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NeoAxis Game Engine 2020.5

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58 pointsIvanEfimov18 comments

It seems it was recently transitioned to a royalty-free open source license with the only condition being to credit the engine[1]. I guess the business plan is now selling support? The most important issue I see is the engine only supports Windows. Is it planned to support other platforms?

[1]: https://github.com/NeoAxis/NeoAxisEngine#license

This release is a big step towards multi-platform, thanks to the transition to .NET Core. Support for Mac, Linux is planned. Support for mobile devices, in particular Android, I think will be available this month. You can find technical details in the comments below.

I remember when NeoAxis was announced about 10 years ago, iirc on Ogre3D forums. It seemed like one guy's labor of love. I am pleasantly surprised to see it's still going strong after a decade. Kudos to the author(s) for sticking with it!

Thanks) Today continue in the same spirit

Was originally meant to be Ogre-based?

It appears to still be based on OGRE. The native wrappers in the repo seem to bind all the key OGRE types into .NET.

We are switched from OGRE to BGFX. Now as low-level rendering library BGFX is used. Part of OGRE is used for image loading.

Wow, this sounds like how I always hoped Unity would turn out :)

Pragmatic editor + C# + Full source code, including the renderer + no royalties + ability to use double precision mathematics = no more flickering bugs + Rider IDE

Is there any documentation as to what the underlying component/framework pattern is?

Godot for example is very opinionated on how the game logic must be structured and built (in the graphical UI, specifically). How is it here?

This looks really great! Very keen to give it a try. I love the approach of building the interface as a VSCode plugin.

What platforms can it build for? I only saw mention of "windows application"

Mobile support almost done. I think build for Android will available in this month. It is already working, Vulkan support is still remains to add. Screenshot by the link: https://www.neoaxis.com/neoaxis/roadmap

Done with OpenGL ES, but it too old. We will skip OpenGL ES support.

Looks like only Windows and UWP: https://www.neoaxis.com/neoaxis/features

.Net Core runs natively on linux and mac as well. Not sure about the mobile platforms.

.NET Core the framework does, but there are other major considerations for game engines, such as the render pipeline. For instance, supporting Mac means you need to be able to render to Metal. This engine appears to support Windows only right now.

The name probably suggests a new take on some piece of software called Axis, a geometrical term that makes perfect sense for a game engine.

It can't possibly have anything to do with Neo-nazism and the World War II Axis powers.

I still can't shake off the connotation.

At some point, context needs to be taken into consideration.

Just because you can find a face in any image with 3 holes doesn't mean a face is actually there, or that it's sensible to assume anything of its presence.

Does my name trigger a similar response in you?

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