armory VS stride-website

What's really missing is an open source "bring your own engine and asset pipeline" editor tool. Game editors have pretty much arrived at the Unity data model and editor workflow (game object outliner to the left, scene view in the middle, property panel on the right, asset panel at the bottom, plus custom panels).

The Unity Editor and asset pipeline is hackable enough to use it as editor for another engine, I did that in the past as "proof of concept" and it definitely works, but is most likely a legal minefield.

Blender is also definitely hackable enough to serve that role (see: https://armory3d.org/) (again I did something similar in the past with Maya, it kinda works, but this wasn't very popular with artists because they were overwhelmed by the UI).

There are two primary contenders to replace the BGE. One is Armory3D (https://armory3d.org/) It has a ton of potential, and outputs to multiple formats including web. But it's a one-developer show and it's been really inconsistent. I taught a class on prototyping 3D games with it, but updates are slow and inconsistent, as is the documentation. Too bad, because it's a promising project, with a blueprints-like visual system and Haxe (basically an open-source actionscript) as the programming language.

https://armory3d.org/features is more of a game engine than just a 3d renderer but not as advanced as unity or unreal in certain aspects. One can write game logic in c/c++/rust -- https://github.com/armory3d/armory/wiki/wasm

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Armory3D is also interesting, not a fork of the original BGE AFAIK but integrates with Blender.

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I don't know what it's worth, but Armory3D is also an engine built with Blender : https://armory3d.org/

Stride: https://www.stride3d.net can be what you are looking for. It's very similar to Unity, open source and uses C#.

For 3D games, check out the engine: Stride Engine or Flax Engine.

Check out Fuse[1/2]. It's an open source library for visually programming on the GPU. It is built for use in the visual programming environment vvvv[3].

VVVV itself is based on .Net and you can extend its functionality by either writing nodes in C# or import just about every existing .Net library just by referencing it or installing it as nuget. No need for wrappers[4]. For rendering vvvv uses the Stride [5] game engine which comes with a really neat shader system / language which is basically a superset of HLSL [6]. In vvvv those shaders are represented as nodes and you can open them in your favorite text editor directly from the vvvv evironment, edit the code, save and the changed result will instantly be loaded in vvvv[7].

[1]https://www.thefuselab.io

[2]https://github.com/TheFuseLab/VL.Fuse

[3]https://visualprogramming.net

[4]https://thegraybook.vvvv.org/reference/extending/overview.ht...

[5]https://www.stride3d.net

[6]https://doc.stride3d.net/latest/en/manual/graphics/effects-a...

[7]https://thegraybook.vvvv.org/reference/libraries/3d/shaders....

Check out Stride https://www.stride3d.net/ It's similar to Unity, was built for 3D, and is free & open source.

Since there's a lot of devs currently who are looking for an alternative to Unity, I recommend you check out the Stride game engine. It's built in C# so is fully integrated with the .NET environment. Super easy to transition to it from Unity, and it is open source!