looking for 3D rendering middleware

Rainer Deyke · 2019-04-20T03:13:13

I'm looking for a 3D renderer (not a complete game engine) to use for my next project. I've taken a close look at Ogre and turned away in horror. I've taken a quick look at Horde3D, but did not get it to compile. Are there any other (better) options? I have three absolute requirements: It must be open source, with a liberal license. It must be usable from C++. It must run on my main computer (great CPU, lots of RAM, relatively recent Nvidia graphics card, but OS is Lubuntu). Everything else is technically negotiable. Ideally, I'd like it to have low system requirement, great performance, a clean API, no bugs, visually beautiful results. And a pony.

Engines and Middleware Programming 3D C++ Advice

Started by a light breeze April 12, 2019 11:55 AM

12 comments, last by Robert Cav Campbell 5 years, 7 months ago

MidLevelGameDev

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April 14, 2019 08:09 AM

20 minutes ago, a light breeze said:
[...]/Horde3D-1.0.0/Horde3D/Source/Horde3DEngine/egRenderer.cpp:2301:78: error: cannot take the address of an rvalue of type 'float'
        _renderDevice->setShaderConst( _defColorShader.uni_worldMat, CONST_FLOAT44, &Matrix4f().x[0] );
                                                                                    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The error itself doesn't look hard to fix, but it also looks like Horde3D is no longer being actively maintained - the last update on GitHub was "a year ago".

99% that this issue was fixed in 2017. And it may not be updated, but there isn't a reason to as it works fine, and it is still maintained, support still exists.

a light breeze

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April 14, 2019 09:13 AM

1 hour ago, midn said:

99% that this issue was fixed in 2017. And it may not be updated, but there isn't a reason to as it works fine, and it is still maintained, support still exists.

Yes, It looks like the problem has been fixed on Github. I had been using the 1.0.0 stable release, which predates the fix. So Horde3D is back in the running again.