Panda3D

http://www.panda3d.org/

Have anyone tried it? It looks really nice and easy with python support and it's also stable and proven as disney studios use it for their games.

Its nice enough. But it doesn't really offer much beyond Blitz3D, and is considerably slower.

Hardly, Disney's games suck.

Python. 'nuff said.

Its C++ too :)

Yeah, it's pretty slow. Whether the slowdown comes from inherent flaws in the engine or the python bindings or whatever, I really don't know.

Looks like a cute and solid 3D engine. I like also that it comes for different Linux distros prepackaged. And it has also full source code in C++ for free.

under which license?
GPL would mean that you must make your game opensource as well under GPL

I mean, a big studio is using Panda3D, so I think it should be bug free and stable. Disney games suck because of their lack of good design IMO.

Along the lines of the BSD license, except that modifications to the engine have to be given to the developers. Making a game with the engine does not qualify as a modification. They were promising to change the license a couple of years ago, but the whole thing seems to have died a death since then ( which is another reason I wouldn't use it ) so they never got around to it.

I get put off anything with "panda" in the title because of panda AV and the grief it causes :)

stupid i know :P

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I noticed this while searching for something else and wanted to ask clarifying questions:



Well it offers programmable shaders, which is a biggie for just about any game developer. It's also cross-platform, which matters a lot to some people. I didn't think to check it's rendering speed though (I know, pretty obvious thing to check, it just didn't occur to me); is that what you mean by "considerably slower"? I've been considering switching to Panda for future projects, but now I better go run some tests where I look at the fps when I throw massive numbers of models at the engine.

Tell me about it! We have a panda gateway thingymagog at work and it always yells at me and blocks me from sites it claims contains porn, strong language, terrorism (funny as I don't live in the USA), and other silly reasons. But it's always false alarms, since I would never visit sites like that while at work. :P

Oh, and I have tried Panda3D. It's "ok". Didn't really like it but it did the job.

Has been used in A Vampyre Story for instance.

-> http://www.vampyrestory-game.com/

From the experience out of the game i would say it's okayish but also not really optimized.

..thats a nice graphics style..

And a short but good game too, from ex LucasArts fellows like Bill Tiller, Bill Eaken (The Dig (quite obvious if you're comparing the colours :O), Monkey Island 3).

panda cola
seconded :D