3D Engines List Anti-aliasing This list contains 19 anti-aliasing engines.

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.

02.02.2000 OpenGL

06.09.1995

OpenGLŪ is a software interface for applications to generate interactive 2D and 3D computer graphics. OpenGL is designed to be independent of operating system, window system, and hardware operations, and it is supported by many vendors. OpenGL is available on PCs, Macintosh and workstations.
OpenGL provides a wide range of graphics functions: from rendering a simple geometric point, line, or filled polygon, to texture mapping NURBS curved surfaces.

• Geometric primitives (points, lines, and polygons)
• Raster primitives (bitmaps and pixel rectangles)
• RGBA or color index mode
• Display list or immediate mode
• Viewing and modeling transformations
• Hidden Surface Removal (depth buffer)
• Alpha Blending (transparency)
• Antialiasing
• Texture Mapping
• Atmospheric Effects (fog, smoke, and haze)
• Polynomial Evaluators (to support Non-uniform rational B-splines)
• Pixel Operations (storing, transforming, mapping, zooming)
• Accumulation Buffer
• Stencil Planes
• Feedback, Selection, and Picking
• OpenSource

The OpenGL functions described are provided on every OpenGL implementation to make applications written with OpenGL easily portable between platforms. All licensed OpenGL implementations are required to pass the Conformance Tests, and come from a single specification and language binding document.
More information and the source of the sample implementation can be found on the OpenGL Sample Implementation Homepage.

22.12.1999 Power Render

09.09.1996

PR is a high performance 32-bit rendering engine for PC's by Chris Egerter (egerter@egerter.com), the author of the WordUp Graphics Toolkit.

• Perspective texture mapping with gouraud and phong shading.
• Environment mapping for all texture rendering modes.
• Support for hardware bump-mapping
• Multiple light sources.
• Real-time shadows
• 3D Sprites, with smoke, glow, translucency, shading and other lighting effects.
• 32 bit radix sort with Painter's sorting.
• Span buffering.
• Portal engine with realtime rotating mirrors and TV screens.
• Support for stencil buffer
• Motion blur and anti-aliasing.
• Supports linear 320x200x256 (0x13) and all SVGA modes.
• High Level C API with low level hand optimized assembly.
• Hierarchical object management with real-time object morphing and bending.
• Character animation and particle scripting system.
• Particle systems.
• Viewport control allows for multiple views and changing the viewport size on the fly.
• Import for 3D Studio 3DS,Lightwave LWO and LWS files.
• Keyframe animation playback of both 3DS and Lightwave scenes.
• Support for 3DS Character Studio.
• Assign materials and texture data for each individual polygon.
• MIP-mapping and material changes based on polygon distance.
• Polytype collision detection.
• Landscape Studio editor now has support for alpha fogging, sky boxes, and animated character or particle placement.
• Compiler Support: Watcom C/C++ and MSVC.
• Uses WGT 5.1/WGT95 for basic graphics functions. Support for DosGlide, DirectDraw software rendering, WinGlide, Direct3D (7.0 ) and OpenGL.
• Native 3Dfx support through Glide and 3Dfx Voodoo Rush support.
• 3D MAX glasses support.

More information and a demo on the Power Render 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 VB Revolution

29.10.1999

VB Revolution is a 3D library for Windows from Simon Theophil ( simon@nefo.de )

• Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping
• Support for DirectX and software rendering
• Z-Buffer rendering
• Texture filtering
• Colered lights
• Multi textureing (additive, subtraktive)
• Anti aliasing
• Support for DirectSound

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the VB Revolution 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.

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 .

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 .

15.01.1999 V3X

23.07.1998

V3X is a commercial 3d game engine from Realtech VR Software. The engine is not available for licensing.

• Perspective, gouraud/phong shaded texture mapping.
• Environment mapping.
• Texture filtering.
• Hardware 16bit or 32bit Z-Buffer and W-Buffer.
• Collision detection (sphere, boxes, and mesh).
• Support for JPEG,IFF,PCX,GIF,BMP,TGA and PNG textures. 4bit, 8bit, 16bit, 32bit and alpha textures.
• Animated texture maps (.FLC).
• Transparency (additive, alpha, substractive).
• Support for DOS, Windows 95 (DirectDraw), MacOs, BeOS, Power Macintosh OS and Sony Playstation.
• Support for Watcom C/C++, Borland C/C++, DJGPP, Metrowerks Codewarrior (For BeOS and MacOS) and Visual C++.
• Realtime gravity engine.
• Multitexturing or multi-pass rendering for phong shading or lightmap.
• Support for Glide 3.0, Direct 3D 6,S3 Metal, S3 ToolKit and PSX.
• Support for MMX (32bpp) with software RGB gouraud shading.
• Portal rendering.
• RGB or mono multiple omnidirectionnal,spots or direct lights with fog.
• Pre-lighting with raytrace.
• 3DS MAX 2.5, 3D Studio 4.0, Lightwave format compatible.

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found via the Realtech VR World Web Site. (Click V3X in the bottom frame)
A new demo will be also available showing all the possibility of the engine. A licensable version will be also available.

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

27.10.1997 XGL

21.05.1996

The Solaris XGL Graphics Library is a mature graphics interface, providing foundation-level geometry graphics support for Solaris-based applications from Sun Microsystems.
The XGL Graphics Library is both an Application Program Interface (API) and a geometry foundation library and is just one part of the powerful graphics environment provided as standard with the SUN Solaris 2.x operating system.

