[vtkusers] VTK good for games?

Tue Oct 26 07:58:25 EDT 2004

> I would think it would be a very bad library for writing a real time
> game. VTK is meant for visualizing large datasets and is not really
> meant to be embedded in any sort of frame-based system -- filters are
> not built with the idea of incremental changes to their output.

Hi,

thanks for suggestions, seems that maybe the next time I'll have the 
opportunity to use VTK? ;-) Although I like its concept and there is lot of 
work done which I hoped would simplify reaching my goal.

>In an other way, if you are expert in OpenGL, you can re-implement some 
>rendering parts
>to have a best result (in terms of speed). In VTK, there is the "Factory" 
>to offer you the
>possibility to replace one or more components of VTK (and I think it might 
>be used to
>replace vtkActor, vtkMapper or vtkTexture objects).

Yes (great feature of free licensing), but I think that replacing the 
renderer and some 3D model parts means to write lot of a 3D engine, which is 
what I tried to avoid vith VTK ...

Huh..seems like I'm probably going to check my skills on writing my own 
engine :)

Thakns
A.B.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tom fogal" <tfogal at apollo.sr.unh.edu>
To: "Andreas Bednarek" <bluehorse at digitus.cz>
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: [vtkusers] VTK good for games?

> <0e0901c4ba88$1e403720$a3c77252 at ziho>"Andreas Bednarek" writes:
>>would anyone say, that using VTK for a 3D game engine is a good idea?
>>How is it with VTK's performance?
>
> I would think it would be a very bad library for writing a real time
> game. VTK is meant for visualizing large datasets and is not really
> meant to be embedded in any sort of frame-based system -- filters are
> not built with the idea of incremental changes to their output.
>
> I would recommend you look at Crystal Space or OGRE.
>
> -tom
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> BTW, please avoid HTML posting, at least on mailing lists. In general
> it is a terrible idea but if you searched hard enough you might be able
> to find someone with a differing opinion. 