3DEL: Persp. texture

3D Engines List
Persp. texture

This list contains 325 perspective texturemapping engines.

Texture-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.

23.06.2000 JunkRender 28.01.1998

JR is a 3D engine for Win32, Java and DOS from tAAt (tAAt@mail.com).

Fast texture mapping (perspective, shaded)
3D Studio .3DS File Loader and JunkRender .JR Scenery Format with LZSS Compression
File Library System
Custom Procedural Textures
Texture Cache Optimization
Custom particle systems
Custom Post-processing Effects (e.g. Motion Blur and Cartoon Rendering)
Simulated Volume Lighting
Interactive Test Suite
Written in Java and C

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

23.06.2000 Carsten's 3D Engine 23.02.2000

Ca3D is a 3D engine for DOS from Carsten Fuchs ( CarstenFuchs@t-online.de ).

Unlit, perspective texture mapping
BSP / PVS / portal rendering
Span- and Z-Buffer
Optimization passes for ideal geometry
Software rendering
Natural player movement (clipping and world physics)
TrueColor (32-BPP) support
Written in Watcom C++

More information, screenshots and

a demo can be found on the Homepage of Carsten's 3D Engine.

12.05.2000 Miracle 3D 22.12.1999

Miracle 3D is a Windows 3D engine from Damir Sagidullin ( _spider@mail.ru ).

Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
Support for OpenGL
Portal rendering with BSPs
Dynamic RGB lights
Dynamic mirrors
Lens flares
Software rendering
Mip mapping
Transparent objects
Moving objects
Animated water
Volume fog
Fractal textures
Collision detection
Console

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

12.05.2000 pixelbase 02.02.2000

pixelbase is a commercial 3D engine for Windows from Engin Cilasun ( engin@pixelbase.net ) and Attila Uygun ( ati@pixelbase.net ).

Multitexturing OR Two-pass texturing using OpenGL
Support for Direct3D
Soft Body Dynamics
Lens flares
Plugin mechanism for great extensibility
Custom model editor with surface unfold capability
LightWave plugin for model import/export to our editor
Realtime shadows (needs HW stencil buffer support)
Metallic surfaces
Particle systems
Physics system
Compiled scripting with realtime bytecode interpreter
External script compiler
Support for shaders (like metal&rust)

More information and screenshots can be found on the Pixelbase Homepage

12.05.2000 Dark Basic Engine 12.05.2000

Dark Basic Engine is a 3D engine for Windows built into the Dark Basic programming language from Dark Basic Software.

Shaded, perspective texture mapping
Support for Direct 3D
Alphablending and transparency
Texture filtering
Fogging
Model loading and animation
Collision detection
Support for BMP textures

More information, screenshots, demos and a trial version of the programming language can be found on the Dark Basic Homepage.

12.05.2000 Xeios 12.05.2000

Xeios is a commercial 3D engine for Windows and Playstation 2 from AiCube Co.

Shaded, perspective texture mapping
Mip mapping
Bump mapping
Environment mapping
Multipass rendering
Scene graph support
Fogging
Deformable meshes (Skinning, Bones, Envelopes)
Key framed animation
Converters for Maya, Softimage, Lightwave and 3D Studio Max
Particle system
Support for custom shaders

More information can be found on the AiCube 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 Titan Engine 27.04.2000

The Titan Engine is a 3D engine for Windows from Ignacio Casta�o Aguado, Jos� Luis Fern�ndez Rueda, Gabriel Rodr�guez Alberich and Julio C�sar Espada Rodr�gue ( titan@talika.fie.us.es ).

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

More information, screenshots, a demo and the source for an older version (called Nemesis) can be found on the Titan Project Homepage.

27.04.2000 Experience Engine 27.04.2000

The Experience Engine is a 3D engine for Direct X7 from The Whole Experience, Inc.

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

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

27.04.2000 ENG32 26.01.1999

ENG32 is a Windows 3D engine from Harald Nowak ( ishn@infrasoft.co.at ).

Perspective, gouraud shaded texture mapping
Support for hardware accelerated Direct3D only
Transparent and animated surfaces
RGB lighting with shadows (but no shadow maps)
Flashing/flickering lights
BSP rendering with limited portal capability
Polygon based leveleditor
Support for switch scripts, switched sounds
WAV and MIDI music
3D characters (imported from 3D Studio Max)
Particle system
Enhanced API

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on Harald Nowak's Homepage.

27.04.2000 Orion3D 27.04.2000

Orion3D is a 3D engine for Windows 95/98 from Gabriel Peyr� ( 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 Genesis 3D 11.08.1998

G3D is a commercial 3D game SDK from Eclipse Entertainment.

Lightmapped perspective texture mapping
Animated textures, procedural water textures
Translucent textures
Texture morphing
Dynamic shadows
Light diffraction
Multiple colored light
Fog.
Vertex morphing
Real time water surface distortion
Real time light diffraction
Mirrors
Integrated rigid body physics simulation support for world objects
Hierarchical and seamless, soft-skin polygonal characters
Support for 3DS MAX animation files
LOD support
Area portals allow selective rendering of world geometry
Software rasterizer, 3DFX Glide, and D3D support
Open scripting API
Level editor
3D sound positioning and attenuation
Support for network streaming of geometry, animations and textures ( Hollywood 3D )
OpenSource distribution

More information, screenshots, the SDK and some demos can be found on Genesis 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 .

12.04.2000 Fly3D 04.08.1998

Fly3D is a 3D engine for Windows by Fabio Policarpo ( fabio@paralelo.com.br ).

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

More information, screenshots, the sdk and a demos can be found on the Fly3D Homepage .
The engine will be featured in the book 3D Computer Game Technology - Theory and Practice from Alan Watt and Fabio Policarpo (Addion Wesley).

12.04.2000 !3D Morfit 3D Engine SDK 15.01.1999

The !3D Morfit 3D Engine SDK is a free SDK for Windows 95 from Morfit Ltd that allows to build 3D games and applications.

