There are, in fact, several open source 3D engines available... most aren't that spectacular, but OGRE is one of the ones that shows substantial promise. Also, I don't know how the licensing is handled for it so I don't know if it would work, but there is an engine called Torque which for the least expensive license costs something like $300.00 US for the baseline engine plus shaders plus sound handler. There are options... The real issue is not finding options, but finding a GOOD option and implementing it. I would recomend that anyone interested in using an already existant engine take a look at
DevMaster.net.
Hope that that helps at least a little somewhere, 'cause I for one would LOVE(!!!!!) to see a new open source client that can be used with the emulator... none of this "the new patch breaks the emulator, do not patch, if you're new to the emulator you're SOL" anymore. It would be beautiful.
Drake
[EDIT] At this point the last couple of posts are no longer about OpenZone and are about OpenEQ and therefore should probably be redirected to the forum for such topics... just a thought
