3DEL: Fogging

3D Engines List
Fogging

This list contains 71 fogging engines.

Texture-mapping Engines

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.

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 Genesis 3D 11.08.1998

G3D is a commercial 3D game SDK from Eclipse Entertainment.

Lightmapped perspective texture mapping
Animated textures, procedural water textures
Translucent textures
Texture morphing
Dynamic shadows
Light diffraction
Multiple colored light
Fog.
Vertex morphing
Real time water surface distortion
Real time light diffraction
Mirrors
Integrated rigid body physics simulation support for world objects
Hierarchical and seamless, soft-skin polygonal characters
Support for 3DS MAX animation files
LOD support
Area portals allow selective rendering of world geometry
Software rasterizer, 3DFX Glide, and D3D support
Open scripting API
Level editor
3D sound positioning and attenuation
Support for network streaming of geometry, animations and textures ( Hollywood 3D )
OpenSource distribution

More information, screenshots, the SDK and some demos can be found on Genesis 3D 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

04.04.2000 JavaGL 04.04.2000

JavaGL is a pure Java implementation of a subset of OpenGL from Robin Bing-Yu Chen ( robin@nis-lab.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp ).

Shaded, perspective texture mapping
Support for glaux
Display list support

More information, the library and documentaion can be found on the JavaGL 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

25.02.2000 Digital Dawn Graphics Toolkit 25.02.2000

The DDG toolkit is a OpenSource library of C++ classes to build real time 3D graphics applications from Alex Pfaffe ( ddg@oz.net).

Support for OpenGL
Support for Linux and Windows
Shaded, perspective texture mapping
Z-Buffer rendering
Fog
Scene graph archtecture
Multiple viewports
Generic objects
Ground and ocean objects
Sky changes color/opacity according to the time and day
A ROAM based terrain Mesh capable of performing realtime LOD
Animated morphing noise based clouds
Support for Terragen's height map format
DDG will be incorporated with the Crystal Space portal engine in the near future
C++ source

More information, screenshots and the source can be found on the Digital Dawn Graphics Toolkit 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 LightSpeed 3D 08.02.2000

LightSpeed3D (former Exodus) is a commercial 3D engine for Windows 95/98/2K from Rogueprogramm.

Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping
Texture filtering
Landscape rendering
Underwater lighting effects
Lens effect
Dynamic Lighting
Dynamic Fog
Dynamic Shadows
Support for 3dfx's Glide, partial support for Microsoft's Direct3d, software rendering using Span Buffering, and OpenGl support
DirectSound, Direct 3d sound, Aureal 3d sound, and partial Linux sound support.
Support for Win95, Win98, and WinNT and Linux
Game editor
TCP networking code, supporting UDP and TCP
Texture support for Jpeg, FLI, PCX, TGA, BMP
Support for WAV, MP3, MIDI sounds
Written in C/ASM

More information can be found on the LightSpeed Homepage.

03.02.2000 Morpheus 03.02.2000

Morpheus is a 3D engine for DOS from Alexander Berl ( alex@funtasticarts.de ).

Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping
Mip-Mapping
Z-Buffer rendering
Bilinear filtering
Fogging
Written in Free Pascal

The demo can be found on the Funtastic Arts Homepage under Downloads as realEngine.

02.02.2000 OpenGL 06.09.1995

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

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

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

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

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 Twister 28.09.1999

Twister is a "Quake-style" 3D engine for Windows by Stefano Lanza ( steflanz@tin.it ).

Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
BSP rendering
Multiple cameras
Mirrors
Particle systems
Quake II .bsp support
Quake II model support
S-buffer rendering
Dynamic colored lightmaps
Volumetric fog
Support for Quake 2 models
Direct3D acceleration
Console
Visual C++ 5.0 source

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

22.12.1999 GFX4D 22.12.1999

GFX4D is a Glide 3D engine from Ondrej Kollar (andygfx@gtinet.sk), Peter Popvec and Paval Lesnak.

Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
Animated textures
Alpha textures and chromakeying
Mip mapping
Bilinear texture filtering
Lens flares
Mirrors
Skybox
Colored fog
Translucent textures
Spline patches
BSP/C-Block/PVS optimalisation
Support for TrueSpace and 3DSMax objects
Particle system
Support for Glide
Force feedback support

More information and screenshots can be found on the GFX4D 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.

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.

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.

08.09.1999 V3D 07.07.1999

V3D is a 3D engine for Windows 95/98 from Rich ( v3dengine@hotmail.com ).

Lightmapped perspective texturemapping
Varible LightMap ratios ( 1:1, 8:1, 16:1 )
Support for vertex alpha
Shadow effects
Gouraud shading
RGB lighting
Transparency
Fog
BSP tree rendering
Hardware acceleration through Direct3D
Written in C++
MMX optimizations
Solid Modeling Application

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the V3D Homepage .

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

12.07.1999 Polyspace 3D 12.07.1999

Polyspace 3D(TM) is a commercial 3D game engine from Maven Studios done by Matthew Huston and other contributers (mhuston@ameritech.net)

Lightmapped perspective texturemapping
Animated textures, procedural water textures
Developed specifically for outdoor environments
Translucent texture
Fog
Day - Night lighting
Support for 3D Studio and Direct X (*.x) object files
Support for BMP, PCX, JPG, GIF, and more textures
Network support
Coded in Visual Basic 5 and 6 with help from the Direct X Library (Patrice Scribe) and OGE II (Michael Jennings)
Waste Runners, a driving simulator, is being developed on it

For more information and licensing visit Maven Studios.

12.07.1999 Equinox (Link Problems!) 19.05.1999

Equinox is a PC 3D engine from Marco Corbetta ( ivy_mantled@yahoo.com ).

Unlit, perspective texture mapping
Procedural textures with syntethical painting structure
Z-buffer rendering
Quadratic Bezier surfaces with LOD
Motion blur
Real time characther shadows
Colored volumetric fog
Voxel to Bezier rendering
Support for 3D Studio .3DS files
Support for Quake II model (.md2) with frame-interpolation
Support for Quake I level (.bsp)
Support for 3DFX and GLIDE 3.0
Written in pure C

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

28.05.1999 6DX 28.05.1999

6DX is a commercial 3D game engine for Windows from Eldermage Entertainment Inc.

Shaded, perspective texture mapping
Transparent textures and overlays
Hardware acceleration through Direct3D
Support for 16 bit / true color rendering
Dynamic lighting
Particle systems
Multiple cloud/fog planes, fogging
Coronas/Halos on lights
Shadows (like Heretic 2)
Available as ActiveX and Delphi VCL
Support for Quake scenes and editors
Support for polygonal actors (MDL)

More information, screenshots and demos can be found on the Eldermage 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.

20.05.1999 EasyGen3D 11.08.1998

EasyGen3D is an OpenSource wrapper for the Genesis 3D library from Matthew Ellis ( matt@magmagames.com ).

Easy setup of Genesis3D
Easy scene setup
Support for Gravity, Coronas, Electric bolts and dynamic lighting
Texture loading
C source for Visual C++ 6.0

More information and the SDK can be found on Genesis 3D Homepage.

19.05.1999 Dark Light 19.05.1999

Dark Light is a Java 3D engine from Jean D'Arc ( jdarc@dial.pipex.com ) aka 'Defiant'.

Affine texturemapping
Gouraud shading
Multiple point light sources
Multiple objects
Landscape generation
LensFlare and Fog effects
Written in Java

More information and the applet can be found on the Dark Light Homepage.

22.04.1999 E3d Engine 22.04.1999

The E3d Engine is a commercial 3d engine for Windows from Act 3d Interactive.

