3D Engines List Lightmap rend. This list contains 90 lightmap rendering 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.

12.05.2000 pixelbase

02.02.2000

pixelbase is a commercial 3D engine for Windows from Engin Cilasun ( engin@pixelbase.net ) and Attila Uygun ( ati@pixelbase.net ).

• Multitexturing OR Two-pass texturing using OpenGL
• Support for Direct3D
• Soft Body Dynamics
• Lens flares
• Plugin mechanism for great extensibility
• Custom model editor with surface unfold capability
• LightWave plugin for model import/export to our editor
• Realtime shadows (needs HW stencil buffer support)
• Metallic surfaces
• Particle systems
• Physics system
• Compiled scripting with realtime bytecode interpreter
• External script compiler
• Support for shaders (like metal&rust)

More information and screenshots can be found on the Pixelbase Homepage

27.04.2000 Titan Engine

27.04.2000

The Titan Engine is a 3D engine for Windows from Ignacio Castaño Aguado, José Luis Fernández Rueda, Gabriel Rodríguez Alberich and Julio César Espada Rodrígue ( titan@talika.fie.us.es ).

• Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
• Support for OpenGL
• Curved surfaces
• BSP rendering
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS files
• Support for Quake3 bsp files
• Real-time skeleton deformations
• Dynamic mesh resolution
• Keyframed animations
• Support for shader script language which allows procedural vertex deformations and multiple texturing stages, with different blending modes and rendering states
• Port to linux is beeing done

More information, screenshots, a demo and the source for an older version (called Nemesis) can be found on the Titan Project Homepage.

27.04.2000 Experience Engine

27.04.2000

The Experience Engine is a 3D engine for Direct X7 from The Whole Experience, Inc.

• Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
• Multi-textureing (Bump, detail and diffuse textures)
• Cube enironment mapping
• Support for texture compression
• Transparency
• Support for hardware transformation and lighting
• Automatic tessellation of NURBS objects with full UV support
• Bones/Cluster-based animation (single-mesh)
• Hierarchical animation (multi-mesh)
• Per-vertex color (can affect textures) and per-vertex transparency
• Surface material support
• Vertex lighting (8 most important lights per vertex using T&L hardware)
• Different light types (point, spot, directional, ambient)
• 3D sound
• Special effects (lightning, sparcs, rain, dynamic day/night changes, moving clouds)
• Particle effects (for smoke, fire, water and other vapor and magical effects)
• Real-time geometry warping (for extremely realistic water)
• Dynamic scene culling
• Export from Alias Power Animator or Maya

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

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

25.04.2000 Hurricane

25.04.2000

Hurricane is a 3D engine for Windows 98 from marc Salmurri ( marc.salmurri@upcnet.es ).

• Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
• Support for OpenGL
• Static and dynamic per pixel omnidirectional direct lighting
• Static shadows
• Colored lighting
• MIP mapping
• Support for 3DStudio MAX 2 ASE files
• Written in C++

More information, screenshots and the demo can be found on the Hurricane 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 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 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 JVector

20.05.1999

JVector is a realtime 3D engine written in Java from Jacob Jensen ( jacob@cabocomm.dk) aka 'kvark/prone' .

• Shaded perspective texturemapping
• Support for wireframe, flat, gouraud and phong shading
• Phong shading is based on a semi-transparent lightmap
• Antialiased lines
• Transparency and additive transparency
• Z-sorting and Z-Buffer rendering
• Support for 3D Studio .3DS with splined animations
• Support for PNG,gif and jpg textures
• 3D sprites
• Standard primitives (grid, sphere, torus)
• Mesh animation (including realtime calculated normals for correct lighting)
• 32 bit colordepth, rendered in any resolution
• Written in Java 1.0.2+

More information, screenshots and the applets can be found on the JVector 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.

07.04.2000 gxRealityEngine

07.04.2000

The gxRealityEngine is a 3D engine for Windows 95/98 from Lightcube Technologies.

• Multitextured, perspective mapping
• Support for Glide, Direct3D and OpenGL
• Object-oriented design with component model
• Multithreading support
• Scripting support
• Particle systems
• Physics system
• 3D sound support

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

07.04.2000 TwoQ2viewer

07.04.2000

The TwoQ2viewer is a Quake2 level viewer for Windows from Emmanuel Rivoire ( manutoo@imaginet.fr ).

