3D Engines List Sub-pixel map. This list contains 32 sub-pixel/sub-texel accurate engines.

25.04.2000 Panard Vision

04.04.1997

PV is a free portable Realtime 3D engine allowing for high speed, with no quality loss, rendering on Windows2000/Win32/Dos/Linux platforms by Olivier Brunet (pvision@planet-d.net). It supports both hardware and software rendering.

• Perspective, phong-shaded texture-mapping
• Flat, gouraud and phong shading
• MIP-mapping
• Bump mapping
• Bilinear filtering
• Full sub-pixel/texel accuracy (no flicker, no gap in textures)
• Multitexturing pipeline, multitexturing support through GL extensions
• User definable clip planes.
• Multiple (non-recursive) geometric planar convex mirrors
• User definable visibility pipeline (allowing for BSP, Portals or whatever you may think about)
• Support for convex polygons, not only triangles
• Splines
• Static and pseudo dynamic lightmaps (soft or hard)
• Realtime dynamic shadow casting
• Detail texturing
• Procedural textures
• Mutltistage materials
• Collision Detection (RAPID)
• Extendable Object Oriented Particle system
• Big mesh classification using octrees
• Multiple, colored light sources
• Hierarchical animated objects
• Display lists
• Stencil buffer on hardware
• Support for user coded Special FX
• Little animation engine with hierarchy
• Span-buffer rendering and z-sorting
• Support for portal rendering
• Generic perspective span renderer to add perspective correction to your fillers
• Multicolored fog (linear/exp&exp2) and Unreal like volumeric FX.
• Vertex fog support
• Software blending
• Adavanced hierarchical world management/culling
• Switchable graph nodes (allowing for Mesh LODs for instance)
• Multithreaded realtime adptative LOD landscape renderer
• Support for PNG, TGA & JPG files
• Support for 8,15,16, 24 and 32 bits per pixel
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS - even animations
• Quake I and Quake 2 level support
• Support for user file formats
• Support for Zip files
• Support for DOS SVGA, Direct3D , Direct X7 (with hardware T&L and compressed textures support) OpenGL, 3DFX Glide, PC 3d hardware, X11-Windows on Linux
• Support for user made hardware drivers
• Support for Visual C++, Watcom C/C++,Borland C, DJGPP and GNU gcc
• Written in C/ASM
• Simple/Extensible API

More information and the Panard Vision SDK (including 3DS file/animation viewer, Quake I viewer and everything needed to use this engine in your own programs. ) can be found on the Panard Vision Homepage.

12.04.2000 Legus3D

23.03.1998

Legus3D (former LEGUS Virtual Reality System) is a commercial real-time rendering engine for PCs from Branimir Karadzic ( karadzic@eunet.yu ).

• Binary space partitioning (BSP) and potential visible sets (PVS).
• Object hierarchies.
• Object morphing.
• Fog/depth cueing.
• Keyframing (objects, lights and camera).
• Shadow volume (lightmap, surface or polygon).
• Dynamic lighting (with shadows).
• Volumetric lighting.
• Material (ambient, diffuse, specular, alpha blending, transparent texture).
• Mip mapping.
• Animated texture support.
• Animated mesh support.
• Collision detection (sphere, cylinder or box).
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS, Lightware LWO, Quake MD2 and LucasArts 3DO objects.
• Support for Quake1 BSP world files.
• Solid fill, texture mapping (affine or perspective corrected), enviroment mapping, bump mapping, 2D sprites.
• Sub-pixel and sub-texel accuracy.
• Bilinear filtering.
• Alpha blending.
• Z-buffer.
• Transparent texture.
• Filters: smooth, bilinear antialiasing, blur motion.
• 256 color, 15/16bit highcolor and 24/32bit true color modes.
• Support for OpenGL, Direct3D and software rendering
• Scene graph support
• Mirrors and portals
• Particle and special effects system
• Written in C/ASM.

More information, screenshots and demos can be found on the Legus 3D Homepage.

12.04.2000 Blitz Engine

05.10.1998

The Blitz Engine is a Windows rendering engine from Richard Turnbull ( rt71@hotmail.com ).

