| 23.06.2000 Carsten's 3D Engine | 23.02.2000 |
- Unlit, perspective texture mapping
- BSP / PVS / portal rendering
- Span- and Z-Buffer
-
Optimization passes for ideal geometry
- Software rendering
-
Natural player movement (clipping and world physics)
-
TrueColor (32-BPP) support
- Written in Watcom C++
a demo can be found on the
Homepage of Carsten's 3D Engine. | 12.05.2000 Miracle 3D | 22.12.1999 |
- Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
- Support for OpenGL
- Portal rendering with BSPs
- Dynamic RGB lights
- Dynamic mirrors
- Lens flares
- Software rendering
- Mip mapping
- Transparent objects
- Moving objects
- Animated water
- Volume fog
- Fractal textures
- Collision detection
- Console
| 12.05.2000 Eraser | 12.05.2000 |
- Unshaded, perspective texture mapping
- Mip mapping
- S-Buffer rendering
- Fake FSP tree support
- Written in Watcom C++ and Turbo Assembler
| 27.04.2000 Titan Engine | 27.04.2000 |
- Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
- Support for OpenGL
- Curved surfaces
- BSP rendering
- Support for 3D Studio 3DS files
- Support for Quake3 bsp files
- Real-time skeleton deformations
- Dynamic mesh resolution
- Keyframed animations
- Support for shader script language which allows procedural vertex deformations and multiple texturing stages, with different blending modes and rendering states
- Port to linux is beeing done
| 27.04.2000 ENG32 | 26.01.1999 |
- Perspective, gouraud shaded texture mapping
- Support for hardware accelerated Direct3D only
- Transparent and animated surfaces
- RGB lighting with shadows (but no shadow maps)
- Flashing/flickering lights
- BSP rendering with limited portal capability
- Polygon based leveleditor
- Support for switch scripts, switched sounds
- WAV and MIDI music
- 3D characters (imported from 3D Studio Max)
- Particle system
- Enhanced API
| 12.04.2000 Legus3D | 23.03.1998 |
- 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.
| 12.04.2000 Blitz Engine | 05.10.1998 |
- 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)
| 12.04.2000 Fly3D | 04.08.1998 |
- 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
The engine will be featured in the book 3D Computer Game Technology - Theory and Practice from Alan Watt and Fabio Policarpo (Addion Wesley).
| 04.04.2000 Basic3D | 04.04.2000 |
- Lightmapped perspective texture mapping
- MIP-mapping
- Colored dynamic lights
- BSP/ZBuffer rendering
- Collision detection
- Support for OpenGL
- Polygonal objects
- Particles and sprites
- Movable BSP models
- Suport for Quake 2 data
- Suport model/animation of MD2 model
| 04.04.2000 Sparklight | 05.08.1998 |
- 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++
| 04.04.2000 Coockie's 3D Engine | 20.01.1997 |
- Perspective texture mapping.
- MIP-mapping.
- Collision detection.
- 3D BSP rendering.
- Moving objects.
- Support for 3D Studio ASC files.
- VESA 2.0 linear framebuffer support.
- Support for 3Dfx pc 3d cards using Glide.
- C/ASM source.