Perspective, shaded texture mapping
Transparency
Lens-Flares
Fogging
Support for OpenGL, Direct3D and Glide
Landscape rendering
Mirrors
Hierarchical objects
Converter for 3D Studio Max 3.1 and Quake MD2
Support for Borland C++ and Visual C++ 6
World and Terrain builder

More information, screenshots, demos and the SDK can be found on the Morfit Homepage.

10.04.2000 JVector 20.05.1999

JVector is a realtime 3D engine written in Java from Jacob Jensen ( jacob@cabocomm.dk) aka 'kvark/prone' .

Shaded perspective texturemapping
Support for wireframe, flat, gouraud and phong shading
Phong shading is based on a semi-transparent lightmap
Antialiased lines
Transparency and additive transparency
Z-sorting and Z-Buffer rendering
Support for 3D Studio .3DS with splined animations
Support for PNG,gif and jpg textures
3D sprites
Standard primitives (grid, sphere, torus)
Mesh animation (including realtime calculated normals for correct lighting)
32 bit colordepth, rendered in any resolution
Written in Java 1.0.2+

More information, screenshots and the applets can be found on the JVector 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

10.04.2000 LOD 10.04.2000

The LOD engine is landscape 3D for Windows using OpenGL from Nicholas Anderson ( n.anderson@eidosnet.co.uk ).

Shaded, perspective texture mapping
Implementation of the paper [IMMD9] "Real-Time Generation of Continuous Levels of Detail for Height Fields" from S. Rottger, W. Heidrich, P. Slusallek, H. Seidel
Support for bmp textures

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

07.04.2000 gxRealityEngine 07.04.2000

The gxRealityEngine is a 3D engine for Windows 95/98 from Lightcube Technologies.

Multitextured, perspective mapping
Support for Glide, Direct3D and OpenGL
Object-oriented design with component model
Multithreading support
Scripting support
Particle systems
Physics system
3D sound support

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

07.04.2000 TwoQ2viewer 07.04.2000

The TwoQ2viewer is a Quake2 level viewer for Windows from Emmanuel Rivoire ( manutoo@imaginet.fr ).

Lightmapped, perspective mapping
Support for DirectX 6
BSP rendering

More information, screenshots and the demo can be found on TwoQ2viewer Homepage.

07.04.2000 Aised 07.04.2000

The Aised is a landscape rendering engine for Windows from Emmanuel Rivoire ( manutoo@imaginet.fr ).

Multitextured, perspective mapping
Support for DirectX 6
3D objects
Sky mapping

More information, screenshots and the demo can be found on Aised 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 X3D Engine 04.04.2000

The X3D engine is a commercial 3D engine from 4X Technologies.

Multitextured, perspective mapping
C++ scene graph API
Support for PC 3dcards via DirectX, support for Dreamcast and Playstation 2
Animation controllers as in 3DS max
High level culling
LOD support
Portal rendering
Collision detection
Atmospheric effects
Direct 3DS Max export

More information and some demo can be found on the 4X Technologies Homepage.

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 Jazz3D 03.09.1999

Jazz3D is a shareware 3D engine for Java from SyGem Software.

Gouraud shaded, perspective and affine texture mapping
Coloured Environment mapping (flat/gourard shaded)
Translucent objects
Animated textures
Particle, Wireframe, Flat and gourard shading
24 bit Z-Buffer rendering
True 3D text, complete with 3 fonts
Lathe objects, standard 3D primitives
Multiple coloured light sources (directional, point and spot)
Object mouse tracking
Background image support
Collision detection
Fogging
Hierarchical objects
Post-processing system (e.g. motion blur)
Support for .3DS, .ASC, .GEO & .GEM object files
Support for JDK 1.02 and 1.1.2
Advanced scene-management

More information, screenshots and on-line demos can be found on the SyGem Software Homepage

04.04.2000 IS Engine 04.04.2000

The IS engine is a small 3D engine for Windows using OpenGL from Matthew Fairfax ( mfairfa@clemson.edu ).

Shaded, perspective texture mapping
Static, predetermined lights
Simple map

More information, binary and the source can be found on the IS Engine 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.

25.02.2000 TextEngine 25.02.2000

The TextEngine_ is a commercial rendering engine for Direct3D written by David Paull ( david@tanzanite.to ).

Highly optimized antialiased text rendering.
Kerning, or cell based placement.
Colored text, and shading.
Real time re-scaling of text.
Pop up boxes, and pull down menus.
File, and directory display.
Text can be mixed with 3d objects.
Text can be manipulated using 6DOF.
16, or 24 bit rendering.
Written in C, and assembly.
DirectX 6.0 or higher.

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

25.02.2000 Digital Dawn Graphics Toolkit 25.02.2000

The DDG toolkit is a OpenSource library of C++ classes to build real time 3D graphics applications from Alex Pfaffe ( ddg@oz.net).

Support for OpenGL
Support for Linux and Windows
Shaded, perspective texture mapping
Z-Buffer rendering
Fog
Scene graph archtecture
Multiple viewports
Generic objects
Ground and ocean objects
Sky changes color/opacity according to the time and day
A ROAM based terrain Mesh capable of performing realtime LOD
Animated morphing noise based clouds
Support for Terragen's height map format
DDG will be incorporated with the Crystal Space portal engine in the near future
C++ source

More information, screenshots and the source can be found on the Digital Dawn Graphics Toolkit 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.

23.02.2000 Sonata 23.02.2000

Sonata is a 3D landscape rendering engine for Windows from Kien ( kien@post.com ).

Support for OpenGL
Fractal landscape generation, real-time continuous polygon rendering
Bilinear texture-mapping
Sky texture mapping
Support for Wavefront objects
Collision detection
DirectSound/DirectMusic support
Written in MS Visual C++

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

23.02.2000 Coin 23.02.2000

Coin is a portable open source C++ class library / toolkit based on the Open Inventor API from Systems In Motion.

