From kouhia at nic.funet.fi Thu Mar 15 08:09:07 2007 From: kouhia at nic.funet.fi (Juhana Sadeharju) Date: Thu Mar 15 08:09:13 2007 Subject: [linux-graphics-dev] Geometric Tools Message-ID: Hello. WildMagic game engine has been released as LGPL software. http://www.geometrictools.com I had three reasons why I found the site: (1) The documentation makes good reading. He has written books too but I don't have them. (2) The system proves the usefulness of the scenegraph concept. He is one of the authors of Netimmerse (now Gamebryo) engine, and they had a paper on scenegraph based engine in IEEE CG&A. (3) Oblivion uses NIF file format (N == Netimmerse) which embeds the scenegraph. And Niftools is an open source library, viewer, editor for the NIF format. Author of Niftools based the design more or less on the Game Engine book advertised at the Geometric Tools site. So, pick up Niftools as well for maximal learning experience. Juhana PS. I have concluded that Mailman has a bug. I cannot turn the Mailman to send a digest out daily. Many lists, including all sourceforge lists, have the same bug. So, the digest is sent out only when the max size limit is reached. An article may go out after 1.5 months! That is very bad.