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The-Forge | jMonkeyEngine | |
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34 | 38 | |
4,408 | 3,685 | |
2.3% | 0.6% | |
6.9 | 9.1 | |
15 days ago | 4 days ago | |
C++ | Java | |
Apache License 2.0 | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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The-Forge
- WebKit Switching to Skia for 2D Graphics Rendering
- Not only Unity...
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Ask HN: Released games built on FOSS engines?
Oh, I forgot a few major ones:
https://github.com/ConfettiFX/The-Forge was used in No Man's Sky, Hades and Starfield.
https://github.com/jrouwe/JoltPhysics is the physics engine in Horizon Forbidden West.
- The Forge 1.53: Steam Deck support, dropped EASTL containers, docking imgui
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How many semaphores do really I need?
To my understanding, every source I've read says that this should cause issues, but in practice it doesn't. What gives? Did I miss something? Here are multiple examples using the latter approach.
- So this is very likely BGS first game to use DX12
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Amnesia TDD HPL2 refactor
This is a toy project that I've been working on for the past few months. Essentially, I've rewritten all the rendering code for the engine using BGFX. This means that all the fixed function OpenGL 1.2 code has been removed from the engine. BGFX supports OpenGL 3.3 and DirectX11, but there are still some rendering artifacts with DirectX11, so the engine still uses OpenGL when running on Windows. I've been considering switching to The Forge (https://github.com/ConfettiFX/The-Forge) if I want to have more control over the rendering pipeline. However, this is a complex topic with significant implications for the codebase. I've already done the hard work of eliminating clumsy abstractions in the engine and simplifying the render pipeline, so it's just a matter of deciding what direction I want to take.
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Looking for a C++ 2D/3D rendering engine/api.
The-Forge might fit:
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Some information about the Creation Kit changes for Starfield.
So, I'm not sure if it is widely known, that Starfield is going to be running on a lot of "The Forge." The creators of The Forge says it was added to Creation Kit in 2019. This will open a LOT of new systems for Bethesda games.
- SoLoud - Game Audio Engine ที่ใช้งานง่าย (มาก) และ opensource สำหรับ C++
jMonkeyEngine
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Code of game engine written in Java: what does it hide?
At the time of the check, the latest revision was the e584cb1 commit. We checked it using the static analyzer.
- Not only Unity...
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Unity's Licensing Changes: Discover Stride a Community-Driven Open-Source Engine
> Unfortunately, this is yet another open source game engine with too small a user base.
I wonder why some engines are seemingly destined for success and others... aren't.
Godot got really big, despite a somewhat similar feature set: https://godotengine.org/ (really nice 2D support, 3D rendering was worse until version 4, GDScript has both a nice iteration speed but also has gotten some criticism, while C# was a second class citizen in the earlier iterations)
Stride is really nice and seemed like it should have been the Unity replacement that people would look at, if it had gotten more attention and a community would have formed around it, like Godot's.
There's also NeoAxis which is way more Windows centric, but still seems to be getting updates and is comparatively easy to use, yet similarly never got popular: https://www.neoaxis.com/
Weirder yet, Java doesn't really have that many game engines out there, at least the likes of Unity/NeoAxis/Stride that have nice editors, despite the language being pretty nice. The closest I can think of is jMonkeyEngine which I donated some money in the past to, which is pretty usable but similarly niche: https://jmonkeyengine.org/
I occasionally watch videos on the Gamefromscratch YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@gamefromscratch/videos) and it surprises me that there are so many engines out there, but very few actually are in the public eye. If you don't go out of your way to look for other options, you will most likely only have heard of Unity and Unreal (or maybe also Godot in recent years). I wonder why that is.
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My recommendation on which language and libraries to use for the engine.
There more `bare-metal` engines like https://jmonkeyengine.org/ (well it is not C++, it is Java based)...
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Are scene graphs used often in game development? and if so, are there open source scene graphs?
jMonkeyEngine (Java, Open source): https://jmonkeyengine.org/
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[Hobby] Need help implement Continuous Collision Detection in a classic top-down multiplayer space shooter
This project develops a cross-platform Subspace client and server written in Java. It was developed from scratch on the idea of extensibility and modularity. The server is based on modules/frameworks highly optimized for scaled, networked, grid-based, infinite world physics. The client is based on the JMonkeyEngine, a minimalistic modern developer friendly, open source, game engine
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Godot 4.0 Stable
> Godot is one of those pinnacle FOSS projects that just totally impresses me, especially given the state its in now, with 4.0.
It is definitely one of the success stories, at least so far.
For example, there are projects like jMonkeyEngine (a game engine in Java, on top of LWJGL) that don't get as much attention and their movement forwards is way slower: https://jmonkeyengine.org/
There's also Stride 3D, which is a bit closer to Unity I'd say, which is still a really nice project, but is also limited in how much development can be done: https://www.stride3d.net/
Regardless, I wish all of those projects success and would still be glad if Godot could be one of the champions of open source game engines, perhaps as a viable and easy to use alternative to something like Unity for those who want that sort of thing, even in the professional development space eventually!
- Can I use any Java 3D or jMonkey with Codebase one?
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I can't think about another video game using Java. I mean, there WILL be more but i haven't saw them.
It is, or at least was, efficient. Java has a great game engine called https://jmonkeyengine.org/ that at the time could compete with Unity, not sure the status now. And LWJGL, the lower layer for ooengl, was quite nice to use and it is efficient to go that low level if you plan to do a game that does not fit the stereotypes in such game engines, as you will find yourself fighting the engine more than the actual game.
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Terraria Clone With Java?
This seems interesting https://jmonkeyengine.org , how would I get started?
What are some alternatives?
bgfx - Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.
libGDX - Desktop/Android/HTML5/iOS Java game development framework
DiligentEngine - A modern cross-platform low-level graphics library and rendering framework
LWJGL - LWJGL is a Java library that enables cross-platform access to popular native APIs useful in the development of graphics (OpenGL, Vulkan, bgfx), audio (OpenAL, Opus), parallel computing (OpenCL, CUDA) and XR (OpenVR, LibOVR, OpenXR) applications.
filament - Filament is a real-time physically based rendering engine for Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, macOS, and WebGL2
FXGL - Java / JavaFX / Kotlin Game Library (Engine)
Veldrid - A low-level, portable graphics library for .NET.
GreenLightning - High performance microservice runtime
VulkanSceneGraph - Vulkan & C++17 based Scene Graph Project
Godot - Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
ImGui.NET - An ImGui wrapper for .NET.
Litiengine - LITIENGINE 🕹 The pure 2D java game engine.