3D Engines List Collision detect. This list contains 117 collision detection 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.

23.06.2000 Carsten's 3D Engine

23.02.2000

Ca3D is a 3D engine for DOS from Carsten Fuchs ( CarstenFuchs@t-online.de ).

• 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++

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the Homepage of Carsten's 3D Engine.

12.05.2000 Miracle 3D

22.12.1999

Miracle 3D is a Windows 3D engine from Damir Sagidullin ( _spider@mail.ru ).

• 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

The demo can be found on the Miracle 3D Homepage.

12.05.2000 Dark Basic Engine

12.05.2000

Dark Basic Engine is a 3D engine for Windows built into the Dark Basic programming language from Dark Basic Software.

• Shaded, perspective texture mapping
• Support for Direct 3D
• Alphablending and transparency
• Texture filtering
• Fogging
• Model loading and animation
• Collision detection
• Support for BMP textures

More information, screenshots, demos and a trial version of the programming language can be found on the Dark Basic Homepage.

25.04.2000 Beam Engine

02.02.2000

The Beam Engine is a 3D engine for Windows from Tobias Johansson ( tobias_johansson@mailcity.com ).

• Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
• Support for Direct 3D
• Mipmapping, created by engine to save diskspace
• Lightmapping with raytraced lighting
• Gouraud shaded/Environmentmapped objects
• Collision detection
• Loading of ASC, BMM and MAP files
• Coronas
• Particles, with nice physics
• Octree subdivision
• Simple scripting
• C++ source

More information, screenshots, a demo and the source can be found on the PolyGone 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 .

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).

10.04.2000 Oxygen3D

20.07.1999

Oxygen3D is a commercial 3D game engine from John van der Burg ( john@mysticgd.com ) of Mystic Game Development.

• Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping
• Mipmapping
• Environment mapping, also in combination with normal texture mapping
• Support hardware acceleration via Direct3D, Glide3 and OpenGL
• Volumetric fog
• Sky rendering system using skyboxes and cloud layers
• Advanced visibility system for indoor and outdoor rendering
• Realtime softskinning support, with muscles and skinsliding
• 100% Character Studio(tm) 2.x compatible
• Advanced character system with smooth blending and motion mixing
• Realtime dynamic shadows
• SpecialFX system which currently supports: Smoke / Sparks / FlareLights / Halos / Explosions / Snow / Water Bubbles / Manual effects
• Lensflares (completely controllable, and with a lot of properties)
• Basic collision detection
• Pathfinding system using the ASTAR (A*) Algorithm
• Antiportals
• LOD management
• 3D sound system and WAV/MP3/XM/S3M/MOD support
• 3D Studio MAX II exporter plugin with full support for keyframing
• Sprite support for overlay logo's etc
• Texture caching system
• Environment editor
• Time-based keyframing system with full playback control and Linear/Bezier/TCB interpolation
• Fast terrain rendering system using heightmaps (no size limits)
• Quake 3 Arena .BSP file support for the indoor environments
• Ipion Virtual Physics (IVP) system built-in
• Curved surfaces support with dynamic LOD (dynamic tesselation)
• Hierarchy support on all world nodes
• Multiple materials per geom object (multi/sub materials)
• Written in object oriented C++

More information and screenshots can be found on the Mystic Game Development Homepage

07.04.2000 Quake 3 Map Viewer

07.04.2000

The Q3MV is a 3D engine for DirectX 7 from Xavi Albors ( smiker@teleline.es ).

• Multitextured, perspective mapping
• Transparency
• MipMapping
• Support blend, alpha, color vertex and animated textures
• Support for 16 bit graphics modes
• BSP support with collision detection
• Loads Quake3 bsp files with meshes and shaders
• Optimized for GeForce

More information, screenshots and the binary can be found on Smiker's Homepage.

04.04.2000 Basic3D

04.04.2000

Basic3D is a 3D engine for Windows from Matthieu Gazin ( Matthieu.Gazin@wanadoo.fr ).

• 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

More information and a demo can be found via the (french) Homepage of Matthieu Gazin under projects/Basic3D SDK.

04.04.2000 X3D Engine

04.04.2000

The X3D engine is a commercial 3D engine from 4X Technologies.

• Multitextured, perspective mapping
• C++ scene graph API
• Support for PC 3dcards via DirectX, support for Dreamcast and Playstation 2
• Animation controllers as in 3DS max
• High level culling
• LOD support
• Portal rendering
• Collision detection
• Atmospheric effects
• Direct 3DS Max export

More information and some demo can be found on the 4X Technologies 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 .

04.04.2000 Jazz3D

03.09.1999

Jazz3D is a shareware 3D engine for Java from SyGem Software.

• Gouraud shaded, perspective and affine texture mapping
• Coloured Environment mapping (flat/gourard shaded)
• Translucent objects
• Animated textures
• Particle, Wireframe, Flat and gourard shading
• 24 bit Z-Buffer rendering
• True 3D text, complete with 3 fonts
• Lathe objects, standard 3D primitives
• Multiple coloured light sources (directional, point and spot)
• Object mouse tracking
• Background image support
• Collision detection
• Fogging
• Hierarchical objects
• Post-processing system (e.g. motion blur)
• Support for .3DS, .ASC, .GEO & .GEM object files
• Support for JDK 1.02 and 1.1.2
• Advanced scene-management

More information, screenshots and on-line demos can be found on the SyGem Software Homepage

04.04.2000 Coockie's 3D Engine

20.01.1997

C3D is a 3D engine for Pentium PC by Erwin Coumans ( coockie@chello.nl ) aka 'Cookie'.

• 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.

The source can be found at http://members.xoom.com/gamedev/download/sources/demosrc.zip, the demo is found at http://members.xoom.com/gamedev/download/sources/demosrc.zip.

23.02.2000 Sonata

23.02.2000

Sonata is a 3D landscape rendering engine for Windows from Kien ( kien@post.com ).

• Support for OpenGL
• Fractal landscape generation, real-time continuous polygon rendering
• Bilinear texture-mapping
• Sky texture mapping
• Support for Wavefront objects
• Collision detection
• DirectSound/DirectMusic support
• Written in MS Visual C++

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

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.

08.02.2000 Ram Raider

07.06.1999

Ram Raider is a 3D game engine from Head Tapper Software.

• Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping
• Coloured dynamic specular lighting
• Colour key and alpha Transparency
• Seperate map editor, and map compiler
• Supports 16bit colours
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS, Quake 2 MD2 models
• Collision detection
• Uses Direct3D Immediate mode - DirectX7
• Sound using Direct Sound
• Cell based maps for very large map areas
• Fogging - depth based, vertex fog
• Multiplayer mode ( TCP/IP ) using Direct Play, operates in Server / Client mode
• Keyboard, Joystick, steering wheel and pedals input using Direct Input
• Written in C++ for Visual C++ 6.0

More information and screenshots can be found on the Ram Raiders Homepage

02.02.2000 Grain Engine

02.02.2000

The Grain Engine is a 3D engine for Windows from Kurt Miller ( kurt@flipcode.com ).

• Lightmapped perspective texture mapping
• Static RGB Lightmaps
• Real-time LOD bezier surfaces
• Octree-Enhanced collision detection
• Sprites, Fonts, Special Effects
• Direct X 7.0 Support (Plugin Architecture)

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on The Grain Engine Homepage

02.02.2000 Magic3D

08.07.1999

Magic3D is a 3D engine for Windows 95 from Stefan Letz ( Stefan.Letz@online.de ).

• Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping
• Support for Direct3D
• Z-Buffer rendering
• Bilinear texture filtering
• Transparent textures
• Dithering
• Animated textures
• Scene fog
• Colored lights
• Script language
• Collision detection
• 3D sound
• Music player (.WAV, .MID and CD Audio)

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on Magic3D Homepage

23.12.1999 Quake 1

23.12.1999

ID Software's lead programmer John Carmack has released the full source code of Quake, including the WinQuake, GLQuake, QuakeWorld, and GLQuakeWorld versions.

• 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)

The source is available at the Q1 Source Download Homepage.

23.12.1999 Golk

23.12.1999

Golk is a 3D engine for Windows and Linux from Ingmar Stein ( Ingmar@digital-phenomenon.de ).

• 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

More information and screenshots can be found on the Digitial Phenomenon Homepage

22.12.1999 Jet 3D

22.12.1999

Jet 3D is a commercial OpenSource 3D graphics engine from Eclipse Entertainment.

• Lightmapped perspective texture mapping
• Radiosity lighting
• Dynamic shadows
• Dynamic RGB lights
• Dynamic fog
• Dynamic mirror
• Dynamic water effects
• Animated textures, procedural textures
• Portal rendering
• Translucent rendering
• Spherically mapped sky
• Seamless soft-skin polygonal characters
• 3D sound support
• 3D editor
• Support for Glide, Direct 3D and software rendering
• Physics system
• Network support
• Collision detection
• Multiple renders from different cameras can be mixed in a single frame
• OpenSource distribution

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

22.12.1999 Poly Nova

03.09.1999

Poly Nova is a Windows 95/98 3D engine from Chris Raynor of Novasoft Consulting.

• Support for Direct3D (7.0 )
• Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping
• Dynamic realtime colored lighting
• Z-Buffer support
• Support for ambient/directional and point light sources
• Collision detection
• Scene manager
• Floating point math
• C++ source for Visual C++

More information, screenshots, executables and the source can be found on the Poly Nova Homepage

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 .

29.10.1999 Exist

29.10.1999

Exist is a 3D Game Engine for Windows from Mike Fricker (mfricker@sprint.ca).

• 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

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

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.

18.10.1999 Daredevil's 3D Engine

01.07.1999

Daredevil's 3D Engine is a 3D engine for Windows 95 from Daredevil ( hauswiesner@bhak-weiz.ac.at ).

• Support for DirectX
• Z-Buffer rendering
• Collision detection
• Transparency
• Colored lights
• Support for DirectInput and DirectSound Support for tile-based rendering
• .x file loader
• MS Visual C++ source available

More information, screenshots, a demo can be found on the Daredevil's Homepage

08.10.1999 Xonnel

21.08.1998

Xonnel is a 3D engine for MSDOS and Windows from Vindicator ( vindicatorh@usa.net ).

• Lightmapped perspective texture mapping.
• Mip mapping.
• Alpha transparency.
• Portal rendering.
• True colored lighting.
• True Shadows, with redefinable grid sizes through world file.
• Collision detection / sliding.
• Updated landscape rendering and improved texture structure.
• Resolution independand, support for SVGA.
• Space Warping ( name given by Crystal Space -- sounds proper ).
• Asm script language.
• Physics system.
• Basic window based portal editor.
• Particle system
• DJGPP C source code
• C Scripting builtin using seer
• GUI/Editor/console using BGui

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

08.10.1999 Bullet3D

08.10.1999

Bullet3D is a 3D library for Windows from BIll Bo ( ufbl0361@ms25.hinet.net ).

• 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)

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the Bullet 3D Homepage.

28.09.1999 Gizmo3D

28.09.1999

Gizmo3D is a high performance 3D scene graph and visualisation toolkit for Linux, Win32 and Irix from Anders Moden ( anders@linux3d.net ).

• Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
• Scene graph API which features most nodes of Performer and Cosmo3D
• Multipass rendering (lightmapping, projective textures)
• Mirrors
• Parametric surfaces
• Collision detection
• Script control with an implemented java interpreter or phyton intepreter to control behaviours (brains) and motion with scripts.
• Animation control to provide animation built into the scene graph
• Support for WIN32 HWND windows, Unix Xt Widgets and QT QWidgets on both WIN32,Linux and Irix
• Image toolkit, DB toolkit and System toolkit
• Written in C++

More information, screenshots and the source can be found on the Gizmo3D Homepage.

17.09.1999 Arfnold 2

17.09.1999

Arfnold 2 is a 3D engine for Windows 95/98 by by Andrei Fortuna ( andreif@mail.dntis.ro ) aka 'Stormbringer'.

• 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

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

17.09.1999 SMF3D DeepEllum 3D Engine

17.09.1999

SMF3D DeepEllum 3D Engine is DOS 3D engine from Scott Geppert ( ScottGeppert@thePentagon.com ).

• Perspective, non shaded texture mapping
• Z-sorting
• Frustrum clipping
• Simple collision detection
• Sound support
• Client/server IPX multiplayer code
• Vector based physics
• Integrated console
• Written in DJGPP using Allegro GFX library

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the SMF3D DeepEllum 3D Engine Homepages.

