3D Engines List MIP-mapping This list contains 91 mip-mapping engines.

23.06.2000 TechNature Library

22.09.1999

The TechNature(tm) Library is a commercial game engine for Windows 95/98 written by David Paull( david@tanzanite.to ).

• Perspective texture mapping
• MIP mapping
• Multi-texturing
• Bump mapping
• Detail mapping
• Gouraud shading
• ZBuffer rendering
• Support for DirectX 6.0, and higher
• Spherical reflections
• Constructive solid geometry
• Collision detection
• Landscape rendering
• Mesh optimization
• Randomly generated landscape geometry
• Randomly generated tree geometry
• Fractal mathematics library
• Procedural textures ( Coriolis effect, Contour lines, Strata layers,...)
• 3D Studio MAX .ASE model loader
• Written in C and Assembly

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

12.05.2000 Eraser

12.05.2000

Eraser is a fast DOS 3D engine from Lassi Kumpula ( musamies.rave@iobox.com ).

• Unshaded, perspective texture mapping
• Mip mapping
• S-Buffer rendering
• Fake FSP tree support
• Written in Watcom C++ and Turbo Assembler

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

27.04.2000 Orion3D

27.04.2000

Orion3D is a 3D engine for Windows 95/98 from Gabriel Peyré ( nikopol0@club-internet.fr ).

• Shaded, perspective texture mapping
• Support for OpenGL
• Mip mapping
• Fog effect
• Static lights
• Hierarchical objects with animation
• Support for bmp textures
• Support for 3D Studio Max via export plugin
• C++ source for Visual Studio

More information, the OrionViewer and source to the Orion3D engine can be found on the french Orion3D 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 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 .

10.04.2000 Oxygen3D

20.07.1999

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

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

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

07.04.2000 Quake 3 Map Viewer

07.04.2000

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

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

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

04.04.2000 Basic3D

04.04.2000

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

• Lightmapped perspective texture mapping
• MIP-mapping
• Colored dynamic lights
• BSP/ZBuffer rendering
• Collision detection
• Support for OpenGL
• Polygonal objects
• Particles and sprites
• Movable BSP models
• Suport for Quake 2 data
• Suport model/animation of MD2 model

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

04.04.2000 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 Sparklight

05.08.1998

SL is a software rendering 3D engine for DOS and linux by Christian Fleischer (daydream@cs.tu-berlin.de)

• Lightmap rendering
• Perspective correction every 16 or 32 pixels, according to angle, distance and screen resolution
• Subpixel, subtexel accuracy, edge coherency
• Portal and BSP rendering
• Spanbuffer und Z-Buffer rendering
• Mip-Mapping with 3 texture-levels
• Alpha transparency
• Simple collision detection for the camera and the player with the dungeon
• Synchronized double-buffering (Linux), unsynchronized triple-buffering (DOS)
• Particle-system with gravity and collision-detection
• Particle-system with spring-connections to simulate fluttering flags
• Additive transparent particles (sprites)
• Animated texturemaps (script-controlled)
• Dynamic semi-soft shadows calculated & rendered in realtime
• Shadow-map and light-map rendering
• Moving mirrors
• Arbitrary convex frustrum (up to 16 planes)
• Script engine to control cameras, animations and movements, definitions of all animations / monsters in text-script
• Quaternions for time-scaled matrix motion
• Dolby Surround Sound Engine
• Multiple colored lights with falloff
• Written in C++

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

04.04.2000 !B

05.08.1998

!B is an isosurface based 3D engine from Florin Soreanu (florin@ica.net).

• Perspective shaded texture mapping using OpenGL.
• Mip mapping.
• Environment mapping.
• Blob rendering with Marching Cubes Algorithm.
• Surface underwater caustics.
• LOD support.
• Dynamic lighting.
• Fogging.
• Portable code.
• Written in C++, source release planned.

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

04.04.2000 Coockie's 3D Engine

20.01.1997

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

• Perspective texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• Collision detection.
• 3D BSP rendering.
• Moving objects.
• Support for 3D Studio ASC files.
• VESA 2.0 linear framebuffer support.
• Support for 3Dfx pc 3d cards using Glide.
• C/ASM source.

