Additional libs for cross platform game

[Xaron]

Dear all,

as Irrlicht itself is a great cross platform rendering engine, what additional libs could you recommend when I aim for Windows, OSX, Android and iOS in terms of:

• Sound
• Physics
• Network

Thanks!

[devsh]

Fmod for sound
Bullet for Physics
Raknet for Networking
TCMalloc for fast memory allocation
ProtocolBuffers for sending nice messages with integrity checks and serialization
LZMA, ZLIB and Z4 for compression

[Xaron]

Awesome, thanks!

[CuteAlien]

Sound low-level: OpenAL. Higher level (music files): ogg + vorbis (on Android: tremor).

[Xaron]

Thanks! Thought about OpenAL as well. Is this really open source? I've read mixed things about it that it's still OS for version 1.0 but not for the last 1.1.

FMod looks interesting. I already used it the years back with success. Even though it costs some money for commercial stuff.

[CuteAlien]

OpenAL is an interface standard. There are open-source and proprietary implementations of it.

[mant]

Fmod for sound
Bullet for Physics
Raknet for Networking
TCMalloc for fast memory allocation
ProtocolBuffers for sending nice messages with integrity checks and serialization
LZMA, ZLIB and Z4 for compression

I would use FlatBuffers instead of ProtocolBuffers.

[MartinVee]

I would use FlatBuffers instead of ProtocolBuffers.

Would you care to elaborate? Why would you choose FlatBuffers over ProtocolBuffers?

[mant]

You can check out its homepage: https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/

[MartinVee]

In short :

FlatBuffers: less code size, less execution overhead, more memory usage.
ProtocolBuffers: more code size, more execution overhead, less memory usage.

So the choice all depends on the application.