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Shalltear Engine vs Steel

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Shalltear Engine compared with Steel
DetailShalltear Engine logo Shalltear EngineSteel logo Steel
What it doesA free, lightweight C++ game engine with native scripting and hot reload GPU-accelerated rigid-body dynamics solver for robot learning
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Pricing modelFree Open source
PricingFree to use with no fees, royalties, or revenue share. Full ownership of all created content. Not given
Key features
  • Hot reload C++ scripting with state preservation
  • Visual editor with dockable, detachable panels
  • Prefabs with nested variants and live propagation
  • Physics system with multiple joint types
  • Audio mixer with effects and real-time processing
  • Asset import from glTF, FBX, and multiple formats
  • Standalone Windows x64 player with content cooking
  • 3.8× PhysX throughput on 20 benchmarks geometric mean
  • 13.0× performance on heterogeneous task mixtures
  • Per-environment work scheduling for efficiency
  • Reduced-coordinate articulation dynamics
  • Differentiable simulation
  • Rigid-deformable coupling support
  • Compliant and hydroelastic contact
  • 62% less GPU memory than PhysX at matched batch size
  • 3.90 million environment steps per second peak throughput
What makes it different
  • Free and open-source with no royalties or revenue share
  • Perpetual license terms that cannot change after build distribution
  • Designed for heterogeneous workloads with different robots and tasks simulated together efficiently
  • Integrated into open-source Newton for seamless adoption without separate physics stack
  • Supports diverse physical interactions beyond rigid bodies
  • Enables scaling of diverse robot experience for general-purpose learning
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Citation Flow (Majestic)1340
Referring domains (Majestic)42061

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