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OGRE 1.0 Released
Amit Mathew writes "The OGRE (Object-oriented Graphics Rendering Engine) team released version 1.0 (Azathoth). OGRE is currently the premiere open source graphics engine and is used in several commercial projects and hundreds of academic and hobbyist projects. OGRE has an active user community and features advanced shader support, multiple shadow techniques, and much more!"
Any popular FOSS games developed with OGRE out there? I bet this speeds development enough that there are already some pretty interesteng games to play.
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Just fyi, there are also Python bindings for Ogre. Here is the current thread in the forums that pretains to the Python version. The Python bindings for Ogre are getting more mature with every release. Pretty soon there will be a serious alternative to PyGame and PyOpenGL. Since Ogre is a 3D engine (as opposed to PyGame's 2D), and operates on a much higher level than PyOpenGL, creating 3D games in Python are now much easier to do. Especially considering Ogre is VERY fast, and the Python bindings push all of the 3D work onto C++.
Ogre3D has probably some of the greatest support around. The community is great, theres some bad eggs in a group though (so bewarn). Yet its the greatest open source 3d engine I have seen. As I agree with Peter, it is a great.
As along with Peter, good job Sinbad, temas, wumpus, and finally _mental_. Also those that work on other projects using ogre3d and are publishing them.
Well anyways theres my 5 words or how many words there is.
I'd like to suggest that OpenSceneGraph would give Ogre a run for its money. They're about on par, with plusses and minuses on each side.
Note that OpenSceneGraph is very different from OpenSG, which is not a gaming 3D SG at all.