| 23.06.2000 TechNature Library | 22.09.1999 |
- 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
| 27.04.2000 Titan Engine | 27.04.2000 |
- Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
- Support for OpenGL
- Curved surfaces
- BSP rendering
- Support for 3D Studio 3DS files
- Support for Quake3 bsp files
- Real-time skeleton deformations
- Dynamic mesh resolution
- Keyframed animations
- Support for shader script language which allows procedural vertex deformations and multiple texturing stages, with different blending modes and rendering states
- Port to linux is beeing done
| 27.04.2000 Experience Engine | 27.04.2000 |
- Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
- Multi-textureing (Bump, detail and diffuse textures)
- Cube enironment mapping
- Support for texture compression
- Transparency
- Support for hardware transformation and lighting
- Automatic tessellation of NURBS objects with full UV support
- Bones/Cluster-based animation (single-mesh)
- Hierarchical animation (multi-mesh)
- Per-vertex color (can affect textures) and per-vertex transparency
- Surface material support
- Vertex lighting (8 most important lights per vertex using T&L hardware)
- Different light types (point, spot, directional, ambient)
- 3D sound
- Special effects (lightning, sparcs, rain, dynamic day/night changes, moving clouds)
- Particle effects (for smoke, fire, water and other vapor and magical effects)
- Real-time geometry warping (for extremely realistic water)
- Dynamic scene culling
- Export from Alias Power Animator or Maya
| 12.04.2000 Blitz Engine | 05.10.1998 |
- 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)
| 12.04.2000 Fly3D | 04.08.1998 |
- Single front-end app supporting OpenGL (1.1) / Direct3D (DirextX 6.1) windowed / full-screen
- Editor for .fly files with realtime preview in windows explorer style
- Support for plugin dlls (make new games just writing new plugins)
- Visual C++ wizard for making fly3d plugins
- Perspective shaded texture mapping
- Static and dynamic lightmaps
- Dynamic shadows and soft-shadows, dynamic lightmap shadows
- Stencil buffer shadows support
- Dynamic volumetric fog with fogmaps
- Detail textures
- Curved bezier extrudes and lofts with lightmaps
- BSP/PSV rendering
- Transparency
- Volumetric fog using fogmaps
- Cartoon rendering
- Faster collision detection
- Adaptative subdivided bezier surfaces (extrude and loft)
- Multiplayer support
- Server frontend for client/server multiplayer
- Client/server playable deathmatch demo
- 3D sound support
- Lighting tool for static level lighting
- PVS tool for computing visibility
- 3DS MAX bsp import/export, texture mapping and landscape object plugins
- Fly3d plugins (jumppads, fogsphere, fogbox, ...) and sample level (q3test2 clone)
- Quake2 level converter
- Quake3 level import utility (geometry, textures and curved surfaces)
- Data files packing
- Particle systems
- Console window, also for server frontend
- Written in C++ (Visual C++ 5.0)
- Complete SDK with source code for all demo plugins
The engine will be featured in the book 3D Computer Game Technology - Theory and Practice from Alan Watt and Fabio Policarpo (Addion Wesley).
| 10.04.2000 Oxygen3D | 20.07.1999 |
- 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++
| 07.04.2000 Quake 3 Map Viewer | 07.04.2000 |
- 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
| 11.02.2000 Blaxxun Contact 3D | 11.02.2000 |
- 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
| 04.02.2000 GEL | 04.02.2000 |
- 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
| 02.02.2000 Grain Engine | 02.02.2000 |
- Lightmapped perspective texture mapping
- Static RGB Lightmaps
- Real-time LOD bezier surfaces
- Octree-Enhanced collision detection
- Sprites, Fonts, Special Effects
- Direct X 7.0 Support (Plugin Architecture)
| 02.02.2000 OpenGL | 06.09.1995 |
OpenGL provides a wide range of graphics functions: from rendering a simple geometric point, line, or filled polygon, to texture mapping NURBS curved surfaces.
- Geometric primitives (points, lines, and polygons)
- Raster primitives (bitmaps and pixel rectangles)
- RGBA or color index mode
- Display list or immediate mode
- Viewing and modeling transformations
- Hidden Surface Removal (depth buffer)
- Alpha Blending (transparency)
- Antialiasing
- Texture Mapping
- Atmospheric Effects (fog, smoke, and haze)
- Polynomial Evaluators (to support Non-uniform rational B-splines)
- Pixel Operations (storing, transforming, mapping, zooming)
- Accumulation Buffer
- Stencil Planes
- Feedback, Selection, and Picking
- OpenSource
More information and the source of the sample implementation can be found on the OpenGL Sample Implementation Homepage.
| 02.02.2000 Apprentice | 11.12.1996 |
- Perspective texture mapping.
- Gouraud shading.
- Multiple lights.
- Hierarchical objects.
- NURB patches.