Perspective lightmapped texture mapping
MIP-mapping
Gouraud, flat and wireframe
Dynamic lighting
Hierarchical objects
Collision detection
Patch/Curved surfaces, Nurbs
Z-Buffer rendering
Anti-Aliasing
Advanced Sparks engine(smoke, flares, water)
Complex lensflares(inner glow 2x, central ring, random streaks, starstreaks, lensreflection)
Volumetric fog
Physical dynamics
Support for lightwave meshes and motions
Motion capture support
Support for DirectInput, DirectSound (3D sound) and Direct3D
Optimized for high polygon count rendering
Optimized for fast application development
Written in Visual C++ 6.0

More information and a demo can be found on the E3d Engine Homepage .

26.03.1999 ClayRender 19.02.1998

CR is a 3D engine for PCs from Time Lewis ( luther2000@aol.com).

Gouraud shaded, linear texture mapping.
Transparency.
Z-buffer rendering.
Environment mapping.
Colored lights.
Support for Themekit MindRender, Clayworks and Lightwave object files.
16 bit color rendering.
Fogging.
Support for VESA 2.0.

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

26.03.1999 ClayJava 26.03.1999

ClayJava is a 3D engine for Java from Time Lewis ( luther2000@aol.com).

Gouraud shaded, linear texture mapping
Environment mapping
Phong lighting
Z-Buffer
Fogging
32bit internal renderer
Multiple objects
Frustum clipping
Pure Java, no extensions needed

The java applet can be found on the ClayJava Homepage.

23.03.1999 3D TT 01.03.1999

3D TT is a 3D game engine for a game like Transport Tycoon for Windows from Peter Dobrovka ( dobrovka@hkn.de ) and WAY-X (a group of hobby programmers).

Based on OpenGL
Multitextured landscape (without shading)
Perspective and isometric view
Large maps (1024x1024)
3D Sprites
Moving objects (esp. trains)
Integrated editor
Written in Delphi Pascal

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the (german) WAY-X Homepage under 3DTT (click one of the four icons in the top frame to view screenshots etc).

17.02.1999 Vital 17.02.1999

Vital is a 3D game engine for Windows from Lut Roman and Sergey Zabaryansky ( root@zssoft.carrier.kiev.ua ).

Perspective, gouraud shaded texture mapping
Support for Direct3D
Environment mapping
Colored, dynamic lightsources
Mirrors
Lens flares and halos
Local fog
Realistic water (geometry underwater warps)
Object falling into water sets out 3d waves
Physics system
Support for DirectSound3D and A3D

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 .

16.04.1998 Crazy Marbles 16.04.1998

Crazy Marbles is a 3D landscape game that for 3DFX cards from Michael Boyko ( boykom@andrews.edu ). Crazy Marbles won the contest from http://www.voodooextreme.com/.

Support for GLIDE.
Perspective, fogged texture mapping.
Physics.
Sound support.

More information, screenshots and the demo can be found on the Crazy Marbles Homepage

14.04.1998 Motor 3D 15.04.1998

Motor 3D is a 3D engine for PCs from Ramiro Oliva ( ramcor@arrakis.es ).

Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping.
SVGA support from 320x200 to 800x600.
Implements wired, flat, shaded, gouraud, gouraud noise, textured, gouraud textures and transparent render modes.
Depth cueing and fog effects.
Imports 3D Studio ASC models.
Basic primitives such as triangles, quads, sphere...
Unlimited size of textures (optimized for 64x64, 256x256 and 512x512 sizes).
Material library.
Free camera control with "look at" function.
3D morphing.
Written under DJGPP.

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

17.03.1998 Terra 17.03.1998

Terra is a commercial 3D terrain visualization engine for Windows 95 by Skyline Software Systems LTD.

Support for Direct3D.
Realistically simulates weather phenomena such as clouds and fog.
Perspective texture-mapping with alpha blending and fog.
Static and dynamic 3D & 2D hierarchical objects.
Multi-resolution meshes.
Mesh animation.
Real-time fractal interpolation and texture merging.
Support for DFX and X objects.
Optional terrain builder.
C API interface.
Access to the terrain z-buffer and ground height values.

