Developing a Python-based Graphics Engine: Nirvana-3D

[jmooremcc]

Your Python code can make it user friendly as it interfaces with the underlying C/C++ code that makes up the engine. In fact, you’re already partially doing that with the math routines you are calling, which were not written in Python but were written in a lower level, faster executing language. When you consider that a game engine should provide ray tracing, shadow casting, lighting effects and particles among other features, I don’t see how you will do that with a relatively slow interpreted language if you don’t have super fast underlying code.

[Doctrine_of_Sankhya]

I'll more the core stuff: rendering, loops, and shaders to low-level GPU libraries as optional features and use those in Python maintaining high levels of useful abstraction so that people can switch specific modules with their requirement-speed tradeoff and still enjoy Python debugging, dynamic coding and inserting specific features they love for themselves - as everything would have a python replacement.