15.09.1999 A4-Engine

15.09.1999

The A4-engine is a commercial game engine for Windows 95 / DirectX, and part of the GameStudio 3D game authoring system from Conitec. Here's the features:

• 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

More information, screenshots, tutorials, and demos can be found on the A4 Engine Homepage.

13.09.1999 R-Engine

13.09.1999

The R-engine is a 3D game engine for Windows 95/98 from Onil Jang ( jangunil@oigame.co.kr ).

• Lightmapped perspective texturemapping
• Support for Direct 3D
• Sector based engine
• Reatime pathfinder
• Collision detection
• Dynamic scene (windmill, bridge,door,trap....)
• Dynamic objects (support for 3D Studio Max Character Studio)
• Corona fire effect
• Lava, water, wall texture UV animation
• Particle systems with gravity
• Transparency and alpha-blending
• Fog

More information, screenshots, game AVI and etc.. can be found on the Oin-Enterprise Homepage.

13.09.1999 Zeta

22.11.1997

Zeta is a 3D engine for PCs from Adrian M Perez ( amperez+@andrew.cmu.edu ) .

• 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++.

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

13.09.1999 3D Pong

08.07.1997

3D Pong is a 3D engine for PCs from Adrian Perez ( fumincuban@aol.com ) aka 'Fumincuban'

• Gouraud shaded, translucent, perspective texture mapping.
• Collision detection.
• 3D clipping.
• Moving point light source.

The source can be found in the programming section of Fumincuban's Homepage. There are also some informations about the BSP / CSG / portal rendering engine Rayser and Rayser 2.

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.

03.09.1999 Claw Engine

08.07.1999

The Claw Engine is a landscape 3D engine for Windows 95/98/2000/NT from Andreas Löffler ( gd_crazy@gmx.net ) of United Bytes.

• Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping
• Support hardware acceleration via Direct3D
• Multitexturing
• Z-Buffer rendering
• Colored lights
• LOD support
• Colored fogging
• Vegetation primitive (stones, trees, plants)
• Landscape and scene editor
• Editor for houses and citys
• Support for sectors
• Skybox
• Collision detection
• Physics
• Lighting system (spot, environment)
• Written in Visual C++

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

08.08.1999 Adamantium

08.08.1999

Adamantium is a commercial 3D engine for Windows 95 from Revenant.

• 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

More information can be found via the Revenant Homepage

17.07.1999 Open Media Toolkit

17.07.1999

The OMT is an 3D engine and application framework for Mac, PowerPC, Windows 95/NT from Pacific Media WorX.

• High performance C++ mix-in architecture
• Perspective, shaded texture mapping
• Flat and gouraud shading
• Multiple colored lights
• Translucidity
• 3D sprites
• Three polygon sorting methods and two polygon software rasterizers
• 2D engine
• Network support
• Collision detection

More information and documentation can be found on the Pacific Media WorX Homepage.

27.05.1999 Architect III

15.07.1996

Architect III (former Geometry Box and even former Model 3DD) is a commercial Real-Time 3D development kit from Geometric Computing ( gb2@geometricom.com ).

• Lighting system including chromatic or achromatic lights, with Gouraud shading and two-pass lighting (light mapping)
• Hierarchical, dynamic lighting
• MIP-mapping
• Detail pass rendering
• Support for 3DFX Glide and Microsoft Direct3D (16, 24 and 32-bit)
• Mirrors
• Portal culling, view volume culling and hierarchical view volume culling
• Fogging
• Hierarchical objects
• Collision detection
• Physics system
• Alpha blending
• 3D Modeler with splines, csg, lathing, lofting and sweeping
• Bezier patches and height field support, real-time terrain generation.
• Texture import (Microsoft .BMP, Targa .TGA, Silicon Graphics .RGB, .RGBA, .INT and .A)
• Support for MultiGen OpenFlight .FLT, Kinetix .3DS and DirectX .X objects
• C++ API with documentation, lots of sample code
• Full c++ source code for renderer supplied (in full version)

More information and screenshots can be found on the Geometry Computing Homepage.

12.05.1999 Gran3D

12.05.1999

Gran3D is a Windows 3D Engine by Kim Jeong Ju (haje01@netsgo.com) . It was designed to work seamlessly with 3D Studio Max and 3D acceleration card.

• 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

More information, screenshots and demos can be found on the Gran3D Homepage

18.03.1999 GPF (Broken Link ???)

03.09.1998

GPF is a 3D engine for PCs from Matti Dahlbom ( mdahlbom@cc.hut.fi ).

• Perspective, gouraud texture mapping.
• Mipmapping.
• S-Buffer rendering.
• Moving objects.
• Support for DOS (SVGA) and DirectX.
• C++ / ASM source.

More information, a demo and the souce can be found on the GPF Homepage .

12.03.1999 Frog Engine

25.01.1999

The Frog Engine is a 3D engine for Windows from Thierry Tremblay ( kzinti@microtec.net ).

• Shaded, perspective texture mapping
• Static lighting rendered with shadowmaps (lightmaps)
• Mip-mapping
• Environment mapping
• Portal rendering
• Z-Buffer support
• Collision detection
• Support for DirectX 6 and Glide 3
• Software rendering for Win32
• Windowed mode rendering on DirectX
• Depth rendering ( 16, 24, 32 bit)
• Support for many internal texture formats.
• C++ extension DLLs
• Multithread support, including mutexes, conditions and semaphores
• The source is available (under LGPL)

More information, a screenshot, the engine and a demo can be found on the Frog Engine Homepage.

01.03.1999 3D Foundation Clases

19.12.1997

3DFC is a 3D portal rendering engine from Leandro Bernsmuller (lebe@geocities.com).

• Gouraud shaded, affine texturemapping.
• Portal rendering with edge clip buffer.
• Colored light sources.
• Collision detection between spheres and sectors.
• Support for DOS and Linux (using SvgaLib and X11 Windows).
• Support for backpropagation neural networks .
• Input from keyboard or sockets network communication .
• Support for PCX texture files.
• C++ sources.

More information, screenshots, the source and executables can be found on the 3D Foundation Classes Homepage.