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

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 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

08.02.2000 RR3DChat

09.11.1999

RR3DChat is a polygonal Java 3D engine from Ralf Rosenkranz ( voltax@prima.de ).

• Shaded perspective texture mapping
• Colored lights
• Linear texture filtering
• Mip mapping
• Sprites
• Chat client

More information (in german) and the applet can be found on the RR3DChat Homepage. You can navigate in the maze by clicking on the yellow buttons.

04.02.2000 Ogopogo

04.02.2000

Ogopogo is a 3D engine for DOS from Christian Lange ( clange@nybro.dk ).

• Perspective, shaded texture mapping
• Lambert, gouraud and phong shading
• Bilinear filtering
• MIP mapping
• Z-Buffer
• Support for 3D Studio ASC and 3DS
• 24 bit rendering
• C++ source

More information, the executable and source can be found on the Ogopogo 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.

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 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.

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.

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 .

18.10.1999 NBFB

13.10.1999

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

• Full API with over 300 modular functions
• Perspective correct, fullz assemblz pipelined software renderers with mid scanline mipmapping
• Support for OpenGL and 3DFX rendering
• BSP rendering
• Lightmap rendering, chrome mapping
• Z-Buffer rendering
• Dynamic lightmap lights
• Spherical volumetric fog
• Hierarchical models
• Skeletal skinned mesh and skeletal animation system
• Pixel perfect ray cast collision for BSP and objects
• Sperical collision functionality for BSPs
• Realtime level of detail on objects using Garland approach
• Multiple camera support
• Morphing system
• Cartoon rendering

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

18.10.1999 DDJ: RaveKit

15.07.1997

RaveKit is a portable 3D framework by Mark Carolan presented in Dr. Dobb's Journal July 1997 .

• Uses QuickDraw 3D RAVE library.
• Support for Windows 95 (DirectDraw) and Mac.
• Perspective texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping
• Z-buffer and z-sort rendering.
• C++ source.

The source (for Mac and Windows including the RAVE library) can be found on ftp.ddj.com.

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.

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.

08.08.1999 Adamantium

08.08.1999

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

• Support for OpenGL
• Z-Buffer and BSP rendering
• Collision detection
• MIP mapping
• Colored dynamic lights
• Polygonal objects and 2D sprites
• Support for Quake 2 scene files
• Physics system
• Source code available

More information can be found via the Revenant Homepage

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.

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

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.

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 .

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.

25.01.1999 Soul Port

05.10.1998

Soul Port is a 3D engine for Windows from Engin Cilasun ( ecilasun@chip.com.tr ).

• Unlit perspective texture mapping.
• True bilinear texture mapping thru software.
• MIP-mapping, palettized textures.
• Subpixel correction.
• Skeletal animation system
• Water effect.
• Custom 3D editor.
• 16 bit color rendering.
• Supports RGB textures at a fixed size (256x256 pixels)
• Support for DirectDraw, PC 3D card support via OpenGL.
• Written in Visual C++ and ASM.

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

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

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.

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 VisKit

27.10.1998

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

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

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

27.10.1998 JTGame

10.11.1997

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

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

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

23.10.1998 NimbusVR

09.03.1998

NVR is a 3D engine for Mac computers from Adam Coates ( hawking@neteze.com ).

• Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• Bump-mapping.
• Z-buffer rendering.
• Masked textures.
• Alpha maps and transparencies.
• Depth-cueing.
• Meshed vertices.
• Rotoscoping.
• Support for QuickDraw.
• Written in C++.

More information, screenshots, a tutorial and a demo can be found via the Hawking's 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.

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.

23.07.1998 Dan Azzopardi's 3D Engine

23.07.1998

DA3D is a 3d engine demo for 3DFX Voodoo graphics hardware on Windows 95 from Dan Azzopardi ( D.E.Azzopardi@qmw.ac.uk ).

• Uses Glide API for rendering.
• Z-Buffer rendering.
• Mip-mapping.
• Multiple lights.
• Reflection mapping.

More information, screenshots and the executable can be found on the Dan Azzopardi's 3D Engine 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.