| 11.02.2000 Blaxxun Contact 3D | 11.02.2000 |
- 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
| 08.02.2000 QLeVe | 08.02.2000 |
- Lightmapped perspective texture mapping
- MIP-mapping
- BSP rendering
- Precomputed PVS culling of leaves, dynamic PVS culling of nodes
- Animated textures
- There is also a version with gouraud shading instead of lightmapping
- Written in Delphi
- Support for Glide
| 23.12.1999 Purgatory | 23.12.1999 |
- Perspective lightmapped texture mapping
- BSP/PVS rendering
- Support for textures and models from Quake 3 Arena
- Realtime textured bezier tessellation and animation with LOD
- Electric fx effect on models like Q3 Arena
- Addictive lens flares
- Lens fade out ala Unreal
- Bitmaps animation
- Use OpenGL extension (multitexturing and lock arrays)
- Bezier sky with multiple transparency
- Semi-transparent Bezier surfaces
- Written in VC++ 6.0
| 23.12.1999 Quake 1 | 23.12.1999 |
- Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
- Transparency and alpha textures
- Support for OpenGL
- BSP and PVS support
- Surface caching
- Hierarchical polygonal models
- Particle systems
- Collision detection
- Dynamic lights
- Multiplayer network support
- Sound support
- Console
- The C/ASM source for Visual C++ 6 is under GPL (gnu public license)
| 23.12.1999 Golk | 23.12.1999 |
- 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
| 22.12.1999 Twister | 28.09.1999 |
- Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
- BSP rendering
- Multiple cameras
- Mirrors
- Particle systems
- Quake II .bsp support
- Quake II model support
- S-buffer rendering
- Dynamic colored lightmaps
- Volumetric fog
- Support for Quake 2 models
- Direct3D acceleration
- Console
- Visual C++ 5.0 source
| 22.12.1999 zViewer | 09.02.1999 |
- Perspective multitextured Z-Buffered rendering (mipmapping has been disabled in the latest version, though support exists)
- BSP rendering of leaf- and node-based trees. Portal rendering planned
- CSG addition and subtraction operators to build complex worlds
- Support for DirectX 7.0 andOpenGL 1.1
- Precalculated Potentially Visible Set to increase rendering speed
- Precalculated color radiosity lightmaps
- DirectInput for keyboard and mouse movement
- Support for hierarchial object modelling
- In-game console and user definded key bindings
- 100% C++ built in Microsoft Developer Studio for the Windows 9x and Windows 2K platforms
- Next update to include additinal OpenGL support
| 22.12.1999 GFX4D | 22.12.1999 |
- Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
- Animated textures
- Alpha textures and chromakeying
- Mip mapping
- Bilinear texture filtering
- Lens flares
- Mirrors
- Skybox
- Colored fog
- Translucent textures
- Spline patches
- BSP/C-Block/PVS optimalisation
- Support for TrueSpace and 3DSMax objects
- Particle system
- Support for Glide
- Force feedback support
| 09.11.1999 MGRage | 09.11.1999 |
- Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
- Support for DirectX 7
- Multitextureing
- Environment mapping
- Portal and BSP rendering
- Dynamic RGB light sourceing
- Lens flares
- Particle systems
- Mirrors
- Z-Buffer and W-Buffer support
- Hierarchical models
| 29.10.1999 Exist | 29.10.1999 |
- 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
| 18.10.1999 NBFB | 13.10.1999 |
- Full API with over 300 modular functions
- Perspective correct, fullz assemblz pipelined software renderers with mid scanline mipmapping
- Support for OpenGL and 3DFX rendering
- BSP rendering
- Lightmap rendering, chrome mapping
- Z-Buffer rendering
- Dynamic lightmap lights
- Spherical volumetric fog
- Hierarchical models
- Skeletal skinned mesh and skeletal animation system
- Pixel perfect ray cast collision for BSP and objects
- Sperical collision functionality for BSPs
- Realtime level of detail on objects using Garland approach
- Multiple camera support
- Morphing system
- Cartoon rendering
| 08.10.1999 Bullet3D | 08.10.1999 |
- Unshaded, perspective texture mapping
- Support for DirectX 6 and OpenGL
- Z-Buffer rendering
- BSP rendering
- 3D Studio Max Plugin
- Collision detection
- Written in C++ (Visual C++ 6.0)
| 22.09.1999 Advanced 3D Game Programming using DirectX 7.0 | 22.09.1999 |
- Multi-textureing (lightmaps, detail maps, glow maps, spec maps)
- Radiosity lighting
- Subidivision surfaces
- Parametric surfaces
- Progressive meshes
- B-splines
- Hardware acceleration
- Alpha blending
- BSP rendering
- Portal rendering
| 17.09.1999 Arfnold 2 | 17.09.1999 |
- Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
- MIP-mapping
- Bilinear texture filtering
- Flat & gouraud shading
- Support for OpenGL and Direct3D 6.x
- Z-Buffer rendering
- BSP & PVS
- Hierarchical meshes
- Transparency
- Fog
- Colored lights
- Support for 3D Studio scenes
- Support for Quake2 levels (including monsters)
- Collision detection using axis aligned boxes
- Uses gamex86.dll from quake2 for monster movement in the quake2 level viewer
- Visual C++ 5/6 source
| 15.09.1999 A4-Engine | 15.09.1999 |
- 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
| 13.09.1999 Zeta | 22.11.1997 |
- Perspective texture mapping.