25.02.1999 Poly Engine

27.09.1996

The PE is a PC 3D Quake-like game engine from Alexey Goloshubin ( alexey@ii.uib.no).

• 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

More information and the source is available via the Homepage of Alexey Goloshubin .

09.02.1999 Venerium

09.02.1999

Venerium is a Windows'9x/NT 3D engine by Ivan Sheblucin > (ivan@elma.zgrad.ru).

• 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

More information, screenshots and demo can be found on Venerium Homepage .

25.01.1999 Nightfall Engine

02.09.1997

The Nightfall Engine (former Altor Engine) is a 3D engine for Macintosh computers by Altor Systems Inc. The development environment is now shipping on CD-ROM with the game Nightfall. It includes:

• Level editor with example art.
• Custom cross platform resource builder.
• Plug-in DLL architecture with source code.
• Perspective Gouraud shaded texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• Volumetric real-time light model.
• Portal rendering.
• Dynamic depth cued colored fog and dust.
• 3D objects which may be imported from 3DMF files.
• Face on and perspective correct 2D sprites.
• PowerPC native.
• Software renderer for 8, 16 and 32 bit color.
• Dynamic dithering on 8 & 16bit screens.
• Support for 3D hardware via the Apple RAVE standard.
• 3D sound.
• Physics model for collision, gravity, and object stacking.
• VR hand to select and pick up objects during game play or editing.
• AI components for motion, sensing, and decision making in C.
• 2D interface links within the 3D game.

More information and screenshots can be found on the Altor Systems Homepage.

18.01.1999 Dream Engine

28.01.1998

DE is a 3D engine for DOS from Martin Valigursky ( valigursky@geocities.com ).

• 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

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found via the Homepage of Martin Valigursky.

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 VR-AGE

13.01.1999

VR-AGE is a commercial 3D rendering and sprite engine for Windows / DirectX from Webfoot Technologies.

• Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping
• Transparent/translucent polygons, sprites & particles
• Animated sprites and textures
• Particle system
• Colored lighting effects
• Depth sorting
• Polygonal characters
• Collision detection
• Lens flares and underwater FX
• Real-time WYSIWYG Level Editor
• Sound support
• Written in C/C++/ASM

More information, demos and screenshots can be found via the Webfoot Technologies Homepage .

13.01.1999 3D-Wage

13.01.1999

3D-Wage is a commercial 3D rendering and sprite engine for Windows / DirectX from Webfoot Technologies.

• Based on cube rendering
• Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping
• Animated sprites and textures
• Colored lighting effects
• Depth sorting
• Moving cubes and sprite
• Lifted and non-lifted floors and ceilings
• Sprite clipping against polygons
• Collision detection
• Real-time WYSIWYG Level Editor
• Sound support
• Written in C/C++/ASM

More information, demos and screenshots can be found via the Webfoot Technologies 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.

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.

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 .

09.11.1998 Descent I

28.01.1998

Parallax Software Corp. released the original source code to Descent 1.5.

• Perspective, shaded texture-mapping.
• Collision detection.
• Portal rendering (cube scene layout).
• Moving lightsources.
• 3D objects.
• 3D Sprites.
• Object AI.
• No sound or modem support.
• Level editor.
• C/ASM source.
• DJGPP 2.0 port available.

More information and the source can be found on the Descent 1 Source Code Homepage .

27.10.1998 VisKit

27.10.1998

VisKit is a commercial real-time 3D scene graph rendering engine for Windows from Paradigm Entertainment.

• Layered on top of OpenGL
• Perspective texture mapping
• Lightmap rendering
• Texture filtering
• Mip mapping.
• Hierarchical state management
• Intersection tests
• Particle systems
• Multiple cameras
• Primitive objects
• 3D positional audio layered on DirectSound.
• 3D Studio import
• Collision detection
• C++ API.
• Support for Multithreading
• Support for Windows 95/98 and NT 4.0
• Support for PC 3D cards

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

27.10.1998 JTGame

10.11.1997

JTGame is a C++ interactive 3D game framework based on top of Microsoft Windows, MFC, and DirectX from John Thompson ( john@gildea.net ).

• Perspective shaded texture mapping.
• 3D display objects (worlds, actors, props, simple and compound mesh-based images).
• 2D display objects (decals, sprites, and backgrounds) .
• 3D sounds .
• Mesh primitives.
• Lights .
• Cameras .
• Animation control .
• Fogging.
• Hierarchical objects.
• Z-Buffer rendering.
• High and low level mouse, joystick, and keyboard support.
• Automated paths, collision detection, blocking, bouncing .
• Automated object translation and orientation for "watching" or "following" ther objects.
• Main and multiple scene windows .
• Inherit MFC's GUI components, i.e. menus, dialogs, events, etc.
• 3D sounds using DirectSound.
• Full C++ sources included .

More information, screenshots, documentation, sample programs, tutorials and the source of the library can be found on the JTGame 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.

17.09.1998 Gulliver

17.09.1998

Gulliver is a 3D game engine for SGI from Serge Grandjean ( serge@trix.be ).

• Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping using OpenGL.
• Mip-Mapping.
• Portal rendering.
• Dynamic lighting effects.
• Lens flare and star effects.
• Collision detection for player and bullets.
• Character animation using skeletons and/or shape interpolation.

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

08.09.1998 Obsidian

08.09.1998

Obsidian is an open source 3D engine for Linux and OpenGL from Duncan Robertson ( duncan@zog.net.au ) , Jon Holdsworth ( jon@central.warehouse.net ) and David Karla ( dak@zog.net.au ).

• Perspective, gouraud shaded texture mapping.
• Support for OLinux/SVGALIB and OpenGL (tested on SGI).
• Network support.
• Polygon sorting.
• Collision detection.
• Scene editor.

More information, screenshots, binaries and the souce can be found on the Obsidian Homepage .

04.09.1998 GLWOF

04.09.1998

GLWOF (OpenGL World Of Fantasy) is the new version of the WOF Quake viewer by Frank Willemsen (frankw@xs4all.nl) and Corin Langosch ( corinl@metronet.de ).

• 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)

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

03.09.1998 SKOUT Engine

03.09.1998

The SKOUT engine is a commercial 3D engine for Windows from Soft Enterprises (mh@soft-enterprises.com). It will be available for licensing for third parties.