21.07.1998 Magician

12.03.1998

Magician is a commercial set of Java classes from Arcane Technologies Ltd. that implement a Java interface to OpenGL

• Support for all OpenGL 1.1 GL and GLU calls. Many features of Aux and GLUT have also been translated to work within a Java environment
• Built-in, easy-to-use multiple simultaneous view support.
• Multi-threaded rendering.
• Support for direct OpenGL calls or polymorphic methods.
• Built-in OpenGL tracing and profiling support that is runtime switchable.
• Native library (that interfaces the OpenGL-driver) available for Linux, Sgi, Windows 95/NT, Solaris and AIX.
• Support for the Apple Macintosh, BeOS and OS/2 is currently undergoing testing.
• Over 70 demos available with full source code.
• Free runtime license, commercial runtime licens available.

Free evaluation downloads are available. Personal and commercial runtime and source licences are available for purchasing.

More information, screenshots, demos and the libraries can be found on the Magician Homepage.

21.07.1998 PIRACE

29.01.1996

PIRACE ( Platform Independent Rendering And Calculation Engine ) is the follow up to MEGR (multi purpose engine for graphics rendering), a 3D engine for PCs by Ben Constable (benc@cse.unsw.edu.au).

• Linear, shaded texture mapping.
• Gouraud and flat shading.
• Windows 95/NT support.
• Mipmapping.
• Reflection mapping.
• Transparency.
• Advanced palette management.
• DirectDraw rendering.
• Z-buffering.
• Multiple lights and different light types.
• Hierarchical objects.
• Proprietry format, converters from imagine and lightwave.
• Written in ANSI C++ using STL.

More information and demos can be found on the PIRACE Homepage.

08.06.1998 PortalRend

15.12.1997

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

• Shaded perspective texture mapping.
• Imporved lightmap rendering of multiple dynamic, colored lightsources with accurate realtime shadows.
• Radiosity.
• Twopass rendering.
• Portal rendering.
• Moving objects cast moving shadows.
• Collision detection.
• MIP-mapping.
• Particle systems.
• Negative and positive quake like brushes to ease level design.
• Support for 3DFX's opengl32.dll on Windows 95.
• Support for multi-texturing on Voodoo2.

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

08.06.1998 HAWK

12.03.1998

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

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

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

08.06.1998 3D Game Machine

01.01.1995

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

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

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

06.05.1998 Tremor

06.05.1998

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

• Lightmapped perspective texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• Surface caching.
• PVS (Potential Visibility Set) pre-computation.
• Texture animation.
• BSP tree and z-buffer rendering.
• Dynamic objects.
• Collision detection.
• Sound support.
• Network support.
• Support for X11 windows.
• Written in C.

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

05.05.1998 Virtuosys II

05.05.1998

Virtuosys II is a 3D engine for DOS from Somogyi Balázs ( sb_remal@arrabonet.gyor.hu ).

• Lightmapped perspective texture mapping.
• Sub-pixel and sub-texel accuracy.
• MIP-mapping.
• Radiosity for Global Illumination.
• Gouraud (Z Depth) Shading.
• Surface caching.
• Animated Textures.
• BSP tree and s-buffer rendering.
• Multiple light sources.
• Dynamic (moveable, rotated, morphable) objects.
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS files including material and keyframe data.
• Collision detection.
• VESA 2.0 support.
• Written in ASM.

More information, screenshots and demos can be found on the Virtuosys II Homepage.

05.05.1998 Arfnold

05.05.1998

Arfnold is a 3D engine for PCs by Andrei Fortuna ( andreif@mail.dntis.ro ) aka 'Stormbringer'.

• Unshaded, perspective texture mapping.
• Subtexel/subpixel accuracy.
• MIP-mapping.
• A basic surface cache (no lightning for now, but there is in old versions).
• Conversion of Quake .mdl files.
• BSP/PVS capabilities.
• Edge span-buffer and z-buffer rendering.
• Collision detection.
• Moving platforms.
• 3D objects.
• Particle system.
• Uses Allegro Game library.
• C/C++/ASM source.

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

30.03.1998 Portal Engine

30.03.1998

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

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

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

16.03.1998 zEditor

14.02.1997

zEditor is a 3D engine for Windows 95 by Dan Royer (aggravated@bigfoot.com) and Tauno Taipaleenmaki (tataipal@mail.student.oulu.fi)

• DLLs provide support for hardware acceleration. Planned are Glide, OpenGL and Direct3D support.
• Perspective shaded texture mapping, solid fill and wireframe rendering with 0 overdraw.
• MIP-mapped textures.
• 6 degrees of freedom and true 3D BSPs.
• CSG operations and a tree display of brushes and sub-brushes for easy manipulation.
• Written in C/ASM.