Support for OpenGL
Perspective, shaded texture mapping
Environment mapping
Main goal is to achieve complete compatibility with the Open Inventor API
GUI system is developed for the Qt library
C++ source

More information, screenshots and the source (CVS snapshot) can be found via the Systems In Motion Homepage.

11.02.2000 3D Rad 21.08.1998

3D Rad is a 3D game creator for Windows from Studio Bitplane.

Perspective, shaded texture mapping
Support for DirectX 6_0
Multiple split-screen ability
3D sound
Dynamic colored lights
Advanced kinematics effects
Collision detection.
Support for 3D Studio 3DS models.
Support for sprites.
Scripting support.
Multiple level support.
Scene editor and scene compiler.

More information, screenshots, some demo games and a demo version of the 3D game creator can be found on the 3D Rad 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.

09.02.2000 Tumladen 09.02.2000

Tumladen is a script based 3D engine for Windows from Alex Busygin ( abdevelop@hotmail.com ).

Unshaded, prespective texture mapping
Support for OpenGL
Support for TGA textures
Camera with mouse and keyboard control

More information and a demo can be found on the Tumladen 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 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 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.

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 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.

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.

04.02.2000 Image Based Rendering 04.02.2000

Sergey Parilov ( parilov@orel.ru ) has developed a Windows and Linux IBR system. Image Based Rendering is a new technique that is capable of producing novel views of 3d scenes if it is given some existing images of it without explicit intermediate representation as a 3d geometry model.

Support for OpenGL and raytracing
Lots of documentation

More information, screenshots and an interactive IBR demo can be found on the Image Based Rendering Homepage.

03.02.2000 jPCT 03.02.2000

jPCT is a Java 3D engine from Helge Förster ( fr@activezone.org ).

Perspective texture mapping with 16 pixel scanline-subdivision
24 bit RGB perspective correct Gouraud-shading
24 bit textures and framebuffe
32 bit high accuracy W-Buffer
Sub-pixel and sub-texel accuracy
2D/3D clipping
Any texture-size supported (256*256 used in the demo)
6DOF movement

More information and the applet can be found on the Homepage of Helge Förster.

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.

02.02.2000 Radiance 22.12.1999

Radiance is a (work in progress) rendering engine for Windows from Kyle Kestell ( kkestell@uswest.net ).

Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
Support for OpenGL
Simple cube scene with TGA texture
C source

More information, screenshots and the source can be found on the Radiance 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

02.02.2000 Grain Engine 02.02.2000

The Grain Engine is a 3D engine for Windows from Kurt Miller ( kurt@flipcode.com ).

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)

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on The Grain Engine Homepage

02.02.2000 OpenGL 06.09.1995

OpenGL� is a software interface for applications to generate interactive 2D and 3D computer graphics. OpenGL is designed to be independent of operating system, window system, and hardware operations, and it is supported by many vendors. OpenGL is available on PCs, Macintosh and workstations.
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

The OpenGL functions described are provided on every OpenGL implementation to make applications written with OpenGL easily portable between platforms. All licensed OpenGL implementations are required to pass the Conformance Tests, and come from a single specification and language binding document.
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

Apprentice is an Inventor emulation library that reads and displays .iv files from Eric Victor Powers (powerg@deltanet.com).

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.

More information and the license agreement can be found on the Apprentice Homepage.

02.02.2000 Magic3D 08.07.1999

Magic3D is a 3D engine for Windows 95 from Stefan Letz ( Stefan.Letz@online.de ).

Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping
Support for Direct3D
Z-Buffer rendering
Bilinear texture filtering
Transparent textures
Dithering
Animated textures
Scene fog
Colored lights
Script language
Collision detection
3D sound
Music player (.WAV, .MID and CD Audio)

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on Magic3D Homepage

02.02.2000 Olino3D 02.02.2000

Olino3D is a 3D engine for DOS from Bruno Mace ( maceb@caramail.com ).

Gouraud shading, perspective texture mapping
Support for 3D Studio ASC files
Z-Buffer
Support for 8,16,24 and 32 bits
C++ source for DJGPP with Allegro

More information, screenshots and the source can be found on the (french) Homepage of Bruno.

02.02.2000 Caladan 02.02.2000

Caladan is an OpenGL landscape engine for Windows by Nicholas Anderson ( ceenda@cee.hw.ac.uk ).

Perspective texture mapping
Fogging
Sky mapping
Polygonal objects
Support for 3D Studio ASC files

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found via the Homepage of Nicholas Anderson.

23.12.1999 Purgatory 23.12.1999

Purgatory is a 3d pc engine for Windows by Marco Corbetta (ivy_mantled@yahoo.com , marcoc@prograph.it)

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

More information,screenshots and a demo can be found at the Purgatory 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 Twister 28.09.1999

Twister is a "Quake-style" 3D engine for Windows by Stefano Lanza ( steflanz@tin.it ).

Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
BSP rendering
Multiple cameras
Mirrors
Particle systems
Quake II .bsp support
Quake II model support
S-buffer rendering
Dynamic colored lightmaps
Volumetric fog
Support for Quake 2 models
Direct3D acceleration
Console
Visual C++ 5.0 source

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

22.12.1999 Quesa 22.12.1999

Quesa is a high level 3D graphics library, released as Open Source under the LGPL, which implements Apple's QuickDraw 3D API on top of OpenGL. Quesa was started by Dair Grant (dair@webthing.net), although substantial amounts of code have since been contributed by other developers.

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

More information, screenshots and links to download the source can be found on the Quesa 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 .

22.12.1999 Poly Nova 03.09.1999

Poly Nova is a Windows 95/98 3D engine from Chris Raynor of Novasoft Consulting.