• Perspective, lightmapped texture mapping
• Sub-pixel and Sub-texel accuracy
• Coloured Lighting and dynamic shadowing with filtering
• Improved dynamic lighting - via span level RGB interpolation
• Span level MIP-mapping
• Multitexturing using OpenGLs ARB_multitexture extensions
• Surface cacheing at span or surface level
• Level of Detail bezier curved surfaces
• Texture mapping system for wrapping around curves and creating a smooth edge look as seen in Quake 3
• Translucent surfaces with upto 20 simultaneous layers
• Reflective surfaces
• Environment Mapped Bump Mapping (Matrox G400)
• Animated textures
• Collision detection including with curves
• Span and Z-Buffering
• Binary Space Partitioning Tree creation and traversal
• Direct Draw and Direct Input Support
• Point based particle rendering
• Shaded, colored smoke particles
• Spherical and standard volumetric fog
• Coronas and Lensflares on lights
• B-Spline movement system
• Hierarchial objects
• Portal rendering combined with BSP Tree
• Support for OpenGL and Direct3D
• Console system
• 32 bit MMX optimized span level RGB interpolative rasterizer with span level mip mapping.
• Network support
• Written in Visual C++ 4 and the Netwide assembler (NASM)

More information, screenshots and a demo, SDK 1.2 and source can be found on the Blitz Engine Homepage .

04.04.2000 JavaGL

04.04.2000

JavaGL is a pure Java implementation of a subset of OpenGL from Robin Bing-Yu Chen ( robin@nis-lab.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp ).

• Shaded, perspective texture mapping
• Support for glaux
• Display list support

More information, the library and documentaion can be found on the JavaGL Homepage.

04.04.2000 Sparklight

05.08.1998

SL is a software rendering 3D engine for DOS and linux by Christian Fleischer (daydream@cs.tu-berlin.de)

• Lightmap rendering
• Perspective correction every 16 or 32 pixels, according to angle, distance and screen resolution
• Subpixel, subtexel accuracy, edge coherency
• Portal and BSP rendering
• Spanbuffer und Z-Buffer rendering
• Mip-Mapping with 3 texture-levels
• Alpha transparency
• Simple collision detection for the camera and the player with the dungeon
• Synchronized double-buffering (Linux), unsynchronized triple-buffering (DOS)
• Particle-system with gravity and collision-detection
• Particle-system with spring-connections to simulate fluttering flags
• Additive transparent particles (sprites)
• Animated texturemaps (script-controlled)
• Dynamic semi-soft shadows calculated & rendered in realtime
• Shadow-map and light-map rendering
• Moving mirrors
• Arbitrary convex frustrum (up to 16 planes)
• Script engine to control cameras, animations and movements, definitions of all animations / monsters in text-script
• Quaternions for time-scaled matrix motion
• Dolby Surround Sound Engine
• Multiple colored lights with falloff
• Written in C++

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

03.02.2000 jPCT

03.02.2000

jPCT is a Java 3D engine from Helge Förster ( fr@activezone.org ).

• Perspective texture mapping with 16 pixel scanline-subdivision
• 24 bit RGB perspective correct Gouraud-shading
• 24 bit textures and framebuffe
• 32 bit high accuracy W-Buffer
• Sub-pixel and sub-texel accuracy
• 2D/3D clipping
• Any texture-size supported (256*256 used in the demo)
• 6DOF movement

More information and the applet can be found on the Homepage of Helge Förster.

29.10.1999 Nectar Engine

11.11.1998

The Nectar Engine is a real-time commercial 3D engine for Windows 95 from Jerome Lanquetot ( jlanquetot@hoplandbros.com).

• RGB lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
• Realtime shadow casting ( with shadow volume )
• Single mesh deformation with skeletton animation, motion capture, motion blending
• Realtime RGB lighting (Omni, directional )
• Very efficient visibility determination
• Advanced quaternion, matrix, spline and vector math libraries
• Support for LOD models
• Lens flares and particles system
• Collision detection system ( sphere, box, faces )
• Portal and anti-portals rendering
• Software renderer
  • Support for 16 bit Directdraw
  • Z-sorting and s-buffer rendering
  • Perspective correct texture mapping
  • RGB gouraud
  • RGB fog
  • Sub-pixel /-texel accuracy
  • MIP-mapping
  • Alpha-blending and transparency
• Volumetric fog
• Support for Direct3D version 6.1 ( Tnt, Voodoo/Voodoo2 , G200, ATI Rage 128 )
• Support for 3Dfx Voodoo/Voodoo2
• Support for OpenGL
• Very adaptive engine based on drivers, new native api can easily be supported.
• Import of Kinetix 3DS Max scenes and Newtek Lightwave .lwo object and scene files, Maya scenes ( groups, mesh, cameras, lights,animation, materials )
• Support for RAR, ARJ, JPG, TGA, PCX, 3DF texture files
• IE and Netscape 4+ plugin for a use on internet
• 3DS Max preview plugin
• Integrated terminal
• Developped with Visual C++ 6.0

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

13.09.1999 Tiny Java 3D Engine

13.09.1999

The TJ3D is a 3D engine for Java from Jorge Cabezas Garcia ( jorgecabezas@altavista.ne ).

