The Open Media toolkit (OMT), a platform independent C++ framework for developing real-time 2D/3D multimedia applications, has recently been released under the GNU General Public License. OMT has reportedly been used to develop a number of commercial applications including games from Disney, Hasbro, Mattel, Scitex, and HumanCode.

OMT includes classes for 2D/3D rendering and animation (through DirectX, OpenGL or its own software renderer), sound, files, database, windowing, user-interface, media importer (3D and 2D), and input control.

Although OMT makes use of an abstraction layer that can be ported to any operating system, the required low-level OS interface currently exists for just two OSes — MacOS (both classic and X) and Microsoft Windows — making support for Linux an interesting potential project.

Portions of the above text were quoted from the OMT project website.

 
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