Support for Direct3D (7.0 )
Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping
Dynamic realtime colored lighting
Z-Buffer support
Support for ambient/directional and point light sources
Collision detection
Scene manager
Floating point math
C++ source for Visual C++

More information, screenshots, executables and the source can be found on the Poly Nova Homepage

22.12.1999 Gameforge 22.12.1999

Gameforge is a Glide 3D engine from Bernhard Kotzenberg, Petrus Viljoen, Carl de Jager ( info@gameforge.com ).

Perspective texture mapping
Texture filtering
Animated textures
LOD support
Anti aliasing
Landscape rendering
Support for Glide hardware rendering
EAX 3D sound

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

09.11.1999 MGRage 09.11.1999

MGRage is a 3D engine for Windows from Sebastien Chemin ( nanotech@club-internet.fr ).

Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
Support for DirectX 7
Multitextureing
Environment mapping
Portal and BSP rendering
Dynamic RGB light sourceing
Lens flares
Particle systems
Mirrors
Z-Buffer and W-Buffer support
Hierarchical models

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

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.

29.10.1999 VB Revolution 29.10.1999

VB Revolution is a 3D library for Windows from Simon Theophil ( simon@nefo.de )

Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping
Support for DirectX and software rendering
Z-Buffer rendering
Texture filtering
Colered lights
Multi textureing (additive, subtraktive)
Anti aliasing
Support for DirectSound

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the VB Revolution 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.

18.10.1999 Daredevil's 3D Engine 01.07.1999

Daredevil's 3D Engine is a 3D engine for Windows 95 from Daredevil ( hauswiesner@bhak-weiz.ac.at ).

Support for DirectX
Z-Buffer rendering
Collision detection
Transparency
Colored lights
Support for DirectInput and DirectSound Support for tile-based rendering
.x file loader
MS Visual C++ source available

More information, screenshots, a demo can be found on the Daredevil's Homepage

08.10.1999 Xonnel 21.08.1998

Xonnel is a 3D engine for MSDOS and Windows from Vindicator ( vindicatorh@usa.net ).

Lightmapped perspective texture mapping.
Mip mapping.
Alpha transparency.
Portal rendering.
True colored lighting.
True Shadows, with redefinable grid sizes through world file.
Collision detection / sliding.
Updated landscape rendering and improved texture structure.
Resolution independand, support for SVGA.
Space Warping ( name given by Crystal Space -- sounds proper ).
Asm script language.
Physics system.
Basic window based portal editor.
Particle system
DJGPP C source code
C Scripting builtin using seer
GUI/Editor/console using BGui

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

08.10.1999 Bullet3D 08.10.1999

Bullet3D is a 3D library for Windows from BIll Bo ( ufbl0361@ms25.hinet.net ).

Unshaded, perspective texture mapping
Support for DirectX 6 and OpenGL
Z-Buffer rendering
BSP rendering
3D Studio Max Plugin
Collision detection
Written in C++ (Visual C++ 6.0)

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the Bullet 3D 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.

28.09.1999 Gizmo3D 28.09.1999

Gizmo3D is a high performance 3D scene graph and visualisation toolkit for Linux, Win32 and Irix from Anders Moden ( anders@linux3d.net ).

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++

More information, screenshots and the source can be found on the Gizmo3D Homepage.

28.09.1999 Eng3D 22.04.1999

Eng3D is a small 3D engine for DOS from Gautier de Montmollin ( Gautier.deMontmollin@maths.unine.ch ).

Shaded, perspective texture mapping
Different perspective scanliners
Multiple lights
Z-Sorting
Clipping
SVGA support
Written in Ada

More information, screenshots and the source can be found on the Eng3D Homepage

28.09.1999 Mood 09.06.1999

Mood is a 3D engine for DOS from Alexei A. Frounze ( alex.fru@mtu-net.ru ).

Unlit, perspective texture mapping
3 different perspective texture mappers
Smart Filtering (really cool technique of smoothing/filtering)
Z-Buffer rendering
Convex rooms with different height of floors and ceilings(windows, stairs)
Texture mapped floors, walls and ceilings
Non-orthogonal walls
Simple portal technique
Looking up/down
Map viewer, FPS counter
Support high-resolution VESA modes (640x400 and 640x480)
Borland Pascal V7.0 and Turbo Assembler v 3.2 source

More information, screenshots, the source and binary can be found via the Homepage of Alexei Frounze.

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.

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.

13.09.1999 R-Engine 13.09.1999

The R-engine is a 3D game engine for Windows 95/98 from Onil Jang ( jangunil@oigame.co.kr ).

Lightmapped perspective texturemapping
Support for Direct 3D
Sector based engine
Reatime pathfinder
Collision detection
Dynamic scene (windmill, bridge,door,trap....)
Dynamic objects (support for 3D Studio Max Character Studio)
Corona fire effect
Lava, water, wall texture UV animation
Particle systems with gravity
Transparency and alpha-blending
Fog

More information, screenshots, game AVI and etc.. can be found on the Oin-Enterprise 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 3D Pong 08.07.1997

3D Pong is a 3D engine for PCs from Adrian Perez ( fumincuban@aol.com ) aka 'Fumincuban'

Gouraud shaded, translucent, perspective texture mapping.
Collision detection.
3D clipping.
Moving point light source.

The source can be found in the programming section of Fumincuban's Homepage. There are also some informations about the BSP / CSG / portal rendering engine Rayser and Rayser 2.

09.09.1999 Project: 3D Craft 21.07.1998

P3DC (former Gee-3D) is an open source 3D rendering engine based 3Dfx's Glide library written by Chuck McManis ( cmcmanis@mcmanis.com ).

Glide 2.x compatible 3D accellerator
Shaded, perspective texture mapping
3D Model definition with its own 3D model language
Multiple Cameras on screen at the same time
Screen shots in Portable Network Graphics (PNG) forma
Compiles on Linux, FreeBSD and Win9x
Includes all source code and BSD style license

More information, screen shots, sources, and a demo can be found at the Project: 3D Craft home page. A mailing list is at p3dc@home.mcmanis.com .