More information and screenshots can be found on the Terra Homepage

12.02.1998 Oden3D 12.02.1998

Oden3D is object-oriented C++ 3D game engine for Windows 95 / NT platforms from Novel Productions. Oden3D provides (when finished):

Perspective, gouraud shaded texture mapping.
Hierarchical scene graph databases
Keyframed animations
Effiecient visible object culling through OBB or BSP trees
Portal rendering
Multiple instancing of objects and hierarchies
Multiple cameras and lightsources
Dynamic collision detection
Support for Direct3D and OpenGL
Dynamic lighting and fogging
Level-of-detail representation
Particle system
Landscape renderer
Support for 3D Studio 3DS scene and animation files
Networksupport
C++ object-oriented extendable API
3D hardware accelleration through Direct3D.

For more information send an email to astaroth@mail.databasen.se.

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.

15.08.1997 Zen 15.08.1997

Zen is a 3D engine for PCs from Gerber Dominique ( dominique.gerber@hol.fr ) of Atlantis Productions.

Shaded perspective texture mapping.
MIP-mapping.
BSP and Z-Buffer rendering.
Shadow mapping via light maps.
Surface cache rendering.
Multiple types of fog (distance based, layered, etc...).
Transparent surfaces colors lights.
Mirrors.
View frustrum clipping.
Support for Watcom C++.

More information and screenshots can be found on the Atlantis 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.

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.

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.

09.01.1997 3D Demo 13.08.1996

The 3D Demo is a PC rendering engine from Kerrigan Burgess (k_burge@alcor.concordia.ca).

Linear texture-mapping with flat, gouraud and phong shading.
Wireframe rendering.
Transparent rendering.
2D shadows.
Backdrop images.
Dynamic object manipulation (morphing).
2D image functions (scale, rotate).
C++/ASM source.
Depth cueing/fogging.

The voxel-engine has the following features:

Skymapping.
Y-rotation, no tilt.

The source and demo can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi.

12.11.1996 GRAFICA NATURA 20.09.1996

GRAFICA NATURA is a 3-D realtime rendering system which was primarily designed for realistic visualization of natural objects and phenomena, e.g. plants, landscapes, clouds and water. GN is written by Steffen Hauser (stephen@cs.tu-berlin.de).

Linear, shaded polygon texture-mapping.
Support for X11-Windows and DOS.
Primitive objects (e.g. cube, disk, sphere, cone, cylinder, plane, bezier-patch, rotation curve, height field).
Procedural plant models.
Hierarchical object construction.
Lambert and gouraud shaded surfaces.
Unlimited number of light sources.
Wireframe or solid rendering (gouraud shaded and textured surfaces).
Z-buffer rendering.
Transparent surfaces.
Import:
- Objects: 3DS, GEM, NFF, PLG, TRI
- Textures: PPM, TGA
Output:
- Objects: VRML (no materials and textures yet)
- Images: PPM, TGA
Color specification with RGB-, HSV-, HLS- or CMY-format.
Atmospheric effects (e.g. fog, haze).
C++ source.
Simple but powerful stack-based programming language with more than 150 build-in commands for definition of objects, surfaces, textures, camera movements and lightning effects.

The source and more information can be found on the GRAFICA NATURA 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.

15.07.1996 3DTOSHI 15.01.1996

3DTOSHI is a 3D engine for PCs by Toshiaki Tsuji (tsuji@cs.concordia.ca).

Linear, shaded texture mapping.
Gouraud and flat shading, wireframe rendering.
Transparence and distance cueing/fogging.
DOS 32 bit, Windows 3.1 and Win32 ( Win 95 & NT) support.
Z sorting.
3D Studio ASC file support.
C++ / ASM source.

A source/demo can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi.

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 .

Non-realtime Engines

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.

Gouraud-shading Engines

11.02.2000 Dex3D 11.02.2000

DeX3D is an open source 3D engine coded entirely in Visual Basic from Jerry Chen ( onlyuser@hotmail.com ).

Gouraud shading
Transparency
Fogging
Omni and spot lights
Hierarchical meshes
Support for 3D Studio files
Particle systems
Bezier curve segments
2.5 D text
Visual Basic source

More information, screenshots and the source can be found on the Dex3D Homepage.

