Ogre is a very extensible engine, and we have an active community who have produced many add-on projects which are not officially supported by the core team, but have proven extremely helpful to users and have provoked much discussion and collaboration in the forums. Many people have asked for a quick reference to the add-ons and how to get hold of them, so here it is!
Supported add-ons
To promote collaboration and to make them easy to locate, the modules supported by the current Ogre release are located in the OGRECave group:
| Project Name | Description |
|---|---|
| ogre-audiovideo | Ogre3D plugins for OpenAL audio and theora video playback |
| particleuniverse | particle engine developed in C++, which can be used as a plugin |
| ogre-caelum | plugin for rendering of dynamic and realistic skies |
| ogre-pagedgeometry |
plugin for rendering of dense vegetation |
| ogre-procedural | procedural geometry for Ogre3D |
| ogre-gpgpu | GPGPU compute with Ogre using CUDA or OpenCL |
| ogre-planet | dynamic level of detail for planetary rendering |
| shiny | a shader and material management library for OGRE |
| meshmagick | A command-line tool for manipulating meshes, e.g. merging & changing formats |
Legacy add-ons
Over the lifetime of OGRE many more add-ons were created which are no longer maintained nowadays.
However often they can be updated with very little effort to work again with Ogre1 and thus be useful to you.
Most of them still live in the sourceforge SVN:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ogreaddons/
Some of them were updated for ogre 1.10+ and are now available on Bitbucket:
https://bitbucket.org/ogreaddons/
Note before updating one of the legacy addons here, check if any of the supported addons above already cover your needs. However if you do update one of the addons, please open an issue on the Ogre github repository so we can include the updated code in OGRECave.
below is the full list of the legacy-add-ons
| Project Name | Current / Last Maintainer(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BetaGUI | betajaen | Small and lightweight GUI system using only overlays |
| blenderimport | haffax | Import OGRE .mesh files into Blender |
| cal3d2ogre | lordlorik | Converter from Cal3d data formats to Ogre |
| ceguimeshviewer | pablobuiras | In-engine mesh viewer using CEGui |
| clipmapterrain | hellcatv, shirsoft | Geometry clipmaps implementation for terrain |
| cubicfractalterrain | antiarc | An example of how to generate terrain using cubic splines and fractal detail refinement |
| dbmArchive | jaysprenkle | An Archive plugin which reads and writes standard Unix DBM files |
| displacementmapterrain | dwhittaker | A terrain demo which uses vertex programs to displace the terrain into it’s final shape, allowing large terrains in smaller data sizes |
| forests | john_j | A library for rendering expansive forests using Ogre |
| gilesexporter | walaber | An exporter for Gile[s], a global illumination system. |
| GOOF | falagard | Game Object Oriented Framework |
| HDRlib | lui85 | A library to make it easier to incorporate HDR effects into your software using OGRE |
| mayaextras | omekinteractive | A set of additional Maya tools including a dotscene exporter and node animation curve exporter |
| mdl2mesh | borundin | A LUA script to convert Neverwinter Nights .mdl files into OGRE’s .mesh format. |
| meshviewer | cthno1 | A Windows-based GUI tool for viewing and tweaking Ogre meshes and materials. |
| multiscenemanager | metax | An experiment to see if multiple scene managers could be used simultanteously to render different parts of a single scene |
| nogredex | gfmrose | A binding to the NVIDIA PhysX Engine (fomerly Novodex) |
| oasis | godot_found | A framework to tie together multiple game engine systems into a more integrated whole |
| ogrefsrad | psyclonist | Tool to allow Fluid Studios‘ radiosity processor fsrad to be used with Ogre meshes |
| ogreopcode | _mental_ | Demonstration Opcode (collision detection) bindings for Ogre meshes. |
| overlayeditor | patrick_kooman | Windows tool for graphical editing of Ogre .overlay files |
| paginglandscape | jamilan, nfz, kuranes | Plugin SceneManager(s) for handling large-scale, paging terrain |
| particleeditor | mac, spannerman | CEGui-based graphical particle system editor |
| posertools | kaynine | Exporter for Poser |
| QtOgreFramework | esuvs, kardoon | Integration framework for using Ogre with Qt |
| rmogreexporter | none | Export OGRE-compatible material scripts and shaders direct from RenderMonkey |
| sketchupexporter | Kojack | Export meshes from Google Sketchup |
| simplepagedterrain | HexiDave | An infinitely repeating paging terrain system |
| truespaceexporter | thecomputerguru | Exporter for Calgari Truespace |
| uOgreBrowser | ryandeboer | Binding to uBrowser to allow you to render web pages onto geometry in Ogre. |
| worldminion | sinbad | Convert a polygon soup into a structured cell/portal graph. |
| wxOgreMVC | sinbad | MVC framework for Ogre based tools using wxWidgets |