[Interest] [Qt3D] Minimizing Qt3D dependencies

[Thiago Macieira]

On Saturday 03 October 2015 22:47:07 Catalin Moldovan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm interested in trying and using Qt3D 2.0 for game development. I'm
> currently using Unity3D but I was always attracted by the beauty of Qml and
> I'm a C++ developer at heart. I have some concerns though regarding the
> size of an application that is using Qt3D. From what I've seen Qt3D depends
> on GUI module and that is a pretty big module. I suppose that module is
> used to initialize OpenGL context but I didn't dug up through source code
> to verify.
> Is it possible to minimize dependencies for Qt3D somehow? I mean
> theoretically it should depend just on Qt Core and Qt Qml.

What are you looking to do with Qt3D that isn't graphical and doesn't require 
access to the GPU resources? Maybe there's room for a non-UI module, but there 
needs to be a large set of things one would like to do.

> I was thinking of implementing my own little engine using bgfx rendering
> framework and use minimal Qt Core and Qt Qml dependencies because of that.
> But on the other hand Qt3D is so well designed and I will just waste time
> trying to replicate something that is already available. Not to mention
> that this would be a serious undertaking.

Is bgfx considerably smaller than QtGui?

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