3D Engines List Motion blur This list contains 20 motion blur engines.

12.04.2000 Legus3D

23.03.1998

Legus3D (former LEGUS Virtual Reality System) is a commercial real-time rendering engine for PCs from Branimir Karadzic ( karadzic@eunet.yu ).

• Binary space partitioning (BSP) and potential visible sets (PVS).
• Object hierarchies.
• Object morphing.
• Fog/depth cueing.
• Keyframing (objects, lights and camera).
• Shadow volume (lightmap, surface or polygon).
• Dynamic lighting (with shadows).
• Volumetric lighting.
• Material (ambient, diffuse, specular, alpha blending, transparent texture).
• Mip mapping.
• Animated texture support.
• Animated mesh support.
• Collision detection (sphere, cylinder or box).
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS, Lightware LWO, Quake MD2 and LucasArts 3DO objects.
• Support for Quake1 BSP world files.
• Solid fill, texture mapping (affine or perspective corrected), enviroment mapping, bump mapping, 2D sprites.
• Sub-pixel and sub-texel accuracy.
• Bilinear filtering.
• Alpha blending.
• Z-buffer.
• Transparent texture.
• Filters: smooth, bilinear antialiasing, blur motion.
• 256 color, 15/16bit highcolor and 24/32bit true color modes.
• Support for OpenGL, Direct3D and software rendering
• Scene graph support
• Mirrors and portals
• Particle and special effects system
• Written in C/ASM.

More information, screenshots and demos can be found on the Legus 3D Homepage.

22.12.1999 Power Render

09.09.1996

PR is a high performance 32-bit rendering engine for PC's by Chris Egerter (egerter@egerter.com), the author of the WordUp Graphics Toolkit.

• Perspective texture mapping with gouraud and phong shading.
• Environment mapping for all texture rendering modes.
• Support for hardware bump-mapping
• Multiple light sources.
• Real-time shadows
• 3D Sprites, with smoke, glow, translucency, shading and other lighting effects.
• 32 bit radix sort with Painter's sorting.
• Span buffering.
• Portal engine with realtime rotating mirrors and TV screens.
• Support for stencil buffer
• Motion blur and anti-aliasing.
• Supports linear 320x200x256 (0x13) and all SVGA modes.
• High Level C API with low level hand optimized assembly.
• Hierarchical object management with real-time object morphing and bending.
• Character animation and particle scripting system.
• Particle systems.
• Viewport control allows for multiple views and changing the viewport size on the fly.
• Import for 3D Studio 3DS,Lightwave LWO and LWS files.
• Keyframe animation playback of both 3DS and Lightwave scenes.
• Support for 3DS Character Studio.
• Assign materials and texture data for each individual polygon.
• MIP-mapping and material changes based on polygon distance.
• Polytype collision detection.
• Landscape Studio editor now has support for alpha fogging, sky boxes, and animated character or particle placement.
• Compiler Support: Watcom C/C++ and MSVC.
• Uses WGT 5.1/WGT95 for basic graphics functions. Support for DosGlide, DirectDraw software rendering, WinGlide, Direct3D (7.0 ) and OpenGL.
• Native 3Dfx support through Glide and 3Dfx Voodoo Rush support.
• 3D MAX glasses support.

More information and a demo on the Power Render Homepage.

13.09.1999 Tiny Java 3D Engine

13.09.1999

The TJ3D is a 3D engine for Java from Jorge Cabezas Garcia ( jorgecabezas@altavista.ne ).

• Texture mapping
• Sub- pixel/texel accuracy
• Phong shading via environment mapping
• Motion blur
• Oversampling antialiasing and simple blur antialiasing
• 3DS MAX 2.x export plugin

More information, the applet and the source can be found on the Tiny Java 3D Engine 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 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

06.05.1999 SGE 3D

06.05.1997

SGE 3D is a 3D engine for PCs from Michael Janney (jazzvibe@snakebite.com) aka 'Jazzvibe'.

• Shaded, perspective texture mapping.
• Bilinear texture filtering.
• Z-buffer, tree sorting, BSP or span-buffer rendering.
• 32 bit textures.
• 32 bit interal rendering, 16 or 24 bit output conversion.
• Material support.
• Hierarchical objects.
• Lens-flares, motion blur and haze effects.
• 100 % ASM code.

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

29.01.1999 Visualization ToolKit

29.01.1999

The Visualization ToolKit (vtk) is an open source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing, and visualization.

• Perspective, gouraud shaded texture mapping
• Volume rendering
• Support for nearly every Unix-based platform and PC's (Windows NT and Windows95)
• Hardware rendering support for OpenGL, Starbase, XGL
• Transparency
• Multiple lights
• Stereo rendering (red/blue or crystal eyes)
• Motion and focal blur
• Support for many 3d formats including 3D Studio 3ds and Wavefront obj.
• Many modelling primitives
• Support for C++, Tcl, Java and Python
• C++ source with object-oriented design
• Extensive documentation, there is also a book about the Visualization ToolKit.

More information, documentation and the toolkit itself can be found on The Visualization Toolkit 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.

15.01.1999 SurRender

01.01.1995

SR is a commercial visualization class library from Hybrit Ltd (surrender@hybrid.org).