08.09.1999 V3D 07.07.1999

V3D is a 3D engine for Windows 95/98 from Rich ( v3dengine@hotmail.com ).

Lightmapped perspective texturemapping
Varible LightMap ratios ( 1:1, 8:1, 16:1 )
Support for vertex alpha
Shadow effects
Gouraud shading
RGB lighting
Transparency
Fog
BSP tree rendering
Hardware acceleration through Direct3D
Written in C++
MMX optimizations
Solid Modeling Application

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the V3D 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.

03.09.1999 Jake 3D 04.03.1998

Jake 3D is an indoor 3D engine for DOS from Jonathan Thomas ( jht2000@hotmail.com ).

Perspective, gouraud shaded texture mapping.
Simple texture filtering.
Fogging.
Support for VESA 2.0.
C source for DJGPP

Little more information, the demo and the source can be found via Jon's Homepage in the archive.

03.09.1999 Claw Engine 08.07.1999

The Claw Engine is a landscape 3D engine for Windows 95/98/2000/NT from Andreas Löffler ( gd_crazy@gmx.net ) of United Bytes.

Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping
Support hardware acceleration via Direct3D
Multitexturing
Z-Buffer rendering
Colored lights
LOD support
Colored fogging
Vegetation primitive (stones, trees, plants)
Landscape and scene editor
Editor for houses and citys
Support for sectors
Skybox
Collision detection
Physics
Lighting system (spot, environment)
Written in Visual C++

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

03.09.1999 JView3D 27.03.1998

JV3D is a Java 3D engine from Thomas Landspurg of Tomsoft (tomsoft@worldnet.net).

Unshaded, perspective texture mapping
Shaded, flat polygons
Wireframe rendering
Z sorting
Hierachical object model
Multiple Views
Support for backdrop images
Support for Quake 1 models
JDK1.0.2 and 1.1 compatible
Can be used as a library, a beans or an applet
Small (<40ko for V0.1)
There is a small implementation of JView3D for Palm Pilot/CE, using Waba

More information, screenshots and demos can be found on the JView3D Homepage.

10.08.1999 Hi-Fi TextureMapper 10.08.1999

HiFiTM is a experimental texturemapper for DOS from Maxim Stepin ( m_stepin@chat.ru ).
It is written to see the quality of new method of adaptive nonlinear texture filtering.

Perspective, unlit texture mapping
Subpixel, subtexel accuraccy
Fast bilinear texture filtering
Fast adaptive nonlinear texture filtering
SVGA support
Watcom C/ASM source

More information, a demo and the source can be found via the Maxim Stepin 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

20.07.1999 Peuck 01.07.1999

Peuck is a realtime 3D engine for Windows 95/NT from Francesco Carucci, Sebastiano Mandal and Maurizio Pianta aka 'Mental Fusion & 7th sense Team'.

Lightmapped perspective texturemapping
Diffuse and specular lightmapping or vertex lighting
Virtual rendering machine, mapped on real drivers (currently implemented OpenGL, Glide, Direct3D)
Multiple viewports
Math driver (floating point supported, SSE under development)
Transparency
Environment mapping, chrome mapping
Real time dynamic lightmapping (diffuse map and specular map)
Real time dynamic bumpmapping (env bump mapping and real bump mapping)
Support for 3D Studio .3DS and Lightscape .LWO files
Motion blur
Skeletal and hierarchical animation
Planned port to Linux and Macintosh

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

17.07.1999 Open Media Toolkit 17.07.1999

The OMT is an 3D engine and application framework for Mac, PowerPC, Windows 95/NT from Pacific Media WorX.

High performance C++ mix-in architecture
Perspective, shaded texture mapping
Flat and gouraud shading
Multiple colored lights
Translucidity
3D sprites
Three polygon sorting methods and two polygon software rasterizers
2D engine
Network support
Collision detection

More information and documentation can be found on the Pacific Media WorX 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.

12.07.1999 Equinox (Link Problems!) 19.05.1999

Equinox is a PC 3D engine from Marco Corbetta ( ivy_mantled@yahoo.com ).

Unlit, perspective texture mapping
Procedural textures with syntethical painting structure
Z-buffer rendering
Quadratic Bezier surfaces with LOD
Motion blur
Real time characther shadows
Colored volumetric fog
Voxel to Bezier rendering
Support for 3D Studio .3DS files
Support for Quake II model (.md2) with frame-interpolation
Support for Quake I level (.bsp)
Support for 3DFX and GLIDE 3.0
Written in pure C

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

09.07.1999 Void 09.07.1999

Void is a 3D engine for Windows 95 from Ripper (jmschreiner@students.wisc.edu) and Skid (skid@planetquake.com).

Unshaded, perspective texture mapping
Portal rendering
OpenGL support
PCX texture support
Mip mapping
Transparent textures (alpha blending)
Mirror support with multiple recursions and transparent textures
Skybox rendering - like quake2
Dynamically change resolutions and fullscreen togg
Partial quake2 md2 model support
Collision detection
Arbitrary clipping planes
Input via DirectInput, Sounds via DirectSound, Music via DirectMusic
Full ingame console with Console Vars and Commands
Internal filesystem with support for zip files
Custom level editor
Written in C and C++

More information and screenshots can be found on the Void Homepage

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.

23.06.1999 ExcalibVR 23.06.1999

ExcalibVR is a commercial 3D API with cross-platform support from Realidad Virtual Ltda (ccorrea@rvltda.com) .

Based on OpenGL
Object Oriented API written in C++ (Visual C++ 5.0)
Optimized Scene Hierarchy
Extensible model
Cross-platform support (although the actual version only supports Windows)
VR devices support
File format import options

More information can be found on the ExcalibVR Homepage

28.05.1999 6DX 28.05.1999

6DX is a commercial 3D game engine for Windows from Eldermage Entertainment Inc.