• Lightmapped, perspective mapping
• Support for DirectX 6
• BSP rendering

More information, screenshots and the demo can be found on TwoQ2viewer Homepage.

07.04.2000 Aised

07.04.2000

The Aised is a landscape rendering engine for Windows from Emmanuel Rivoire ( manutoo@imaginet.fr ).

• Multitextured, perspective mapping
• Support for DirectX 6
• 3D objects
• Sky mapping

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

08.02.2000 QLeVe

08.02.2000

QLeVe is a Quake II level viewer for Windows from Claudiu Marinescu ( cobra_studios@yahoo.com ).

• Lightmapped perspective texture mapping
• MIP-mapping
• BSP rendering
• Precomputed PVS culling of leaves, dynamic PVS culling of nodes
• Animated textures
• There is also a version with gouraud shading instead of lightmapping
• Written in Delphi
• Support for Glide

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found via the Cobra Studios Homepage

02.02.2000 Radiance

22.12.1999

Radiance is a (work in progress) rendering engine for Windows from Kyle Kestell ( kkestell@uswest.net ).

• Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
• Support for OpenGL
• Simple cube scene with TGA texture
• C source

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

02.02.2000 E-mersion

02.02.2000

E-mersion is technology project from Willem H. de Boer ( whdeboer@iname.com ). It's a collection of separate modules which can be linked together to make many different 3D engines.

• Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
• Point/area lightsource lightmapping
• Bilinear filtering
• Alpha blending
• 3DS MAX mesh support
• Real-time dynamic blinn/phong-lighting
• Support for hemispherical environment-mapping
• Terrain system with smart level of detail method
• Fully modifiable lensflare system
• Extended sky rendering system (supports animated clouds)
• Scene graph world visibility-system
• Animated sprite/billboarding management system
• Fully extendable particle system
• Built on DirectX 7.0
• Written in 100 % C++, fully OOP

More information and screenshots can be found on the E-mersion 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

23.12.1999 Purgatory

23.12.1999

Purgatory is a 3d pc engine for Windows by Marco Corbetta (ivy_mantled@yahoo.com , marcoc@prograph.it)

• Perspective lightmapped texture mapping
• BSP/PVS rendering
• Support for textures and models from Quake 3 Arena
• Realtime textured bezier tessellation and animation with LOD
• Electric fx effect on models like Q3 Arena
• Addictive lens flares
• Lens fade out ala Unreal
• Bitmaps animation
• Use OpenGL extension (multitexturing and lock arrays)
• Bezier sky with multiple transparency
• Semi-transparent Bezier surfaces
• Written in VC++ 6.0

More information,screenshots and a demo can be found at the Purgatory 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 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 zViewer

09.02.1999

zViewer is the second 3D engine being written by Dan Royer (aggravated@bigfoot.com) and Tauno T. Taipaleenmaki (tataipal@mail.student.oulu.fi).

• Perspective multitextured Z-Buffered rendering (mipmapping has been disabled in the latest version, though support exists)
• BSP rendering of leaf- and node-based trees. Portal rendering planned
• CSG addition and subtraction operators to build complex worlds
• Support for DirectX 7.0 andOpenGL 1.1
• Precalculated Potentially Visible Set to increase rendering speed
• Precalculated color radiosity lightmaps
• DirectInput for keyboard and mouse movement
• Support for hierarchial object modelling
• In-game console and user definded key bindings
• 100% C++ built in Microsoft Developer Studio for the Windows 9x and Windows 2K platforms
• Next update to include additinal OpenGL support

More information and a demo can be found via the Homepage of Dan Royer in the zViewer/zEditor section.

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.

09.11.1999 MGRage

09.11.1999

MGRage is a 3D engine for Windows from Sebastien Chemin ( nanotech@club-internet.fr ).

• Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
• Support for DirectX 7
• Multitextureing
• Environment mapping
• Portal and BSP rendering
• Dynamic RGB light sourceing
• Lens flares
• Particle systems
• Mirrors
• Z-Buffer and W-Buffer support
• Hierarchical models

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

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.

28.09.1999 Exodus Engine

08.09.1999

Exodus is a commercial 3D game engine for Windows 95/98 and Macintosh from Video Game Workshop ( insurrect2@aol.com ).