- Fake phong and gouraud shading.
- Translucent polygons.
- BSP rendering.
- Portal rendering.
- 3D clipping.
- Multiple colored light sources.
- Lighting system (supporting ambient, omni, and directional lights)
- Terrain support.
- Collision detection.
- CSG support.
- Quaternion rotations.
- Bicubic surface patches (source for the surface included).
- Hierarchial objects.
- 16 bit affine gourad shaded z-buffered software rendering in a DIB section.
- Written in C++.
| 08.09.1999 V3D | 07.07.1999 |
- Lightmapped perspective texturemapping
- Varible LightMap ratios ( 1:1, 8:1, 16:1 )
- Support for vertex alpha
- Shadow effects
- Gouraud shading
- RGB lighting
- Transparency
- Fog
- BSP tree rendering
- Hardware acceleration through Direct3D
- Written in C++
- MMX optimizations
- Solid Modeling Application
| 03.09.1999 Crystal Space | 25.08.1997 |
- 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.
| 08.08.1999 Adamantium | 08.08.1999 |
- Support for OpenGL
- Z-Buffer and BSP rendering
- Collision detection
- MIP mapping
- Colored dynamic lights
- Polygonal objects and 2D sprites
- Support for Quake 2 scene files
- Physics system
- Source code available
| 12.05.1999 Gran3D | 12.05.1999 |
- Shaded, perspective texture mapping
- Support for DirectX 6.1
- Support for 3DS Max ASCII Export including materials and animations
- Support for multi-materials
- Support for 3DS Max bone and IK animations
- Support for Character Studio biped and physique animations
- Quake-like terrain component using BSP, Portal, PVS
- Collision detection
| 06.05.1999 SGE 3D | 06.05.1997 |
- Shaded, perspective texture mapping.
- Bilinear texture filtering.
- Z-buffer, tree sorting, BSP or span-buffer rendering.
- 32 bit textures.
- 32 bit interal rendering, 16 or 24 bit output conversion.
- Material support.
- Hierarchical objects.
- Lens-flares, motion blur and haze effects.
- 100 % ASM code.
| 25.02.1999 Poly Engine | 27.09.1996 |
- 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
| 09.02.1999 Venerium | 09.02.1999 |
- Perspective lightmapped texture mapping
- MIP-Mapping
- BSP and z-buffer rendering
- Static & dinamic coloured Lightmaps
- 32 bit internal rendering
- Support 15,16,24,32 bit per pixel
- Sound support
- Collision detection
- Written in Visual C++ 5.0
| 18.01.1999 Dream Engine | 28.01.1998 |
- Perspective, shaded texture-mapping.
- Static and dynamic point/directional lights.
- Depthcueing.
- Z-buffer and BSP rendering.
- Collision detection.
- Support for 3D Studio 3DS object and animation files.
- Support for mouse, keyboard and VFX1 headtracker.
- Support for DirectX and hardware acceleration
| 15.01.1999 Flatland Rover | 15.01.1999 |
- 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
| 12.01.1999 3DGPL | 27.06.1995 |
- Perspective texturemapping (via linear interpolation every 32 pixels per scanline)
- Ray tracing.
