Ogre 3D vs Irrlicht

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Ogre 3D		Irrlicht
	Project
3	Mentions	1
3,730	Stars	470
1.8%	Growth	-
9.5	Activity	0.0
3 days ago	Latest Commit	over 4 years ago
C++	Language	C++
MIT License	License	-

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Ogre 3D

Posts with mentions or reviews of Ogre 3D. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-11.

Not only Unity...
53 projects | /r/opensourcegames | 11 Nov 2023

OGRE (MIT/C++) https://github.com/OGRECave/ogre
⟳ 4 apps added, 43 updated at f-droid.org
12 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 9 Feb 2022

Ogre Sample Browser (version 13.2.4): Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine - Samples
Ogre 13.0.0 released! Open Source game engine.
1 project | /r/linux_gaming | 14 Aug 2021

Irrlicht

Posts with mentions or reviews of Irrlicht. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

C++ game engine
1 project | /r/gamedev | 8 May 2021

Throwing in another C++ game engine for you to look at: Irrlicht

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Ogre 3D and Irrlicht you can also consider the following projects:

bgfx - Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.

urho3d - Game engine

OpenSceneGraph - OpenSceneGraph git repository

Open-Source Vulkan C++ API - Open-Source Vulkan C++ API

o3de - Open 3D Engine (O3DE) is an Apache 2.0-licensed multi-platform 3D engine that enables developers and content creators to build AAA games, cinema-quality 3D worlds, and high-fidelity simulations without any fees or commercial obligations.

GLFW - A multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, window and input

Skia - Skia is a complete 2D graphic library for drawing Text, Geometries, and Images.

magnum - Lightweight and modular C++11 graphics middleware for games and data visualization

Horde3D - Horde3D is a small 3D rendering and animation engine. It is written in an effort to create an engine being as lightweight and conceptually clean as possible.