Engines

Bill · Post by **Bill** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 3:20 pm

I read in the other thread that Irrlicht was mainly a graphics engine, with some input built in.

So I was wondering, by graphic engine, does that mean an engine that just renders a scene and nothing else (input, sound etc.)? Also, would a game engine therefore be the whole package (input, sound, rendering etc.)?

And what is OGRE, graphics or game, cuz I've read about it in the other thread? Would something like Torque be a game engine?

Thx!

Tyn · Post by **Tyn** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 4:14 pm

Torque ( unsubstantiated ) is a network engine IIRC. Yes, OGRE is a graphics engine. The definition I know of a game engine is a complete game, AI, Graphics, possibly network and the actual game code to run it. I haven't seen any game engines that are versitile in the least, mainly they are used to create a game that is very simular to the game that you are using the engine of. An example of this is the Quake 3 engine which is being used by a lot of 3rd and 1st person shoot em ups, not really much good for strategy games or anything like that. Even then the AI is usually rewritten.