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":http://www.ogre3d.org/
• "QtOgre":http://www.ogre3d.org/tikiwiki/QtOgre
• "QML Ogre":https://github.com/advancingu/QmlOgre

Irrlicht

• "Irrlicht Website":http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/
• "QIrrlichtWidget":http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=15112&highlight=qirrlichtwidget

OpenSceneGraph

• "OpenSceneGraph Website":http://www.openscenegraph.org
• "OSG Forum topic":http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?t=1735

Open Inventor

• "Open Inventor SGI Website":http://oss.sgi.com/projects/inventor/
• "Open Inventor VSG Website":http://www.vsg3d.com/open-inventor/sdk
• "Coin3D Website":http://www.coin3d.org/
• "Coin3D SoQt Documentation":http://doc.coin3d.org/SoQt/
• "Coin3D on bitbucket":https://bitbucket.org/Coin3D/coin/wiki/Home (it's now under BSD-License!)

Panda3D

• "Panda3D Website":http://www.panda3d.org/
• "Panda in PyQt":http://www.panda3d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4323 (since Panda3D is heavily Python based)

Visualization Library

• "Visualization Library Website":http://www.visualizationlibrary.org
• "vlQt4::Qt4Widget":http://visualizationlibrary.org/documentation/classvl_qt4_1_1_qt4_widget.html
• seems to be inactive since end of 2011

VTK (The Visualization Toolkit)

• "VTK Website":http://www.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 …