3DEL: 3D sound

3D Engines List
3D sound

This list contains 35 3d-sound engines.

Texture-mapping Engines

27.04.2000 Experience Engine 27.04.2000

The Experience Engine is a 3D engine for Direct X7 from The Whole Experience, Inc.

Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
Multi-textureing (Bump, detail and diffuse textures)
Cube enironment mapping
Support for texture compression
Transparency
Support for hardware transformation and lighting
Automatic tessellation of NURBS objects with full UV support
Bones/Cluster-based animation (single-mesh)
Hierarchical animation (multi-mesh)
Per-vertex color (can affect textures) and per-vertex transparency
Surface material support
Vertex lighting (8 most important lights per vertex using T&L hardware)
Different light types (point, spot, directional, ambient)
3D sound
Special effects (lightning, sparcs, rain, dynamic day/night changes, moving clouds)
Particle effects (for smoke, fire, water and other vapor and magical effects)
Real-time geometry warping (for extremely realistic water)
Dynamic scene culling
Export from Alias Power Animator or Maya

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the Experience Engine Homepage.

12.04.2000 Genesis 3D 11.08.1998

G3D is a commercial 3D game SDK from Eclipse Entertainment.

Lightmapped perspective texture mapping
Animated textures, procedural water textures
Translucent textures
Texture morphing
Dynamic shadows
Light diffraction
Multiple colored light
Fog.
Vertex morphing
Real time water surface distortion
Real time light diffraction
Mirrors
Integrated rigid body physics simulation support for world objects
Hierarchical and seamless, soft-skin polygonal characters
Support for 3DS MAX animation files
LOD support
Area portals allow selective rendering of world geometry
Software rasterizer, 3DFX Glide, and D3D support
Open scripting API
Level editor
3D sound positioning and attenuation
Support for network streaming of geometry, animations and textures ( Hollywood 3D )
OpenSource distribution

More information, screenshots, the SDK and some demos can be found on Genesis 3D Homepage.

12.04.2000 Fly3D 04.08.1998

Fly3D is a 3D engine for Windows by Fabio Policarpo ( fabio@paralelo.com.br ).

Single front-end app supporting OpenGL (1.1) / Direct3D (DirextX 6.1) windowed / full-screen
Editor for .fly files with realtime preview in windows explorer style
Support for plugin dlls (make new games just writing new plugins)
Visual C++ wizard for making fly3d plugins
Perspective shaded texture mapping
Static and dynamic lightmaps
Dynamic shadows and soft-shadows, dynamic lightmap shadows
Stencil buffer shadows support
Dynamic volumetric fog with fogmaps
Detail textures
Curved bezier extrudes and lofts with lightmaps
BSP/PSV rendering
Transparency
Volumetric fog using fogmaps
Cartoon rendering
Faster collision detection
Adaptative subdivided bezier surfaces (extrude and loft)
Multiplayer support
Server frontend for client/server multiplayer
Client/server playable deathmatch demo
3D sound support
Lighting tool for static level lighting
PVS tool for computing visibility
3DS MAX bsp import/export, texture mapping and landscape object plugins
Fly3d plugins (jumppads, fogsphere, fogbox, ...) and sample level (q3test2 clone)
Quake2 level converter
Quake3 level import utility (geometry, textures and curved surfaces)
Data files packing
Particle systems
Console window, also for server frontend
Written in C++ (Visual C++ 5.0)
Complete SDK with source code for all demo plugins

More information, screenshots, the sdk and a demos can be found on the Fly3D Homepage .
The engine will be featured in the book 3D Computer Game Technology - Theory and Practice from Alan Watt and Fabio Policarpo (Addion Wesley).

10.04.2000 Oxygen3D 20.07.1999

Oxygen3D is a commercial 3D game engine from John van der Burg ( john@mysticgd.com ) of Mystic Game Development.

Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping
Mipmapping
Environment mapping, also in combination with normal texture mapping
Support hardware acceleration via Direct3D, Glide3 and OpenGL
Volumetric fog
Sky rendering system using skyboxes and cloud layers
Advanced visibility system for indoor and outdoor rendering
Realtime softskinning support, with muscles and skinsliding
100% Character Studio(tm) 2.x compatible
Advanced character system with smooth blending and motion mixing
Realtime dynamic shadows
SpecialFX system which currently supports: Smoke / Sparks / FlareLights / Halos / Explosions / Snow / Water Bubbles / Manual effects
Lensflares (completely controllable, and with a lot of properties)
Basic collision detection
Pathfinding system using the ASTAR (A*) Algorithm
Antiportals
LOD management
3D sound system and WAV/MP3/XM/S3M/MOD support
3D Studio MAX II exporter plugin with full support for keyframing
Sprite support for overlay logo's etc
Texture caching system
Environment editor
Time-based keyframing system with full playback control and Linear/Bezier/TCB interpolation
Fast terrain rendering system using heightmaps (no size limits)
Quake 3 Arena .BSP file support for the indoor environments
Ipion Virtual Physics (IVP) system built-in
Curved surfaces support with dynamic LOD (dynamic tesselation)
Hierarchy support on all world nodes
Multiple materials per geom object (multi/sub materials)
Written in object oriented C++

More information and screenshots can be found on the Mystic Game Development Homepage

07.04.2000 gxRealityEngine 07.04.2000

The gxRealityEngine is a 3D engine for Windows 95/98 from Lightcube Technologies.

Multitextured, perspective mapping
Support for Glide, Direct3D and OpenGL
Object-oriented design with component model
Multithreading support
Scripting support
Particle systems
Physics system
3D sound support

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on Lightcube Homepage.

11.02.2000 3D Rad 21.08.1998

3D Rad is a 3D game creator for Windows from Studio Bitplane.

Perspective, shaded texture mapping
Support for DirectX 6_0
Multiple split-screen ability
3D sound
Dynamic colored lights
Advanced kinematics effects
Collision detection.
Support for 3D Studio 3DS models.
Support for sprites.
Scripting support.
Multiple level support.
Scene editor and scene compiler.

More information, screenshots, some demo games and a demo version of the 3D game creator can be found on the 3D Rad Homepage .

11.02.2000 Blaxxun Contact 3D 11.02.2000

Blaxxun Contact 3D is an OpenSource VRML 97 Viewer from Blaxxun Interactive.

Support for OpenGL and Direct3D
VRML 97 and VRML 2_0 EAI support, Javascript support
Streaming Video support
Trimmed NURBS extension
MIP-mapping and trilinear texture filtering
Sorted alpha blended transparency
Anti-Aliasing
Scene graph support
Collision detection
3D sound
BSP tree support
ActiveX Control and standalone Version
VRML node editor in the standalone GLview application
C++ source with Documentation

More information about the Blaxxun Contact 3D Viewer can be found on the Blaxxun Contact Developers Homepage, the source and documentation can be found on the Blaxxun Contact 3D Source Homepage.

08.02.2000 LightSpeed 3D 08.02.2000

LightSpeed3D (former Exodus) is a commercial 3D engine for Windows 95/98/2K from Rogueprogramm.

Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping
Texture filtering
Landscape rendering
Underwater lighting effects
Lens effect
Dynamic Lighting
Dynamic Fog
Dynamic Shadows
Support for 3dfx's Glide, partial support for Microsoft's Direct3d, software rendering using Span Buffering, and OpenGl support
DirectSound, Direct 3d sound, Aureal 3d sound, and partial Linux sound support.
Support for Win95, Win98, and WinNT and Linux
Game editor
TCP networking code, supporting UDP and TCP
Texture support for Jpeg, FLI, PCX, TGA, BMP
Support for WAV, MP3, MIDI sounds
Written in C/ASM

More information can be found on the LightSpeed Homepage.

02.02.2000 Magic3D 08.07.1999

Magic3D is a 3D engine for Windows 95 from Stefan Letz ( Stefan.Letz@online.de ).

Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping
Support for Direct3D
Z-Buffer rendering
Bilinear texture filtering
Transparent textures
Dithering
Animated textures
Scene fog
Colored lights
Script language
Collision detection
3D sound
Music player (.WAV, .MID and CD Audio)

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on Magic3D Homepage

23.12.1999 Golk 23.12.1999

Golk is a 3D engine for Windows and Linux from Ingmar Stein ( Ingmar@digital-phenomenon.de ).

Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
Support for OpenGL (dynamic loading, compiled vertex arrays)
Animated textures
Curved surfaces
Collision detection
Q3A BSP support
Point based particle system
Shader script support
M3D model support
BMP/DIB, GIF, JPG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIFF texture support
3D sound support (EAX)
DirectSound and DirectInput support
TCP/IP networking
3DNow! and ISSE optimization

More information and screenshots can be found on the Digitial Phenomenon Homepage

22.12.1999 Jet 3D 22.12.1999

Jet 3D is a commercial OpenSource 3D graphics engine from Eclipse Entertainment.

Lightmapped perspective texture mapping
Radiosity lighting
Dynamic shadows
Dynamic RGB lights
Dynamic fog
Dynamic mirror
Dynamic water effects
Animated textures, procedural textures
Portal rendering
Translucent rendering
Spherically mapped sky
Seamless soft-skin polygonal characters
3D sound support
3D editor
Support for Glide, Direct 3D and software rendering
Physics system
Network support
Collision detection
Multiple renders from different cameras can be mixed in a single frame
OpenSource distribution

More information, screenshots and the source can be found on the Jet 3D Homepage.

22.12.1999 Golgatha 17.11.1998

Golgatha is a 3D game engine from Crack dot Com. Crack dot Com left business and decided to release the source of their game that has been in development for more than 2 years.

Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping
Texture filtering
Landscape rendering
Using a single portable rendering API, support for 3dfx's Glide, partial support for Microsoft's Direct3d, software rendering using Span Buffering, and very partial OpenGl support
DirectSound, Direct 3d sound, Aureal 3d sound, and partial Linux sound support.
Support for Win95, Win98, and WinNT and Linux
Plugin for 3D Studio Max for geometry im/export
Game editor
Portable TCP networking code, supporting UDP and TCP
A LISP interpreter with threaded garbage collection
Portable GUI system, with a window manager, support for dialog boxes, buttons, browse trees, pull down menu, context menus, scroll bars, sliders, dividers, list boxes, text input, status indicators, and context sensitive help
Image loaders & savers for Jpeg, FLI, PCX, TGA, BMP
Image histograms & quantization
Sound loaders for WAV and MP3
Hand crafted assembly language optimizations for pentiums, and k6-3d
C/ASM source.

More information, screenshots and the complete sources (even game data, music and textures) can be found on the Golgatha Homepage .

22.12.1999 Gameforge 22.12.1999

Gameforge is a Glide 3D engine from Bernhard Kotzenberg, Petrus Viljoen, Carl de Jager ( info@gameforge.com ).

Perspective texture mapping
Texture filtering
Animated textures
LOD support
Anti aliasing
Landscape rendering
Support for Glide hardware rendering
EAX 3D sound

More information and a demo can be found on the Gameforge Homepage.

29.10.1999 Exist 29.10.1999

Exist is a 3D Game Engine for Windows from Mike Fricker (mfricker@sprint.ca).

Direct3D and OpenGL support
Color lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
Detail mapping
Advanced material system with powerful multi-texture blending and animation capabilities
Curved surfaces with collision detection, and dynamically tessellated via current framerate and level-of-detail
32-bit textures, and support for textures larger than 256x256
Dynamic lighting
Level editor
Physics simulator
Advanced client / server based networking engine, with client-side prediction and server-side extrapolation
Support for 3D Studio MAX R2 models and animations
Volumetric fog
Hybrid BSP / portal rendering, with dynamic PVS
3D sound support via DirectSound3D
Real-time mesh vertex interpolation or morphing
Hierarchy-based model animation

More information and screenshots can be found on the Exist Homepage.

28.09.1999 Exodus Engine 08.09.1999

Exodus is a commercial 3D game engine for Windows 95/98 and Macintosh from Video Game Workshop ( insurrect2@aol.com ).

Lightmapped perspective texturemapping
Skeletal motion system
Animated textures
Support for OpenGL 1.2(Win, Mac), and DirectX 7.0(Win)
Volumetric light and fog
B-Spline and skeletal motion system
Particle effects
Soft-shadows and dynamic shadows
Lens flares
Dynamic polygonal objects
Collision detection
Portal rendering
Z-Buffer rendering
Support for DXF, LWO, 3DS, MD2 object files
3D landscape, room and model editor
Underwater Lighting Effects
Multiplayer Support for up to 8 players on LAN, TCP/IP, and modem
3D sound support

For more information and licensing visit the Exodus Engine Homepage.

