3D Engines List Phong shading This list contains 55 phong shading engines.

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.

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.

23.02.2000 Plush

16.12.1996

Plush is a portable high-performance realtime 3D rendering library by Justin Frankel (frankel@eng.utah.edu) of Nullsoft.

• Shaded perspective texture mapping.
• Environment mapping.
• Shaded translucent surfaces.
• Phong shading via environment maps.
• Z-buffer and painter's algorithm (with radix or qsort) rendering.
• Multiple light sources with point and directional lights.
• Hierarchical Objects.
• Palette optimization with dithering.
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS. Caligari COB and plush PLO object files.
• Support for PCX and PLT texture files.
• Full 3D frustrum clipping.
• Object morphing.
• Spline interpolation with tension,
• Limited to 256 colors.
• Resolution independand.
• Written in portable ANSI C, tested on DOS and with X11-Windows under Linux, SunOS, Solaris, MacOs, Windows, AIX and HP/UX.

More information and some demos and the libraries can be found on the Plush Homepage.

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.

02.02.2000 E-mersion

02.02.2000

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

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

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

22.12.1999 Power Render

09.09.1996

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

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

More information and a demo on the Power Render Homepage.

13.09.1999 Zeta

22.11.1997

Zeta is a 3D engine for PCs from Adrian M Perez ( amperez+@andrew.cmu.edu ) .

• Perspective texture mapping.
• Fake phong and gouraud shading.
• Translucent polygons.
• BSP rendering.
• Portal rendering.
• 3D clipping.
• Multiple colored light sources.
• Lighting system (supporting ambient, omni, and directional lights)
• Terrain support.
• Collision detection.
• CSG support.
• Quaternion rotations.
• Bicubic surface patches (source for the surface included).
• Hierarchial objects.
• 16 bit affine gourad shaded z-buffered software rendering in a DIB section.
• Written in C++.

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

13.09.1999 Tiny Java 3D Engine

13.09.1999

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

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

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

13.09.1999 AZP 3D

13.09.1999

AZP 3D is a simple 3D engine for DOS from Bogdan Modzelewski ( motzel@panda.bg.univ.gda.pl ).

• Texture mapping
• Lambert and gouraud shading
• Environment mapping
• VGA / VESA (8 bit) support
• 3D Studio converter
• C source for DJGPP

More information and the source can be found via Motzel Online under 'download'.

18.03.1999 Inertia

09.09.1996

Inertia (former GFXFX3) is a 3d rendering system from Bas van Gaalen (bas@il.ft.hse.nl), Alex Chalfin (achalfin@netmagic.net), Sean Palmer (sean@delta.com) and Jeroen Bouwens (jay@il.ft.hse.nl).

• Unshaded, Ambient, Lambert, Gouraud, and Phong shading models
• Smooth, Texture, and Reflection surface models
• Surface and shading models can be mixed in any combination.
• Transparency for all surface/shading models.
• Support for multiple objects and cameras.
• Object import from 3D Studio .ASC and .3DS files
• PCX Texture support.
• Supports Borland Turbo Pascal v6 & v7, Borland Pascal v7 ( 16 bit DPMI protected mode) and TMT Pascal.
• Floating point transforms optimized for Pentium processors (TMT Pascal Version)
• Super accurate sub-pixel and sub-texel polygon rasterization in 100% Pentium optimized assembly code (TMT Pascal Version)
• Perspective correct texture mapping using 16-pixel affine subdivision (TMT Pascal Version)
• Fustrum polygon clipping performed in full 3d. (TMT Pascal Version)

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

04.03.1999 Future Colors

04.03.1999

Future Colors is a demo 3D engine for Windows from Peter Soltesz ( soltesz@hotmail.com ) aka 'Archee/CoNTRACT'.

• Perspective, shaded texture mapping
• Support for Direct3D
• Environment mapping
• Object morphing
• Real time lighting
• Phong shading
• Sound support
• Source available

More information, the demo and the source can be found on the Future Colors Homepage.