• Colored dynamic lightmaps.
• Mip mapping.
• Transparency (additive, multiplicative).
• Portal based thus allowing mirrors and other special effects ( mirrors not implemented yet).
• Volumetric effects like fogging and heat haze.
• Physics model with collision detection etc.
• Hardware accelerated Direct3D only.
• Support for Lightwave objects, scenes and animations.
• Animated textures.
• Procedural textures.
• Particle effects.
• LOD support.
• Multiplayer support.
• Fully script driven using a C++ like object oriented script language.

More information, screenshots and a very early demo can be found at the SKOUT Engine Homepage.

21.08.1998 RenderIt 3D!

15.04.1998

RenderIt 3D! is Direct3D game programmers library from Indotek Software Productions.

• Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping.
• Support for Direct3D and 3D accelerator cards.
• Alpha texture support.
• Automatic 2 pass rendering.
• Z-Buffer rendering.
• Level of detail support.
• Preliminary collision detection support.
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS, Direct3D X, AutoCad DFX and R3D.
• C API with easy-to-use functions.

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the RenderIt 3D! Homepage .

22.07.1998 RealiMation

22.07.1998

RealiMation is a commercial real-time 3D scene management and rendering API, developed by Datapath Ltd.

• Supported platforms: Intel based PC (Windows 95, 98, NT), DEC Alpha based PC (Windows NT) and Silicon Graphics.
• Drivers for Direct3D v5, OpenGL, RenderWare, 3dfx Glide for Voodoo & Voodoo2, 3DLabs GLINT based cards, Real3D Pro1000.
• Integrated Space Time Editor for scene preparation, optimisation, and application debugging
• Scene optimisation tools (polygon reduction, scene restructuring etc.)
• Z buffer support.
• Standard texture features such as trilinear mip mapping, bilinear, perspective correct
• Advanced texture features such as image blending, detail textures, illumination maps, alpha maps.
• Live video texturing on any 3D surface
• Instancing support.
• Unlimited Level of Detail by area and by distance.
• Automatic motions.
• Collision detection.
• Raytesting.
• Terrain following.
• Plugins for 3D Studio Max 1 & 2, SoftImage, MicroStation, AutoCad.
• Import OpenFlight, DXF, 3D Studio, VRML1 & 2.
• Multi screen/channel output.
• Remote rendering across a TCP/IP network.
• Full read/write access to scene graph from API
• SDK includes Debugging libraries, Automatic Application Wizards, memory leak tools.

More information, screenshots and a browser plugin can be found on the RealiMation Homepage.

21.07.1998 X-Engine

21.07.1998

XE is a 3D engine for Windows 95 from Ales Mlakar aka JaZzBrE ( jazzbre@slo.net ).

• 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++.

More information and a demo can be found on the X-Engine Homepage.

08.06.1998 PortalRend

15.12.1997

PR is a windows 95 portal rendering engine from Alex Clarke (ma5adc@bath.ac.uk ).

• 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.

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

08.06.1998 HAWK

12.03.1998

The HAWK game engine is a Windows 95/NT 4.0 library from Hawk Software.

• Support for OpenGL and Mesa.
• Perspective, lightmapped texture mapping.
• Multipass colored dynamic lighting.
• Fullscreen color blending effect.
• Translucent textures.
• MIP-mapping.
• Visibility lists.
• Z-buffer rendering.
• Multiple views.
• Frustum culling.
• Collision detection.
• Sprite objects.
• Particle system for explosions, smoke trains etc.
• Support for Quake2 level files.
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS and Alias files.
• OpenGL rendered mouse pointer.
• Library or DLL interface.

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

08.06.1998 Yager

14.01.1998

Yager is a 3D game engine for Direct3D from Roman Golka, Uwe Beneke, Timo Ullmann ( ullmann@informatik.hu-berlin.de ), Joerg Wagner, Philipp Schellbach, Thilo Böhm and Volker Strübing.

• 6-DoF landscape renderer using innovative "free tile" texturing.
• 3D objects.
• Colored lights.
• Particle systems.
• Game physics based on flexible reality model.
• Support for DirectSound.
• 16 bit gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping.
• 16 bit Z-Buffer used for hidden surface removal.
• Collision detection.

More information and screenshots can be found via the Yager Homepage .

08.06.1998 Vindictive

27.03.1998

Vindictive is a 3D engine for PCs from Scorpion_x ( Vindicatorh@usa.net ).

• Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping.
• Transparent textures.
• Z-Buffer rendering.
• Color mixing.
• Portal rendering.
• 3D objects.
• Mirrors.
• Basic collision detection with sliding.
• Moving objects, swing doors, elevator system.
• Animated objects.
• Console.
• 3rd person and 1st person view with smooth switching.
• Support for SVGA.

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

08.06.1998 3D Game Machine

01.01.1995

3DGM is a professional 3D game development framework for Windows 95/NT and MacOS from Virtually Unlimited Corporation that aims to reduce time-to-market.

• Easy to use, high-level API.
• Fast free-form texture mapping with MIP-mapping.
• Smooth shading and alpha blending.
• Multiple directional, positional and cut-off, colored light sources.
• Polygon-precise collision detection.
• Convex/cave polygons with unlimited number of vertices.
• 3D sprites.
• Color fog and haze simulation.
• Material and light properties.
• Explosion simulation.
• Very large world management.
• World/level editor.
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS, 3D Studio MAX, AutoCad DFX, Mac 3DMF and MiniCad scene files.
• Fast rendering on 486, Pentium, 680x0 and PowerPC. Support for PC 3D cards (Glide and Direct3D)

Demos and more information can be found on the Virtually Unlimited Homepage .

06.05.1998 Tremor

06.05.1998

Tremor is a 3D game engine for Linux from Rich Drewes ( tremor@interstice.com ).

• 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.

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

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.

30.03.1998 Portal Engine

30.03.1998

PE is a 3D engine for Windows 95 from JaZzBrE ( jazzbre@slo.net ).

• Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• Portal rendering.
• Multiple light sources.
• Support for DirectX 5.
• 3D objects.
• Support for 3D Studio.
• Collision detection.

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

12.03.1998 Flyby

14.10.1997

Flyby is a complete 3D game engine by Jean-Francois Nadeau (jfxstudios@ixmedia.com ) , Félix Lapointe (lapointg@total.net ) and Mathieu Routhier (mrouthier@cyberdude.com).

