfolder called GUI underneath the Media folder which contains a lot of png files. Don't extract the files into the Media folder directly!).

Also note that Ogre doesn't have an easy way to test if the mouse buttons have been pressed, so for now the space bar is used instead of the left mouse button. So clicking and draging is actually pressing the space bar and dragging. I think you get the idea.