Shaded, perspective texture mapping
Transparent textures and overlays
Hardware acceleration through Direct3D
Support for 16 bit / true color rendering
Dynamic lighting
Particle systems
Multiple cloud/fog planes, fogging
Coronas/Halos on lights
Shadows (like Heretic 2)
Available as ActiveX and Delphi VCL
Support for Quake scenes and editors
Support for polygonal actors (MDL)

More information, screenshots and demos can be found on the Eldermage Homepage

28.05.1999 RightSpace 28.05.1999

RightSpace is a CAD application based on Java3D from from Andrei Cioroianu (andcio@hotmail.com).

Unlit, perspective texture mapping
Gouraud shading and wire-frame
Different light types
3D DXF import/export, 2D DXF to 3D objects conversion
Standard primitives
Support for Windows 95/98/NT and Solaris using JDK 1.2 and Java3D 1.1.1 (OpenGL version)
Object and scene editor with multiple views
Written in Java

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the Java Developer's Page

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.

20.05.1999 EasyGen3D 11.08.1998

EasyGen3D is an OpenSource wrapper for the Genesis 3D library from Matthew Ellis ( matt@magmagames.com ).

Easy setup of Genesis3D
Easy scene setup
Support for Gravity, Coronas, Electric bolts and dynamic lighting
Texture loading
C source for Visual C++ 6.0

More information and the SDK can be found on Genesis 3D Homepage.

12.05.1999 Gran3D 12.05.1999

Gran3D is a Windows 3D Engine by Kim Jeong Ju (haje01@netsgo.com) . It was designed to work seamlessly with 3D Studio Max and 3D acceleration card.

Shaded, perspective texture mapping
Support for DirectX 6.1
Support for 3DS Max ASCII Export including materials and animations
Support for multi-materials
Support for 3DS Max bone and IK animations
Support for Character Studio biped and physique animations
Quake-like terrain component using BSP, Portal, PVS
Collision detection

More information, screenshots and demos can be found on the Gran3D Homepage

10.05.1999 TMap Demo 10.05.1999

TMap Demo is a tutorial about perspective texture mapping from Alexei A. Frounze ( alex.fru@mtu-net.ru ).

Different perspective texture scanliners
Texture mapping method choosing while demo is running
Moving the rotating cube closer and farth
Vertical retrace waiting switch
Borland Pascal v7.0 and Borland Turbo Assembler v3 sources with comments

More information and the source/binary can be found via the Homepage of Alexei A. Frounze (look under Programming and Demos).

06.05.1999 SGE 3D 06.05.1997

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

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

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

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

22.04.1999 E3d Engine 22.04.1999

The E3d Engine is a commercial 3d engine for Windows from Act 3d Interactive.

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

More information and a demo can be found on the E3d Engine Homepage .

22.04.1999 Mesa 01.01.1995

Mesa is a 3-D graphics library with an API which is very similar to that of OpenGL by Brian Paul (brianp@ssec.wisc.edu).

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.

More info and links to download the source can be found on the Mesa Homepage

13.04.1999 SS3D 18.03.1999

SS3D is a 3D engine for DOS from Ramon Rabaso (ramon@spanto.com ) .

Shaded, perspective texture mapping
Ambient, omni and spot lights
Animated textures
Z-Buffer rendering
Export utility for 3D Studio
Written in pure C

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the SS3D Homepage

26.03.1999 BCAD 2001 3D 26.03.1999

BCAD 2001 3D is a DOS 3D engine from InterSoft Company (intersoftc@hotmail.com ).

Gouraud shaded texture mapping
Z-Buffer
Molecule viewing
Perspective/Parallel projection
Bitmap output
Animation
Written in C with DJGPP

More information, screenshots and the a demo and the souce can be found on the BCAD 2001 3D Homepage.

23.03.1999 Perspective Texturemapping Tutorial 24.11.1997

PPT is a tutorial about perspective texture mapping from Mikael Kalms published in 3DReview.

Perspective, unshaded texture mapping.
Division per pixel and scanline-subdivision renderer.
Subpixel, subtexel accuracy.
C source to the scanliners available.

A tutorial, screenshots, demos and the sources of the scanliners are available on the Perspective Texturmapping Article Homepage.

23.03.1999 3D TT 01.03.1999

3D TT is a 3D game engine for a game like Transport Tycoon for Windows from Peter Dobrovka ( dobrovka@hkn.de ) and WAY-X (a group of hobby programmers).

Based on OpenGL
Multitextured landscape (without shading)
Perspective and isometric view
Large maps (1024x1024)
3D Sprites
Moving objects (esp. trains)
Integrated editor
Written in Delphi Pascal

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the (german) WAY-X Homepage under 3DTT (click one of the four icons in the top frame to view screenshots etc).

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.

18.03.1999 GPF (Broken Link ???) 03.09.1998

GPF is a 3D engine for PCs from Matti Dahlbom ( mdahlbom@cc.hut.fi ).

Perspective, gouraud texture mapping.
Mipmapping.
S-Buffer rendering.
Moving objects.
Support for DOS (SVGA) and DirectX.
C++ / ASM source.

More information, a demo and the souce can be found on the GPF 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.

11.03.1999 Nano3D 11.03.1999

Nano3D is a 3D engine for Windows from Bejan Bogdan ( bogdan.bejan@freemail.fx.ro ).

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.

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the Nano3D Homepage.

10.03.1999 Fluxions 10.03.1999

Fluxions is a 3D engine for PCs by Jonathan Metzgar ( microwerx@fcmail.com ).

Perspective lightmapped texture mapping
Bi-linear texture-mapping with perspective-correction every 8-16 pixels
Portal rendering
Span-buffer hidden surface removal
3D sprites (triangle mesh) with Z-Buffering
C++/ASM source developed with DJGPP and Allegro.

More information, screenshots and the source can be found via the Microwerx Game Programming 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.

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 .

17.02.1999 Vital 17.02.1999

Vital is a 3D game engine for Windows from Lut Roman and Sergey Zabaryansky ( root@zssoft.carrier.kiev.ua ).