- Support for Windows 95 (with OpenGL) and X11-Windows (using Mesa or OpenGL) on SGI, SunOS, Solaris and Linux.
- C++ object-oriented concept.
- Source is available to educational institutes, staff members, and students for non-commercial, educational use only.
| 23.12.1999 Purgatory | 23.12.1999 |
- Perspective lightmapped texture mapping
- BSP/PVS rendering
- Support for textures and models from Quake 3 Arena
- Realtime textured bezier tessellation and animation with LOD
- Electric fx effect on models like Q3 Arena
- Addictive lens flares
- Lens fade out ala Unreal
- Bitmaps animation
- Use OpenGL extension (multitexturing and lock arrays)
- Bezier sky with multiple transparency
- Semi-transparent Bezier surfaces
- Written in VC++ 6.0
| 23.12.1999 Golk | 23.12.1999 |
- 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
| 22.12.1999 GFX4D | 22.12.1999 |
- 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
| 22.12.1999 Quesa | 22.12.1999 |
- Support for retained and immediate mode rendering
- Extensible file format
- Hierarchical models
- Objectoriented API
- Support for MacOS, Linux and Windows - ports to Be and Mac Mac OS X are in progress
- Portable ANSI C source
| 29.10.1999 Exist | 29.10.1999 |
- 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
| 28.09.1999 Gizmo3D | 28.09.1999 |
- Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
- Scene graph API which features most nodes of Performer and Cosmo3D
- Multipass rendering (lightmapping, projective textures)
- Mirrors
- Parametric surfaces
- Collision detection
- Script control with an implemented java interpreter or phyton intepreter to control behaviours (brains) and motion with scripts.
- Animation control to provide animation built into the scene graph
- Support for WIN32 HWND windows, Unix Xt Widgets and QT QWidgets on both WIN32,Linux and Irix
- Image toolkit, DB toolkit and System toolkit
- Written in C++
| 22.09.1999 Advanced 3D Game Programming using DirectX 7.0 | 22.09.1999 |
- 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
| 03.09.1999 Crystal Space | 25.08.1997 |
- 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.
| 22.04.1999 E3d Engine | 22.04.1999 |
- Perspective lightmapped texture mapping
- MIP-mapping
- Gouraud, flat and wireframe
- Dynamic lighting
- Hierarchical objects
- Collision detection
- Patch/Curved surfaces, Nurbs
- Z-Buffer rendering
- Anti-Aliasing
- Advanced Sparks engine(smoke, flares, water)
- Complex lensflares(inner glow 2x, central ring, random streaks, starstreaks, lensreflection)
- Volumetric fog
- Physical dynamics
- Support for lightwave meshes and motions
- Motion capture support
- Support for DirectInput, DirectSound (3D sound) and Direct3D
- Optimized for high polygon count rendering
- Optimized for fast application development
- Written in Visual C++ 6.0
| 22.04.1999 Mesa | 01.01.1995 |
- Mesa works on X11-Windows based systems, Windows, Linux SVGA, NeXT, Macintosh, DOS, Amiga, VMS and OS/2. Mesa was written with portability in mind.
- Support for PC 3D hardware (3DFX chip).
- Smooth shading, accumulation buffer.
- Dithering
- Fog/depth cuing.
- Shaded perspective texture mapping.
- Gouraud shading .
- Support for NURBS patches.
| 11.03.1999 Nano3D | 11.03.1999 |
- Perspective, gouraud shaded texture mapping
- Support for Direct3D and Glide
- Optimized for large out door scenes
- Global iluminatio
- Parameric surfaces (curved surfaces)
- Direct input and direct play support
- Convertor for 3D Studio 3DS with mapping and material support
- Texture file format with convertor from 3df file format
- Written in 100% ASM.
| 09.02.1999 Focus | 27.10.1998 |
- Perspective correct (real) bilinear filtered texture mapping
- Tileable 8bit textures (with a palette per texture)
- Sub-pixel, sub-texel accuracy
- MIP-mapping
- Fast tree-based S-buffer rendering and Z-Buffer rendering.
- Curved surfaces
- 32/16/15bit output in a window (5/5/5 and 5/6/5 schemes)
- Light volume based illumination model.
- Lens flares.
- Bump-mapping.
- Real-time shadows.
- Portal rendering.
- Hierarchical objects.
- Supports 16bpp output using the MGL or PCT library.
- Edge anti-aliasing
- Scene smoothing
- Plane clipping: Z=0 or frustum clipping
- Clipping against arbitrary convex 2D region
- Support for Caligary Truespace file
- Import of Targa 24bit image files
- Support for PCT library
- Quake-like console
- C source, critical code in ASM (but C version can be used as toggle)
| 12.01.1999 3DGPL | 27.06.1995 |
- Perspective texturemapping (via linear interpolation every 32 pixels per scanline)
- Ray tracing.
- Gouraud shading, flat shading of polygons.
- Z-Buffer and BSP rendering.
- Bicubic patches.
