3D Engines List Bump mapping This list contains 29 bump mapping engines.

23.06.2000 TechNature Library

22.09.1999

The TechNature(tm) Library is a commercial game engine for Windows 95/98 written by David Paull( david@tanzanite.to ).

• Perspective texture mapping
• MIP mapping
• Multi-texturing
• Bump mapping
• Detail mapping
• Gouraud shading
• ZBuffer rendering
• Support for DirectX 6.0, and higher
• Spherical reflections
• Constructive solid geometry
• Collision detection
• Landscape rendering
• Mesh optimization
• Randomly generated landscape geometry
• Randomly generated tree geometry
• Fractal mathematics library
• Procedural textures ( Coriolis effect, Contour lines, Strata layers,...)
• 3D Studio MAX .ASE model loader
• Written in C and Assembly

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

12.05.2000 Xeios

12.05.2000

Xeios is a commercial 3D engine for Windows and Playstation 2 from AiCube Co.

• Shaded, perspective texture mapping
• Mip mapping
• Bump mapping
• Environment mapping
• Multipass rendering
• Scene graph support
• Fogging
• Deformable meshes (Skinning, Bones, Envelopes)
• Key framed animation
• Converters for Maya, Softimage, Lightwave and 3D Studio Max
• Particle system
• Support for custom shaders

More information can be found on the AiCube Homepage.

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.

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.

20.07.1999 Peuck

01.07.1999

Peuck is a realtime 3D engine for Windows 95/NT from Francesco Carucci, Sebastiano Mandal and Maurizio Pianta aka 'Mental Fusion & 7th sense Team'.

• Lightmapped perspective texturemapping
• Diffuse and specular lightmapping or vertex lighting
• Virtual rendering machine, mapped on real drivers (currently implemented OpenGL, Glide, Direct3D)
• Multiple viewports
• Math driver (floating point supported, SSE under development)
• Transparency
• Environment mapping, chrome mapping
• Real time dynamic lightmapping (diffuse map and specular map)
• Real time dynamic bumpmapping (env bump mapping and real bump mapping)
• Support for 3D Studio .3DS and Lightscape .LWO files
• Motion blur
• Skeletal and hierarchical animation
• Planned port to Linux and Macintosh

More information and screenshots can be found on the Peuck 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.

13.01.1999 True 3D

05.10.1998

True 3D is a 3D engine for Mac, Dos and Windows 95/NT from Kevin Olson ( kevin3d@earthlink.com ).

• Perspective correct bump-mapped textures.
• Multiple spherical light sources.
• Per pixel shadow casting.
• 320x200/640x480 resolutions with 8/24 bit versions.
• Written in C++/C/Asm using CodeWarrior/Watcom 10.0/Visual 5.0.

More information and a screenshot can be found on the True 3D Homepage .

18.12.1998 VD/Eclipse

02.09.1997

VD/Eclipse is a commercial Windows 3D graphics engine from Vulpine Design.

• 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.

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

23.10.1998 PCT

18.02.1997

PCT is a 'Perspective Texture Mapping' engine for PCs by Helge Förster ( hfoe0127@rz.uni-hildesheim.de ). It is the successor of Textmap.

• Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping.
• Bilinear texture filtering.
• Bump-mapping.
• Multi-texturing/detail mapping.
• 2D and 3D clipping without distortions.
• SVGA support.
• Z-buffer and painters algorithm rendering.
• Depthcueing and fogging.
• Scanline-caches
• Animated texture maps.
• Polygon compiler to reduce # of polygons.
• Rotating objects.
• Collision detection.
• Sector based rendering.
• Benchmark option.

A demo and more information can be found on the PCT Homepage.

23.10.1998 NimbusVR

09.03.1998

NVR is a 3D engine for Mac computers from Adam Coates ( hawking@neteze.com ).

• Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• Bump-mapping.
• Z-buffer rendering.
• Masked textures.
• Alpha maps and transparencies.
• Depth-cueing.
• Meshed vertices.
• Rotoscoping.
• Support for QuickDraw.
• Written in C++.

More information, screenshots, a tutorial and a demo can be found via the Hawking's Homepage .

05.10.1998 Archee Scent

05.10.1998

Archee Scent is a 3D game engine for Windows 95 using Direct3D from Archee ( soltesz@hotmail.com ).

• Perspective gouraud-shaded texture mapping.
• Procedural textures and objects (with LOD).
• Enemies AI.
• Multiple dynamic colred lights.
• Level editor (DOS, DJGPP,NASM).
• Written in C++/Asm using Visual 5.0 and NASM.

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the Archee Scent 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.

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.

05.05.1998 Bolt3D

16.06.1997

Bolt3D is a 3D engine for windows platforms from Chong Jiayi (chongjy@pacific.net.sg )

• Phong-shaded texture-mapping.
• Gouraud and phong shading.
• Bump mapping.
• Bilinear filtering for smooth textures.
• Real-time artificial "soft" spotlights.
• Fogging.
• Real-time transparency.
• Particle systems with transparent sprites for smoke, bubbles etc.
• Primitive object (spheres, cones, sweeps...) creation.
• Modeller with sweep and texture mapping and modification of object properties.
• Enhanced landscape rendering for large data meshes.
• Wave surface deformation for modelling blobby objects or water waves.
• Support for 8 and 24 color format.
• Library and header files are available.
• Hardware Acceleration via Direct3D.

More information, screenshots, the demo and library can be found on the Bolt3D Homepage.

