Easy to use cross-platform 3D engines

C++

http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/21/easy-to-use-cross-platform-3d-engines-for-c-game-development

My Opinion (only for open source 3D engines):

  • Irrlicht:
    • Light 3D engine
    • Clean C++ without dependencies and no STL.
    • Not very well documented but there are good tutorials.
    • Very small so you can customize it easily.
    • No OpenGL 3.X driver, Direct X 10.X or 11.X available in the official SDK.
    • Very good for mobile development;
    • Good community
    • Few extensions available
  • Ogre3D:
    • Big 3D engine
    • It uses modern C++ such as STL, exceptions and RTTI
    • Good documentation (There are published books).
    • Many renderers (OpenGL, DirectX and OpenGL ES...).
    • Ogre3D have many extensions as CEGUI or Bullet integration, Tree nodes...
    • But more difficult to extend Ogre3D if you want something specifics.
    • Big community
    • Many extensions
  • Crystal space: An old design and difficult to use. After few days, I stopped using this engine.
  • Horde3D
    • Small engine
    • Modern design
    • Light community
    • No extensions
  • Blendelf
    • Small engine with some dependencies
    • Modern design with moderns effects as DOF or HDR ...
    • OpenGL only
    • Light community
    • Bullet integration for physics
    • You use lua to pilot this engine3D

TL;DR:

  • For a desktop game (or future commercial game): Ogre3D
  • For a first game: Irrlicht
  • For mobile development: irrlicht (Ogre3D is too big)
  • For sexy effects: Blendelf

Open Scene Graph is a pretty good, very well designed cross-platform 3D engine. Contrary to Ogre3D, for example, it does not provide "game engine" features, and concentrates on being a very nice abstraction on top of OpenGL.

  • It is quite lightweight, and does not force a framework on you: you can use as little or as much of it as you want, and use it through SDL, SFML, wxWidgets, QT...
  • It is a great learning experience: as you learn the library, you understand more and more about the underlying OpenGL and the way it has been designed
  • Pretty much ready to use: it has loaders for mainstream 3D formats
  • Shaders friendly

Have a look at the extensive list of samples.

 

posted on 2016-03-02 23:07  cutepig  阅读(259)  评论(0)  编辑  收藏  举报

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