3D Engines List Network support This list contains 35 network support engines.

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 .

11.02.2000 Blaxxun Contact 3D

11.02.2000

Blaxxun Contact 3D is an OpenSource VRML 97 Viewer from Blaxxun Interactive.

• Support for OpenGL and Direct3D
• VRML 97 and VRML 2_0 EAI support, Javascript support
• Streaming Video support
• Trimmed NURBS extension
• MIP-mapping and trilinear texture filtering
• Sorted alpha blended transparency
• Anti-Aliasing
• Scene graph support
• Collision detection
• 3D sound
• BSP tree support
• ActiveX Control and standalone Version
• VRML node editor in the standalone GLview application
• C++ source with Documentation

More information about the Blaxxun Contact 3D Viewer can be found on the Blaxxun Contact Developers Homepage, the source and documentation can be found on the Blaxxun Contact 3D Source Homepage.

08.02.2000 Ram Raider

07.06.1999

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

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

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

08.02.2000 LightSpeed 3D

08.02.2000

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

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

More information can be found on the LightSpeed Homepage.

04.02.2000 GEL

04.02.2000

GEL is an open source virtual reality system from UR Studios, 7F Research, Qube, Headlamp, ParallelGraphics, Mutation Labs and other contributors.

• Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping
• Adaptive nurbs tesselation
• Network support
• Scene graph support
• Support for DirectX and OpenGL
• Currently support platforms are: Windows NT/ 98 / 2000
• Portable C++ source

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

23.12.1999 Quake 1

23.12.1999

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

• Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
• Transparency and alpha textures
• Support for OpenGL
• BSP and PVS support
• Surface caching
• Hierarchical polygonal models
• Particle systems
• Collision detection
• Dynamic lights
• Multiplayer network support
• Sound support
• Console
• The C/ASM source for Visual C++ 6 is under GPL (gnu public license)

The source is available at the Q1 Source Download Homepage.

23.12.1999 Golk

23.12.1999

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

• Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
• Support for OpenGL (dynamic loading, compiled vertex arrays)
• Animated textures
• Curved surfaces
• Collision detection
• Q3A BSP support
• Point based particle system
• Shader script support
• M3D model support
• BMP/DIB, GIF, JPG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIFF texture support
• 3D sound support (EAX)
• DirectSound and DirectInput support
• TCP/IP networking
• 3DNow! and ISSE optimization

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

22.12.1999 Jet 3D

22.12.1999

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

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

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

22.12.1999 Golgatha

17.11.1998

Golgatha is a 3D game engine from Crack dot Com. Crack dot Com left business and decided to release the source of their game that has been in development for more than 2 years.

• Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping
• Texture filtering
• Landscape rendering
• Using a single portable rendering API, support for 3dfx's Glide, partial support for Microsoft's Direct3d, software rendering using Span Buffering, and very partial OpenGl support
• DirectSound, Direct 3d sound, Aureal 3d sound, and partial Linux sound support.
• Support for Win95, Win98, and WinNT and Linux
• Plugin for 3D Studio Max for geometry im/export
• Game editor
• Portable TCP networking code, supporting UDP and TCP
• A LISP interpreter with threaded garbage collection
• Portable GUI system, with a window manager, support for dialog boxes, buttons, browse trees, pull down menu, context menus, scroll bars, sliders, dividers, list boxes, text input, status indicators, and context sensitive help
• Image loaders & savers for Jpeg, FLI, PCX, TGA, BMP
• Image histograms & quantization
• Sound loaders for WAV and MP3
• Hand crafted assembly language optimizations for pentiums, and k6-3d
• C/ASM source.

More information, screenshots and the complete sources (even game data, music and textures) can be found on the Golgatha 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.

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.

17.09.1999 SMF3D DeepEllum 3D Engine

17.09.1999

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

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

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

15.09.1999 A4-Engine

15.09.1999

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

• Lightmapped perspective texturemapping
• 3D and 2D views
• Mip mapping
• Flat shading, gouraud shading and shadow mapping
• Texture caching system
• Portal and BSP visibility system
• Software and D3D renderer
• Fog, translucency, flares
• Sky rendering system using multi-layer animation
• Bitmap particle system
• Static and dynamic colored light sources
• 3D sprites and 3D models
• MAP and MDL format import
• 3D sound system
• Collision detection
• 2D sprite support for overlays etc.
• AVI and CD player
• Scripting language
• Multi-user mode via split screen, modem, network, or Internet

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

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.

