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)