How does Irrlicht compare to say other open source projects like Ogre3D, Horde3D or with Unreal Engine 4?
1. Does it have dx12/Vulkan support? Dx11?
2. Physically based renderer?
3. iOS and Android support? Metal API support, what version of OpenGL ES?
4. Architectured with data oriented design?
5. Still ongoing development or maintenance or dead?
6. What features are going to be added going forward?
Basically how in line is Irrlicht with the current generation engines?
Thank you!
Irrlicht status compared to other engines
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Hotshot5000
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Re: Irrlicht status compared to other engines
1,2,4 currently not supported (Dx11 somewhat in an own branch, but there is a rewrite planned for that one). Mobile support is not in official Irrlicht yet, but there is a usuable branch in svn called ogl-es which works on Android and iPhones.
Irrlicht has been in development for a long time and is pretty stable by now. The design is not data oriented, but object oriented, which might not be optimal when it comes to speed, but helps a lot if you want to read the code or write extensions. So it's easy to modify Irrlicht if you know some c++. Also it is still relatively easy to use if you are relatively new to c++ and 3D programming.
Development has been somewhat slow this year (see activity here: https://sourceforge.net/p/irrlicht/acti ... &limit=100), but I'm slightly optimistic it's going to speed up again soon.
Main short term feature planned is to get the mentioned ogl-es branch into the main engine.
Irrlicht has been in development for a long time and is pretty stable by now. The design is not data oriented, but object oriented, which might not be optimal when it comes to speed, but helps a lot if you want to read the code or write extensions. So it's easy to modify Irrlicht if you know some c++. Also it is still relatively easy to use if you are relatively new to c++ and 3D programming.
Development has been somewhat slow this year (see activity here: https://sourceforge.net/p/irrlicht/acti ... &limit=100), but I'm slightly optimistic it's going to speed up again soon.
Main short term feature planned is to get the mentioned ogl-es branch into the main engine.
IRC: #irrlicht on irc.libera.chat
Code snippet repository: https://github.com/mzeilfelder/irr-playground-micha
Free racer made with Irrlicht: http://www.irrgheist.com/hcraftsource.htm
Code snippet repository: https://github.com/mzeilfelder/irr-playground-micha
Free racer made with Irrlicht: http://www.irrgheist.com/hcraftsource.htm
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Hotshot5000
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Re: Irrlicht status compared to other engines
Just played your H-Craft Championships game on my android development phone. Is a port to iOS in the works? I would like to play it on my main iPhone! Very cool game.
Re: Irrlicht status compared to other engines
Thanks. But no port in the works - at least not by me. I don't have an apple system, so I simply can't do that.
IRC: #irrlicht on irc.libera.chat
Code snippet repository: https://github.com/mzeilfelder/irr-playground-micha
Free racer made with Irrlicht: http://www.irrgheist.com/hcraftsource.htm
Code snippet repository: https://github.com/mzeilfelder/irr-playground-micha
Free racer made with Irrlicht: http://www.irrgheist.com/hcraftsource.htm
Re: Irrlicht status compared to other engines
Irrlicht is so far the easiest 3D engine to be used if you want a pure code oriented solution, I tried MANY MANY other engines, this one is the easiest.
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Re: Irrlicht status compared to other engines
We have Grantye's DX11 driver running, is there no interest in integrating it for some reasons unknown?
Re: Irrlicht status compared to other engines
@robmar: Sorry, I don't think anyone of us has that on his todo-list.
IRC: #irrlicht on irc.libera.chat
Code snippet repository: https://github.com/mzeilfelder/irr-playground-micha
Free racer made with Irrlicht: http://www.irrgheist.com/hcraftsource.htm
Code snippet repository: https://github.com/mzeilfelder/irr-playground-micha
Free racer made with Irrlicht: http://www.irrgheist.com/hcraftsource.htm
Re: Irrlicht status compared to other engines
@robmar
This driver will be available in shader-pipeline rev2 branch, however due to a lack of time I may not be able to do this soon. I think that Q2 2017 is more realistic, but we'll see
This driver will be available in shader-pipeline rev2 branch, however due to a lack of time I may not be able to do this soon. I think that Q2 2017 is more realistic, but we'll see
Library helping with network requests, tasks management, logger etc in desktop and mobile apps: https://github.com/GrupaPracuj/hermes
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threedslider
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Re: Irrlicht status compared to other engines
Why not to include Opengl 4.5 and the futur vulkan will be good ? Cause Directx 12 is broken due from UWP so I don't like it. If I learn C++ very good that I would be happy to help Irrlicht to extend it but I pretty new still here.