- Gouraud shading, flat shading of polygons.
- Z-Buffer and BSP rendering.
- Bicubic patches.
- Landscape rendering.
- Portal rendering.
- 2D and 3D clipping.
- 3D transformations with fixed point or float math.
- 2D text rendering.
- Portable C with support for DOS, X11-Windows, NeXTStep, Windows 3.1/95 and Mac.
- Tutorial texts, source code available and extensive 3D documentation
| 18.12.1998 VD/Eclipse | 02.09.1997 |
- Front-to-back zero-overdraw BSP-based rendering.
- PVS system.
- Lightmapped perspective texture mapping.
- Bump-mapping.
- Environment mapping.
- MIP-mapping.
- Very fast dynamic multiple-lightsource multiple-object realtime shadowing, combined with light-mapping. Shadows from multiple lightsources are additive. Shadowing is completely accurate.
- Radiosity lightmap calculations.
- Infinite moving dynamic-intensity lightsources.
- Real, arbitrary-sized and -shaped mirrors and glass.
- Colored ambient/point/directed/spot lightsources.
- Projected Lights - for effects like 35mm slides.
- Specularity Mapping
- Color key transparency and alpha/stipple translucency.
- Material support and specular highlights.
- Lens Flares and coronas around bright lightsources
- Advanced Particle System, including support for opaque/alpha/shaded particles
- Volumetric Lighting/Localized fog - even dynamic, with any color you want, and dynamic density.
- Sky effects, both spherical and planar.
- Water effect.
- Hierarchical collision detection/prediction routines.
- Tools for conversion of MAP, BSP, MDL, ASC objects/3d worlds.
- Interpolated keyframed vector object animations and morphing, including a convenient animation system.
- Virtually unlimited rendering resolution.
- Supports n-edged polygons, sprites and pixels as drawing primitives.
- Support for PC 3D cards via OpenGL.
- 8bpp and 16bpp Renderers in Software, 16bpp/24bpp/32bpp in Hardware.
- Sophisticated, well-designed Game Development System with C++ API.
| 27.10.1998 Duality Engine | 27.10.1998 |
- 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.
| 04.09.1998 GLWOF | 04.09.1998 |
- Perspective texture-mapping (with MIP-mapping)
- Colored Lightmaps done in Surface-Cache (with interpolation) & Blending
- Support for all avaible 3d cards with OpenGL drivers
- Support for all resoluton & color depths the 3d card supports
- Colored Realtime lightning effects (flicker etc)
- Colored Dynamic lighting (fireballs etc)
- Hidden surface removal via BSP-Tree
- Fast Frustum Culling
- 100% dynamic collision dection using brushes
- Polygonal Characters like Monsters etc..
- Particle & Sprite System
- BSP-SubModels (like doors, platforms etc) with collision detection
- GAME-DLL interface for easy & fast creation of new awesome games
- Support for 8-bit as well as 24-bit PCX textures
- Texture Manager to change charcteristics of surfaces
- Multiline-Funcion-Line-Tracing to support special effects like different sounds when walking on Ice etc...
- Real Mirrors
- Enhanced Console System with commands & variables
- Own fileformats & compiling tools (still similar to quake utils)
- Model Editor for Alias models as Monster etc...
- Sound Engine with stereo seperation & distance attenution using DirectSound
- Support for various Input Devices as Keyboard, Mouse, Joystick using DirectInput
- Well documented & structuraed Watcom C+ 10.6 sourcecode (compiling utils are straight C)
| 22.07.1998 3D Engine | 22.07.1998 |
- 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.
| 21.07.1998 X-Engine | 21.07.1998 |
- Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping.
- BSP- and z-buffer rendering.
- Collision detection.
- Character animation.
- Support for DirectX 5, needs PC 3D hardware.
- Basic physics.
- Particle systems.
- Written in C++.
| 21.07.1998 T Vaughan's 3D Graphics Engine | 21.07.1998 |
- Unshaded, perspective texture mapping.
