Easiest Graphics or Game Engine ?

[raha]

I am a programmer with average experience in C++ programming.
I would like to write some applications for Linux but I still couldnt find a good and easy to use Graphics engine for Linux :(
I have to mention that I tried to get Ogre3D (multi platform) to work but I couldnt, its extremly difficult for me to do that under linux but I could simply compile it under Windows.

Is there any good opensource and easy to install graphic engine ? (it doesnt need to be very cutting edge!)

Thanks

[Neeko]

How about pygame?
http://pygame.org/

[dgbauer]

Have you looked at some of the Quake engine ports that are licensed under GPL?

[raha]

PyGame is not a 3D engine is it ?
No I have not tried Quake, What I am thinking to create is not a game its a visualisation, which need good use of technology but not the latest one (Ogre is a very powerful but very hard to install lib).
I really think Ubuntu people should put Ogre in the Repositories for programmer so we dont have to do all the mess and harming the OS, on Ogre website it says if we install some of the files in Ubundu OS, will become unstable.

Please Please Please make a package for it.

Do you know any other ones?

[Van_Gogh]

have you looked at panda3d (http://panda3d.org/what.php)? I haven't used it myself, but among its goals are short learning curve, so maybe you could take a short look and decide if it's for you?

[Neeko]

PyGame is not a 3D engine is it ?
Ahh, no it isn't. I didn't get that you were only interested in 3d engines from your original post. In that case, what about cube?
http://wouter.fov120.com/cube/

[doclivingston]

I have to mention that I tried to get Ogre3D (multi platform) to work but I couldnt, its extremly difficult for me to do that under linux but I could simply compile it under Windows.

I'm not sure about Breezy, but Ogre3d is in Universe in Dapper. If it isn't in Breezy universe, it should be possible to rebuild the package for it.

[michaelb]

I'm not sure how easy it is, but DarkPlaces is pretty popular. It's a varient of the Quake engine, but it's much much more advanced.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkplaces

It looks pretty nice too:
http://www.alientrap.org/media/zymshot1.jpg
http://www.alientrap.org/media/zymshot2.jpg

[Hanj]

Irrlicht (http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/) is quite easy to use and to set up. I haven't tried in Linux though.

[raha]

Thank you for your suggestions, at the moment I am writing up my dissertation, once I finish it (soon) I will start experementing the above engines.
It would be good if somebody could rebuild the OGRE3D from Universe in Dapper, Its really cool to have OGRE on Linux with a single (almost) click :)

[Artificial Intelligence]

What about Crystal Space 3D (http://www.crystalspace3d.org/tikiwiki/tiki-view_articles.php)?

[Jimmy_r]

How about Soya (http://home.gna.org/oomadness/en/soya/)?

[richardhp]

I found this on my travels..
http://sourceforge.net/projects/l3d
I don't know much about 3d programming so I have no idea if this is any good