18.01.1999 Mercury 18.01.1999

Mercury is a Windows 95/98 3D engine from Adam Jenkins ( jenkins@jfam.demon.co.uk ).

Gouraud shaded triangles
Uses OpenGL as triangle rasteriser
Z-sorting
Particle system
Landscape rendering
Written in Visual C++ 5

More information and screenshots can be found on the Homepage of Adam Jenkins .

Doom/Wolfenstein Engines

18.01.1999 RayDream 15.08.1997

RayDream is a doom 3D engine for PCs from Spencer Pickett ( spickett@lucent.com ).

Non orthogonal walls.
Floor and ceiling texture mapping.
Depthcueing, fogging and under-water effects.
Dynamic sector lighting.
Height-mapping for outdoor scenes.
Backdrop sky mapping.
Map editor available.
Detailed documentation about ray casting.
Written in C.

More information and the demo can be found on the Spencer Picketts Project Homepage

18.08.1997 Ray Game Designer 18.08.1997

RGD is a commercial wolfenstein engine for PCs from Momor Productions BPD ( icarte@aol.com ).

Support for Windows 3.x/95.
Orthogonal walls with fixed height.
Floor and ceiling texture mapping.
Depthcueing and fogging.
3D sprites.
Animated textures.
Sound support.
Map, path, level and texture editor available.
Stereo rendering support (red/green).
Game compiler.
Simple behaviour model for objects.

More informations, screenshots and a demo can be found on the Ray Game Designer Homepage.

15.08.1997 Virtual Game Toolkit 11.09.1995

The VGT is a comercial Doom engine and VR toolkit for PCs from conitec that allows to develop adventure, action or role playing games based on an event controlled script language.

Non-orthogonal walls, variable level floors/ceilings, tilted floors and ceilings!
Rooms above rooms.
Movable and rotatable room parts.
Light source plus ambient shading, distance cueing, fogging.
Looking up/down via y-shearing.
Transparent and animated textures.
Animated 2D sprites.
320x200, 320x240 or 320x400 Pixels in 256 Colors on standard VGA and SVGA support.
Sound and music support, distance dependand volume control.
Each wall, region, thing or actor is a state machine with event controlled behaviour.
Support of 3D polygonal actors.
Import of Quake MDL 3D objects.
Landscape editor WED with integrated game compiler, WRUN interpreter and runtime module.
Stereo sound support and CD-Audio support.

Contact: Johannes C. Lotter (100042.1745@compuserve.com)
A demo can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi . More info on the Conitec Homepage or in the VGT Readme.
An online users magazine can be found at the 3D game design Homepage.
There is also a german book "GameStudio 3D" (ISBN: 3-89362-438-4) with CD-ROM and a shareware version of VGT. More information about this book and some demos on the oP group germany homepage.

15.08.1997 RayCast 06.11.1995

RC is a doom engine from Kenny Hoff (hoff@cs.unc.edu).

Rectangular walls.
Wall, floor and ceiling texture mapping.
Animated textures.
Collision detection.
Variable wall heights.
Distance cueing, mist and fogging.
Movement record and playback.
Interactive wall creation and destruction.
Written in C++.

More information (and lots of pictures) can be found on the RayCast Homepage

30.12.1996 Red Sector 30.12.1996

Red Sector is a 3D engine by Byron Foster (foster@enuxsa.eas.asu.edu).

Non-orthogonal variable-height walls.
Sloped walls.
Rooms above rooms.
Perspective-correct texture mapping on walls, roofs and floors.
Transparent texture mapping.
Look up / look down, variable eye level
Collision detection with walls and objects.
Distance cueing, fogging.
Animated 3D sprite objects.
Runs under DOS and X11-Windows under Linux.
Support for SVGA resolutions.

A demo can be found on the Red Sector Homepage.

23.07.1996 Bad Mood 23.07.1996

BM is a doom engine for the Atari Falcon 030 from Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy@ccr.jussieu.fr) , Laurent Sallafranque (sallafra@col.bsf.alcatel.fr) and Johan Klockars (d8klojo@dtek.chalmers.se).