15.09.1999 A4-Engine 15.09.1999

The A4-engine is a commercial game engine for Windows 95 / DirectX, and part of the GameStudio 3D game authoring system from Conitec. Here's the features:

Lightmapped perspective texturemapping
3D and 2D views
Mip mapping
Flat shading, gouraud shading and shadow mapping
Texture caching system
Portal and BSP visibility system
Software and D3D renderer
Fog, translucency, flares
Sky rendering system using multi-layer animation
Bitmap particle system
Static and dynamic colored light sources
3D sprites and 3D models
MAP and MDL format import
3D sound system
Collision detection
2D sprite support for overlays etc.
AVI and CD player
Scripting language
Multi-user mode via split screen, modem, network, or Internet

More information, screenshots, tutorials, and demos can be found on the A4 Engine Homepage.

03.09.1999 Crystal Space 25.08.1997

Crystal Space is a 3D engine for Unix from Jorrit Tyberghein ( Jorrit.Tyberghein@uz.kuleuven.ac.be ).

Shaded perspective texture mapping.
MIP-mapping.
Sub-pixel and sub-texel accuracy.
Portal rendering.
Static lighting with precomputed shadows.
Dynamic colored lights with shadows
Transparent and semi-transparent textures.
Support for mirrors.
Support for BSP rendering.
Support for curved surfaces.
Support for depth-correct and colored volumetric fog.
Hierarchical Bounding Box collision detection system.
New c-buffer (coverage buffer) type visibility culling.
Sound support (for Windows and Linux only currently).
Moving objects and scripts controlling the movement.
3D triangle mesh sprites with gouraud shading and LOD (Level of Detail)
Skeleton animation for 3D triangle mesh sprites
Support for 8, 15, 16 and 32-bit displays.
Support for unix (linux and solaris are tested) and DOS, Macintosh, Amiga, Windows 95 version, BeOS, NextStep, Rhapsody and OpenStep ports.
Optional MMX support.
New ports to OS/2 and GDI.
OpenGL port works very well now for Linux, Windows, and BeOS.
Hierarchical objects (not used in current programs, but implementation exists)
Glide port works good for Linux and Windows.
Optional Direct3D hardware acceleration for Windows port.
3D sound support
Reading of Quake II MD2 and 3DS objects
Low-level networking support.
C++ source.

More information, screenshots, the source and a unix executable is available on the Crystal Space Homepage.

22.04.1999 E3d Engine 22.04.1999

The E3d Engine is a commercial 3d engine for Windows from Act 3d Interactive.

Perspective lightmapped texture mapping
MIP-mapping
Gouraud, flat and wireframe
Dynamic lighting
Hierarchical objects
Collision detection
Patch/Curved surfaces, Nurbs
Z-Buffer rendering
Anti-Aliasing
Advanced Sparks engine(smoke, flares, water)
Complex lensflares(inner glow 2x, central ring, random streaks, starstreaks, lensreflection)
Volumetric fog
Physical dynamics
Support for lightwave meshes and motions
Motion capture support
Support for DirectInput, DirectSound (3D sound) and Direct3D
Optimized for high polygon count rendering
Optimized for fast application development
Written in Visual C++ 6.0

More information and a demo can be found on the E3d Engine Homepage .

25.02.1999 Poly Engine 27.09.1996

The PE is a PC 3D Quake-like game engine from Alexey Goloshubin ( alexey@ii.uib.no).

Full object support.
Collision-detection
Physics system
Movable bsp models
Client-server networking (IPX, null-modem)
3D Sound.
VFX1 head-tracking
BSP/ZBuffer rendering
Polygonal objects
Sprites
Support for Quake II maps and models.
Particle systems.
Software renderer
- Supports any resolution
- Span buffer
- Perspective tex-mapping (16-pix subdivision)
- Mip-mapping
- Surface caching (light maps)
- Dynamic lights
Hardware renderer
- Support for OpenGL.
- DirectX port.
- Colored lightmaps
- Colored dynamic lights

More information and the source is available via the Homepage of Alexey Goloshubin .