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.

07.07.1999 MythOS

22.07.1997

MythOS is a (former commercial) OpenSource 3D library from Charybdis Enterprises done by Chuck Walbourn (chuck@charybdis.com).

• Perspective texture mapping.
• Gouraud shading.
• Z-buffer rendering.
• Hierarchical objects.
• Support for 8 and 15 bit devices with Windows 95.
• Support for 3D Studio object files, cameras, lights and materials.
• Network support.
• C++ class library.

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

12.01.1999 Java3D

12.01.1999

The Java 3DTM 1.1 API is a set of classes for writing three-dimensional graphics applications and 3D applets from Sun Microsystems.

• Uses OpenGL as rendering core, DirectX and QuickDraw3D versions will be available
• 2 and 3D textures, MIP-mapping
• Scene graph management
• Collision detection
• Interpolators
• Support for geometry compression
• LOD management
• Hierarchical objects
• 3D audio support
• 6 DOF input device support
• Behavior modeling
• Network support
• Support for Windows NT/95 or Solaris SPARC.
• Java API

More information, the library and documentaion can be found on the Java 3D Homepage.

27.10.1998 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 .

08.09.1998 Obsidian

08.09.1998

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

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

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

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.

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.

04.03.1998 NetImmerse

21.07.1997

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

• Full C++ Source Code, no royalties.
• Drivers for Direct3D Immediate Mode, OpenGL and Glide
• Level of Detail (LOD) management.
• Portals Module
• Continuous LOD Terrain Module
• Support for BSP and ZBuffer rendering.
• RSX based spatialized 3D sound support
• Collision detection (Oriented Bounding Box technology)
• Support for 3D Studio MAX R2 (Integrated MAX Plugin support for animation, paths and particles) and 3DS, Multigen OpenFlight, and VRML 1.0.

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

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.

16.06.1997 Engine Zero

16.06.1997

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

• Perspective texture mapping.
• Flat shading using surface cache.
• Animated textures.
• Depth cueing and fogging.
• BSP rendering.
• SVGA support.
• Script based behavior model.
• Collision detection.
• Sprites.
• Network support, client/server system.
• Sound support.
• BSP compiler with support for 3D Studio 3DS import.

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

06.05.1997 World Toolkit

01.01.1995

WTK is a commercial, portable, cross-platform software development system for building high-performance, real-time, integrated 3D applications for scientific and commercial use from Sense 8 Corporation.

• Shaded, perspective texture mapping.
• Z-buffer rendering.
• Multiple viewport and lightsources, 3D paths, portals, 2D texts and shapes, object animations.
• Supports user-defined drawing routines
• Multi-processing/multi-pipeline support
• Support for Windows 95 (Direct 3D), Windows NT (OpenGL), Sun, Silicon Graphics, Evans & Sutherland Freedom Series, Hewlett-Packard, and DEC.
• High level scene management such as hierarchical object culling, efficient use of transform information and level-of-detail switching.
• Support for many I/O devices like HMDs, shutter glasses, 3D trackers, gloves and 3D audio systems.
• Support for VRML, 3D Studio, Pro Engineer, Multigen and Wavefront files.
• Network support.
• C/C++ API.
• Sense 8 also provides a 3D Editor (World Up) based on WTK.

More information on the Sense 8.

17.03.1997 ZEUS (Link Problems!)

11.11.1996

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

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

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

18.02.1997 Textmap

29.11.1996

Textmap is a polygon 3D engine from Helge Förster ( hfoe0127@rz.uni-hildesheim.de ).

• Perspective-correct, depthcued texture mapping on walls, floors and ceilings.
• Animated sprite objects.
• 2D Snow and smear effects.
• Sector lighting.
• 2D and 3D sky mapping.
• Interlace output.
• Sound support.
• Networking support.
• Support for DOS, should also run unter Windows 3.1 / 95.

