Yesterday and this morning I've read a lot of material on various topics related to scene management, rendering and a host of other subjects. TomF's Tech Blog was especially useful with rendering. I think I now have a relatively good idea about what I need in scene management and what features it should have. However, at the moment I'm torn between two designs, which are roughly equal to the first and third alternatives in my last post. I wrote small and rough examples on both to illustrate, and input would be really welcome at this point. The example is a space ship with an AI, a rigid body for physics, an audio source for positional sound, a particle effect for the engine and a turret, which in turn contain its own AI.

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