Can commercial engines be used for open source games?

[onpon4]

You know, you mentioned Irrlicht before, but you said you really needed some Irrlicht extensions for it to be useful. I guess you're talking about IrrEdit. Putting aside that Minetest (a game that uses Irrlicht) has done just fine without it, why not just build a replacement? Surely it can't be that hard.

[rogerdv]

I tried to write my own editor for Ogre, the task is almost equivalent to writing a game. Irrlicht should be no different.

[onpon4]

If it's just the kind of work one game would require, why not take up the task? It sounds like this would be very convenient, so theoretically you would use it a lot.

[Julius]

As Julius wrote, some WYSIWYG editors are nice for prototyping but in my humble opinion, you can't drive everything simple to express without making some simplifications in the supported game design or without making some aspects scriptable.

True, but what I actually meant is that "catch them all" scene editors either become extremely complex (and thus difficult to use) or do not really allow the work-flow necessary for certain game types. A proper RTS level editor is something completely different that an FPS level editor, and having a tool that can do both is just not a good idea at all.

[Okam]

Hello everyone!
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[rogerdv]

Godot, yes! One of the engines I have on my pending taks list. But you need more/better tutorials.