Using 3D engines with Qt

Using 3D Engines with Qt

A number of popular 3D engines can be integrated with Qt. Here are some resources. (More detailed information to come.)

Ogre

• Ogre Website [ogre3d.org]
• QtOgre [ogre3d.org]
• QML Ogre [github.com]

Irrlicht

• Irrlicht Website [irrlicht.sourceforge.net]
• QIrrlichtWidget [irrlicht.sourceforge.net]

OpenSceneGraph

• OpenSceneGraph Website [openscenegraph.org]
• OSG Forum topic [forum.openscenegraph.org]

Open Inventor

• Open Inventor SGI Website [oss.sgi.com]
• Open Inventor VSG Website [vsg3d.com]
• Coin3D Website [coin3d.org]
• Coin3D SoQt Documentation [doc.coin3d.org]
• Coin3D on bitbucket [bitbucket.org] (it’s now under BSD-License!)

Panda3D

• Panda3D Website [panda3d.org]
• Panda in PyQt [panda3d.org] (since Panda3D is heavily Python based)

Visualization Library

• Visualization Library Website [visualizationlibrary.org]
• vlQt4::Qt4Widget [visualizationlibrary.org]
• seems to be inactive since end of 2011

VTK (The Visualization Toolkit)

• VTK Website [vtk.org]
• … there is some Qt integration, but I can’t find a good documentation-mainpage about it

Qt3D

• Even so it isn’t actively developed, it is still usable …
• http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt3d

Categories:

• Developing with Qt
  • QtOpenGL
    • 3DEngines