= Technical Evaluation Matrix

Use the following matrix to evaluate engines for suitability.  Edit the Wiki source and fill-in the appropriate cell with notes about each.

|| ||= Unreal Engine =||= Godot =||= Minetest =||
||= Voxel Engine||Very, very rich support, supports blocky and smooth.  Professional version is going to be required, which costs $299 USD.  Possibly more advanced than Transvoxel||Built-in, unsure what version it's using but it appears to be in active development (based on Transvoxel by Eric Lengyel)|| ||
||= Help and Support|| || || ||
||= Documentation|| || || ||
||= Tutorials & Examples|| || || ||
||= Terrain Paging|| || || ||
||= Dynamic Lighting|| ||Claims there are only a max of 8 light sources an object can receive at a time, but this might be ok after the new Godot 4.0 lightmapper, it claims to do well and bake more than that|| ||
||= Network Synchronisation||Built-in both Unreal Engine and Voxel Plugin has its own built-in support||Nothing Voxel-specific, but everything Godot is node-based, and Godot allows you to add networking logic at the node level, both UDP and TCP|| ||
||= GPU Technology Used||Most advanced, including Vulkan||OpenGL 2.1, Vulkan is coming|| ||
||= Materials / Texture Support|| || || ||
||= C++ Support||Built-in||Requires use of GDNative|| ||
||= Platforms (Linux, Mac, Windows)|| || || ||