18.01.1999 VERA VRML

18.01.1999

VERA VRML is a Windows DLL for rendering VRML 1.0 into an image buffer from Steven Marthouse ( comments@vrml3d.com )

• Perspective, shaded texture mapping
• Raytracing, Phong and flatshading
• Z-Buffer rendering
• Wireframe rendering
• Multiple lights
• Support for JPG and GIF textures
• Support for VRML 1.0
• Needs WinG libraries
• 8 and 32 bit color modes

More information, screenshots and the DLL can be found on the VERA VRML Homepage.

15.01.1999 V3X

23.07.1998

V3X is a commercial 3d game engine from Realtech VR Software. The engine is not available for licensing.

• Perspective, gouraud/phong shaded texture mapping.
• Environment mapping.
• Texture filtering.
• Hardware 16bit or 32bit Z-Buffer and W-Buffer.
• Collision detection (sphere, boxes, and mesh).
• Support for JPEG,IFF,PCX,GIF,BMP,TGA and PNG textures. 4bit, 8bit, 16bit, 32bit and alpha textures.
• Animated texture maps (.FLC).
• Transparency (additive, alpha, substractive).
• Support for DOS, Windows 95 (DirectDraw), MacOs, BeOS, Power Macintosh OS and Sony Playstation.
• Support for Watcom C/C++, Borland C/C++, DJGPP, Metrowerks Codewarrior (For BeOS and MacOS) and Visual C++.
• Realtime gravity engine.
• Multitexturing or multi-pass rendering for phong shading or lightmap.
• Support for Glide 3.0, Direct 3D 6,S3 Metal, S3 ToolKit and PSX.
• Support for MMX (32bpp) with software RGB gouraud shading.
• Portal rendering.
• RGB or mono multiple omnidirectionnal,spots or direct lights with fog.
• Pre-lighting with raytrace.
• 3DS MAX 2.5, 3D Studio 4.0, Lightwave format compatible.

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found via the Realtech VR World Web Site. (Click V3X in the bottom frame)
A new demo will be also available showing all the possibility of the engine. A licensable version will be also available.

15.01.1999 SurRender

01.01.1995

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

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

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

13.01.1999 Archee`s 3d engine

13.01.1999

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

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

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

12.01.1999 IDX3D

29.01.1998

IDX3D is a java 3D engine from Peter Stefan Walser ( pwalser@g26.ethz.ch ).

• Gouraud or phong shaded texture mapping
• Phong-shading, gouraud shading, flatshading, wireframe and particle rendering mode.
• Environment mapping
• Z-Buffer rendering
• Paralell and point lights.
• Fogging and distance cueing.
• Portable java source.

More information, the demo and source can be found on the IDX3D.

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 .

17.11.1998 3D-Mesh-Viewer

17.11.1998

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

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

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

21.07.1998 Jaw3D

16.12.1996

Jaw3D is a 3d engine by Jawed Karim ( jaw3d@jawed.com ).

• Shaded texture mapping.
• Lambert flat, gouraud and (fake) phong shading.
• Wireframe rendering.
• Environment mapping.
• Movable light source.
• Painter's algorithm: qsorted polygons.
• Support for 3 resolutions: 320x200, 640x480, 800x600 .
• Converter for POVray smooth trinagles and 3D Studio 3DS to j3d format, direkt support for Quake MDL.
• DOS and ix86 linux elf version.
• C API.

More information and a demo can be found on the Jaw3D Homepage.

05.05.1998 Bolt3D

16.06.1997

Bolt3D is a 3D engine for windows platforms from Chong Jiayi (chongjy@pacific.net.sg )

• Phong-shaded texture-mapping.
• Gouraud and phong shading.
• Bump mapping.
• Bilinear filtering for smooth textures.
• Real-time artificial "soft" spotlights.
• Fogging.
• Real-time transparency.
• Particle systems with transparent sprites for smoke, bubbles etc.
• Primitive object (spheres, cones, sweeps...) creation.
• Modeller with sweep and texture mapping and modification of object properties.
• Enhanced landscape rendering for large data meshes.
• Wave surface deformation for modelling blobby objects or water waves.
• Support for 8 and 24 color format.
• Library and header files are available.
• Hardware Acceleration via Direct3D.

More information, screenshots, the demo and library can be found on the Bolt3D Homepage.

