How is a game developed using a game engine?

[chemicalNova]

Technically its not scripting. Irrlicht I know, from experience, needs to be written in an actual programming language, not a scripting language. I doubt you'll find a 3D engine with actual scripting to complete every single task..

chem

[LiLo]

Thanks for the replies

So depending on the engine's capabilities, the developer has to either bring in 3rd party libraries into the game or modify the engine to build these capabilities into the engine using c++ or some lower level language?

And also, what is scripting in a game commonly used for?