[kwlug-disc] The Linux Foundation's 3D Game engine... still doesn't support Linux

[Charles M]

I haven't done much with it, but I've briefly looked at Unity under
Xubuntu. I had to remap the ALT key in Xubuntu, but it seemed to work well.

Of course there's Godot and Unreal, which have both supported Linux for
awhile.



On Tue, Oct 12, 2021, 7:07 AM Doug Moen, <doug at moens.org> wrote:

> I get a somewhat different impression from directly googling "Open 3D
> Engine".
> It is described as a "cross platform" game engine, and it will be released
> in late 2021.
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> It's actually an evolution of the Lumberyard game engine (from 2016),
> created by Amazon to make it easy to build cloud-based 3D games that use
> AWS. Amazon has rebranded Lumberyard as Open 3D Engine (O3DE) and
> contributed it to the Open 3D Foundation. So I guess the bulk of the work
> for the first release of O3DE is porting Lumberyard to Linux. The source
> code on github is a developer preview that requires Windows (not cross
> platform), but hey it isn't released yet.
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> Doug Moen.
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> On Mon, Oct 11, 2021, at 10:34 PM, Ron Singh wrote:
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> My previous attempt to send this was caca -- Paul set me straight, here's
> the url instead:
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> https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-linux-foundations-3d-game-engine
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> Ron S.
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