• Texture mapping
• Sub- pixel/texel accuracy
• Phong shading via environment mapping
• Motion blur
• Oversampling antialiasing and simple blur antialiasing
• 3DS MAX 2.x export plugin

More information, the applet and the source can be found on the Tiny Java 3D 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.

10.08.1999 Hi-Fi TextureMapper

10.08.1999

HiFiTM is a experimental texturemapper for DOS from Maxim Stepin ( m_stepin@chat.ru ).
It is written to see the quality of new method of adaptive nonlinear texture filtering.

• Perspective, unlit texture mapping
• Subpixel, subtexel accuraccy
• Fast bilinear texture filtering
• Fast adaptive nonlinear texture filtering
• SVGA support
• Watcom C/ASM source

More information, a demo and the source can be found via the Maxim Stepin Homepage.

22.04.1999 Glista 3D

22.04.1999

Glista 3D is a 3D engine for Windows from Milos Tosic (glista3d@hotmail.com).

• Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
• Multi texturing
• Sub-pixel and sub-texel accurate rasterising
• MIP mapping with trilinear filtering (trilinear filter supported by hardware only)
• Multiple coloured light sources (omni or directional) with distance attenuation
• Multiple cameras with custom FOV and clipping
• Z-Sorting and Z-buffer rendering
• Oct trees for large Outdoor scenes
• Support for TGA, PCX, GIF, IFF/LBM textures
• Support for 3DT and 3DS objects
• Support for 8, 15, 16, 24 and 32 bpp
• Windows95/98/NT Support trough DirectX v6.0+
• Support for hardware acceleration trough Direct3D v6.0+
• Written in pure C

More information and a demo can be found on the Glista 3D Homepage

23.03.1999 Perspective Texturemapping Tutorial

24.11.1997

PPT is a tutorial about perspective texture mapping from Mikael Kalms published in 3DReview.

• Perspective, unshaded texture mapping.
• Division per pixel and scanline-subdivision renderer.
• Subpixel, subtexel accuracy.
• C source to the scanliners available.

A tutorial, screenshots, demos and the sources of the scanliners are available on the Perspective Texturmapping Article Homepage.

18.03.1999 Inertia

09.09.1996

Inertia (former GFXFX3) is a 3d rendering system from Bas van Gaalen (bas@il.ft.hse.nl), Alex Chalfin (achalfin@netmagic.net), Sean Palmer (sean@delta.com) and Jeroen Bouwens (jay@il.ft.hse.nl).

• Unshaded, Ambient, Lambert, Gouraud, and Phong shading models
• Smooth, Texture, and Reflection surface models
• Surface and shading models can be mixed in any combination.
• Transparency for all surface/shading models.
• Support for multiple objects and cameras.
• Object import from 3D Studio .ASC and .3DS files
• PCX Texture support.
• Supports Borland Turbo Pascal v6 & v7, Borland Pascal v7 ( 16 bit DPMI protected mode) and TMT Pascal.
• Floating point transforms optimized for Pentium processors (TMT Pascal Version)
• Super accurate sub-pixel and sub-texel polygon rasterization in 100% Pentium optimized assembly code (TMT Pascal Version)
• Perspective correct texture mapping using 16-pixel affine subdivision (TMT Pascal Version)
• Fustrum polygon clipping performed in full 3d. (TMT Pascal Version)

More information, screenshots and the source can be found on the Inertia Homepage.

09.02.1999 Focus

27.10.1998

Focus is a simple 3D engine for Windows that is intended as a experimental engine for testing various new techniques from Jacco Bikker ( Jacco.Bikker@HTA.nl ) aka 'The Phantom'.