12.03.1998 BumpMap

12.03.1998

BumpMap is a prototypical program written to see the quality of several bump-mapping and phong shading methods from Hans Kopp ( hskopp@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de ).

• Perspective, phong shaded texture mapping.
• 3 Bump-mapping methods.
• Flat, gouraud and phong shading.
• Environment mapping, also bump-environment mapping.
• Support for PCX texture files.
• C++ source.

More information, the source and executables can be found on Hans Kopp's Graphics Page.

04.03.1998 Bart2

04.03.1998

Bart2 is a 3D engine for DOS from Hani Fahmi ( fahmi@csus.edu ).

• Perspective, phong shaded texture mapping.
• Bump-mapping.
• Wireframe, flat, gouraud and phong shading.
• Z-Buffer rendering.
• Multiple objects, textures and light sources.
• Support for 3D Studio ASC files.
• Pascal source.

More information, screenshots and the source and executable can be found on the Bart2 Homepage.

22.10.1997 3D Engine (Link Problems!)

13.08.1996

3D Engine is a PC 3D engine by Jean-Francois Dube (deks@videotron.ca) aka 'Deks' of IncaMaster.

• 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.

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

08.09.1997 Lost Shadows

21.07.1997

LS is a commercial 3D game engine from Lost Boys Interactive done by Jacco Bikker (Jacco@LostCity.nl) and Jurgen Kluft ( Jurgen@LostCity.nl ).

• Support for Windows 95 and hardware accelerators.
• Perspective correct texture mapping.
• Transparent textures.
• Bump mapping and phong shading.
• Portal rendering and dynamic level structure.
• Real-time dynamic shadows cast by dynamic lights.
• Mirrors.
• 16 bit gouraud shading.
• Multiple, dynamic spotlights with accurate shadows.
• Lens-flares.
• Hierarchical 3D objects.
• Hi-color rendering.

More information, screenshots and a interactive demo can be found on the Lost Boys VR-Section.

04.04.1997 Alpha Engine

24.10.1996

The Alpha Engine is a PC 3D engine from Jacco Bikker (Jacco@LostCity.nl). The AE is the followup to his E3Dngine.

• Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping.
• Phong shaded polygons.
• Environment mapping.
• Color mixing tables.
• Transparent texture mapping.
• Full 2D portal clipping.
• Hierarchical relative rotation and displacement of objects
• Z-clipping.
• Fast tree-sorting.
• Scaled, transparent 2D sprites.
• Support for 3D Studio ASC and 3DS, PLG and GEM files.
• Support for PCX texture files.
• VESA linear framebuffer support.
• Protected mode using TMT Pascal.
• All sources available (TMT Pascal).

An older version of the engine also supported

• Bump mapping.
• Planar mirrors.
• Lens-flares.

More information, the sources and some tutorials (clipping, texturemapping, rotations...) can be found on the Homepage of Jacco Bikker.

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.

18.11.1996 Moove

07.11.1996

Moove is a PC 3D engine by Oliver Belaifa (spline@cs.tu-berlin.de) aka 'Sharon' of Artwork.

• Gouraud shaded texture mapping with multiple lightsources.
• Phong shaded texture mapping with movable point lightsource.
• Bumpmapping with movable lightsource.
• Environment mapping.
• Light bitmaps, lens-flares.
• Z buffer rendering.
• Z front/back clipping
• Dynamic spline objects, object morphing with envelopes.
• Spline path support.
• Support for 486 PCs, optimised for pentium.
• Lightwave scene player.
• Audio support.

A demo can be found on ftp.cdrom.com.

18.11.1996 SMK3D

13.08.1996

SMK3D is a PC demo from Olivier Brunet (bruneto@efrei.fr) aka 'SMKaribou' of GMF.

• Texture-mapping with gouraud and phong shading.
• Environment mapping.
• Bump mapping.
• Gouraud shaded polygons.
• SVGA support.

The demo can be found on ftp.cdrom.com. More information about GMF and the full source to SMK3D can be found via the GMF Homepage.

11.04.1996 Sanction

21.06.1995

Sanction is demo crew that develops a 3D engine for 386+ PCs. The authors are Christian Cohnen ( cohnne@uni-koblenz.de) and Dirk Kueppers.

• Watcom C.
• Flat shading, gouraud shading, gouraud shaded texturemapping.
• Phong and enviroment mapping, phong shaded bump mapping.
• Translucency.
• Movable lightsources.
• Ambient, diffuse and specular materials.
• Motion blur.
• VGA and SVGA resolution, Windows 95 support.
• 8,15,16 bit support.
• 3DS, Caligari COB support.
• GUS and SB sound support.

More information and some demos on the Sanction S3DE Homepage.

05.01.1996 work in progress

01.01.1995

PC 3D engine from Christian Nentwich (brain@eleet.iddc.via.at).

• ASM
• Gouraud shaded polygons.
• Gouraud shaded texture mapping.
• Phong & bump texture mapping.
• DOS and Linux support.

11.12.1995 Dope

01.01.1995

DOPE is a PC demo from the demo crew COMPLEX (complex@hut.fi). It shows very fast realtime 3D graphics with complex objects.

• Phong shading with materials.
• Phong shaded texture mapping.
• Phong shaded bump mapping.
• Phong shaded environment mapping.
• Shadow mapping.
• Metal shading.
• Motion blur.

The demo can be found on ftp.luth.se or on ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de. More infomation on the Complex Homepage .

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.