12.03.1998 BumpMap

12.03.1998

BumpMap is a prototypical program written to see the quality of several bump-mapping and phong shading methods from Hans Kopp ( hskopp@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de ).

• Perspective, phong shaded texture mapping.
• 3 Bump-mapping methods.
• Flat, gouraud and phong shading.
• Environment mapping, also bump-environment mapping.
• Support for PCX texture files.
• C++ source.

More information, the source and executables can be found on Hans Kopp's Graphics Page.

04.03.1998 Bart2

04.03.1998

Bart2 is a 3D engine for DOS from Hani Fahmi ( fahmi@csus.edu ).

• Perspective, phong shaded texture mapping.
• Bump-mapping.
• Wireframe, flat, gouraud and phong shading.
• Z-Buffer rendering.
• Multiple objects, textures and light sources.
• Support for 3D Studio ASC files.
• Pascal source.

More information, screenshots and the source and executable can be found on the Bart2 Homepage.

26.01.1998 RTMZ

14.07.1995

RTMZ is a 3D engine for PCs from Davide Pasca ( dpasca@ix.netcom.com) and Fabrizio Zavagli (f.zavagli@agora.stm.it).

• Flat, gouraud and phong shading of polygons.
• Texture mapping.
• Painters sorting and z-buffering.
• Written in C++/ASM, ModeX, 32 bit.
• GEO, GEM and 3DS file support, there are lots of modells in the package.
• 2 different interaction modes.
• SVGA support with resolution switching.
• Cool user interface.
• C source.

The source can be found on the Homepage of Davide Pasca..

24.11.1997 XDC 97

24.11.1997

XDC 97 is a mixed rendering mode demo from Haim Barad from Intel Corporation published in the Game Developers Magazine in september 1997.

• Perspective, shaded texture mapping.
• Uses Direct3D hardware rendering in conjunction with a software renderer (mixed mode rendering).
• Phong-like shading.
• Procedural texture mapping.
• Support for MMX.
• Support for Windows 95 with Direct3D 5.0 and graphics accelerator card with 4MB texture memory.
• C source.

More information and the source can be found as sept97.zip on the Source Code page of the Game Developers Magazine.

22.10.1997 3D Engine (Link Problems!)

13.08.1996

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

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

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

16.09.1997 Project SpandeX

01.01.1995

Project SpandeX (previously known as Latex) is a 3D engine from Paul Nettle (midnight@www.grafix3d.tzo.com).

• Commercial quality engine, written by commercial game developer.
• Open-GL like
• Texture-mapping, environment-mapping, bump-mapping, solid-color polygons, Phong shading, Gouraud shading, Lambert.
• Perspective correct, and affine texture mapping both supported
• Sub-pixel, sub-texel accuracy
• Z-buffering and sorting.
• Triangles, lines, points, text (mono or proportional).
• Up to 100 dynamic light sources.
• Material support with Ka, Kd and Ks variables (may change on the fly).
• Support for any resolution.
• Multiple cameras that can act JUST like 3DS cameras.
• Hierarchical database design with forward kinematics and inheritance.
• 100% Pure C for portability with small inline ASM parts.
• Over 250 API calls for maximum flexibility.
• Support for DOS and Linux/X11.
• Latest version is completely true-color.

More information, screenshots, the source and demos can be found on the Project SpandeX Homepage.

08.09.1997 Lost Shadows

21.07.1997

LS is a commercial 3D game engine from Lost Boys Interactive done by Jacco Bikker (Jacco@LostCity.nl) and Jurgen Kluft ( Jurgen@LostCity.nl ).

• Support for Windows 95 and hardware accelerators.
• Perspective correct texture mapping.
• Transparent textures.
• Bump mapping and phong shading.
• Portal rendering and dynamic level structure.
• Real-time dynamic shadows cast by dynamic lights.
• Mirrors.
• 16 bit gouraud shading.
• Multiple, dynamic spotlights with accurate shadows.
• Lens-flares.
• Hierarchical 3D objects.
• Hi-color rendering.

More information, screenshots and a interactive demo can be found on the Lost Boys VR-Section.

15.08.1997 SMEG 3D

15.08.1997

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

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

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

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.

