Irrlicht Console Device

Someone on the forums wanted a way to load Irrlicht without a GUI so they could use Irrlicht’s software renderer to render images onto 3D objects, like mugs and other products.

So, since it sounded like fun, I went the distance and make a console driver that treats the console like a window, and if you render to it then it outputs your 3D graphics as ASCII art. It’s no libcaca, but I thought it was pretty cool at the time, and I had a lot of fun with it.

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Here’s another video that ended up trending a decade later in some kind of Spanish cursed video meme or something!