• Lightmapped perspective texturemapping
• Skeletal motion system
• Animated textures
• Support for OpenGL 1.2(Win, Mac), and DirectX 7.0(Win)
• Volumetric light and fog
• B-Spline and skeletal motion system
• Particle effects
• Soft-shadows and dynamic shadows
• Lens flares
• Dynamic polygonal objects
• Collision detection
• Portal rendering
• Z-Buffer rendering
• Support for DXF, LWO, 3DS, MD2 object files
• 3D landscape, room and model editor
• Underwater Lighting Effects
• Multiplayer Support for up to 8 players on LAN, TCP/IP, and modem
• 3D sound support

For more information and licensing visit the Exodus Engine 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.

22.09.1999 Advanced 3D Game Programming using DirectX 7.0

22.09.1999

The book "Advanced 3D Game Programming using DirectX 7.0" from Adrian Perez ( cuban@cmu.edu ) contains a 3D engine with the following features:

• Multi-textureing (lightmaps, detail maps, glow maps, spec maps)
• Radiosity lighting
• Subidivision surfaces
• Parametric surfaces
• Progressive meshes
• B-splines
• Hardware acceleration
• Alpha blending
• BSP rendering
• Portal rendering

More information, screenshots and demos can be found on the "Advanced 3D Game Programming using DirectX 7.0" Book Homepage. The book will be released march 2000.

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.

20.07.1999 Peuck

01.07.1999

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

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

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

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.

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.

22.04.1999 Glista 3D

22.04.1999

Glista 3D is a 3D engine for Windows from Milos Tosic (glista3d@hotmail.com).

• Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
• Multi texturing
• Sub-pixel and sub-texel accurate rasterising
• MIP mapping with trilinear filtering (trilinear filter supported by hardware only)
• Multiple coloured light sources (omni or directional) with distance attenuation
• Multiple cameras with custom FOV and clipping
• Z-Sorting and Z-buffer rendering
• Oct trees for large Outdoor scenes
• Support for TGA, PCX, GIF, IFF/LBM textures
• Support for 3DT and 3DS objects
• Support for 8, 15, 16, 24 and 32 bpp
• Windows95/98/NT Support trough DirectX v6.0+
• Support for hardware acceleration trough Direct3D v6.0+
• Written in pure C

More information and a demo can be found on the Glista 3D 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 .

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.

10.03.1999 Fluxions

10.03.1999

Fluxions is a 3D engine for PCs by Jonathan Metzgar ( microwerx@fcmail.com ).

• Perspective lightmapped texture mapping
• Bi-linear texture-mapping with perspective-correction every 8-16 pixels
• Portal rendering
• Span-buffer hidden surface removal
• 3D sprites (triangle mesh) with Z-Buffering
• C++/ASM source developed with DJGPP and Allegro.

More information, screenshots and the source can be found via the Microwerx Game Programming 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 .

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 Archee`s 3d engine

13.01.1999

A3E is a 3d engine for Direct3D from Archee ( soltesz@hotmail.com ) from CoNTRACT.

• Support for Direct3D with 3d card support
• Perspective lightmapped texture mapping
• Phong shading using light maps
• Realtime shadows
• Movable camera
• Written in C

More information and a demo can be found on Archee`s 3d Engine Homepage .

11.01.1999 Katharsis

11.01.1999

Katharsis is a commercial 3D engine for Windows 95/NT from Digital Infinity.

• Support for OpenGL, Direct3D and Glide, support for PC 3D cards
• Software rendering with bilinear texture filtering.
• Perspective. lightmapped texture mapping
• MIP-mapping
• Sub-pixel / sub-texel accuracy
• Lightmaps, shadowmaps and opacity maps
• Lens flares and glow
• Flat, gouraud, phong and metal shading
• Multiple dynamic shadows
• Projected textures
• Z buffering, Z sorting and visibility lists.
• Advanced physics system
• LOD support
• Programmable behavior control per entity
• 3D editor with support for Lightwave LWO, 3D Studio 3DS / MAX and Autocad DFX.
• Written in C++ and Assembler

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

27.10.1998 Duality Engine

27.10.1998

The Duality Engine is a commercial 3D game engine for PCs and Macintosh from Double Aught, Inc.

• Perspective, lightmapped texture mapping
• 16-bit colored lightmaps
• Portal rendering
• BSP rendering
• Dynamic lighting
• Dynamic texture maps
• Translucency
• 3D sound.
• Multiplayer and network support.
• RAVE and Glide hardware support
• Advanced scripts.