• Perspective correct (real) bilinear filtered texture mapping
• Tileable 8bit textures (with a palette per texture)
• Sub-pixel, sub-texel accuracy
• MIP-mapping
• Fast tree-based S-buffer rendering and Z-Buffer rendering.
• Curved surfaces
• 32/16/15bit output in a window (5/5/5 and 5/6/5 schemes)
• Light volume based illumination model.
• Lens flares.
• Bump-mapping.
• Real-time shadows.
• Portal rendering.
• Hierarchical objects.
• Supports 16bpp output using the MGL or PCT library.
• Edge anti-aliasing
• Scene smoothing
• Plane clipping: Z=0 or frustum clipping
• Clipping against arbitrary convex 2D region
• Support for Caligary Truespace file
• Import of Targa 24bit image files
• Support for PCT library
• Quake-like console
• C source, critical code in ASM (but C version can be used as toggle)

More information, screenshots, binaries and the souce can be found on the Phantom Cyberspace 3D Homepage .

25.01.1999 Soul Port

05.10.1998

Soul Port is a 3D engine for Windows from Engin Cilasun ( ecilasun@chip.com.tr ).

• Unlit perspective texture mapping.
• True bilinear texture mapping thru software.
• MIP-mapping, palettized textures.
• Subpixel correction.
• Skeletal animation system
• Water effect.
• Custom 3D editor.
• 16 bit color rendering.
• Supports RGB textures at a fixed size (256x256 pixels)
• Support for DirectDraw, PC 3D card support via OpenGL.
• Written in Visual C++ and ASM.

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

15.01.1999 SurRender

01.01.1995

SR is a commercial visualization class library from Hybrit Ltd (surrender@hybrid.org).

• Open architecture, with source code supplied.
• Scene graph support.
• Cross-platform compatibility, fully portable across various operating systems and hardware platforms. Support for proprietary software rendering, Direct3D, OpenGL, 3Dfx Glide, NEC PowerSGL, P3D HAL, Rendition RRedline and Matrox MSI95.
• Support for Windows 95/98/NT,older ports exist for Linux and Irix.
• Material support.
• Multiple light sources with a realistic lighting model.
• Advanced rendering with automatic multi-pass operation where required.
• LOD support.
• Complete hierarchy support for all objects, cameras and lights.
• MIP-mapping.
• Various 8/15/16/24/32 bit image formats supported.
• Easy mesh animation and morphing.
• Easy bitmap/billboard objects and 3D sprites.
• Sub-pixel accuracy for texture mapping.
• Lens-flare, lens reflection, smoke and glow special effects.
• Z-buffer rendering.
• Filtering and real-time image post-processing.
• Motion blur and anti-aliasing.
• Stereoscopic rendering.
• Support for 3D Studio .max and Lightwave .lwo objects.
• Support for multithreading and multiprocessor systems
• C++ API.

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

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.

11.01.1999 Katharsis

11.01.1999

Katharsis is a commercial 3D engine for Windows 95/NT from Digital Infinity.

• Support for OpenGL, Direct3D and Glide, support for PC 3D cards
• Software rendering with bilinear texture filtering.
• Perspective. lightmapped texture mapping
• MIP-mapping
• Sub-pixel / sub-texel accuracy
• Lightmaps, shadowmaps and opacity maps
• Lens flares and glow
• Flat, gouraud, phong and metal shading
• Multiple dynamic shadows
• Projected textures
• Z buffering, Z sorting and visibility lists.
• Advanced physics system
• LOD support
• Programmable behavior control per entity
• 3D editor with support for Lightwave LWO, 3D Studio 3DS / MAX and Autocad DFX.
• Written in C++ and Assembler

More information and screenshots can be found on the 3D Engine Homepage .

11.01.1999 TerrEng (Link Problem!)

11.01.1999

TerrEng is a software renderer for fast 3D visualisation form SCS Software.

• Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping
• Triangle subdivision
• Sub-pixel and sub-texel precision
• MIP-mapping
• Mixed span-buffer and z-buffer rendering
• Internal true color renderer, output to 15/16/24/32 bit depths
• Distance based fog
• Transparency, translucency and stipple
• 3D sprites
• OpenGL like C API
• Hand optimized assembly inner loops, MMX optimized paths

More information can be found on the SCS Software Homepage .

11.11.1998 Kick Engine

11.11.1998

The Kick Engine is a commercial real-time 3D engine for Windows 95 from Kick Engine.

