History: Integrating Ogre into QT5
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Original forum link: http://www.ogre3d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=515314#p515314
The following document is an up-to-date method of integrating Ogre3D into the latest version of Qt (5.4 as of this writing).
Previous methods of integrating Ogre3D with Qt focused on [http://www.ogre3d.org/tikiwiki/QtOgre|using a QWidget] and overriding the paint methods for drawing.
The method proposed in this document uses a QWindow as opposed to a QWidget. There are several reasons for using a QWindow over a QWidget:
*Smaller memory and processing footprint.