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Add to SafariWhen comparing Crystal Space 3D vs Cube 2 (Sauerbraten), 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 Cube 2 (Sauerbraten) is ranked 66th. 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 Good map editor
Pro Multi-platform
Linux, Windows, OSX
Pro Fast and smooth
Graphics not resource intensive. Compared favorably to Unreal engine.
Pro Free
Available under an open source license
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 Not moddable
Con No tutorials, forums are "strange."
Con Not an actual engine
