Will MT always use Irrlicht?

[benrob0329]

I am going to be working on a game with some friends in C++. However I want to help develop MT as well.

We have decided to (probably) go for Ogre3D instead of Irrlicht, as Ogre3D has various features Irrlicht does not.

But would MT ever be interested in changing engines? Since everything is mod based and written in its own Lua libraries, it might not be as difficult as a regular game would be.

[kaeza]

What specific features does Ogre3D have that you feel could benefit Minetest?

Just curious.

[rubenwardy]

There has been some work in abstracting away Irrlicht, SK that eventually we can replace wit with something else.

[Calinou]

Minetest tries to follow the KISS principle, and OGRE does not follow it.

PS: For your game, have you tried Godot? It may be a better idea than writing all your game logic in C++.

[hoodedice]

PS: For your game, have you tried Godot? It may be a better idea than writing all your game logic in C++.

pls stahp.

[benrob0329]

What specific features does Ogre3D have that you feel could benefit Minetest?

Just curious.

Ogre3D has a few that I think would benifit MT, such as per bone animation, better texturing, and such.

Minetest tries to follow the KISS principle, and OGRE does not follow it.

PS: For your game, have you tried Godot? It may be a better idea than writing all your game logic in C++.

Hmm, anyone know of a graphics engine that follows the KISS Principle and has nice features?
Im more interested in knowing how to code it than having a nice IDE, but thanks for the sugestion.

[benrob0329]

Kpenguin suggested that Antarctica could be used...

http://supertuxkart.sourceforge.net/Ant ... al_Details

[FreeLikeGNU]

PS: For your game, have you tried Godot? It may be a better idea than writing all your game logic in C++.

pls stahp.

Better yet, a minetest themed pinball game written in Godot!

[Inocudom]

But would MT ever be interested in changing engines? Since everything is mod based and written in its own Lua libraries, it might not be as difficult as a regular game would be.

The impossible is impossible. Every [snip]
(Inocudom's Intuition: >_> That's all [snip])

[Ferk]

The guys from OpenMW had to ditch Ogre3D because it was not flexible enough.

They are gonna use OpenSceneGraph now. After reading the dev blog posts it does look like it seems to have a more efficient design.

I don't think you will find a real "KISS" graphic engine unless you directly use something like SDL2 (specially since you say you are more interested in "knowing how to code it").

[benrob0329]

OSG looks like it has good features, but I can't find any GOOD (as in Ogre3D quality) screenshots...

[Inocudom]

I found [snip]
(Inocudom's Intuition: >_> Dude, when will you [snip])
I will be a real man and give my intuition the boot right now!
SLAM!!!
Good riddance to that spirit breaker!

Now, as I was saying, I found something interesting concerning OpenSceneGraph:
http://www.pcl-developers.org/OutofCore-Viewer-using-Open-Scene-Graph-td5707228.html
Now that's a real good achievement for that engine! Oh, if only at least one person made a comment in the following topic that I made concerning voxel octrees:
https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=13023

Must remember not to be a sociopath/psychopath as I type posts. Such people really destroy communities and drive off new members.

[benrob0329]

WOW! That looks complicated....

Would OSG be an option for MT?

[Inocudom]

WOW! That looks complicated....

Would OSG be an option for MT?

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T 1439001551 20<Inocudom>30   What do you know and understand about polygons vs. voxel octrees, RealBadAngel? I heard that there is a sizeable difference in fps, and Cube 2 Sauerbraten proves this.
T 1439001587 20<Inocudom>30   That engine is the only one that I can run occlusion mapping in without any serious reprocussions.
T 1439001589 18<RealBadAngel18>   idk what voxel octrees are
T 1439001650 20<Inocudom>30   RealBadAngel: Voxel octrees are what the Cube 2 Sauerbraten engine is based on. Same with Red Eclipse, Tesseract, and Revelade Revolution.
T 1439001663 18<RealBadAngel18>   but that sounds like different engine
T 1439001677 18<RealBadAngel18>   and thats NOT EASY

RealBadAngel would probably be against an engine change, unless it can be achieved without too much stress/hardship. Of course, I myself would find the results interesting. Your only real option here is to have yourself and your friends port Minetest to OSG yourselves, then show the developers of Minetest the results. Otherwise, as I said before, the impossible is impossible.