17.02.1999 Vital 17.02.1999

Vital is a 3D game engine for Windows from Lut Roman and Sergey Zabaryansky ( root@zssoft.carrier.kiev.ua ).

Perspective, gouraud shaded texture mapping
Support for Direct3D
Environment mapping
Colored, dynamic lightsources
Mirrors
Lens flares and halos
Local fog
Realistic water (geometry underwater warps)
Object falling into water sets out 3d waves
Physics system
Support for DirectSound3D and A3D

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the Vital Homepage.

25.01.1999 Nightfall Engine 02.09.1997

The Nightfall Engine (former Altor Engine) is a 3D engine for Macintosh computers by Altor Systems Inc. The development environment is now shipping on CD-ROM with the game Nightfall. It includes:

Level editor with example art.
Custom cross platform resource builder.
Plug-in DLL architecture with source code.
Perspective Gouraud shaded texture mapping.
MIP-mapping.
Volumetric real-time light model.
Portal rendering.
Dynamic depth cued colored fog and dust.
3D objects which may be imported from 3DMF files.
Face on and perspective correct 2D sprites.
PowerPC native.
Software renderer for 8, 16 and 32 bit color.
Dynamic dithering on 8 & 16bit screens.
Support for 3D hardware via the Apple RAVE standard.
3D sound.
Physics model for collision, gravity, and object stacking.
VR hand to select and pick up objects during game play or editing.
AI components for motion, sensing, and decision making in C.
2D interface links within the 3D game.

More information and screenshots can be found on the Altor Systems Homepage.

15.01.1999 Flatland Rover 15.01.1999

Flatland Rover is 3d engine with 3DML (3D Markup Language) support that works as WWW browser plugin (Netscape Navigator, MS Internet Explorer, AOL) from Flatland Online Inc. 3DML is a easy to write 3D description language that support building blocks and animations.

Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping
Bilinear filtering
Support for DirectX and PC 3D hardware
Support for Windows 95/98/NT
3D audio support ((DirectSound and A3D 2.0)
16bit and 8bit color support
BSP sorting
Dynamic lighting - moving spotlights, pulse lights, point lights
Player gravity
Support for GIF, animated GIF, JPEG textures
Transparent texture color
Translucency
Support for TombRaider 3 texture and building blocks

Information, software, tutorials, screenshots, and more can be found at the Flatland Web Site.

12.01.1999 Java3D 12.01.1999

The Java 3DTM 1.1 API is a set of classes for writing three-dimensional graphics applications and 3D applets from Sun Microsystems.

Uses OpenGL as rendering core, DirectX and QuickDraw3D versions will be available
2 and 3D textures, MIP-mapping
Scene graph management
Collision detection
Interpolators
Support for geometry compression
LOD management
Hierarchical objects
3D audio support
6 DOF input device support
Behavior modeling
Network support
Support for Windows NT/95 or Solaris SPARC.
Java API

More information, the library and documentaion can be found on the Java 3D Homepage.

27.10.1998 Duality Engine 27.10.1998

The Duality Engine is a commercial 3D game engine for PCs and Macintosh from Double Aught, Inc.

Perspective, lightmapped texture mapping
16-bit colored lightmaps
Portal rendering
BSP rendering
Dynamic lighting
Dynamic texture maps
Translucency
3D sound.
Multiplayer and network support.
RAVE and Glide hardware support
Advanced scripts.

More information and screenshots can be found on the Duality Homepage .

27.10.1998 VisKit 27.10.1998

VisKit is a commercial real-time 3D scene graph rendering engine for Windows from Paradigm Entertainment.

Layered on top of OpenGL
Perspective texture mapping
Lightmap rendering
Texture filtering
Mip mapping.
Hierarchical state management
Intersection tests
Particle systems
Multiple cameras
Primitive objects
3D positional audio layered on DirectSound.
3D Studio import
Collision detection
C++ API.
Support for Multithreading
Support for Windows 95/98 and NT 4.0
Support for PC 3D cards

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the VisKit Homepage .

