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Libraries

This section if for libraries that could be used to add features to OGE such as Physics, Collision, Artificial Intelligence, GUI, Scripting, Audio, etc.
See this page for others libraries: http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/Libraries

Note: This page does only reflect our personal impressions and affinities on the libraries at one moment. By no means must it be considered a judgment on the quality of the libraries. Very probably an other programmer will find our comments wrong and have totally different impressions. Hence make your own research ;)

[edit] Introduction

By default (exceptions are noted) all libraries are:

• Cross-platform
• Open-sourced
• Free for commercial use
• Actively developed
• Features rich

[edit] General libraries

• boost

     Could become the next standard, lots of hype

     Lots of hype, massive, thread lacking in features (no read-write mutex), inconsistent API and documentation.

• POCO C++

     Consistent API

     Smaller development team

• OpenMP

     Ease of use

     Good to parallelise single thread application but not thread based applications.

• TBB

     Developed by Intel, very interesting features

     -

[edit] Physics

• OPAL

     Ease of use, beautiful API, stable, ODE based

     Nearly dead even if some bugs corrections was made recently

• Bullet

     Collada support, fast evolution - Vehicles - The founder worked for both Ageia and Havok companies - soft bodies recently added :D - Multithreaded

     Young ?

• Ode

• PhysX

• Newton

• True Axis

[edit] Gui

• MyGUI

     Simple, clean API, fast, small, Unicode

     Young

• Hikari

     Fast, Flash-based (hence easy editing), Action-Script hook

     Very Young, license difficulties with Flash when distributing an application

• CEGUI

     Stable, Unicode

     Big.

• OpenGui

• NaviLibrary

• QuickGUI

[edit] Artificial Intelligence

TODO Even if no open source libraries really made me dream. The only one are all commercial such as:

• OpenSteer

     -

     Dead? "Last modified: October 25, 2004"

• DirectAI Excellent but commercial

[edit] Scripting

• Lua

     Lots of tutorial available, well know among content creators!

     Can be difficult to use, slower than squirrel

• LuaPlus

• Squirrel

     Faster than luabind

     Nearly stalled, small development team.

• AngelScript
  • TO STUDY Seems interesting

• GameMonkey

• Python

• SWIG

     Generates wrapper code for a lot of scripting languages

    

[edit] Audio

• OpenAL

     3D audio, used in many games

     Development future uncertain, atrocious api

• OpenAL Soft
  • TO STUDY

     Refactoring

     Young

• Phya
  • TO STUDY

     Physical audio

     Young?

• FMOD

     Good review...

     Expensive IMO for commercial use - Non-free software

• Irrklang

     Multithread, static link (Pro edition)

     Not free

[edit] Input

• OIS

     Bury the competition...

     Small missing features but I (lazalong) must check if they were implemented since I last checked.

• SDL

• OpenInput

[edit] Other libraries

• Noise++ A coherent noise-generating library
  • TO STUDY See http://www.ogre3d.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=41293

     Much faster than libnoise, 2D noise (which libnoise doesn't have)

     Young? Uses boost::Thread if MT enabled.

• FxGen and Editor
  • TO STUDY

     Can permit to create procedurally textures hence save TONS of memory space. Tool is wxWidgets based ;)

     Complex?

• tinyxml

• Libnoise
  • TO STUDY

     Impressive planet rendering example

    

• Cal3D
  • An animation engine TO STUDY

     Documentation - Looks powerful - Independent from the graphics engine

    

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