10.06.1997 Obj3d

10.06.1997

The Obj3d Java applet is a 3D engine by Bencsath Boldizsar (boldi@inf.bme.hu ).

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

The java applet can be found on the Obj3d Homepage.

30.04.1997 MindRender

26.02.1996

BR is a high performance programmer's API for PCs from Themekit Ltd.

• DOS and Windows 95 support (planned).
• SVGA support.
• Support for 3D input and output devices, like gloves and HMDs.
• Z-buffer rendering.
• BSP support.
• Stereo rendering.
• Perspective texture mapping.
• Wireframe/solid, gouraud shading and optional phong highlights.
• Transparent and shaded textures.
• Light and shadow mapping.
• Unlimited number of colored lights. Spot, point and directional lights.
• Movable lightsources, dynamic light parameters, distance cueing, fogging.
• Pre-Rendering of static scenes.
• Collision detection.
• Keyframe animation, morphing.
• Sound support.
• API interface to high- and low-level routines.

More information and a demo is available on the ThemeKit Homepage.

04.04.1997 Alpha Engine

24.10.1996

The Alpha Engine is a PC 3D engine from Jacco Bikker (Jacco@LostCity.nl). The AE is the followup to his E3Dngine.

• Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping.
• Phong shaded polygons.
• Environment mapping.
• Color mixing tables.
• Transparent texture mapping.
• Full 2D portal clipping.
• Hierarchical relative rotation and displacement of objects
• Z-clipping.
• Fast tree-sorting.
• Scaled, transparent 2D sprites.
• Support for 3D Studio ASC and 3DS, PLG and GEM files.
• Support for PCX texture files.
• VESA linear framebuffer support.
• Protected mode using TMT Pascal.
• All sources available (TMT Pascal).

An older version of the engine also supported

• Bump mapping.
• Planar mirrors.
• Lens-flares.

More information, the sources and some tutorials (clipping, texturemapping, rotations...) can be found on the Homepage of Jacco Bikker.

10.03.1997 Vect32

01.01.1995

Vect32 is a 3D engine for 386 PCs from Aaron Peapell (aaron@kbs.com.au)

• True perspective texture mapping.
• Flat, lambert, gouraud and phong shading
• VGA and SVGA support
• Sound Blaster support
• No ASM, written with C/C++ with DJGPP.

A demo can be found on ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de.

27.01.1997 VRend

06.11.1995

VR is a 3D renderer from Kenny Hoff (hoff@cs.unc.edu).

• Polygon-based model rendering includes convex, concave, and self-intersecting polygons.
• Fully-generalized hidden surface removal allowing for protruding surfaces.
• Shaded perspective texture mapping with tiling and transparency.
• Full 3D clipping to the viewplane and the sides of the viewplane window.
• Movable front clipping plane allowing a cut-away view of the "inside" of models.
• Phong shading.
• Complete hierachical modeling system.
• Independent object and world coordinate system transformations.
• Incremental depth-shading.
• C++ source.
• Support for X11-Windows and Windows 3.1.

More information (and lots of pictures) on the VRend Homepage or WinRend Homepage.
You also find some 3D tutorials and the source of the scanline-renderer on the Homepage of Kenny Hoff

09.01.1997 3D Demo

13.08.1996

The 3D Demo is a PC rendering engine from Kerrigan Burgess (k_burge@alcor.concordia.ca).

• Linear texture-mapping with flat, gouraud and phong shading.
• Wireframe rendering.
• Transparent rendering.
• 2D shadows.
• Backdrop images.
• Dynamic object manipulation (morphing).
• 2D image functions (scale, rotate).
• C++/ASM source.
• Depth cueing/fogging.

The voxel-engine has the following features:

• Skymapping.
• Y-rotation, no tilt.

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

09.01.1997 MPhong

13.08.1996

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

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

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

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.

18.11.1996 Moove

07.11.1996

Moove is a PC 3D engine by Oliver Belaifa (spline@cs.tu-berlin.de) aka 'Sharon' of Artwork.

• Gouraud shaded texture mapping with multiple lightsources.
• Phong shaded texture mapping with movable point lightsource.
• Bumpmapping with movable lightsource.
• Environment mapping.
• Light bitmaps, lens-flares.
• Z buffer rendering.
• Z front/back clipping
• Dynamic spline objects, object morphing with envelopes.
• Spline path support.
• Support for 486 PCs, optimised for pentium.
• Lightwave scene player.
• Audio support.