• Support for OpenGL and DirectX 6, support for PC 3D cards.
• Perspective. lightmapped texture mapping
• Dynamic lightmaps with specular lighting
• Dynamic shadows
• Volumetric fog and water.
• Liquid rendering with underwater caustics
• Detail mapping
• Movie textures
• View-volume HSR
• Coronas on lights
• Adaptive portal system
• Optimized for 3dNow
• Advanced 2-way texture system designed for AGP 2X

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

12.10.1998 Roketz

05.05.1998

Roketz is a 3D game engine by Lars Andersson ( lars_and@algonet.se ).

• Unshaded, perspective texture mapping.
• Subtexel/subpixel accuracy.
• VGA, Tweaked VGA and VESA 2.0 resolutions.
• Support for DOS, Linux/SVGALib and Linux/X11.
• Quake-like console.
• Portal rendering.
• C++/ASM source that compiles under Watcom, DJGPP2 and GCC.

More information, screenshots, a demo and the source can be found via Lars' 3D Graphics Programming Page.

05.10.1998 3D Graphics Engine

12.02.1998

3DGE is a commercial 3D API for PCs from Twilight 3D.

• Perspective correct texture mapping.
• Sub-pixel/-texel accurate scan conversions.
• MIP-mapped or Tri-linear texture filtering
• Point sampled or bilinear texel reads.
• Dual texturing with configurable and versatile txcombine modes.
• Alpha-blending and transparency.
• Z Buffering, z-sorting and s-buffer rendering.
• Monochromatic and RGB light sources (dynamic).
• Fog and specularity.
• Geometric 3D clipping.
• Advanced quaternion, matrix, spline and vector math libraries.
• Lense flares and particle systems.
• Support for VGA and DirectDraw support.
• Support for 3Dfx Voodoo/Rush, Direct 3D and OpenGL drivers plus highly optimized native software fillers.
• Support for Playstation (console).
• Native Newtek Lightwave and Autodesk 3D Studio .3DS and native 3DS MAX import.
• Support for JPG, PNG, TGA, BMP, PCX, GIF and PPM, IFF LBM, XBM texture files.
• C++ API.

More information and screenshots can be found on the 3D Graphics Engine Homepage.

23.07.1998 Lightspeed 3D

23.07.1998

Lightspeed 3D is an open-source realtime 3D engine for MacOS PowerPC from Joseph J. Strout ( joe@strout.net ).

• Perspective shaded texture mapping.
• Solid, computed, or texture-mapped color.
• Flat, Gouraud, computed, or bump-mapped shading.
• Sub-pixel accuracy.
• Automatic depth sorting.
• Real-valued S-buffer rendering.
• C++ source (Metrowerks CodeWarrior), optimized for PowerPC.
• Free licensing for any purpose, commercial or otherwise.

More information and screenshots can be found on the Lightspeed 3D Engine Homepage . A demo is available by request to Joseph J. Strout.

22.07.1998 3D Engine

22.07.1998

3E is a DOS 3d engine by Steffen Waldersdorff Løffler ( steffenl@post10.tele.dk ).

• Lightmapped perspective texture mapping.
• Sub-pixel accuracy.
• Texture size up to 256x256.
• Multiple light sources.
• Realtime flat and goraud shading.
• Static shadowmapping. Linear interpolation of 16x16 or 8x8 shadowmaps in texturecache.
• Uniform and nonuniform MIP-mapping.
• BSP sorted rendering combined with a span-buffer.
• Dynamic 3D objects.
• Supports VESA 2.0 320x200x8 and 640x480x8.
• Written in DJGPP v2.0 C++ and ASM.

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the Homepage of Steffen Waldersdorff Løffler.

05.05.1998 Virtuosys II

05.05.1998

Virtuosys II is a 3D engine for DOS from Somogyi Balázs ( sb_remal@arrabonet.gyor.hu ).

• Lightmapped perspective texture mapping.
• Sub-pixel and sub-texel accuracy.
• MIP-mapping.
• Radiosity for Global Illumination.
• Gouraud (Z Depth) Shading.
• Surface caching.
• Animated Textures.
• BSP tree and s-buffer rendering.
• Multiple light sources.
• Dynamic (moveable, rotated, morphable) objects.
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS files including material and keyframe data.
• Collision detection.
• VESA 2.0 support.
• Written in ASM.

More information, screenshots and demos can be found on the Virtuosys II Homepage.

05.05.1998 Arfnold

05.05.1998

Arfnold is a 3D engine for PCs by Andrei Fortuna ( andreif@mail.dntis.ro ) aka 'Stormbringer'.

