OGRE is design-led rather than feature-led. Most other engines are also designed for one particular style of game or demo (e.g. Like any other software system this becomes their downfall as they become larger. Many of them have long features lists, but have the feel of a bunch of tech demos lashed together with twine, with no clear Many other engines, whilst technically impressive, lack the cohesive design and the consistent documentation to allow them to be used effectively. Why should I consider using OGRE (rather than the other zillion 3D engines out there)? The principle is of collaboration and integration with other libraries, rather thanĪssimilation of them, a standard tenet of component-based design.

To realise that OGRE itself will always remain separate, flexible enough to be incorporated into any of these. It can be more daunting for newer users who just want to build another FPS-style game, but for those people there are a growing number of existing frameworks using OGRE which provide a complete solution using a given combo of libraries but it's important Many experiened game developers have expressed their approval of this approach, because there are no Instead, we provide a very integration friendly API and let YOU choose the other libraries, if you want them. Inbuilt set of assumed requirements, and that's not good design. If OGRE included all these features, we would be enforcing a particular set of libraries on you, with an Secondly, even within the games industry, requirements can vary widely forĮxample a MMORPG will need a very different kind of network library than an FPS, and a flight sim will need a different kind of collision / physics system to fighting game.

Why? Well, one reason is that not everyone who needs a 3D engine wants to make games, so we don't assume that you do - you can use OGRE for games, simulations, business applications, anything at all. OGRE can be (and indeed has been) used to make games, but OGRE is deliberately designed to provide just a world-class graphics solution for other features like sound, networking, AI, collision, physics etc, you will need to integrate it with other libraries, something several frameworks have done, and we have a collision / physics reference integration library as an example in our distribution. Also, take a look at the screenshots page to see for yourself the kinds of eye candy OGRE can pump out. Lots of things! See the features page for an up-to-date list of the current features.

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