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Add to SafariWhen comparing GameApi vs Armory3D, the Slant community recommends Armory3D for most people. In the question“What are the best 3D game engines?” Armory3D is ranked 10th while GameApi is ranked 58th. The most important reason people chose Armory3D is:
Does everything in the same application. No exporting-importing assets, make a cube, hit run, cube appears, make a character, hit run, the character appears!
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Question Ranking
Pros
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.
Pro Runs inside Blender
Does everything in the same application. No exporting-importing assets, make a cube, hit run, cube appears, make a character, hit run, the character appears!
Pro State of the art physically based rendering
Physically based
Cycles material nodes
Voxel-based global illumination
Temporal anti-aliasing
Tessellated displacement
Screen-space raymarching
HDR pipeline
Pro Free and open source
Pro Easy to use
Pro Node based programming and materials support
Pro Lightweight
Pro Export to multiple platforms
Export to all platform that Kha supports.
Pro A good community
Although the is an obvious lake of community help, it is still there if you look on the Armory forum or there discord your sure to find help for any problem you have.
Pro A growing community with more tutorials and documentation.
Although Armory has been a little slow in the development, tutorials on YouTube are being released almost daily and the documentation is also being updated regularly.
Pro No programing experience needed
Cons
Con In alpha
GameApi has just recently moved from pre-alpha to alpha status.
Con Lack of documentation
Con Not many developers use it
Armory3d seems to be quite exotic and it should be hard to find developers to help in projects.
Con Still in development
Con Slow development
Focus from the developer has shifted to another project, so development of this has slowed considerably.
Con Good looking but a terrible choice for any serious development
Terrible lack of support and lack of a serious delivery strategy. Multiple breaking changes to the master branches (usually the only branch actually) from the core projects as well as the myriad of dependencies it uses make it a nightmare to have something stable to create with. Might be good for prototyping if you stick to the releases, but stay away if you are planning to create something serious.
