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Add to SafariWhen comparing Crystal Space 3D vs GameApi, the Slant community recommends Crystal Space 3D for most people. In the question“What are the best 3D game engines?” Crystal Space 3D is ranked 44th while GameApi is ranked 58th. The most important reason people chose Crystal Space 3D is:
Scripting language biddings are available via swig, supposedly any swig target could be used If you are okay with building, and probably maintaining, the project for your own needs then you may be able to build bindings for your favorite scripting platform. As noted in a slant "con", there are no binary releases, including no prebuilt bindings.
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Pros
Pro Scripting language bindings (via swig) python, perl, tcl
Scripting language biddings are available via swig, supposedly any swig target could be used If you are okay with building, and probably maintaining, the project for your own needs then you may be able to build bindings for your favorite scripting platform.
As noted in a slant "con", there are no binary releases, including no prebuilt bindings.
Pro Cross platform
Runs on all major desktop platforms.
Pro All combinations of the features are working
In order to enable creation of 100 different kind of games, GameApi features are fully supporting all combinations of the existing features. This allows for huge amount of flexibility. The API carefully documents all dependencies between independent plugin-like modules and allows for combining their features in c++ code.
Pro Selection of 2d and 3d algorithms and techniques that construct opengl vertex arrays
The library is based on constructing opengl vertex arrays for 2d and 3d features including changing mesh colours, attaching textures, building larger worlds from smaller meshes, selection of predefined meshes like spheres, cubes and cones, Model loading from .obj files. Font support, gradient and other 2d bitmap operations, creation of 3d objects from bitmaps, Manipulation of points, lines, faces.
Cons
Con No binary releases.
Expect to compile this from source if your want to play with it.
Ubuntu has a package for it, but that package appears to be missing it's scripting language bindings. I expect the build is also quite old and i fear may be dropped in coming Ubuntu releases.
Con In alpha
GameApi has just recently moved from pre-alpha to alpha status.
