Amazon 3D Game Engine Open Sourced

Amazon announced that it will open source the 3D game engine Amazon Lumberyard, which has been developed since 2016, as an Open 3D Engine. Accordingly, the Linux Foundation, a non-profit technology consortium, has launched the Open 3D Foundation, an organization that manages Open 3D engines in cooperation with more than 20 companies or organizations.

Lumberyard is a 3D game engine released by Amazon in 2016 and is based on CryEngine, a game engine developed by German game developer Crytek. By integrating with AWS, a cloud computing service, and Twitch, a game-playing service, it was possible to use it for free without the need for royalties other than AWS usage fees.

Then, on July 6, Amazon announced that it would open-source Lumberbird. Lumberyard changed its name to Open3D Engine and the Linux Foundation has more than 20 companies or organizations (Accelbyte, Adobe, Apocalypse Studios, Audiokinetic, Backtrace.io, Carbonated, Futurewei, GAMEPOCH, Genvid Technologies, Hadean, Huawei, HERE Technologies, Intel ·International Game Developers Association· Kythera AI, Niantic, Open Robotics, PopcornFX, Red Hat, Rochester Institute of Technology , SideFX, Tafi, TLM Partners, Wargaming) will be managed by an organization called Open3D Foundation.

Amazon claims that the Linux Foundation is one of the best organizations on the planet for managing large-scale open source projects. The Linux Foundation said in a statement that the Open3D Foundation supports open source projects that will improve the ability to render, create, and develop 3D graphics. As the first project managed by the new foundation, AWS provides an updated version of the Amazon Lumberyard game engine as an open 3D engine. said he was doing

The Open3D Engine can be used under the Apache 2.0 license and can be included in commercial, modified, or application programs for free. In addition, while releasing Lumberyard as an open 3D engine, it is said that updates such as improving the front-end interface and speeding up the operation were also implemented.

AWS is pleased to provide the 3D development community with a real-time 3D engine capable of AAA titles, the industry’s most comprehensive 3D authoring tool, including a new graphics renderer built for the latest gaming hardware and distributed cloud rendering. He also said that such a revolution could happen in real-time 3D development, as Linux did on the operating system and Apache did on the web. An official from the Linux Foundation also expected the new Open 3D Foundation and game and engine developers to provide an opportunity to influence the direction of the AAA-level 3D engine that has been maintained in the global open source community for a long time. Open the 3D engine developer preview github is available at. Related information can be found here.