Irrlicht vs NeoAxis Engine

Many working examples to study and learn. You can easily experiment modifying an example code to grok in full how the engine works. In the beginning of your learning curve, the example code will offer you many useful code snippets.

If you are considering writing your own engine with openGL, you might want to consider Irrlicht instead. It makes many features of any engine worth its salt easy, including events, serialization, nodes, animators, materials, logging, and animation. Bring your own sound and networking.

Especially if you compile it yourself, it can be very light in memory usage.

If you want to start game developing with C++, then Irrlicht is a good candidate since it removes most of the complications in game making in C++. It will let you obtain experience in programming and games at the same time.

This engine supports multiple formats for 3D objects and textures.

You can use the engine for any commercial products and keep all the profits since NeoAxis does not ask for any royalties.

You can learn how to use Neoaxis in a few days.

You can easily create maps/scenes and add custom objects with physics and animations in a few minutes.

Has about 30 built-in maps with different game modes which can be opened by the map editor and their source code can be edited.

Supports Visual Studio, SharpDevelop or MonoDevelop.