CRYENGINE VS openvr

False. See for yourself. They openly state that you can "Use CRYENGINE for free. 5% royalty applies when you ship your project. Your first $5K annual revenue per project is royalty-free.".

yeah, I think you're right there. I know the feeling of being on the other side of the problem, so I can relate with the crytek guys. they need to get their shit together, sure, but they are human beings and these problems are really hard. I mean, head over to github, there's a version of the cryengine there for you to read and comprehend if you like. check out the collision detection :)

I'd wager that somewhere around 99% of games for sale on Steam from large shops to small indie games are either created with Unity, Unreal Engine, or CryEngine (Amazon's Lumberyard is a close relative of CryEngine).

I have very high hopes for Godot. Besides, if you're the sole developer of a side project, you don't want to use what the AAA titles use. Have you seen the length of the credits on those things? If that's the path you want to go down, then you might as well give the cryengine a go, get yourself a license to some mocap software, etc lol

Unreal Engine, Valve Source Engine, Crytec, and Unity are the big ones. I suspect that’s what people mean when they say this. There are a few others, but they are either used in less popular games, or they are proprietary engines that are not publicly available like the Snowdrop Engine. I know some PC games would ship with the editor too, although it’s been a long time since I’ve done any mod work, so I don’t know if that’s still the case.

The proprietary options of Unity, GameMaker Studio 2, Unreal Engine, and CRYENGINE.

I have been using C++ for a while but never really touched on using a full on SDK and now I want to use this SDK from Valve but my issue is that it isn't clear to me how to use it. What I mean by this is that it comes with a lot of subdirectories and extra stuff but how can I make a hello world program and able to call functions from the header file included in this SDK? I have used .h files before so I understand how the linker and all that works but with such a robust SDK I am not getting how this works on VSCode or maybe that I shouldn't even be using VSCode?

1) I considered switching a while back, but I was already really far in by the time I realized that OpenVR was outdated. If you search for SteamVR, OpenVR comes up as the API to use, and the github site does not mention it being deprecated anywhere. It's generally not obvious unless you are specifically searching for confirmation of obsolescence. In any case, my question is API agnostic.

OpenVR is open to anybody writing a driver to support their equipment there. Anybody can do it. Always has been. Citation, for my point: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr

This is awesome! I requested something similar back in 2019 (https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr/issues/1262) but Valve never delivered.