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I'm planning on getting into the 3d programming area now. I have been sitting here, trying to get ogre to work but no matter what I have tried, i keep getting some kind of compile error, or when i do get the tutorial to compile, i get a "Cannot load dynamic library OgrePlatform.dll. System Error: The specified module could not be found" error. I tried searching their forum but i couldn't find anything about it and i tried searching google for the dll but nothing. I tried using this with codeblocks and dev-cPP and got the same errors. I gave up on ogre because it doesn't seem like it will work for me, so i started looking at SDL, again.. I tried it about a month ago but stopped because i wasn't in to it as much as i thought. SDL Doesn't seem as "good" as ogre, from the screenshots of ogres projects. Also if i ever created something good enough to make money i wouldn't be able to. I was just wondering if there is any alternates to the two that allow me to use today's graphics(cell shading, pixel shading, high volume water, ect)? Preferably free.