More information and screenshots can be found on the Duality 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 .

05.10.1998 3D Graphics Engine

12.02.1998

3DGE is a commercial 3D API for PCs from Twilight 3D.

• Perspective correct texture mapping.
• Sub-pixel/-texel accurate scan conversions.
• MIP-mapped or Tri-linear texture filtering
• Point sampled or bilinear texel reads.
• Dual texturing with configurable and versatile txcombine modes.
• Alpha-blending and transparency.
• Z Buffering, z-sorting and s-buffer rendering.
• Monochromatic and RGB light sources (dynamic).
• Fog and specularity.
• Geometric 3D clipping.
• Advanced quaternion, matrix, spline and vector math libraries.
• Lense flares and particle systems.
• Support for VGA and DirectDraw support.
• Support for 3Dfx Voodoo/Rush, Direct 3D and OpenGL drivers plus highly optimized native software fillers.
• Support for Playstation (console).
• Native Newtek Lightwave and Autodesk 3D Studio .3DS and native 3DS MAX import.
• Support for JPG, PNG, TGA, BMP, PCX, GIF and PPM, IFF LBM, XBM texture files.
• C++ API.

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

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.

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.

04.08.1998 Madcow 3D Engine

04.08.1998

M3D is a 3D engine for 3DFX Voodoo graphics hardware on Windows 95 from Madcow ( acowley@seas.upenn.edu ).

• Lightmapped perspective texture mapping.
• Portal rendering.
• Dynamic lights and shadows.
• Portal rendering.
• Lens-Flares.
• Translucent materials.
• Sound support.

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on Madcow's 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.

22.07.1998 3D Engine

22.07.1998

3E is a DOS 3d engine by Steffen Waldersdorff Løffler ( steffenl@post10.tele.dk ).

• Lightmapped perspective texture mapping.
• Sub-pixel accuracy.
• Texture size up to 256x256.
• Multiple light sources.
• Realtime flat and goraud shading.
• Static shadowmapping. Linear interpolation of 16x16 or 8x8 shadowmaps in texturecache.
• Uniform and nonuniform MIP-mapping.
• BSP sorted rendering combined with a span-buffer.
• Dynamic 3D objects.
• Supports VESA 2.0 320x200x8 and 640x480x8.
• Written in DJGPP v2.0 C++ and ASM.

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the Homepage of Steffen Waldersdorff Løffler.

21.07.1998 Zen Engine

21.07.1998

ZE is 3D engine for Windows 95 by Stuart Abercrombie ( stuart@imaginator.com ).

• Lightmapped perspective texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• Coloured lightmap lighting.
• Surface caching.
• Translucency.
• Mirrors.
• Fogging.
• Sky box rendering.
• Portal rendering.
• Texture coordinate effects (moving clouds, swirling water..)
• Software perspective correct texture-mapping using DirectDraw.
• 3DFX hardware support via Glide.
• C/C++/Asm source (Visual C).

More information, screenshots and the source with documentation can be found on the Zen 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.

06.05.1998 LithTech

03.11.1997

The LT (former DirectEngine) is a commercial game development tool for Windows 95 developed from Monolith Productions.

• Support for Direct3D, own renderer or 3DFX/Glide.
• Dynamic colored lighting.
• Lightmap rendering.
• 3D sprites.
• Hierarchical key-framed animation (with interpolation).
• Translucency/transparency for water/glass effects.
• Level of Detail support.
• Particle systems.
• Customizable physics.
• Real-time shadows.
• Multi-server networking

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

19.03.1998 Amp Game Development System

13.05.1997

The AGDS (formerly Diamond 3D Game Development System) is a complete game development system for Windows 95 from Slam Software.

• Perspective shaded, texture mapping.
• BSP rendering.
• Gouraud shaded, hierarchical 3D characters.
• Realistic light sourcing with shadows.
• Movable Mirrors.
• 3D editor.
• Collision detection.
• Physics model / Particle Model.
• Advanced animation system with animation blending
• Direct-Sound based audio system.
• Client/Server game architecture
• 8 bit color support, variable resolution.
• Coming Soon: Multiplayer support and 3DFx Acceleration.