Perspective, gouraud shaded texture mapping
Support for Direct3D
Environment mapping
Colored, dynamic lightsources
Mirrors
Lens flares and halos
Local fog
Realistic water (geometry underwater warps)
Object falling into water sets out 3d waves
Physics system
Support for DirectSound3D and A3D

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

09.02.1999 Venerium 09.02.1999

Venerium is a Windows'9x/NT 3D engine by Ivan Sheblucin > (ivan@elma.zgrad.ru).

Perspective lightmapped texture mapping
MIP-Mapping
BSP and z-buffer rendering
Static & dinamic coloured Lightmaps
32 bit internal rendering
Support 15,16,24,32 bit per pixel
Sound support
Collision detection
Written in Visual C++ 5.0

More information, screenshots and demo can be found on Venerium Homepage .

09.02.1999 Focus 27.10.1998

Focus is a simple 3D engine for Windows that is intended as a experimental engine for testing various new techniques from Jacco Bikker ( Jacco.Bikker@HTA.nl ) aka 'The Phantom'.

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)

More information, screenshots, binaries and the souce can be found on the Phantom Cyberspace 3D Homepage .

05.02.1999 Game Creation System 05.02.1999

GCS is a commercial 3D system for non-programmers by Pie in the Sky Software.

Shaded erspective texture mapping
Support for all Direct 3D/Direct X 3D accelerated video cards
Use 8,16, 24, or 32 bit color in modes up to 1280x1024
Light source effects for incredible graphic
DirectSound digitally mixed sound effects
Weapons, enemy guys, and basic artwork included
Level editor and paint program included

More information and screenshots can be found on the Game Creation System Homepage.

29.01.1999 Visualization ToolKit 29.01.1999

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

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

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

27.01.1999 Voodoo3D 22.07.1998

V3D is a flat shading engine for 3DFX Voodoo graphics hardware on Windows 95 from Roger Boerdijk ( boerdijk@xs4all.nl ) wrot

Support for wireframe, flat rendering and (unshaded) perspective texturemapping.
Support for 3D Studio ASC files.
Sutherland-hodgeman 3D Clipping.
Watcom C++ source.

More information, the executable and the source can be found via the Homepage of Roger Boerdijk.

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.

18.01.1999 Dream Engine 28.01.1998

DE is a 3D engine for DOS from Martin Valigursky ( valigursky@geocities.com ).

Perspective, shaded texture-mapping.
Static and dynamic point/directional lights.
Depthcueing.
Z-buffer and BSP rendering.
Collision detection.
Support for 3D Studio 3DS object and animation files.
Support for mouse, keyboard and VFX1 headtracker.
Support for DirectX and hardware acceleration

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found via the Homepage of Martin Valigursky.

18.01.1999 libCON 18.01.1999

libCON is a 3D game programming library for Windows 95/98 from Amir Geva aka 'Photon' ( __Photon__@yahoo.com ). libCON provides an easy to use API to programmers who don't want to mess around with Windows/DirectX.

Perspective, shaded texture mapping
Multiple colored lights
Support for DirecX 6.0, uses hardware acceleration, if available
Sound support
Collision detection using RAPID package
Written in MS Visual C++ 4.2
C++ API

More information, screenshots, the library and a demo ( a 3D modeller using the library) can be found on the Photon2038 Game Programming 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

15.01.1999 Flatland Rover 15.01.1999

Flatland Rover is 3d engine with 3DML (3D Markup Language) support that works as WWW browser plugin (Netscape Navigator, MS Internet Explorer, AOL) from Flatland Online Inc. 3DML is a easy to write 3D description language that support building blocks and animations.

Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping
Bilinear filtering
Support for DirectX and PC 3D hardware
Support for Windows 95/98/NT
3D audio support ((DirectSound and A3D 2.0)
16bit and 8bit color support
BSP sorting
Dynamic lighting - moving spotlights, pulse lights, point lights
Player gravity
Support for GIF, animated GIF, JPEG textures
Transparent texture color
Translucency
Support for TombRaider 3 texture and building blocks

Information, software, tutorials, screenshots, and more can be found at the Flatland Web Site.

14.01.1999 3D API Bindings for Delphi 14.01.1999

Erik Unger manages a site for 3D API Bindings for Delphi:

Support for DirectX 6.0 for Delphi 2, 3 and 4 (Erik Unger )
Support for OpenGL 1.1 ( Mike Lischke )
Support for Glide 2.43 (Erik Unger and Eric Nowinski)

More information and the source can be found on the Delphi Graphics 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 .

13.01.1999 True 3D 05.10.1998

True 3D is a 3D engine for Mac, Dos and Windows 95/NT from Kevin Olson ( kevin3d@earthlink.com ).

Perspective correct bump-mapped textures.
Multiple spherical light sources.
Per pixel shadow casting.
320x200/640x480 resolutions with 8/24 bit versions.
Written in C++/C/Asm using CodeWarrior/Watcom 10.0/Visual 5.0.

More information and a screenshot can be found on the True 3D Homepage .

13.01.1999 VR-AGE 13.01.1999

VR-AGE is a commercial 3D rendering and sprite engine for Windows / DirectX from Webfoot Technologies.

Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping
Transparent/translucent polygons, sprites & particles
Animated sprites and textures
Particle system
Colored lighting effects
Depth sorting
Polygonal characters
Collision detection
Lens flares and underwater FX
Real-time WYSIWYG Level Editor
Sound support
Written in C/C++/ASM

More information, demos and screenshots can be found via the Webfoot Technologies Homepage .

13.01.1999 3D-Wage 13.01.1999

3D-Wage is a commercial 3D rendering and sprite engine for Windows / DirectX from Webfoot Technologies.

