When comparing Tombstone Engine vs NeoAxis Engine, the Slant community recommends NeoAxis Engine for most people. In the question“What are the best 3D game engines?” NeoAxis Engine is ranked 32nd while Tombstone Engine is ranked 37th. The most important reason people chose NeoAxis Engine is:
You can use the engine for any commercial products and keep all the profits since NeoAxis does not ask for any royalties.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Complete access to high quality C++ source code
Tombstone gives full access to the clean and professional C++ source code allowing editing and upgrading anything in the system.
Pro Reliable, fast and well optimized
Pro No royalties
Pro Lots of learning resources
Including extensive documentation both in code as well as online along with a wiki, tutorials and a demo game.
Pro Extending engine's functionality is straightforward
Due to the well-organized, highly modular design of the engine adding custom functionality is easy.
Pro Full-featured and modern
Comes integrated with support for physics, audio, networking, input devices, resource management as well as modern features such as real-time shadows, horizontal mapping, voxel-based terrain, dynamic lighting, post-processing effects and much, much more.
Pro Lifetime engine updates
Pro Supportive community
Tombstone has a small, tight-knit community that's well educated and professional. Eric Lengyel, the main developer, can often be found giving thorough advice to users on the forums.
Pro Proven to be a capable engine
Pro Royalty free
You can use the engine for any commercial products and keep all the profits since NeoAxis does not ask for any royalties.
Pro Completely free
Pro Simple interface
You can learn how to use Neoaxis in a few days.
Pro Excellent visual tools, map editor and resource editor
You can easily create maps/scenes and add custom objects with physics and animations in a few minutes.
Pro Lot of maps and game-modes already built-in
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.
Pro Good IDE support
Supports Visual Studio, SharpDevelop or MonoDevelop.
Cons
Con Only available to big studios
Con Small community
Con Lacks D3D support
Con The developers do not actively communicate with the community
Not only have the developers driven the community away, they have actively closed the forum.
News articles have not had any changes since 2016, and the last news article still has links to the now removed forum.
Con Windows-only
NeoAxis Engine is Windows-only.
Con No community
As of 2016, the creator has completely destroyed his own community in order to silence any criticism from developers.
Con Lack of tutorials
Unfortunately, the wiki doesn't contain many programming tutorials, and the source code itself isn't very self-documented. Creating new gamemodes or AI will require lot of research for beginners.