A demo can be found on ftp.cdrom.com.

18.11.1996 SMK3D

13.08.1996

SMK3D is a PC demo from Olivier Brunet (bruneto@efrei.fr) aka 'SMKaribou' of GMF.

• Texture-mapping with gouraud and phong shading.
• Environment mapping.
• Bump mapping.
• Gouraud shaded polygons.
• SVGA support.

The demo can be found on ftp.cdrom.com. More information about GMF and the full source to SMK3D can be found via the GMF Homepage.

05.11.1996 Reality Lab

01.01.1995

RL is a commercial 3D library by Microsoft RenderMorphics. The version 2.0 has the following features:

• 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.

Contact: Servan@Render.com (Servan Keondjian) or morph@microsoft.com.
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.

20.08.1996 WordUp Graphics Toolkit

14.06.1995

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

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

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

25.07.1996 3d Graphic Tools

25.07.1996

3DGT is a graphics software developer's tool for the Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C++ environments from Micro System Options ( moptions@concentric.net ).

• 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.

More information on the Micro System Options Homepage .

19.07.1996 Deskent

25.03.1996

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

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

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

17.07.1996 Tex

17.07.1996

Tex is a graphics library for the PC by Daniel Vollmer. (FIDO: 2:241/1140.7 Daniel.Vollmer@P1140.F7.N2.Z241.FIDONET.ORG).

• Phong shaded, linear texture mapping (via enviroment mapping).
• Z-buffer rendering.
• Optional red/blue stereo rendering.
• Pascal/ASM source.

The Tex package is part of a bigger source distribution of stuff that Daniel Vollmer had done. The source can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi .

11.04.1996 Sanction

21.06.1995

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

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

More information and some demos on the Sanction S3DE Homepage.

06.03.1996 3D EnvMap

11.12.1995

3DEM is a little 3D engine for PCs by Thanassis Tsiodras (ttsiod@softlab.ece.ntua.gr).

• Environment texture mapping. (Phong highlight and shading included in the environment map)
• VESA support for DOS and WinG support for Windows.

A demo can be found on ftp.coast.net. More information and newer demos on the 3D EnvMap Homepage

05.01.1996 work in progress

01.01.1995

PC 3D engine from Christian Nentwich (brain@eleet.iddc.via.at).

• ASM
• Gouraud shaded polygons.
• Gouraud shaded texture mapping.
• Phong & bump texture mapping.
• DOS and Linux support.

11.12.1995 Dope

01.01.1995

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

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

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

06.11.1995 work in progress

06.11.1995

PC 3D engine from Stein Hardy Danielsen (shd@stud.unit.no).

• Flat, gouraud, phong shading.
• Linear texture-mapping.

02.05.1997 3D with Hoops: Build Interactive 3D Graphics into your C++ Applications

02.05.1997

3DWH is a book (ISBN: 0-201-87025-8) from Wm Leler and Jim Merry that contains a CD rom with the HOOPS library for all supported platforms ( Windows 3.1/NT, Mac, X11-Windows on Silicon Graphics, HP, IBM RS/6000, Sun Sparc and DEC OSF/1).

11.12.1995 HOOPS

06.11.1995

HOOPS is a commerical 3D API from Ithaca Software, which was bought by Autodesc Inc a few years back.

• Windows 3.1/NT, Mac, X11-Windows on Silicon Graphics, HP, IBM RS/6000, Sun Sparc and DEC OSF/1 .
• Flat, gouraud, phong and silhoutte mode.
• Fast software z-buffer.
• Display, printer and plotter support.
• Support for hardware acceleration boards.
• Object database management.
• HDI (Heidi, Hoops Device Interface) is used for 3D Studio Max under Windows NT and in AutoCAD R13c3.
• Easy to programm.

Contact:1001 Marina Village Parkway, Alemeda, CA 94501
More info on the Hoops Homepage of Tech Soft.

06.11.1995 VeriScope

06.11.1995

VS is a commerical 3D viewing system for 386 PCs from Pearson Interface (Vscope@pearsoni.demon.co.uk).

