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In 2018, what are the use-cases where I should go with Ogre3D?

d000hg · 2018-07-13T10:37:40

I worked extensively with Ogre for a few years doing professional projects, ending about 5 years ago. At that time focus was mainly on desktop but iOS was of interest and there was support. Back then, Ogre3D was a great option although slightly cumbersome for cross-platform work - we did look at alternatives when we started c2010 like Unity3D. Now as I consider getting back in the game I wonder if the world has moved on? It seems Ogre 2.0 is still WIP and even 5 years ago, 1.x was starting to feel a little dated to me. Since then major engines like Unreal have become way more accessible, and Unity3D has grown hugely (I think). Ogre is middleware not an engine so I know it's apples and oranges and this is not meant to be a criticism of Ogre - just an objective question whether many/most use cases 5-10 years ago are now better suited by Unity3D et al, especially for multi-platform? I'm historically a C++ developer but have done a lot of C# too (I can do JS but prefer not to) and on pure language preference, C# is nicer IMO. I hate with a passion CMake and all that guff What do other experienced people think of Ogre in 2018? Has it remained relevant? For someone wanting to make games not engines, would something else get me running faster while having the flexibility I want? What about toolsets/chains - this used to be a pain in Ogre too but perhaps has moved on? I am thinking of posting similar on the Ogre forum but don't want to come across like I'm dissing Ogre - I loved working with it but 5 years is a long time and I'm out of date!

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July 13, 2018 10:37 AM

16 hours ago, Arctous said:

Unity3D dropped support of their WebPlayer a number of versions ago (many browsers starting blocking it, starting with Chrome). However, WebGL remains one of their target build platforms.

Sure - but we found this was distinctly second class compared to native WebGL coding. Perhaps because we already had an existing project for the plugin, when we switched to WebGL it apparently was way too limited.

Of course, browser support for newer WebGL is limited too, which is a huge PITA

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