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'''3-D Game engines:'''
'''3-D Game engines:'''
Do we start with PLIB or one of these? There are many but these look like the top candidates. Please investigate and make inline comments:
Do we start with PLIB or one of these? There are many but these look like the top candidates. Please investigate and make inline comments:
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Jad Engine: http://www.jadengine.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
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Ogre: http://www.ogre3d.org/
Ogre: http://www.ogre3d.org/
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http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/OgreDotNet (Supports mono, not that used)
http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/OgreDotNet (Supports mono, not that used)


http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/MOGRE (Popular, doesn't support Mono
http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/MOGRE (Popular, doesn't support Mono)
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Irrlicht: http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/, also has .Net bindings
 
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=18125&highlight=
 
http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=73978
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http://axiomengine.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
http://axiomengine.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
: This is a port of Ogre that is clean, rich, and supports Mono. It might not be as rich as Ogre, but it is rich enough and should be clean and efficient. This should get serious consideration.
: This is a port of Ogre that is clean, rich, and supports Mono. It doesn't have the community of Ogre and Irrlicht
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http://code.google.com/p/monoxna/
http://code.google.com/p/monoxna/
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Irrlicht: http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/
http://www.openscenegraph.org/projects/osg/wiki/About/Introduction
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Delta 3-D http://www.delta3d.org/
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More: http://www.freeprogrammingresources.com/gamelib.html
More: http://www.freeprogrammingresources.com/gamelib.html
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== Removed from consideration ==
== Removed from consideration ==
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All in C#, but going through a rewrite, and they don't have a community yet
Jad Engine: http://www.jadengine.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
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Small community
Delta 3-D http://www.delta3d.org/
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Revision as of 08:00, 16 June 2008

I will outsource the wrapping and porting as much as possible, but we will likely be involved in some stitching of things together. Once we have done the wrapping, we can hand off the work to other people. I'm sure that the Mono people would love to have a wrapper for PLIB. We can approach both PLIB and Mono to find people with time.

Background info on computer vision http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Computer_vision

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_vision


Motion Planning

Motion Strategy Library, http://msl.cs.uiuc.edu/msl/

Motion Planning Kit, http://ai.stanford.edu/~mitul/mpk


Driving simulators Darpa contestant (will try to get the code) http://www.torctech.com/services/software.html

http://www.umich.edu/~driving/sim.html

Urban driving simulator http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1296777

Steering code: http://www.red3d.com/cwr/steer/, http://opensteer.sourceforge.net/doc.html

Quickgraph: http://www.codeplex.com/quickgraph


Vision: http://www.intel.com/technology/computing/opencv/overview.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCV

Found a .Net wrapper! http://code.google.com/p/opencvdotnet/

Intel's code written in C++ in 1999-2000. Not too much going on with it, but it was used by Stanford in the Darpa Grand Challenge. It has code that should be thrown away, but it is comprehensive. I think we should start with it, especially that there is a .Net wrapper


AForge AI Library written in C# Image processing, neural networks, machine learning, and vision. There is a decent amount of traffic on the forums, and the releases have thousands of downloads. The guy is from Latvia and has linked-in profile says he is looking for consulting work: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/4/410/A72

http://code.google.com/p/aforge/

Article about library: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/aforge.aspx?display=Print


Mono Tao Framework http://taoframework.com/


PLIB, Portable game library: http://plib.sourceforge.net/whats_inside.html Features: sound effects, music, a complete 3D engine, font rendering, a simple Windowing library, a game scripting language, a GUI, networking, 3D math library and a collection of handy utility functions. Each library component is fairly independent of the others - so if you want to use SDL, GTK, GLUT, or FLTK instead of PLIB's 'PW' windowing library, you can.

This engine is okay, but not great looking. Eventually we will want something that looks more professional.


Driving and 3-D Game engine: http://torcs.sourceforge.net, uses PLIB. See quality comments above.


Math: NPack: http://www.codeplex.com/NPack Others: http://www.codeplex.com/NPack/Wiki/View.aspx?title=What%20are%20the%20Alternatives%3f&referringTitle=Home dnAnalytics: [1]


3-D Game engines: Do we start with PLIB or one of these? There are many but these look like the top candidates. Please investigate and make inline comments:


Ogre: http://www.ogre3d.org/

http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/OgreDotNet (Supports mono, not that used)

http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/MOGRE (Popular, doesn't support Mono)


Irrlicht: http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/, also has .Net bindings

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=18125&highlight=

http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=73978


http://axiomengine.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

This is a port of Ogre that is clean, rich, and supports Mono. It doesn't have the community of Ogre and Irrlicht

http://code.google.com/p/monoxna/


http://www.openscenegraph.org/projects/osg/wiki/About/Introduction


More: http://www.freeprogrammingresources.com/gamelib.html


http://sourceforge.net/projects/odedotnet


http://www.nuclex.org/weblinks/Programming/Math


OCR: http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/


Removed from consideration


All in C#, but going through a rewrite, and they don't have a community yet Jad Engine: http://www.jadengine.com/index.php?title=Main_Page


Small community Delta 3-D http://www.delta3d.org/