

This was done with the aim of maintaining and modernizing the engine. įollowing its removal from the official version of Blender, an unofficial fork of the game engine source code was created, named UPBGE. Users were instead recommended to use other, more powerful open source alternatives, like Godot. The engine's capabilities and appeal had largely fallen behind other rising game engines of the time, and it was difficult to update both Blender itself alongside the game engine.

In 2019, with the release of Blender 2.8, the Blender Game Engine was entirely removed from Blender itself. This library uses OpenAL or SDL as a backend. Audaspace was coded as well to provide a Python handle for sound control. Like Blender, it uses OpenGL, a cross-platform graphics layer, to communicate with graphics hardware.ĭuring the 2010 Google Summer of Code, the open-source navigation mesh construction and pathfinding libraries Recast and Detour were integrated the work was merged to trunk in 2011. Version 2.42 showed several significant new features, including integration of the Bullet rigid-body dynamics library.Ī new system for integration of GLSL shaders and soft-body physics was added in the 2.48 release to help bring the game engine back in line with modern game engines. Key code in the physics library (SUMO) did not become open-source when the rest of Blender did, which prevented the game engine from functioning until version 2.37a.īlender 2.41 showcased a version that was almost entirely devoted to the game engine audio was supported. The game engine was written from scratch in C++ as a mostly independent component, and includes support for features such as Python scripting and OpenAL 3D sound.īlender Game Engine was developed in 2000 with the goal of creating a marketable commercial product to create games and other interactive content, in an artist-friendly way. It was previously embedded within Blender, but support for it was dropped in 2019, with the release of Blender 2.8. The Blender Game Engine was a free and open-source 3D production suite used for making real-time interactive content. 76.7 – 137.5 MiB (varies by operating system)