27.10.1998 JTGame 10.11.1997

JTGame is a C++ interactive 3D game framework based on top of Microsoft Windows, MFC, and DirectX from John Thompson ( john@gildea.net ).

Perspective shaded texture mapping.
3D display objects (worlds, actors, props, simple and compound mesh-based images).
2D display objects (decals, sprites, and backgrounds) .
3D sounds .
Mesh primitives.
Lights .
Cameras .
Animation control .
Fogging.
Hierarchical objects.
Z-Buffer rendering.
High and low level mouse, joystick, and keyboard support.
Automated paths, collision detection, blocking, bouncing .
Automated object translation and orientation for "watching" or "following" ther objects.
Main and multiple scene windows .
Inherit MFC's GUI components, i.e. menus, dialogs, events, etc.
3D sounds using DirectSound.
Full C++ sources included .

More information, screenshots, documentation, sample programs, tutorials and the source of the library can be found on the JTGame Homepage.

10.09.1998 Alice 12.09.1996

Alice is a 3D Interactive Graphics Programming Environment for Windows 95 by members of Randy Pausch's Stage 3 Research Group at Carnegie Mellon University.

Perspective texture mapping.
Support for DirectX under Windows 95.
Support for VRML 1.0, DXF and OBJ models.
3D localised sound using Intel's RSX 3D Sound Library.
Scripting language.

More information and the Alice binaries on the Alice Homepage.

07.08.1998 Direct3D 29.10.1996

D3D is part of Microsofts DirectX Programming API (DirectDraw, DirectSound, DirectPlay, Direct3D, DirectInput).

Windows 95 / NT support.
Support for PC 3D cards, software emulation for PCs without 3D card.
Gouraud shaded, perspective and linear texure mapping.
Bump mapping.
Multiple texture mapping, lightmapping.
Depth cueing, fogging.
Multiple, movable, colored light sources.
Spot, point, ambient, and directional light sources.
Ramp and true color red, green, and blue (RGB) model.
Color depths of 8, 16, 24, or 32 bits.
Dithering.
Vertex colors.
Multiple viewports, devices, and cameras.
Materials support.
Bilinear, trilinear, anisotropic, MIP-mapped texture filtering.
Full transparency, including alpha maps for texture.
Environment (reflection) and motion video mapping.
Texture compression.
Real-time object deformation.
Animated backgrounds with optional depth information.
Full picking support for user interaction.
Optional z-buffer rendering.
Lens-Flares.
2D sprites.
Projected shadows in retained mode.
Complex-spline interpolated motion in retained mode.
High-level API for manipulating 3D objects and managing 3D scenes.
Low-level API with direct access to features of 3D hardware in a device-independent manner.
Support for 3D sound.
Support for Microsoft Visual C++ and Watcom C/C++.

You find lot more information, sample code and the DirectX 6 SDK (91 MB!) and enduser packages (4 MB) on the Microsoft DirectX Homepage.

04.03.1998 NetImmerse 21.07.1997

NetImmerse is a commercial object oriented Game Engine for PCs from Numerical Design, Ltd. (NDL).

Full C++ Source Code, no royalties.
Drivers for Direct3D Immediate Mode, OpenGL and Glide
Level of Detail (LOD) management.
Portals Module
Continuous LOD Terrain Module
Support for BSP and ZBuffer rendering.
RSX based spatialized 3D sound support
Collision detection (Oriented Bounding Box technology)
Support for 3D Studio MAX R2 (Integrated MAX Plugin support for animation, paths and particles) and 3DS, Multigen OpenFlight, and VRML 1.0.

NetImmerse is currently being used for upcoming games from Broderbund Red Orb Entertainment, FASA Interactive, Greystone and Media Station.
More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the NetImmerse Homepage.

01.12.1997 nGen 01.12.1997

The nGen Project is an exterior engine, suitable for space combat or flight simulators by John DiCamillo (milod@netcom.com).

Perspective correct texture mapping.
Gouraud shading.
Translucent 3D sprites and blobs
Colored Lighting in hardware .
Support for 8 and 16 bit color.
Zero-Gravity Physics Model with Linear Drag .
3D Acclerator Support through Direct3D.
Sound Support through DirectSound and DS3D.
Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 .