• Open architecture, with source code supplied.
• Scene graph support.
• Cross-platform compatibility, fully portable across various operating systems and hardware platforms. Support for proprietary software rendering, Direct3D, OpenGL, 3Dfx Glide, NEC PowerSGL, P3D HAL, Rendition RRedline and Matrox MSI95.
• Support for Windows 95/98/NT,older ports exist for Linux and Irix.
• Material support.
• Multiple light sources with a realistic lighting model.
• Advanced rendering with automatic multi-pass operation where required.
• LOD support.
• Complete hierarchy support for all objects, cameras and lights.
• MIP-mapping.
• Various 8/15/16/24/32 bit image formats supported.
• Easy mesh animation and morphing.
• Easy bitmap/billboard objects and 3D sprites.
• Sub-pixel accuracy for texture mapping.
• Lens-flare, lens reflection, smoke and glow special effects.
• Z-buffer rendering.
• Filtering and real-time image post-processing.
• Motion blur and anti-aliasing.
• Stereoscopic rendering.
• Support for 3D Studio .max and Lightwave .lwo objects.
• Support for multithreading and multiprocessor systems
• C++ API.

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

17.11.1998 3D-Mesh-Viewer

17.11.1998

3DMV is a PC 3D engine from Timothy S. Bowers ( tsb@icon.co.za ).

• Unshaded, perspective texture mapping
• Gouraud shading
• Phong shading (via environment mapping)
• Wire frame rendering
• Support for 3D Studio ASC files.
• Motion blur.
• Pascal source.

More information, screenshots and the source can be found via the Homepage of Timothy S. Bowers.

22.10.1997 3D Engine (Link Problems!)

13.08.1996

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

• Perspective, shaded texture-mapping.
• Flat, gouraud, phong and bump lightning.
• Environment mapping.
• Z-buffer rendering.
• Multiple RGB light sources.
• Lens-flares.
• 24bit internal rendering, 8 to 24 bit output.
• Simple motion blur.
• Multiple objects.
• 2D clipping.
• Support for portal and BSP rendering.
• Support for 3D Studio ASC, GEO and GEM object files.
• C++ source with some ASM extensions.

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

18.08.1997 Vector Engine

18.08.1997

Vector Engine is a 3D engine for PCs by Matthew Pearson (amnesia@bridge.net).

• Unshaded affine texture mapping.
• Environment mapping.
• Wireframe, flat shading and gouraud shading.
• Motion blur.
• Movable light source.

Screenshots and a demo can be found on the Homepage of Matthew Pearson.

15.08.1997 SMEG 3D

15.08.1997

SMEG 3D is a 3D engine for PCs by 'Gedge' ( gedge@eh.u-net.com ).

• Unshaded affine texture mapping.
• Wireframe, flat shading, gouraud and phong shading (via environment mapping) and environment mapping.
• Z-Sorting.
• Simple motion blur.

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

09.01.1997 MPhong

13.08.1996

MPhong is a PC demo from Rex Deathstar (deathstr@singnet.com.sg).

• Transparent phong environment mapping.
• Motion blur.
• C++/ASM source.

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

20.08.1996 WordUp Graphics Toolkit

14.06.1995

WGT is a graphics library for PCs by Chris Egerter (egerter@egerter.com). Beside a 3D engine, the 10 libraries offers sprite animation, 3d math, drop-down menus, scrolling engine, joystick commands, FLI/FLC animation routines, file selector, serial communications and a 32-bit protected mode digital sound system for playing music and mixing sound effects real-time.

• DOS, VESA SVGA, Windows 95 with DirectX and OS/2 support
• Perspective texturemapping with gouraud and phong shading.
• Translucent polygons.
• Motion blur.
• No z-buffer or BSP, only polygon sorting.
• Direct 3DS file format support.
• 400 page printed manual.

A demo of the library can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi . The wgt directory also contains 3 tutorials with source for linear texturemapped polygons and other interesting stuff like landscape rendering and texturemapped phong shading.
More information, demos and tutorials on the Egerter Software Homepage.

19.07.1996 Deskent

25.03.1996

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

• Perspective, shaded texture-mapping.
• BSP tree.
• Collision detection.
• Portal rendering.
• Motion blur and glow.
• Polygon mesh objects.
• Moving lightsources with point and spot iillumination models.
• Phong, Gouraud and flat shading, environment mapping.
• Any VGA or VBE 2.0 resolution.
• Reads Descent levels, 3DS meshes and Quake's models.
• C++ with only few hundred lines of 80386 asm, could be easily ported to other platform.
• No moving objects yet.

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

11.04.1996 Sanction

21.06.1995

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

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

More information and some demos on the Sanction S3DE Homepage.

11.12.1995 Dope

01.01.1995

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

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

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

30.06.1997 Scorpion

30.06.1997

Scorpion is a 3D engine for the Acorn Platform from Stuart Lovegrove ( stu@scs.leeds.ac.uk ).

• Gouraud, flat and wireframe rendering.
• Transparency.
• Multiple moving point light sources.
• Support for 16 and 24 bit color.
• 3D primtive objects.
• Resolution independant.
• Motion blurr.
• Written in C++/Assembler, C++ api.

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

04.09.1995 Retarded Vectors

12.06.1995

The RV package contains a wireframe engine by Jon Beltran de Heredia (jtabeolj@bi.ehu.es) aka Yann from Iguana.

• ASM for all PCs.
• 3D projection.
• Fixed point math.
• Motion blur.

The source can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi . More info in the Retarded Vectors Readme.