More information, demos, screenshots, updates and tutorials can be found via the Homepage of Dan Royer.

12.03.1998 Flyby

14.10.1997

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

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

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

11.03.1998 Shark 3D Library

07.10.1997

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

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

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

10.03.1998 Continuous LOD Terrain Renderer

10.03.1998

CLTR is a 3D polygonal landscape engine for Windows 95 / NT from Bjoern Stensrud.

• Perspective, gouraud shaded texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• Fogging.
• Real-time, continuous level of detail polygon rendering.
• View frustrum clipping.
• Support for DEM terrain data.
• Adjustable water level.
• Sky texture mapping.
• Support for OpenGL on Windows 95/NT.

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the Continuous LOD Terrain Renderer Homepage.

09.03.1998 Venom

09.03.1998

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

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

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

04.03.1998 Planet Of War

10.11.1997

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

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

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

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.

12.02.1998 VNE Engine

12.02.1998

VNE Engine is a commercial 3D engine for PCs by Gamimedes.

• Perspective, gouraud shaded texture mapping.
• Transpaceny and translucency.
• MIP-mapping.
• Z-Buffer rendering.
• Multiple colored light sources.
• Support for TGA, PCX and BMP texture files.
• Support for Quake level files.
• Support for SVGA.
• Sound support.

More information, screenshots and demoscan be found on the Ganimedes 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.

22.11.1997 CLIFF

03.11.1997

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

• Shaded, perspective texture mapping.
• SVGA support.
• MIP-mapping.
• Lightmap rendering.
• BSP rendering, visibility lists, edge-sorting.
• Collision detection.
• Physics system.
• Support for Quake level files.
• CLIFF-shell - a shell mechanism (similar to Quake's console).
• Animated textures.

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

14.11.1997 Sofie

14.11.1997

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

• Perspective, non-shaded texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• BSP rendering.
• Multiple objects with physics (Mass, velocity...).
• Collision detection.
• 2D sprites (for explosions).
• Support for X11-Windows (with MIT-Shm-Extension) on Linux.
• Support for 8 and 16 bit color.
• Joystick support.
• C++ source.

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

03.11.1997 Direct3D Samples

03.11.1997

The D3DS are sample programms using the Direct3D API for Windows 95 by Microsoft Corporation.

• Lens-flares. (Currently not available)
• Fogging.
• 3D game using DirectInput
• MIP-map texture rendering. (Currently not available)
• Billboard rendering. (Currently not available)
• 3D sound
• C++ source.

More information, the source and binaries can be found on the DirectX Samples Homepage .

22.10.1997 EGLE

15.08.1997

EGLE ( Enhanced OpenGl Engine ) is a 3D game engine by Phil Frisbie ( pfrisbie@geocities.com ).

• Perspective texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• BSP, Z-Buffer and z-sorting rendering.
• Anti-aliasing.
• 32 bit color support (RGBA).
• Collision detection.
• Uses OpenGL API (Mesa/3DFx) .
• Support for Quake level files.
• ANSI C, no C++ or Windows specific code. EGLE should compile on any system that has OpenGL and GLUT.

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

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.

02.09.1997 CyberGL

02.09.1997

CyberGL is a 2D/3D graphics AMIGA shared library whose API is a subset of the OpenGL API from Phase 5 Digital Product.

• Shaded perspective texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• Gouraud and flat shading.
• Wireframe rendering.
• Anti-aliasing.
• Material support.
• Spot, point and directional lights.
• Support for 8bit or less and 15,16 and 24 bit color.
• Support for 68020/30/40/60 and FPU.

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

30.06.1997 3D System

13.03.1997

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

• Perspective, phong-shaded texture-mapping.
• Flat, gouraud and phong shading.
• Environment mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• Z-buffer rendering or z sorting.
• Bezier patch rendering.
• Support for 3D Studio ASC, VED, GEO, 3DO, and 3D2 object files.
• 3D frustrum clipping.
• Arbitrarily sized textures.
• Multiple light sources.
• Shadow rendering.
• Written in C/ASM.