• Perspective, shaded texture-mapping.
• Support infinite real-time coloured omni and directional lights. (Always use the four nearest lights.)
• MIP-mapping dynamic caching algorithm.
• 3D clipping and backface culling code.
• Basic collision detection code.
• Z-Buffer rendering.
• Support for DirectX and PC 3D cards.
• Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 source.

More information, screenshots, binaries, 3D models and source code can be found on the Flyby Homepage.

11.03.1998 Shark 3D Library

07.10.1997

The S3DL is a 3D library for Windows 95 by Schamel Software.

• Realtime lighting maps and high-speed Gouraud shading.
• Realtime shadowing.
• Hierarchical world management.
• Collision detection.
• Realtime elimination of hidden objects/world parts.
• Drivers for D3D, Glide and OpenGl (all hardware accelerated).
• Shark 3D file format.
• Import compiler from VRML2.0 (e.g. export from 3D Studio Max).

For more information, screenshots and a demo to download see Schamel Software.

09.03.1998 Venom

09.03.1998

Venom is a 3D engine for Windows 95 from Alan Gordie ( 3dguy@mediaone.net ).

• Perspective, gouraud shaded texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• Dynamic RGB light sources.
• Particles Systems.
• Lens Flares and Halos.
• Alpha-blending and transparency.
• Z Buffering.
• Support for 3D Studio .3DS meshes and animation.
• Support for TGA and BMP texture files.
• Support for Direct3D, OpenGL and 3Dfx Glide.
• Music and Sound using Midas Sound System.

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

04.03.1998 NetImmerse

21.07.1997

NetImmerse is a commercial object oriented Game Engine for PCs from Numerical Design, Ltd. (NDL).

• 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.

NetImmerse is currently being used for upcoming games from Broderbund Red Orb Entertainment, FASA Interactive, Greystone and Media Station.
More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the NetImmerse Homepage.

04.03.1998 Planet Of War

10.11.1997

POW is a 3D flight simulator for DOS from Max Bennedich ( max-b@algonet.se ), Sven Dupuits ( sven.debikkel@wxs.nl ) and Kent Kune ( the_kent@dds.nl ) who together form MSK entertainment. POW is based on the Virtual Reality Engine of Max Bennedich.

• Perspective shaded texture mapping.
• Transparent textures.
• Flat and gouraud shading.
• Hazing.
• Huge fractal landscape world.
• Depth sorting.
• MIP-Mapping.
• Animated sprites.
• Collision detection against crafts, objects, projectiles and ground.
• Ground vehicles (tanks).
• Support for static objects such as buildings.
• HUD & cockpit functionality.
• View frustrum clipping.
• Sound support.
• Enemy ships, weapon systems, AI
• Mouse support.
• 100% assembler code, handoptimized for Pentium+.

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

13.02.1998 Cutting-Edge 3D Game Programming with C++

13.02.1998

CE3DGP is a book (ISBN: 1-883577-70-5) from John De Goes that contains a 3D engine for DOS and Windows 95.

• Perspective, gouraud shaded texture mapping.
• Collision detection.
• 3D morphing.
• 3D sprites.
• C++ source.

More information and reviews are availabe at the CE3DGP Page of the Amazon Bookstore.
The book is currently not available.

12.02.1998 Torch

12.02.1998

Torch is a commercial 3D engine for Windows 95/NT from Newfire.

• 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.

More information, screenshots and the browser plugin (for software developers only) can be found on the Newfire Homepage.

30.01.1998 P3D

30.01.1998

P3D is a quake like 3D engine for DOS by Pin Fei Sun ( pfsun@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca ).

• Gouraud perspective texture mapping.
• BSP rendering.
• Collision detection.
• Dynamic objects.
• Animated textures.
• Portal rendering.
• Z-Buffer rendering
• C++/ASM source.

More information, the source and other 3D demos can be found on the BSP3D 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.

22.11.1997 CLIFF

03.11.1997

CLIFF is a PC 3D engine by Komodakis Nikos (komod@csd.uch.gr).

• 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.

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

14.11.1997 Sofie

14.11.1997

Sofie is a 3D game engine for X11 from Stephan Schiessling ( Stephan.Schiessling@mathematik.uni-regensburg.de ) .

• 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.

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

11.11.1997 3Dplayer

11.11.1997

3Dplayer is a 3d polygon engine from Andrey Romanov ( aleksey@nica.ru ).

• Perspective, shaded texture mapping.
• MIP-mapped texture filtering.
• Multiple cameras.
• Resolution independand.
• Collision detection.
• Real characteristics of objects: mass, power,resilience, elasticity, aerodynamics, energy, etc.
• Support for OS, OS/2 and Windows.
• Support for SVGA.
• Wad-file (for DOOM1) converter, support for 3D Studio ASC format

The demo can be found on ftp.nica.ru.

10.11.1997 Frag Isaland

10.11.1997

Frag Isaland is a pure Java 3D polygon engine from Niclas Thisell (niclas@thermometric.se) and Andreas Suurkuusk (andreas@thermometric.se) of the 'Carebears'.

• Perspective shaded texture mapping.
• Lightmap rendering.
• BSP rendering.
• Hierarchical objects.
• Collision detection.
• Keyboard support.
• Landscape rendering.
• Network client/server support.

More information and the applet can be found on the Frag Island Homepage.

03.11.1997 I-POD

03.11.1997

I-POD is a 3d portal engine by Aatu Koskensilta (squirt@seaga.org ) aka 'sqrt(-1)'.

• Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping.
• Support for any 16/15bit VESA mode.
• Dynamic lighting and shadows.
• Dynamic environment.
• Zero overdraw using portals.
• Support for DOS SVGA.
• Written in C++.

More information and a demo can be found on the Homepage of Sqrt(-1).

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.

13.10.1997 Tekktonic Game Engine

13.10.1997

The TGE is a commercial Windows 95 engine by the Reakktor Media Group.

• Perspective, shaded texture-mapping.
• Independent lighting levels for each polygon.
• Portal rendering.
• Depth shading, fogging.
• Realtime lighting fx.
• Hierarchical polygon characters.
• Collision detection.
• Support for DirectX.
• 3D sound system.
• Multiplayer support.
• Optimized for Intel Pentium.
• Windows 95 editor.

