The developer of the Lightfeather 3D engine (an offshoot of Irrlicht, since rewritten) has expressed an interest in working with us, so I wanted to mention the idea of moving primary development from Crystal Space to another 3D engine. Since I am rewriting Ter'Angreal either way, I don't have a strong opposition to changing engines, but I don't (presently) have a strong reason to switch, either. The crucial features are that it be cross-platform, fast, unobtrusive (easy to subordinate to the WxWidgets or VOS event loop) and support a few crucial features we need, like portals and skeletal animation.
Other 3D toolkits I have considered include Open Scene Graph and Ogre. I suspect that at this stage of development, most 3D engines are more similar than different -- they all use OpenGL and the same shader languages (Cg or GLSL), which accounts for about 90% of the end result of rendering. Many of the support features of various engines (map editors, or support for certain modeling programs) are less useful for us, since we will ultimately need to convert data to and from the engine-neutral A3DL data model for transmission over the network. Thoughts? Lightfeather: http://lf.mmdevel.de/news.php Crystal Space http://crystalspace3d.org Open Scene Graph http://www.openscenegraph.com Ogre http://www.ogre3d.org -- [ Peter Amstutz ][ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ][ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [Lead Programmer][Interreality Project][Virtual Reality for the Internet] [ VOS: Next Generation Internet Communication][ http://interreality.org ] [ http://interreality.org/~tetron ][ pgpkey: pgpkeys.mit.edu 18C21DF7 ]
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