[rubenwardy]

A member of the core team has finished abstracting away Irrlicht, and can now run MT with Orge3D - however it's quite buggy. Lots of work is still needed.

[graphics boy]

Are there any screenshots?

[BrandonReese]

A member of the core team has finished abstracting away Irrlicht, and can now run MT with Orge3D - however it's quite buggy. Lots of work is still needed.

Quite buggy as in so buggy it's unplayable or quite buggy as in it's playable but so buggy you wouldn't want to play it.

[benrob0329]

Wait, you mean that there is a working version using Ogre3d???

[est31]

No, there isn't one, not a working (in the sense of playable, and accessible to players) version. It is true that one dev has made statements into that direction, but he hasn't released code yet, so we can just speculate how well it works or not. He has stated though that its very very buggy.

[benrob0329]

Hmm, any other options being considered?

I was thinking about learning OpenGL and making a graphics engine myself, though I'm still not sure if I want to take on that task...

[est31]

The dev said they abstracted irrlicht away, so adding support for a additional engines will be easier once we have support for Ogre3d.

[Inocudom]

Hmm, any other options being considered?

I was thinking about learning OpenGL and making a graphics engine myself, though I'm still not sure if I want to take on that task...

The only case in which I would recommend doing that is if the resulting engine ended up being based on voxel octrees instead of polygons. Give Cube 2 Sauerbraten's engine a peek sometime.

[Hybrid Dog]

Kpenguin suggested that Antarctica could be used...

http://supertuxkart.sourceforge.net/Ant ... al_Details

l doubt this is a good idea, the new supertuxkart 9 is extremely laggy, a lot more than when it used irrlicht.

[Inocudom]

Kpenguin suggested that Antarctica could be used...

http://supertuxkart.sourceforge.net/Ant ... al_Details

l doubt this is a good idea, the new supertuxkart 9 is extremely laggy, a lot more than when it used irrlicht.

And that engine uses polygons. It is a shame that Super Tux Cart 9 did not consider using (or creating) one based on voxel octrees. Doom 4 shows us that there is some serious potential with them.

[philipbenr]

I think that we should find a lightweight engine that has the capacity to do some cool effects but isn't a resource hog. I am still running Minetest on my a8 4500m (pretty crappy) and I am getting 30fps pretty consistently, so I am happy with irrlicht. I would like cooler effects because I am going to get a new amazing tower (i7 5820K, 16GB DDR4, X99, r9 390 GPU, etc etc etc) so I can use them, but I am still going to keep this laptop for portability reasons.

[benrob0329]

Found this today: http://urho3d.github.io/

[rubenwardy]

The core dev that managed to abstract away Irrlicht and run Mt in ogre3d has quit Minetest. He didn't share the code as it had massive merge conflicts.

celeron55 started working on a second MC-like game called build_at written in urho3d. But I think it's unlikely MT will be ported to it.

[Ferk]

build_at

Looks pretty amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCgTNHndNCM

But I think it's unlikely MT will be ported to it.

That's too bad. But will the whole stack change? at least it looks like it has a lua framework.. maybe it won't be impossible to port most of the more interesting mods.

[benrob0329]

Wow, that look pretty cool!

I'm kinda sad though, if this gets finished MT will most likely die...

But I really do hope that he keeps this one a game...

EDIT I looked at the Github, still looks cool though!

[benrob0329]

I don't understand why I haven't found this sooner: http://polycode.org/

Everything seems straightforward, easy, and clean.