16-bit truecoloe graphics.
Supports doom, doom II and heretic PWAD and IWAD files.
Aplha-channeld wall textures.
Floor and ceiling mapping.
Depthcueing and fogging.
Lightsourcing.
Sky texture mapping.
Collission detection, advanced version of BSP & occlusion algorithms for speed.
LRU graphics cache for high speed & low ram requirements.
Variable x & y detail settings.
Variable viewport size up to 320x240.
C source.

The source and executable can be found on the Bad Mood homepage.

15.07.1996 Simplicity 15.07.1996

Simplicity is a doom engine from Richard Temps ( psystorm@bbs.ax.com, t_rtemps@qualcomm.com).

Raycasting engine based on 'Gardens of Imagination'.
Orthogonal walls with variable height.
Floor and ceiling mapping.
Depthcueing and fogging.
Lightsourcing.

The source and executable can be found on www.ax.com.

13.06.1995 Gardens of Imagination 13.06.1995

GOI is a book (ISBN: 1-878739-59-X) from Christopher Lampton that contains source for a 4D wolfenstein engine in C/C++/ASM.

Floor and ceiling mapping.
Depthcueing and fogging.
Lightsourcing.
Heightmapping.
Rectangular walls.

Flat-shading Engines

26.05.1999 Blast3D 26.05.1999

Blast3D is a flatshading 3D engine for DOS from Tobias Johansson ( tobias_johansson@mailcity.com ).

Colored lambert shading
Object transformations
Z-sorting (Painters)
Support for 3D Studio ASC and Nullsoft MD2 files
Full DJGPP/Allegro source code release

More information, screenshots and the source can be found on the Blast3D Homepage.

Non-realtime Engines

15.04.1996 NuGraf Developer's 3D Toolkit 15.04.1996

The NG D3DT is a commercial 3D library from Okino Computer Graphics, Inc (sales@okino.com). NuGraf's renderer is designed to create fast, high quality photo-realistic images using software generation methods. NuGraf is a complete development system for creating 3D computer graphics applications, the toolkit handles all aspects of the 3D modeling and rendering process.

High-speed, 32-bit broadcast-quality scanline renderer based on a hybrid Z-scanline/A-buffer algorithm.
Support for third party renderers via a back-end custom rendering interface. NuGraf ships with a full featured OpenGL(tm) interface module.
Hierarchical database management and inquiry system.
650 pages of documentation.
Efficient interfaces provided to allow large quantities of polygonal data to be passed into the database, including a host-based callback mechanism (the "user-defined" primitive). A mathematically stable sub-library of polygon welding and smoothing operations optimize any raw data for rendering (ex: DXF).
Meshed polygon vertices can be assigned a color, normal, (u,v) texture coordinates, and U/V tangent information.
Complex n-sided polygons with recursive holes & islands.
Sphere, cone, and cylinder quadric primitives with implicit texture parameterizations. Box, prism, disc and rectangle primitives with implicit texture parameterizations.
NURB and bicubic patch primitives with selectable basis.
Scenes are created using object instancing and hierarchical attachment.
Omnidirectional, unidirectional or spot light sources with numerous options: intensity, color, decay,fall-off, softness, shadow parameters.
Implementation of PIXAR's soft shadow technique with tiling optimizations.
A wide selection of predefined surface shaders: 2D texture mapping, Perlin and Peachy 3D procedural texture functions, spherical/cubical environment and planar reflectance mapping, mist and fog full-featured atmospheric shaders, flat, gouraud or phong shading models, phong or blinn specular highlight.
State-of-the-art analytic 2D texture filtering algorithms.
Output drivers for images, X11-Windows, SGI, Windows and VGA.
The library is available on a wide range of platforms, including Apple Macintosh, IBM PC 32-bit DOS, Microsoft Windows v3.1 (32-bit), Microsoft Windows NT (32-bit DLL), Linux + X11, SUN workstations, Silicon Graphics workstations and DEC Alpha AXP (Windows NT).

More info on the NuGraf's Homepage.

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