• Unshaded, perspective texture mapping.
• Subtexel/subpixel accuracy.
• MIP-mapping.
• A basic surface cache (no lightning for now, but there is in old versions).
• Conversion of Quake .mdl files.
• BSP/PVS capabilities.
• Edge span-buffer and z-buffer rendering.
• Collision detection.
• Moving platforms.
• 3D objects.
• Particle system.
• Uses Allegro Game library.
• C/C++/ASM source.

More information, a demo and the source can be found on Stormbringer's Homepage.

08.12.1997 HyperRender

08.12.1997

HyperRender is a 3D engine for PCs by Gibby Koldenhof ( flux@iaehv.nl ) aka 'flux'.

• Perspective correct texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• Sub-pixel & sub-texel correction
• Volume BSP rendering.
• Possibly Visible Set (PVS) rendering.
• Lightmap rendering for multiple color lights.
• Auto Adaptive Render Pipeline.
• Ddynamic lights (any color - ambient, spot or omni lights).
• Linear motion blurring (double & triple).
• Optional - span-buffering based on BSP-keys.
• Optional - z-buffering (for better particle system) .
• Collision detection.
• Particle system (explosions, planets, etc) .
• Written in ANSI C.

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

24.11.1997 House Modelling Project

22.11.1997

HMP is a 3D engine for PCs by Tom Hammersley ( tomh@globalnet.co.uk ).

• Perspective, shaded texture mapping.
• Lightmap rendering.
• Bilinear texture filtering.
• Sub-pixel and sub-texel accurate rasterising.
• BSP rendering.
• Radiosity effects for lighting.
• 16 bit color support.
• Span buffer rendering.
• Written in C.

More information, screenshots, documentation, tuorials and a demo can be found on the Graphics Coding Webpage of Tom Hammersley .

24.11.1997 Textur

24.11.1997

Textur is a 3D texturemapper for PCs from Karlis Freivald (karlisf@cclu.lv).

• Perspective, unshaded texture mapping.
• Perspective is archive with a new approach to polygon subdivision.
• Subpixel, subtexel accuracy.
• No FPU instructions in inner loops.
• Automatic quality control
• Filling in tiles reduces cache misses
• Support for 8 bit color.

More information and a demo can be found on the Homepage of Karlis Freivald.

22.10.1997 Threed

22.10.1997

Threed is the Linux port of the 3D engine by Jean-Francois Dube (deks@videotron.ca) aka 'Deks' of IncaMaster.

• Perspective, shaded texture-mapping.
• Sub-pixel & sub-textel accuracy
• Flat and gouraud shading.
• Multiple objects.
• Multiple rgb light sources.
• Z sort rendering.
• Light-source rendering.
• 2D clipping.
• Support for 3D Studio ASC, GEO and GEM object files.
• C++ source.

More information, screenshots and the source can be found on Threed Homepage .

16.09.1997 Project SpandeX

01.01.1995

Project SpandeX (previously known as Latex) is a 3D engine from Paul Nettle (midnight@www.grafix3d.tzo.com).

• Commercial quality engine, written by commercial game developer.
• Open-GL like
• Texture-mapping, environment-mapping, bump-mapping, solid-color polygons, Phong shading, Gouraud shading, Lambert.
• Perspective correct, and affine texture mapping both supported
• Sub-pixel, sub-texel accuracy
• Z-buffering and sorting.
• Triangles, lines, points, text (mono or proportional).
• Up to 100 dynamic light sources.
• Material support with Ka, Kd and Ks variables (may change on the fly).
• Support for any resolution.
• Multiple cameras that can act JUST like 3DS cameras.
• Hierarchical database design with forward kinematics and inheritance.
• 100% Pure C for portability with small inline ASM parts.
• Over 250 API calls for maximum flexibility.
• Support for DOS and Linux/X11.
• Latest version is completely true-color.

More information, screenshots, the source and demos can be found on the Project SpandeX Homepage.

23.04.1997 Fatmap

23.04.1997

Fatmap is a tutorial about 'Fast affine texture mapping' by Mats Byggmastar (mri@penti.sit.fi) aka 'MRI' of Doomsday.

• Gouraud shaded, linear texture mapping.
• Flat and gouraud polygons.
• Subpixel & subtexel accuracy.
• Fixed point math.
• Optimised 6 cycle inner loop for Pentiums.
• Sutherland-Hodgman clipping.
• C / ASM source.
• Tutorial text.

The document, source and executable can be found at ftp.cdrom.com.