• Gouraud-shading, dithered flat shading and wire-frame rendering in real-time.
• Shadows and phong-shading in still rendering mode.
• Stereo support using red-blue glasses.
• 3D navigation using the mouse.
• Collision detection.
• Z-buffer.
• Reads DXF files, outputs FLC movies and PCS pictures.
• DOS real-mode program.

For more information and a demo see the VeriScope Homepage.

15.04.1996 NuGraf Developer's 3D Toolkit

15.04.1996

The NG D3DT is a commercial 3D library from Okino Computer Graphics, Inc (sales@okino.com). NuGraf's renderer is designed to create fast, high quality photo-realistic images using software generation methods. NuGraf is a complete development system for creating 3D computer graphics applications, the toolkit handles all aspects of the 3D modeling and rendering process.

• High-speed, 32-bit broadcast-quality scanline renderer based on a hybrid Z-scanline/A-buffer algorithm.
• Support for third party renderers via a back-end custom rendering interface. NuGraf ships with a full featured OpenGL(tm) interface module.
• Hierarchical database management and inquiry system.
• 650 pages of documentation.
• Efficient interfaces provided to allow large quantities of polygonal data to be passed into the database, including a host-based callback mechanism (the "user-defined" primitive). A mathematically stable sub-library of polygon welding and smoothing operations optimize any raw data for rendering (ex: DXF).
• Meshed polygon vertices can be assigned a color, normal, (u,v) texture coordinates, and U/V tangent information.
• Complex n-sided polygons with recursive holes & islands.
• Sphere, cone, and cylinder quadric primitives with implicit texture parameterizations. Box, prism, disc and rectangle primitives with implicit texture parameterizations.
• NURB and bicubic patch primitives with selectable basis.
• Scenes are created using object instancing and hierarchical attachment.
• Omnidirectional, unidirectional or spot light sources with numerous options: intensity, color, decay,fall-off, softness, shadow parameters.
• Implementation of PIXAR's soft shadow technique with tiling optimizations.
• A wide selection of predefined surface shaders: 2D texture mapping, Perlin and Peachy 3D procedural texture functions, spherical/cubical environment and planar reflectance mapping, mist and fog full-featured atmospheric shaders, flat, gouraud or phong shading models, phong or blinn specular highlight.
• State-of-the-art analytic 2D texture filtering algorithms.
• Output drivers for images, X11-Windows, SGI, Windows and VGA.
• The library is available on a wide range of platforms, including Apple Macintosh, IBM PC 32-bit DOS, Microsoft Windows v3.1 (32-bit), Microsoft Windows NT (32-bit DLL), Linux + X11, SUN workstations, Silicon Graphics workstations and DEC Alpha AXP (Windows NT).

More info on the NuGraf's Homepage.

19.09.1995 RenderLib

19.09.1995

RL is a 3D graphics dynamic link library for Windows 3.0 from buitenhu@cs.rug.nl .

• Written 1991 for Windows 3.0 and 386 PCs.
• 8 bit display support.
• Wireframe, no-shading, flat- ,gouraud- and phong-shading.
• Polygon and polyline rendering.
• Hierarchical transformation matrices, grouping.
• NFF file support.
• Multiple viewports.
• Unlimited number of coloured lightsources. Ambient-, directional-, point- and spot- lights.

The demo can be found on micros.hensa.ac.uk. More info in the RenderLib Readme.

12.06.1995 SIPP

12.06.1995

SIPP (SImple Polygon Processor) is a scanline z-buffer rendering library from Equivalent Software HB. the authors are Jonas Yngvesson (jonas-y@isy.liu.se) and Inge Wallin (ingwa@isy.liu.se).

• Phong, gouraud or flat shading.
• Texture, opacity and bump mapping.
• Bezier patches and polygons and object primitives.
• Procedural texure shaders.
• Arbitrary number of light sources.
• Z-buffer rendering.
• Simple anti-aliasing through oversampling.
• Output to Portable Pixmap format (ppm) or user-supplied functions.
• C source and good documentation.

The source can be found on isy.liu.se . There is also a version with TCL interface available at ftp.uu.net.