When comparing Unigine vs Tombstone Engine, the Slant community recommends Tombstone Engine for most people. In the question“What are the best 3D game engines?” Tombstone Engine is ranked 37th while Unigine is ranked 51st. The most important reason people chose Tombstone Engine is:
Tombstone gives full access to the clean and professional C++ source code allowing editing and upgrading anything in the system.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Fantastic realistic graphics
Pro Large open worlds
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
Cons
Con Core version quite expensive for better funded/higher revenue projects
Commercial projects with revenue or funding less than $100K in the last 12 months can use the Community version for free. If/when the limit is reached, only Community Pro version with a $150/month subscription becomes available (or Engineering version for $5995/year).
Con Website is hard to navigate
When you read the features on the homepage, it always switches to another feature. There is not features panel.