a few months ago plotnik from our german forums started on creating a 3D battle environment for BotE based on the classic Irrlicht C++ free 3D engine. I pointed him to cdrwolfe's great source code and he was able to convert valuable parts of it. He did a first check-in over at http://bote.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/changesets. Anyone who wants to participate is very welcome to do so. SirP can set a account there for co-programmers. Maybe wolfe, you could have a look or two at it too, he was full of praise for your model handling and effect management
. Some folders btw. are still missing at the repository though (mainly the media files which the repository doesn't accept).
A very early version (from before I've shown him wolfe's code) can be downloaded here: http://svn.star-trek-games.com/birth/CombatSimulator/BotE-3D-CombatSimulator.zip