The demo can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi . More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the 3D Programming Homepage.
On the first glance it seems to be enhanced wolfenstein engine with floor, ceiling and sky mapping, but internally it uses perspective, texturemapped, depthcued polygons and no 2D raycasting (use 'd' to show a rotateble texturemapped - polygon) .

16.11.1995 Amber (Link Problems!)

16.11.1995

Amber is a set of C++ classes from DIVE Laboratories Inc. Amber enable developers to create complex distributed virtual environments on multiple platforms.

• Windows 3.1/95 support (using 3DR or RealityLab ), SGI, DOS/Windows with Creative 3DBlaster and Sun running Solaris with X11-Windows.
• File support for NFF, WRL and TGA.
• Hardware support for 5DT Glove, VIO HMD.
• Physical properties and behavior modeling.
• Distributed interactive simulation (DIS) and multi-user system support using windows sockets and TCP/IP.
• Add on modules like special fx, atmospheric fx, agents, inverse kinematics, morphing...

More infomation, demos and a shareware version can be found on the Amber Homepage.

06.11.1995 SuperScape

01.01.1995

Superscape is a commercial PC based single user VR system manufactued by Dimension International Ltd.

• World, object, texture and sound editor.
• Support for joystick and 6D spaceball controller, trackers and stereographics glasses. Sound hardware support.
• Network support.
• Script language based on C, no direct programming interface.
• Virtual Clip Art (3D clip art modells with additional properties, like sound and behaviours - like a desc calculator that acutally works)
• The new Visualiser runs on Windows environments.

More information and demos on the SuperScape Homepage.

11.01.1999 WinDoom/glDoom

11.11.1998

WinDoom and glDoom are enhanced ports of the Linux version of DOOM (released by ID Software on December 23, 1997) to Windows 95 and OpenGL from Bruce Lewis ( brucel@abraxis.com ).

• WinDoom: Support for DirectX5 (DirectDraw)
• glDoom: Support for OpenGL hardware rendering.
• Network support.
• Bugfixes.

More information, screenshots and the source and executable for WinDoom and OpenGL Doom can be found on the WinDoom/glDoom Homepage .

09.09.1996 WebView 3D

25.09.1995

WV is doom style 3d engine from Philip Stephens ( philip@galaxy.bocaraton.ibm.com).

• X11-Windows support for Solaris, SunOS, BSDI, AIX and Linux. HiColor (16 bit) support for DOS.
• Variable window size.
• Non-orthogonal walls, texturemapped floor and ceiling.
• Regions can have different light levels.
• Depth cueing.
• Dithered lighting and light cueing.
• Backdrop images.
• BSP rendering.
• Collision detection.
• 8 sided sprites.
• Networking support and network server. World Wide Web support.
• 3D chat function.
• C source with special adaptions for Intel-based machines.
• GIF and JPG texture support.
• WT- and WORLD-file to BSP converter.
• Real-time physics.

The source and more information can be found on the WebView3D Development Page.

01.09.1995 MultiVerse

01.01.1995

MV is a multi-user, non-immersive, X11-Windows based Virtual Reality system, primarily focused on entertainment. MultiVerse was written by Robert Grant (RGrant.LAX1B@Xerox.com).

• Client-Server based model, using Berkeley sockets.
• No limit to the number of users (apart from performance).
• Hierachical Objects (allowing attachment of cameras and light sources).
• Multiple light sources (ambient, point and spot).
• Objects can have extension code, to handle unique functionality, easily attached.

Source: ftp.u.washington.edu or at ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de . More info in the Multiverse Readme.

16.02.1998 FLY8

03.07.1995

The FLY8 package is a wireframe multiplayer flightsimulator from Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal@eyal.emu.id.au ).

• DOS (MsVC, Borland c, Quick C, DJGPP), Windows (3.1, 95, NT), Unix/X11-Windows (shm) and OS/2 DIVE.
• SVGA and stereo shutter glasses support.
• Landscape generation and collision detection.
• Algorithmic sky painting.
• Sound and joystick support.
• 2D vector text.
• Networking support.

Screenshots and the source are available via the Homepage of Eyal.