• Shaded, perspective texture mapping.
• Transparency.
• Accumulation buffer.
• Antialiasing.
• Nurbs, meshes, polygons, triangle lists, lines.
• Dynamic loadable devices, hardware acelleration.
• Support for SPARC and x86 microprocessor architectures.
• C++ API.

More information on the XGL Homepage.

22.10.1997 EGLE

15.08.1997

EGLE ( Enhanced OpenGl Engine ) is a 3D game engine by Phil Frisbie ( pfrisbie@geocities.com ).

• Perspective texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• BSP, Z-Buffer and z-sorting rendering.
• Anti-aliasing.
• 32 bit color support (RGBA).
• Collision detection.
• Uses OpenGL API (Mesa/3DFx) .
• Support for Quake level files.
• ANSI C, no C++ or Windows specific code. EGLE should compile on any system that has OpenGL and GLUT.

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

02.09.1997 CyberGL

02.09.1997

CyberGL is a 2D/3D graphics AMIGA shared library whose API is a subset of the OpenGL API from Phase 5 Digital Product.

• Shaded perspective texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• Gouraud and flat shading.
• Wireframe rendering.
• Anti-aliasing.
• Material support.
• Spot, point and directional lights.
• Support for 8bit or less and 15,16 and 24 bit color.
• Support for 68020/30/40/60 and FPU.

More information, screenshots, demos and the library can be found on the CyberGL Homepage.

30.04.1997 MindRender

26.02.1996

BR is a high performance programmer's API for PCs from Themekit Ltd.

• DOS and Windows 95 support (planned).
• SVGA support.
• Support for 3D input and output devices, like gloves and HMDs.
• Z-buffer rendering.
• BSP support.
• Stereo rendering.
• Perspective texture mapping.
• Wireframe/solid, gouraud shading and optional phong highlights.
• Transparent and shaded textures.
• Light and shadow mapping.
• Unlimited number of colored lights. Spot, point and directional lights.
• Movable lightsources, dynamic light parameters, distance cueing, fogging.
• Pre-Rendering of static scenes.
• Collision detection.
• Keyframe animation, morphing.
• Sound support.
• API interface to high- and low-level routines.

More information and a demo is available on the ThemeKit Homepage.

28.10.1996 3DR

01.01.1995

3DR is Intel's scalable, real-time 3D graphics library which has been optimized for the Pentium(R) processor.

• Up to 16 light sources.
• Texture mapping, environment mapping, modulated textures.
• Sprites and bitmaps.
• Atmospheric effects.
• Optional z-buffering, antialiasing, transparency, alpha blending.
• Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and Windows NT support.
• Free of charge, no royalty fee.

Intel announced on the 23 october 1996, that 3DR is no longer supported.

25.07.1996 3d Graphic Tools

25.07.1996

3DGT is a graphics software developer's tool for the Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C++ environments from Micro System Options ( moptions@concentric.net ).

• Windows 95 / NT and 3.1 support.
• Procedural textures and picture mapping.
• Z-buffer and painters sorting.
• Sophisticated lighting using multiple, movable color light sources with optional ambient light, depth cueing and special effects.
• Flat and Phong shading.
• Flexible, color, translucency and other object level attributes for control of objects'appearance.
• 3d point, line, wireframe drawing and clipping.
• Edge anti-aliasing and image post processing .
• Extruded, rotated, swept, lofted, spline and arbitrary curves and surfaces.
• Object generators (cube, cylinder, sphere, etc.)
• DFX, STL and 3GT file format support.
• The Windows C/C++ versions include complete source code.

More information on the Micro System Options Homepage .

22.05.1996 BRender

01.01.1995

BRender (Blazing Render) is a complete system with an applications interface, graphics libraries and device drivers by Argonaut Software.

• Z-buffer and scanline renderer
• Hierarchical, linked objects
• Gouraud shading
• Multiple cameras and lightsources
• Collision detection
• Sprite scaling and deformation effects
• 486PC, Apple Mac/PowerMac, OS/2, Windows could very easily be ported to the 3d0, Saturn, FM Towns or Jaguar
• BRender is a 32 bit library, there are versions for Watcom or MS Visual C.
• Supports hardware accelerators like GLiNT
• Planed: fog-effects, depth-cueing, anti-aliasing, and covered light-sources such as spot-lights
• 140 pages documentation.
• Non-commercial evaluation kit may be available if one asks via email.

Contact: Argonaut Software (paul@argonaut.com, rich@argonaut.com)
Information about BRender as taken from news and emails.
Move information and demos on the Brender Homepage .

20.11.1995 Sabotage

01.01.1995

Sabotage is a 3D game engine for PCs from Billy Zelsnack (zelsnack@rmii.com).

• Free direction texturemapping with distance cueing
• Antialiasing

An (older) demo could be found on ftp.uwp.edu, but was deleted in the last weeks. I will try to upload it to x2ftp.oulu.fi - this this text will be replaced with the new link. More info in the Sabotage Readme.
The Sabotage Homepage is temporarily removed.

12.06.1995 SIPP

12.06.1995

SIPP (SImple Polygon Processor) is a scanline z-buffer rendering library from Equivalent Software HB. the authors are Jonas Yngvesson (jonas-y@isy.liu.se) and Inge Wallin (ingwa@isy.liu.se).

• Phong, gouraud or flat shading.
• Texture, opacity and bump mapping.
• Bezier patches and polygons and object primitives.
• Procedural texure shaders.
• Arbitrary number of light sources.
• Z-buffer rendering.
• Simple anti-aliasing through oversampling.
• Output to Portable Pixmap format (ppm) or user-supplied functions.
• C source and good documentation.

The source can be found on isy.liu.se . There is also a version with TCL interface available at ftp.uu.net.