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

13.02.1998 UltraFish 3D Engine

13.02.1998

The UltraFish 3D Engine is a commercial 3D game engine for Windows 95/NT from UltraFish Incorporated.

• Lightmapped, perspective correct texture mapping.
• Dynamic colored light sources.
• Portals and display lists.
• Advance character animation.
• Support for 3D Studio MAX models.
• Game editor toolkit.
• Fully DirectX compatible, support for Direct3D hardware acceleration and own custom software renderer for non-accelerated machines.

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

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.

28.01.1998 Extrinsic Dawn

15.08.1997

ED is a Quake level viewer for PCs from Ben Cohee ( benco@gisco.net ) originally based on QMap from Sean Barrett.

• Perspective texture mapping with scanline subdivision.
• MIP-mapping.
• Light-mapping with light cache.
• BSP rendering.
• PVS (possibly visible set) support.
• S-Buffer rendering.
• Frustrum clipping.
• Support for Quake level files.
• SVGA support.
• Support for Watcom DOS, DJGPP DOS and MSVC 4.1 Win32 with DirectX.
• C source.

More information and the source can be found on the Extrinsic Dawn 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.

01.12.1997 Alpha Project

12.08.1996

The Alpha Project is renderer with 6 DOF texturemapper by John DiCamillo (milod@netcom.com).

• Perspective correct texture mapping using bilinear interpolation every 16 pixels.
• Lighting done in texture cache (Light-mapping).
• MIP-mapping.
• Level editor.
• BSP tree support.
• DirectDraw support for Windows NT.
• C++/ASM source.

More information, tutorials (and some source code) about 3D texture mapping and MIP-mapping can be found via the Homepage of John DiCamillo.

24.11.1997 House Modelling Project

22.11.1997

HMP is a 3D engine for PCs by Tom Hammersley ( tomh@globalnet.co.uk ).

• Perspective, shaded texture mapping.
• Lightmap rendering.
• Bilinear texture filtering.
• Sub-pixel and sub-texel accurate rasterising.
• BSP rendering.
• Radiosity effects for lighting.
• 16 bit color support.
• Span buffer rendering.
• Written in C.

More information, screenshots, documentation, tuorials and a demo can be found on the Graphics Coding Webpage of Tom Hammersley .

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.

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 Direct3D Quake Viewer (Broken Link!)

03.11.1997

The D3DQV is a Direct3D engine for Windows 95 by Keith Harrison ( kh@netcomuk.co.uk ).

• Perspective, shaded texture-mapping with lightmaps.
• Support for Direct3D and PC 3D cards.
• BSP tree.
• Ported from the OpenGL version of the viewer.
• Support for Quake level files.
• Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 source.

More information, the source and binary can be found on the Direct3D Quake Viewer Homepage .

22.09.1997 QMap

16.06.1997

QMap is a Quake level viewer for PCs from Sean Barrett ( buzzard@world.std.com )

• Perspective texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• Light-mapping with light cache.
• BSP rendering.
• PVS (possibly visible set) support.
• Frustrum clipping.
• Quake-style water-surface animation.
• Support for Quake level files.
• Support for Watcom DOS, DJGPP DOS and MSVC 4.1 Win32 with DirectX.
• C source.

More information and the source can be found on the QMap 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.

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.

08.07.1997 Dark Tide

08.07.1997

Dark Ride is a 3D game engine by Søren Mou Jakobsen (smj@post6.tele.dk ), David Zeuthen ( dzeuthen@post3.tele.dk ), Joel Ostrowski and Thomas Jørgensen ( tj@kampsax.dtu.dk ).

• Support for OpenGL or own rendering system under Windows 95/NT.
• Colored light sources.
• Light-mapping.
• Lens-flares.
• Support for 15,16, 24 and 32 bit color in all resolutions.
• Network support.
• 3D editor.

More information and screenshots can be found on the Dark Tide 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.

07.05.1997 SQuake

25.04.1997

SQuake is a DOS Quake viewer by Riccardo Scarsi (scarsi@athena.polito.it) and Massimo Rossi.

• Perspective texture mapping.
• BSP rendering with clip tests.
• Visibility lists.
• Simple lighting.
• Surface cache.
• Based on WOF by Frank Willemsen & Corin Langosch.
• Support for Quake level files.
• C/C++ source.

More information, the source and binary can be found on the SQuake Homepage.