This engine will be used to create the indoor part of the game Typherra which will be released early 1998. The Tekktonic Game Engine will be available for Sublicensing after Typherra has been finished.
More information and screenshots can be found on the Typherra Homepage.

29.09.1997 Christian´s 3D-Engine

07.02.1997

C3D is a 3D engine for PCs by Christian Fleischer (daydream@cs.tu-berlin.de)

• Shaded, perspective texture mapping.
• Animated texture maps.
• Transparent textures.
• Collision detection.
• 16 Bit z-buffer rendering.
• Dynamic polygonal 3D objects.
• Support for point lights.
• Animation scripts.

More information and a demo can be found on Christian´s 3D-Engine Homepage .

22.09.1997 3D

07.07.1997

3D is a PC 3D engine from Nick Chirkov ( chir@si.moris.rosmail.com ).

• Light-mapped perspective texture mapping.
• Multiple movable light sources.
• Realtime lightning effects (fast for constantly changing lighting).
• Collision detection.
• 16 bit VESA modes.
• SVGA support.
• Small memory usage.
• Written in assembler.

More information, screenshots and demos can be found on Nick CHirkov's Homepage.

08.07.1997 Player Project

08.07.1997

The Player Project is a C++ class wrapper to Direct 3D and OpenGL from Eric Victor Powers ( powerg@deltanet.com ).

• Simple collision detection.
• Hierarchical objects.
• Multiple lights.
• Material support.

More information and the source can be found on the Player Project Homepage.

07.07.1997 GLView

07.07.1997

GLView is a fast 3D viewer and integrated VRML 2.0 browser and editor for PCs by MKC Software ( sales@mkcsoft.com ).

• Shaded perspective texture mapping.
• Transparent texture mapping.
• Collision detection.
• Hierarchical objects.
• Multiple, colored light sources.
• Support for Windows NT/95 and hardware accelerators.
• Support for OpenGL and Direct3D.
• VRML script support.
• Support for 3D sound using RSX.

More information and a demo version can be found on the GLView Homepage.

16.06.1997 Engine Zero

16.06.1997

EZ is a commercial 3D engine for PCs from Engine Studio.

• 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.

More information and a demo can be found on the Engine Zero Homepage.

09.06.1997 J3D SpaceCrafter

09.06.1997

J3D SpaceCrafter is a high level 3D Graphics and Virtual Reality API for Java from InWorld VR, Inc.

• Shaded, perspective texture mapping.
• Tested on Intel, Macintosh, Solaris, Javastation, JavaOS and SGI.
• Hierarchical objects.
• ZSorting and z-buffer.
• Collision detection.
• Multiple 3D clipping choices.
• 3D sprites.
• Standard 3D objects.
• Built in terrain generation and terrain following functions.
• Support for 8 bit indexed and 24 bit color modes.
• Java API.

More information and screenshots can be found on the J3D SpaceCrafter Homepage .

06.06.1997 World Of Fantasy

30.12.1996

WOF is a Quake viewer for PCs by Frank Willemsen (frankw@xs4all.nl) and Corin Langosch ( corinl@metronet.de ).

• 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.

More information, a demo and screenshots can be found on the WOF Homepage, the source of an older version is available on the old World Of Fantasy Homepage.

05.06.1997 SimStudio

05.06.1997

SimStudio is a commercial 3D simulation environment by NDimension Simulations Pty Ltd.

• Perspective texture mapping.
• Support for DirectX and PC3D cards under Windows 95 and NT.
• Hierarchical objects.
• Behavior simulation.
• Collision detection.
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS, 3D Studio MAX and MultiGen OpenFlight scene files.
• C++ API.

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

14.05.1997 Fire & Forget 3D (Link Problems)

14.05.1997

The FF3D is a 3D game engine for the PowerMac from Alex Clarke ( ma5adc@bath.ac.uk ).

• Perspective shaded, texture mapping.
• 16 bit color rendering.
• Dithering.
• Transparancy.
• Colored lighting.
• Collision detection.
• Particle systems.
• 3D objects.
• Terrain rendering.
• 32 bit Z-buffer rendering.
• Support for RAVE rendering.
• Support for 3D glasses.
• C++ / ASM source.

More information, screenshots, a demo and source code to the span-buffer renderer can be found on the Fire & Forget 3D 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.

15.04.1997 TAG

01.10.1996

The TAG (TBA Advanced Graphics engine) is a commercial 3D engine for the Acorn Archimedes from TBA software (tba@tbalond.demon.co.uk).

• Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping.
• 2D sprites.
• Sound and music support.
• Collision detection.
• 3D editor.
• Multiplayer support.
• 'Virtual machine' for running compiled P-code linked to each object .

More information can be found on the TBA Software Index Homepage. There was also a news from TBA Software in rec.games.programmer that contained a perspective texture mapping scanliner using the TAG library.

21.03.1997 3dGen (Link Problem!)

16.11.1995

3DGen is a 3D Games Engine by Michael L. Lewis ( mlewis@ny.ubs.com).

• Perspective corrected texture mapping.
• Realtime light shading of texture maps.
• Z-buffer rendering.
• Object instancing.
• 3D morphing of objects.
• 3D collision detection.
• Fogging and hazing.
• Multi-resolution objects (LOD switching).
• Support for 3D-Studio ASC files.
• ANSI C code.
• Support for X11-Windows.

More information and screenshots can be found on the Homepage of Michael L. Lewis. For a demo, contact the autor via email.

17.03.1997 ZEUS (Link Problems!)

11.11.1996

ZEUS is a PC 3D commercial game engine by BRAINSTORM ( brainstorm@ndirect.co.uk).