- Uses DirectDraw (no Dirct3D) for rendering.
- BSP- and ZBuffer rendering.
- Game physics.
- Written in C++.
| 08.06.1998 PortalRend | 15.12.1997 |
- Shaded perspective texture mapping.
- Imporved lightmap rendering of multiple dynamic, colored lightsources with accurate realtime shadows.
- Radiosity.
- Twopass rendering.
- Portal rendering.
- Moving objects cast moving shadows.
- Collision detection.
- MIP-mapping.
- Particle systems.
- Negative and positive quake like brushes to ease level design.
- Support for 3DFX's opengl32.dll on Windows 95.
- Support for multi-texturing on Voodoo2.
| 06.05.1998 Tremor | 06.05.1998 |
- Lightmapped perspective texture mapping.
- MIP-mapping.
- Surface caching.
- PVS (Potential Visibility Set) pre-computation.
- Texture animation.
- BSP tree and z-buffer rendering.
- Dynamic objects.
- Collision detection.
- Sound support.
- Network support.
- Support for X11 windows.
- Written in C.
| 05.05.1998 Virtuosys II | 05.05.1998 |
- 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.
| 05.05.1998 Arfnold | 05.05.1998 |
- 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.
| 19.03.1998 Amp Game Development System | 13.05.1997 |
- Perspective shaded, texture mapping.
- BSP rendering.
- Gouraud shaded, hierarchical 3D characters.
- Realistic light sourcing with shadows.
- Movable Mirrors.
- 3D editor.
- Collision detection.
- Physics model / Particle Model.
- Advanced animation system with animation blending
- Direct-Sound based audio system.
- Client/Server game architecture
- 8 bit color support, variable resolution.
- Coming Soon: Multiplayer support and 3DFx Acceleration.
| 16.03.1998 zEditor | 14.02.1997 |
- DLLs provide support for hardware acceleration. Planned are Glide, OpenGL and Direct3D support.
- Perspective shaded texture mapping, solid fill and wireframe rendering with 0 overdraw.
- MIP-mapped textures.
- 6 degrees of freedom and true 3D BSPs.
- CSG operations and a tree display of brushes and sub-brushes for easy manipulation.
- Written in C/ASM.
| 04.03.1998 NetImmerse | 21.07.1997 |
- 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.
More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the NetImmerse Homepage.
| 12.02.1998 Torch | 12.02.1998 |
- Lightmapped, perspective correct texture mapping.
- Z-Buffer and bsp support.
- Level of Detail (LOD) management.
- Arbitrary texture map sizes.
- Support for JPEG, PNG and GIF texture files.
- Texture and geometry cache.
- Texture transparency.
- MIP-mapping.
- Fogging and depth cueing.
- Pre-computed lighting with soft-edge shadows.
- Dynamic lighting on non-textured objects.
- Collision detection.
- Support for VRML 2.0.
- Support for Direct3D, OpenGL and 3Dfx Glide and software rendering.
- Multichannel sound and and stereo midi support.
- C and Java API, JavaScript support in WWW browser.
- Standalone and WWW browser plugin.
- Development Environment for Torch is called Catalyst.
| 30.01.1998 P3D | 30.01.1998 |
- Gouraud perspective texture mapping.
- BSP rendering.
- Collision detection.
- Dynamic objects.
- Animated textures.
- Portal rendering.
- Z-Buffer rendering
- C++/ASM source.
| 28.01.1998 Extrinsic Dawn | 15.08.1997 |
- Perspective texture mapping with scanline subdivision.
- MIP-mapping.
- Light-mapping with light cache.
- BSP rendering.
- PVS (possibly visible set) support.
- S-Buffer rendering.
- Frustrum clipping.
- Support for Quake level files.
- SVGA support.
- Support for Watcom DOS, DJGPP DOS and MSVC 4.1 Win32 with DirectX.
