I figured this was a decent place to post. For the past year I have been writing my own 3d game engine in Direct3d written in c++. I have made major strides, but I don't have the time I have now that I used to have. I still would like to work on 3d game projects, just not writing it from scratch. So, I've decided that I'm either going to use an open source game engine such as Ogre 3d or make an HL2 mod. I've read the SDK for both and it seems like that are both ablout equal in skill level involved,so its just a matter of results. What would you suggest is the better approach? Were you happy with the Source engines ability to be modded?

I know you are much more limited as to what you can do in Source, like, I cant go up and edit their main classes like I can do in Ogre. Did any problems like that hinder your mod at all?

Thanks,
Colt527

If you are a lazy person, and wouldn't like to go into getting textures and all the like, use HL2.

judging on all the various stuff i saw done with the orginal HL and what the intentions of the source engine were, i'd say the source engine, then again i dont know anything about orge

hm i dont know jack all about ogre. I suggest you use source though. its so much more popular with 100+ mods in working atm

well if you are doing it purely (and i mean PURELY) for yourself, than I don't really know, I have never seen ogre and am unaware of it's capabilities.

BUT if you are wanting to get at least a fairly popular mod that other people will actually play I suggest going with source.

Too me, this seems a little silly. People are offering advice, when they probably hadn't even heard of Ogre before they read this thread.

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Well, I've heard of Ogre, Genesis 3D, irrlicht and the like, and I can tell you that the only reason you should use any of them is if you plan to make money off your game. Seriously, Source is just soo much less hassle.

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