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Using opensource 3d engines for your games

badsector · 2004-06-03T17:44:59

As many others here, i have a (actually more than one but...) game in my mind which i plan to make it reality. However knowing myself and knowing the fact that if it will take me lots of months to write a good 3d engine, i thought to use a 3rd party engine. Unfortunatelly my budget is *very* low, so i can''t license those $1000, $10000 and any other abs(x)*10+$1000 costing engines around. The other option is to use an opensource 3d engine. Publishing my sourcecode isn''t a big deal for me (i appreciate the existance of opensource programs anyway) so i can live with it. However i have some questions/triggers_for_discussion: a) Are there any good opensource engines around? I remember an engine list site (M.E.L.) mentioned some days ago in here, but the search system returns "no matches" found (always). Where is that list? b) If i use GPL or LGPL (most famous), can i release my datafiles under a different license? Releasing sourcecode won''t harm me, but releasing datafiles will :-) I''ve played a bit (=some hours) with the Quake1 source code (GPL) but i think that it''s a bit outdated (i think the source code dates back to 1997 or 98 - it has some little improvements over the original GLQuake). I believe that i can add some "missing" features such as better particles and better materials (f.e. shaders), but is worth? What do you think about this?

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Started by badsector May 27, 2004 12:07 PM

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June 03, 2004 05:44 PM

quote:Original post by The Senshi
At risk of derailing this thread:

And as a sidenote, leave the personal attacks out of this thread. There''s no need to call anyone a "stupid bumfuck".

Whoa, now thats some moderating! Please mod, might I have another?

Ban that uncouth slob, he gave plenty of provocation!

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