Many tutorials about 3D programming, demos and screenshots can be found on the Tom Hammersleys Graphics Coding Page.

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.

17.02.1997 VEX (Link Problem!)

19.08.1996

The VEX 3D engine is a PC rendering engine by Petr Sebor (sheltem@kolej.mff.cuni.cz) aka 'Sheltem' of Digital Magic.

• Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• Surface caching.
• Entity z-buffer rendering.
• Portals.
• Mirrors.
• Polygonal objects.
• Real Physics.
• CSG level editor & builder.
• DOS and SVGA (VESA 2.0) support.

More information and pictures can be found on the Digital Magic Homepage.

30.12.1996 Midpoint Algorithm Paper

30.12.1996

The Midpoint Algorithm Paper by John Mears (john.mears@oxinst.co.uk ) describes a technique for perspective texture mapping.

• Perspective texture mapping with MIP-mapping.
• C++/ASM Sources for DOS.
• Very long documentation about the algorithm.

The documentation and sources can be found on the Midpoint Algorithm Homepage.

29.11.1996 UVision

22.05.1996

UVision is a commercial 3D engine from Utopia Technologies.

• Six degrees of freedom.
• Fast Phong shaded, perspective texture mapped polygons.
• Multiple, movable cameras and view ports.
• Multiple, realtime movable light sources (point and spotlight).
• Support for multiple resolutions and color depth up to 65,536 colors .
• Surface attributes - sticky, slippery, bouncy, surface forces +++ .
• Colored light sources.
• Chrome mapping.
• Realtime shadows (coming very soon) .
• Polyon features: animated textures, screendoor opacity, edge smoothing, MIP-mapping, bump mapping, z-buffering, gouraud and fast phong shading.
• Advanced forward kinematics simulation of rigid body motion/dynamically customizable environment (gravity, wind, air/surface friction).
• Analytic collision detection and resolution with dynamic environment.
• Realtime dynamic constraint solver.
• Multi-joint inverse kinematic simulation .
• Hierarchical, linked models .
• 3D model scaling and deformation effects.
• Multiple instancing of objects and hierarchies .
• Fog/darkness depth cuing.
• Support for Stereoscopic capability.
• Networking features (coming soon).
• 3D sound effects.
• Weather effects.
• SVGA (VESA) linear framebuffer support for the PC and soon support for the Playstation.
• High-color rendering.
• Support for graphics accelerator cards.

More information on the Utopia Technologies Homepage.

19.11.1996 Cancun

15.07.1996

Cancun is a commercial 3D engine from Michael Case (mcase@digitald.com), Digital Dialect.

• Perspective texture mapping with gouraud shading.
• Sloping walls, full 6-degrees of freedom.
• MIP-mapping.
• Polygonal objects.
• Direct3D support, Windows 95/NT.
• Environment building tool.
• 3DS scene and animation support.

More information and a demo on the Digit Dialect Homepage.

16.07.1996 work in progress

06.11.1995

A 3d engine from Geoff Howland (bliss32@value.net).

• Perspective correct texture-mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• Gouraud shading.

01.01.1995 work in progress

01.01.1995

From Mike Field (mafield@ibm.net).

• C++/C.
• Texture mapping, with MIP-mapping.
• Distant, point and spot lights.
• Script language for shapes, lighting and camera positions.
• Linux and DOS support.

10.02.1997 3D Engine

10.02.1997

3D Engine is a 3D game engine for Macintosh computers from Steve Israelson (steve_israelson@mindlink.net)

• Non orthogonal walls.
• 256x256 textures with MIP-mapping.
• Moving platforms.
• Dynamic lighting.
• Depth cueing.
• Sprites.
• Map editor available.

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

17.09.1998 UltraVox

17.09.1998

UltraVox is a real-time landscape renderer for SGI from Serge Grandjean ( serge@trix.be ).

• Perspective texture mapping using OpenGL.
• Landscape tiled databases.
• Mip-Mapping.
• Geometry bi-linear interpolation.
• Vertical raycasting.
• Panorama backgrounds / sky mapping.
• Pitch, yaw and roll camera rotation.
• Fogging.
• Written in C/C++.

More information and the executable can be found on the UltraVox Homepage.