- Landscape rendering.
- Portal rendering.
- 2D and 3D clipping.
- 3D transformations with fixed point or float math.
- 2D text rendering.
- Portable C with support for DOS, X11-Windows, NeXTStep, Windows 3.1/95 and Mac.
- Tutorial texts, source code available and extensive 3D documentation
| 04.03.1998 PGS | 04.03.1998 |
- Wireframe, graphical HLR (hidden line removal), HLR with ghosting (hidden lines rendered in alternate color), mixed mode ( shading with edges), flat shading and gouraud shading.
- Perspective texture mapping.
- Direct support for NURB curves and surfaces.
- Z-Buffer rendering.
- Transparency
- Full support for sectioning: section outlining and fill, different types of rendering on opposite sides of section plane, section plan view.
- Real time re-tessellation of surfaces to screen resolution (when used with GTS Tessellation library).
- Direct support for picking.
- Optimized for large CAD models and triangle sets.
- Support for IGES (2D and 3D geometry), STL, VRML, HPGL, CGM, TIFF, TARGA, GIF, PNG, and JPEG.
- Dynamically switchable driver architecture.
- Support for Windows 95 / NT and UNIX (Sun, SGI, HP, IBM and Linux).
| 30.06.1997 3D System | 13.03.1997 |
- 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.
| 12.11.1996 GRAFICA NATURA | 20.09.1996 |
- Linear, shaded polygon texture-mapping.
- Support for X11-Windows and DOS.
- Primitive objects (e.g. cube, disk, sphere, cone, cylinder, plane, bezier-patch, rotation curve, height field).
- Procedural plant models.
- Hierarchical object construction.
- Lambert and gouraud shaded surfaces.
- Unlimited number of light sources.
- Wireframe or solid rendering (gouraud shaded and textured surfaces).
- Z-buffer rendering.
- Transparent surfaces.
- Import:
- Objects: 3DS, GEM, NFF, PLG, TRI
- Textures: PPM, TGA
- Output:
- Objects: VRML (no materials and textures yet)
- Images: PPM, TGA
- Color specification with RGB-, HSV-, HLS- or CMY-format.
- Atmospheric effects (e.g. fog, haze).
- C++ source.
- Simple but powerful stack-based programming language with more than 150 build-in commands for definition of objects, surfaces, textures, camera movements and lightning effects.
| 05.11.1996 Reality Lab | 01.01.1995 |
- Wire Frame, Flat, Gourad and Phong shading models.
- Perspective corrected texture mapping in any shading model.
- Environment and motion video mapping.
- Full transparency, including alpha maps for textures.
- Z-buffering.
- Animated backgrounds with optional depth information.
- Multiple, movable, coloured lightsources.
- 4, 8, 16, 24 bit colour depths in both ramp and RGB modes.
- SVGA and Windows 3.1/95/NT, X11-Windows on RS6000/SunSparc/SGI, System7 on Mac and PowerMac (both planned, no port yet), Sony PSX support.
- Multiple instancing of objects and hierarchies.
- Multiple viewports, devices and cameras.
- Bezier patches with subdivision on the fly.
- Depth cueing with atmospheric effects (e.g. fog, haze).
- Projected shadows.
- Stereoscopic capability.
- Free form deformation toolkit.
- Complex spline interpolated motion.
- Collision detection toolkit.
- Immediate mode allows low-level control over polygon lighting and rendering through direct access to vertices and normals.
- 70 pages documentation
- C-based API.
- Supports hardware accelerators like GLiNT, Matrox MGA Impression and 3D device standards like Intel 3DR, Microsoft 3DDDI.
The old RealityLab Homepage is currently not available - i already did a search on AltaVista and at MicroSoft to find a new homepage - there are recent microsoft products that use the RealityLab engine, but no reference to the engine itself.
There is a free Windows 3.1/95/NT VRML viewer from InterVista Software Inc, using the RealityLab libraries available at the WorldView Homepage.
Information about WIRL (another Windows 3.1/95/NT VRML viewer that combines the VR capabilties of the VREAM package with the Reality Lab rendering engine) is available via the VREAM Homepage.
| 25.07.1996 3d Graphic Tools | 25.07.1996 |
- Windows 95 / NT and 3.1 support.
- Procedural textures and picture mapping.
- Z-buffer and painters sorting.
- Sophisticated lighting using multiple, movable color light sources with optional ambient light, depth cueing and special effects.
- Flat and Phong shading.
- Flexible, color, translucency and other object level attributes for control of objects'appearance.
- 3d point, line, wireframe drawing and clipping.
- Edge anti-aliasing and image post processing .
- Extruded, rotated, swept, lofted, spline and arbitrary curves and surfaces.
- Object generators (cube, cylinder, sphere, etc.)
- DFX, STL and 3GT file format support.
- The Windows C/C++ versions include complete source code.
| 01.01.1995 Dore | 01.01.1995 |