• Gouraud-shaded perspective texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping and MIP-texture calculation routines.
• Multiple levels of semi transparency.
• Wireframe and flatshading.
• RGB and RAMP color models, 8 and 16 bit colors.
• Multiple colored light sources.
• Z clipping , back face culling and polygon sub-division routines.
• Depth cueing and fogging.
• Multiple level parallaxing routines.
• Supports fast spherical blitting (Special sphere primitives that render just as fast as a polygon primitive)
• Collision detection.
• Direct 3d studio 3DS file support.
• LBM/GIF support.
• Watcom C, hand optimized for Pentium.
• SVGA (VESA 2.0) support, Windows 95 Direct Draw Primitive version.
• Map editor and palette remapper utility.
• Low level access to primitives.
• Cross compatible with Playstation low level libraries allowing games to be converted in virtually no time at all.
• High level API, including a system for creating orbital planetery systems.
• GUI which supports many comman features such as windows, dlg boxes, requesters, list boxes etc.
• 8/16 bit MONO/STERO 64 channel DMA support (for in game sound fx).
• MIDI music support (for background music).
• Multiplayer IPX networking support.
• In development: full 3D game editor for worlds, characters etc.

More information and a demo can be found on the BRAINSTORM - ZEUS Homepage.

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.

05.11.1996 Reality Lab

01.01.1995

RL is a commercial 3D library by Microsoft RenderMorphics. The version 2.0 has the following features:

• Wire Frame, Flat, Gourad and Phong shading models.
• Perspective corrected texture mapping in any shading model.
• Environment and motion video mapping.
• Full transparency, including alpha maps for textures.
• Z-buffering.
• Animated backgrounds with optional depth information.
• Multiple, movable, coloured lightsources.
• 4, 8, 16, 24 bit colour depths in both ramp and RGB modes.
• SVGA and Windows 3.1/95/NT, X11-Windows on RS6000/SunSparc/SGI, System7 on Mac and PowerMac (both planned, no port yet), Sony PSX support.
• Multiple instancing of objects and hierarchies.
• Multiple viewports, devices and cameras.
• Bezier patches with subdivision on the fly.
• Depth cueing with atmospheric effects (e.g. fog, haze).
• Projected shadows.
• Stereoscopic capability.
• Free form deformation toolkit.
• Complex spline interpolated motion.
• Collision detection toolkit.
• Immediate mode allows low-level control over polygon lighting and rendering through direct access to vertices and normals.
• 70 pages documentation
• C-based API.
• Supports hardware accelerators like GLiNT, Matrox MGA Impression and 3D device standards like Intel 3DR, Microsoft 3DDDI.

Contact: Servan@Render.com (Servan Keondjian) or morph@microsoft.com.
The old RealityLab Homepage is currently not available - i already did a search on AltaVista and at MicroSoft to find a new homepage - there are recent microsoft products that use the RealityLab engine, but no reference to the engine itself.
There is a free Windows 3.1/95/NT VRML viewer from InterVista Software Inc, using the RealityLab libraries available at the WorldView Homepage.
Information about WIRL (another Windows 3.1/95/NT VRML viewer that combines the VR capabilties of the VREAM package with the Reality Lab rendering engine) is available via the VREAM Homepage.

20.08.1996 PSpace

20.08.1996

Possibility Space is a complete development system for real-time 3D rendering by Non-Linear Arts (webmaster@nlarts.com).

• Support for DOS and Windows (using WinG).
• Perspective texture mapping.
• Material textures may contain transparent areas and be of arbitrary size.
• Gouraud shading.
• Integrated collision detection supports variable collision proximity.
• Multiple object instancing.
• Hierarchical models.
• 3DS converter for objects and materials.
• Full 32-bit code.

More information and demos is available on the Non-Linear Arts Homepage.

19.07.1996 Deskent

25.03.1996

Deskent is a Descent clone from Oskari Tammelin (phantom@solutions.fi) aka 'Phantom' of COMPLEX.

• 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.

More information, screenshots and a demo on the Deskent Homepage .

22.05.1996 OpenGVS

22.05.1996

OpenGVS is a high-level, applications programming interface (API) for professional, real-time, computer graphics software developers from Gemini Technology Corportation.

• Support for OpenGL and Direct3D.
• Hardware support for SGI, 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics, Intergraph's TDZ, 3DLabs GLINT, Lockheed-Martin's Real3D and DEC/E&S Freedom.
• Texture mapping.
• Fog model for atmospheric special effects.
• Collision detection.
• Hierarchical objects.
• Import models from MultiGen, GameGen, Wavefront and others.

More information on the Gemini Technology 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 .

04.04.2000 Death Track

04.04.2000

Death Track is a 3D racing engine for DOS from Surgutsky Sergey ( crazy_ser@mail.ru ).

• Perspective correct texture mapping
• Support for VGA 320x200x256
• Light effects (16 gradations of light)
• Movable lightsources
• Z-Buffer rendering
• Collision detection
• Written in Pascal 7.0 and Turbo Assembler 3.2

More information and the demo can be found via the Homepage of Surgutsky Sergey.

02.02.2000 World Foundry

02.02.2000

World Foundry is a 3D Game Develeopers Kit for Windows 95 / 98 / NT and Linux from Kevin T. Seghetti ( kts@worldfoundry.org ).

• Perspective correct texture mapping
• Animated textures
• Depth cueing
• Collision detection
• Support for OpenGL and Direct3D
• LOD support
• Animation playback system
• Scripting language

More information, screenshots and the sources for the GDK can be found on the World Foundry Homepage.

08.09.1999 Craft 3D

08.09.1999

Craft 3D is a 3D game engine for Windows 95 / NT from Tony Hart ( TonyHart@griffydam.freeserve.co.uk ).

• Perspective correct texture mapping
• Fogging
• Collision detection
• Support for 3DFX opengl
• Craft 3D editor available

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the Craft 3D Homepage.

06.11.1995 VeriScope

06.11.1995

VS is a commerical 3D viewing system for 386 PCs from Pearson Interface (Vscope@pearsoni.demon.co.uk).

• Gouraud-shading, dithered flat shading and wire-frame rendering in real-time.
• Shadows and phong-shading in still rendering mode.
• Stereo support using red-blue glasses.
• 3D navigation using the mouse.
• Collision detection.
• Z-buffer.
• Reads DXF files, outputs FLC movies and PCS pictures.
• DOS real-mode program.

For more information and a demo see the VeriScope Homepage.

20.07.1999 3D Game Engine

20.07.1999

3DGE is a portal rendering engine for windows. It was a 3rd years university project of Paul Constant ( paul.constant@bigfoot.com ).

• Flat shaded rendering using DirectDraw
• Collision detection
• Dynamic 3D objects inside convex sectors
• Very good documentation about portals, bsp trees and hidden surface removal

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