- C source.
| 08.12.1997 HyperRender | 08.12.1997 |
- 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.
| 01.12.1997 Alpha Project | 12.08.1996 |
- Perspective correct texture mapping using bilinear interpolation every 16 pixels.
- Lighting done in texture cache (Light-mapping).
- MIP-mapping.
- Level editor.
- BSP tree support.
- DirectDraw support for Windows NT.
- C++/ASM source.
| 24.11.1997 House Modelling Project | 22.11.1997 |
- 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.
| 22.11.1997 CLIFF | 03.11.1997 |
- Shaded, perspective texture mapping.
- SVGA support.
- MIP-mapping.
- Lightmap rendering.
- BSP rendering, visibility lists, edge-sorting.
- Collision detection.
- Physics system.
- Support for Quake level files.
- CLIFF-shell - a shell mechanism (similar to Quake's console).
- Animated textures.
| 14.11.1997 Sofie | 14.11.1997 |
- Perspective, non-shaded texture mapping.
- MIP-mapping.
- BSP rendering.
- Multiple objects with physics (Mass, velocity...).
- Collision detection.
- 2D sprites (for explosions).
- Support for X11-Windows (with MIT-Shm-Extension) on Linux.
- Support for 8 and 16 bit color.
- Joystick support.
- C++ source.
| 10.11.1997 Frag Isaland | 10.11.1997 |
- Perspective shaded texture mapping.
- Lightmap rendering.
- BSP rendering.
- Hierarchical objects.
- Collision detection.
- Keyboard support.
- Landscape rendering.
- Network client/server support.
| 03.11.1997 Direct3D Quake Viewer (Broken Link!) | 03.11.1997 |
- Perspective, shaded texture-mapping with lightmaps.
- Support for Direct3D and PC 3D cards.
- BSP tree.
- Ported from the OpenGL version of the viewer.
- Support for Quake level files.
- Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 source.
| 22.10.1997 3D Engine (Link Problems!) | 13.08.1996 |
- Perspective, shaded texture-mapping.
- Flat, gouraud, phong and bump lightning.
- Environment mapping.
- Z-buffer rendering.
- Multiple RGB light sources.
- Lens-flares.
- 24bit internal rendering, 8 to 24 bit output.
- Simple motion blur.
- Multiple objects.
- 2D clipping.
- Support for portal and BSP rendering.
- Support for 3D Studio ASC, GEO and GEM object files.
- C++ source with some ASM extensions.
| 22.10.1997 EGLE | 15.08.1997 |
- 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.
| 22.10.1997 Threed | 22.10.1997 |
- 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.
| 22.09.1997 QMap | 16.06.1997 |
- Perspective texture mapping.
- MIP-mapping.
- Light-mapping with light cache.
- BSP rendering.
- PVS (possibly visible set) support.
- Frustrum clipping.
- Quake-style water-surface animation.
- Support for Quake level files.
- Support for Watcom DOS, DJGPP DOS and MSVC 4.1 Win32 with DirectX.
- C source.
| 15.08.1997 Zen | 15.08.1997 |
- Shaded perspective texture mapping.
- MIP-mapping.
- BSP and Z-Buffer rendering.
- Shadow mapping via light maps.
- Surface cache rendering.
- Multiple types of fog (distance based, layered, etc...).
- Transparent surfaces colors lights.
- Mirrors.
- View frustrum clipping.
- Support for Watcom C++.
| 16.06.1997 Engine Zero | 16.06.1997 |
- Perspective texture mapping.
- Flat shading using surface cache.
- Animated textures.
- Depth cueing and fogging.
- BSP rendering.
- SVGA support.
- Script based behavior model.
- Collision detection.
- Sprites.
- Network support, client/server system.
- Sound support.
- BSP compiler with support for 3D Studio 3DS import.
| 06.06.1997 World Of Fantasy | 30.12.1996 |
- Perspective texture mapping with MIP-mapping.
