3D Engines List Cartoon This list contains 3 cartoon rendering engines.

12.04.2000 Fly3D

04.08.1998

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

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

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

18.10.1999 NBFB

13.10.1999

The NBFB Engine is a full 3D engine for DOS and Windows from Marcus Lynn ( Marcusl@CSL.COM ).

• 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

More information and screenshots can be found on the Homepage of Marcus Lynn.

28.01.1998 MOTE

28.01.1998

MOTE is a 3D cartoon rendering engine for DOS from Mikko E. Mononen ( memon@iki.fi ).

• Realtime 3D cartoon rendering with NZ buffer approach.
• Z-buffer rendering.
• Gouraud shading with dithering.
• Multiple omni lights with ranges.
• Keyframing (using CLAX).
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS objects and animations (using CLAX).
• Support for DOS.

CLAX is a portable keyframing engine from Borzom ( borzom@hotmail.com).

• Support for 3D Studio 4.0 animations.
• Support for X11, Linux and DOS.
• Spline and quaternion interpolation.
• Full hierarchy support (cameras can be linked to objects, etc..) .
• Collision detection.
• Can fit into any 3d engine without major changes.

More information, screenshots and a demo of MOTE can be found on the MOTE Homepage.
More information and the source of CLAX can be found on the CLAX Homepage.