The Release Of Qt3D 2.0 Is Making Progress, Not Too Far Out

Sean Harmer of KDAB has provided a brief status update concerning the state of Qt3D 2.0 that gives hope that it will be officially released soon. Qt3D 2.0 overhauls the tool-kit's support for 3D rendering and visualization.

Sean posted to the Qt mailing list today that the developers working on the Qt3D module have switched from the wip/newapi branch to the dev branch. There's still more Qt Quick 2 integration to do and some cleansing of the API, but overall the Qt3D 2.0 code is taking shape. Sean notes that they're "gradually closing in on feature completeness for a Qt3D 2.0 release."

Qt3D 1.0 development was flourishing in the Qt4 days and then for Qt5 it remained until Nokia shut down their Qt Australia office that led to the Qt3D module being pushed back. Qt3D 2.0 though is a major rewrite of the original Qt3D done by KDAB and other Qt contributors.

Qt3D 2.0 provides OpenGL 3 / OpenGL 2 / OpenGL ES 2 render support and has support for its own scene graph similar to Qt Quick 2.0. Qt3D allows for 3D rendering and visualizations within Qt applications; OpenGL 3.2 is recommended for best performance. More information on the modern Qt3D can be found via the Qt Project Wiki.