- Portal rendering.
- BSP rendering.
- Z-buffer and span-buffer.
- Light-maps and Surface cache.
- Realtime lightning effects (like flicker) and dynamic lighting (for fireballs).
- SVGA support.
- Improved collision detection.
- Polygonal objects.
- Moving doors and elevators.
- Multiple viewports.
- Water effect a la Quake.
- Support for Quake level files.
- C/C++ source.
| 07.05.1997 SQuake | 25.04.1997 |
- Perspective texture mapping.
- BSP rendering with clip tests.
- Visibility lists.
- Simple lighting.
- Surface cache.
- Based on WOF by Frank Willemsen & Corin Langosch.
- Support for Quake level files.
- C/C++ source.
| 30.04.1997 MindRender | 26.02.1996 |
- 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.
| 03.04.1997 Xvizn | 04.10.1996 |
- Shaded, perspective texture mapping.
- BSP rendering.
- MAMLAS - language for describing 3D scenes ( basic keyword: if, else, while, int, float, point, vektor, polygon, scene, object ... ).
- Level editor.
- C++ class design.
| 14.02.1997 work in progress | 14.02.1997 |
- Perspective correct texture-mapping using affine subdivision.
- Span-buffer rendering.
| 23.01.1997 BSP3D | 23.01.1997 |
- Unshaded affine texture mapping.
- Flat shaded polygons.
- BSP rendering.
- C++/ASM source.
| 29.10.1996 Arsenal | 16.09.1996 |
- Perspective texture mapping.
- No shading yet.
- BSP rendering.
- C with inline assembly.
| 19.07.1996 Deskent | 25.03.1996 |
- Perspective, shaded texture-mapping.
- BSP tree.
- Collision detection.
- Portal rendering.
- Motion blur and glow.
- Polygon mesh objects.
- Moving lightsources with point and spot iillumination models.
- Phong, Gouraud and flat shading, environment mapping.
- Any VGA or VBE 2.0 resolution.
- Reads Descent levels, 3DS meshes and Quake's models.
- C++ with only few hundred lines of 80386 asm, could be easily ported to other platform.
- No moving objects yet.
| 31.08.1995 Mech | 19.06.1995 |
- Perspective texturemapping and gouraud shading.
- BSP tree, polygon sorting.
- SVGA and VGA support.
- Depth cueing.
- Physical simulation of spring/mass systems.
| 01.01.1995 Purple | 01.01.1995 |
- ANSI C, runs on X11-Windows, Mac, Windows, OSF and TOS. There is also a simple C++ interface.
- Hierarchical, movable BSP subscenes with level of detail management for the objects, object grouping.
- System-primitive rendering for wire/flat shading, z-buffer, framebuffer only or z-only rendering, direct 3D hardware support (for DEC Kubota)
- Flat or gouraud shading in combination with dithering, transparency and texture-mapping.
- Unlimited colored, movable lightsources (distant, point and spotlights).
- Material constants (ambient, diffuse, specular).
- File I/O: rib,asc,rwx,plg,fig,geo,geom,scn,tri,ply. Texture I/O: tga,tiff,gif
- Multiple cameras with stereo-support that render into windows or textures.
- Simulated virtual person, all elements are controllable with I/O devices like Bird-sensor, Logitech 3D mouse, K1 glove, Powerglove, Sega Activator, Flightstick or 2D Mouse.
- Internal task concept, all actions run as purple tasks.
- 2D sprites, 2D and 3D text, overlay and underlay text, backdrop images, fog/distance cueing.
- Environment mapping and mirrors.
- Portal rendering with 3D frustrum clipping.
- Stereo rendering for red/blue glasses or for CyberMaxx HMD.
- Work in
progress:
- MIP-mapping and animation for textures.
- Fast shadows with shadow mapping.
- Phong and bump-mapping.
- Anti-aliasing, 2D effects like lens-flares and fire.
- Distributes object visualisation, networked worlds.