More information, tutorials (and some source code) about 3D texture mapping and MIP-mapping can be found via the Homepage of John DiCamillo.

03.11.1997 Direct3D Samples 03.11.1997

The D3DS are sample programms using the Direct3D API for Windows 95 by Microsoft Corporation.

Lens-flares. (Currently not available)
Fogging.
3D game using DirectInput
MIP-map texture rendering. (Currently not available)
Billboard rendering. (Currently not available)
3D sound
C++ source.

More information, the source and binaries can be found on the DirectX Samples Homepage .

13.10.1997 Tekktonic Game Engine 13.10.1997

The TGE is a commercial Windows 95 engine by the Reakktor Media Group.

Perspective, shaded texture-mapping.
Independent lighting levels for each polygon.
Portal rendering.
Depth shading, fogging.
Realtime lighting fx.
Hierarchical polygon characters.
Collision detection.
Support for DirectX.
3D sound system.
Multiplayer support.
Optimized for Intel Pentium.
Windows 95 editor.

This engine will be used to create the indoor part of the game Typherra which will be released early 1998. The Tekktonic Game Engine will be available for Sublicensing after Typherra has been finished.
More information and screenshots can be found on the Typherra Homepage.

07.07.1997 GLView 07.07.1997

GLView is a fast 3D viewer and integrated VRML 2.0 browser and editor for PCs by MKC Software ( sales@mkcsoft.com ).

Shaded perspective texture mapping.
Transparent texture mapping.
Collision detection.
Hierarchical objects.
Multiple, colored light sources.
Support for Windows NT/95 and hardware accelerators.
Support for OpenGL and Direct3D.
VRML script support.
Support for 3D sound using RSX.

More information and a demo version can be found on the GLView Homepage.

06.05.1997 World Toolkit 01.01.1995

WTK is a commercial, portable, cross-platform software development system for building high-performance, real-time, integrated 3D applications for scientific and commercial use from Sense 8 Corporation.

Shaded, perspective texture mapping.
Z-buffer rendering.
Multiple viewport and lightsources, 3D paths, portals, 2D texts and shapes, object animations.
Supports user-defined drawing routines
Multi-processing/multi-pipeline support
Support for Windows 95 (Direct 3D), Windows NT (OpenGL), Sun, Silicon Graphics, Evans & Sutherland Freedom Series, Hewlett-Packard, and DEC.
High level scene management such as hierarchical object culling, efficient use of transform information and level-of-detail switching.
Support for many I/O devices like HMDs, shutter glasses, 3D trackers, gloves and 3D audio systems.
Support for VRML, 3D Studio, Pro Engineer, Multigen and Wavefront files.
Network support.
C/C++ API.
Sense 8 also provides a 3D Editor (World Up) based on WTK.

More information on the Sense 8.

29.11.1996 UVision 22.05.1996

UVision is a commercial 3D engine from Utopia Technologies.

Six degrees of freedom.
Fast Phong shaded, perspective texture mapped polygons.
Multiple, movable cameras and view ports.
Multiple, realtime movable light sources (point and spotlight).
Support for multiple resolutions and color depth up to 65,536 colors .
Surface attributes - sticky, slippery, bouncy, surface forces +++ .
Colored light sources.
Chrome mapping.
Realtime shadows (coming very soon) .
Polyon features: animated textures, screendoor opacity, edge smoothing, MIP-mapping, bump mapping, z-buffering, gouraud and fast phong shading.
Advanced forward kinematics simulation of rigid body motion/dynamically customizable environment (gravity, wind, air/surface friction).
Analytic collision detection and resolution with dynamic environment.
Realtime dynamic constraint solver.
Multi-joint inverse kinematic simulation .
Hierarchical, linked models .
3D model scaling and deformation effects.
Multiple instancing of objects and hierarchies .
Fog/darkness depth cuing.
Support for Stereoscopic capability.
Networking features (coming soon).
3D sound effects.
Weather effects.
SVGA (VESA) linear framebuffer support for the PC and soon support for the Playstation.
High-color rendering.
Support for graphics accelerator cards.

More information on the Utopia Technologies Homepage.

3D Engines List 3D sound

This list contains 35 3d-sound engines.

Texture-mapping Engines

3D Engines List
3D sound