Why should I choose Delta3D?

Delta3D has been known to work with CAVE-systems. Also, it is known to work in a cluster environment.

Overview

Delta3D is an open source game engine which has been widely used by many different projects and is well-supported by a vast community. Delta3D bundles together many well-known open source projects and offers an easy to use API to access them.

Skeletal Animation

It supports Skeletal Animation, but the process from 3D Studio Max to Delta3D is a bit complicated and involves Cal3D. In short, you have to export the character in four different parts:

• Skeleton
• Material
• Mesh
• Animation

Delta3D’s Pros & cons

Interoperability

Delta3D can run on a variety of different operating systems:

• Windows (XP)
• Linux
• Mac OS X

As E-ON Studio runs on Microsoft Windows, it is important that the open source solution that we select also can run on this platform and co-exist peacefully.

3D Studio Max terrain

Source: http://www.delta3d.org/article.php?story=20051115140557167

Delta3D can import Static Mesh Terrain via the Delta3D World Builder. It takes a .3ds file as an input and converts it to a Delta3D-useable format.

Community

Delta3D seems to have a large and active community which will help the open source project in many ways. Furthermore, it can be beneficial to our goal in bringing Skeletal Animation to LTH:s VR-lab.

An active community can provide help and feed-back along the way of implementing the system.

Speed

Delta3D uses Open SceneGraph as to draw its scene, and is considered to be “high performance”