Based on cube rendering
Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping
Animated sprites and textures
Colored lighting effects
Depth sorting
Moving cubes and sprite
Lifted and non-lifted floors and ceilings
Sprite clipping against polygons
Collision detection
Real-time WYSIWYG Level Editor
Sound support
Written in C/C++/ASM

More information, demos and screenshots can be found via the Webfoot Technologies 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.

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.

12.01.1999 3DGPL 27.06.1995

3DGPL 2.0 is a portable 3D engine from Sergei Savchenko (savs@cs.mcgill.ca).

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

The source, tutorial, screenshots and more information can be found on 3DGPL Homepage. A Mac port of 3DGPL 1.0 done by Ingemar Ragnemalm can be found at ftp.lysator.liu.se.

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 .

11.01.1999 TerrEng (Link Problem!) 11.01.1999

TerrEng is a software renderer for fast 3D visualisation form SCS Software.

Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping
Triangle subdivision
Sub-pixel and sub-texel precision
MIP-mapping
Mixed span-buffer and z-buffer rendering
Internal true color renderer, output to 15/16/24/32 bit depths
Distance based fog
Transparency, translucency and stipple
3D sprites
OpenGL like C API
Hand optimized assembly inner loops, MMX optimized paths

More information can be found on the SCS Software 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.

18.12.1998 VRaniML 11.11.1997

VRaniML is a VRML 2.0 C++ class library for building 3D graphics applications from Great Hill Corporation ( info@greathill.com ).

Perspective, shaded texture mapping.
Animated textures.
API support for VRML 2.0 build-in nodes including DEF/USE, PROTOs, ROUTEs and the VRML execution model.
Support for multipass rendering.
Uses OpenGL for rendering, support for D3D is planned.
Support for Windows 95 / NT.
Audio support.
Written in C++.
Free for non-commercial use.
The full source is available for licensing.
VRML 2.0 parser seperated into freely available, freely redistributable source code.

More information, screenshots, the SDK and a demo can be found on the VRaniML 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.

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 .

09.11.1998 Descent I 28.01.1998

Parallax Software Corp. released the original source code to Descent 1.5.

Perspective, shaded texture-mapping.
Collision detection.
Portal rendering (cube scene layout).
Moving lightsources.
3D objects.
3D Sprites.
Object AI.
No sound or modem support.
Level editor.
C/ASM source.
DJGPP 2.0 port available.

More information and the source can be found on the Descent 1 Source Code 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 .

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 PCT 18.02.1997

PCT is a 'Perspective Texture Mapping' engine for PCs by Helge Förster ( hfoe0127@rz.uni-hildesheim.de ). It is the successor of Textmap.

Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping.
Bilinear texture filtering.
Bump-mapping.
Multi-texturing/detail mapping.
2D and 3D clipping without distortions.
SVGA support.
Z-buffer and painters algorithm rendering.
Depthcueing and fogging.
Scanline-caches
Animated texture maps.
Polygon compiler to reduce # of polygons.
Rotating objects.
Collision detection.
Sector based rendering.
Benchmark option.

A demo and more information can be found on the PCT 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 .

12.10.1998 Roketz 05.05.1998

Roketz is a 3D game engine by Lars Andersson ( lars_and@algonet.se ).

Unshaded, perspective texture mapping.
Subtexel/subpixel accuracy.
VGA, Tweaked VGA and VESA 2.0 resolutions.
Support for DOS, Linux/SVGALib and Linux/X11.
Quake-like console.
Portal rendering.
C++/ASM source that compiles under Watcom, DJGPP2 and GCC.

More information, screenshots, a demo and the source can be found via Lars' 3D Graphics Programming Page.

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.

05.10.1998 Archee Scent 05.10.1998

Archee Scent is a 3D game engine for Windows 95 using Direct3D from Archee ( soltesz@hotmail.com ).

Perspective gouraud-shaded texture mapping.
Procedural textures and objects (with LOD).
Enemies AI.
Multiple dynamic colred lights.
Level editor (DOS, DJGPP,NASM).
Written in C++/Asm using Visual 5.0 and NASM.

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the Archee Scent 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.

10.09.1998 Alice 12.09.1996

Alice is a 3D Interactive Graphics Programming Environment for Windows 95 by members of Randy Pausch's Stage 3 Research Group at Carnegie Mellon University.

Perspective texture mapping.
Support for DirectX under Windows 95.
Support for VRML 1.0, DXF and OBJ models.
3D localised sound using Intel's RSX 3D Sound Library.
Scripting language.

More information and the Alice binaries on the Alice 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 .

04.09.1998 GLWOF 04.09.1998

GLWOF (OpenGL World Of Fantasy) is the new version of the WOF Quake viewer by Frank Willemsen (frankw@xs4all.nl) and Corin Langosch ( corinl@metronet.de ).

Perspective texture-mapping (with MIP-mapping)
Colored Lightmaps done in Surface-Cache (with interpolation) & Blending
Support for all avaible 3d cards with OpenGL drivers
Support for all resoluton & color depths the 3d card supports
Colored Realtime lightning effects (flicker etc)
Colored Dynamic lighting (fireballs etc)
Hidden surface removal via BSP-Tree
Fast Frustum Culling
100% dynamic collision dection using brushes
Polygonal Characters like Monsters etc..
Particle & Sprite System
BSP-SubModels (like doors, platforms etc) with collision detection
GAME-DLL interface for easy & fast creation of new awesome games
Support for 8-bit as well as 24-bit PCX textures
Texture Manager to change charcteristics of surfaces
Multiline-Funcion-Line-Tracing to support special effects like different sounds when walking on Ice etc...
Real Mirrors
Enhanced Console System with commands & variables
Own fileformats & compiling tools (still similar to quake utils)
Model Editor for Alias models as Monster etc...
Sound Engine with stereo seperation & distance attenution using DirectSound
Support for various Input Devices as Keyboard, Mouse, Joystick using DirectInput
Well documented & structuraed Watcom C+ 10.6 sourcecode (compiling utils are straight C)

More information and a demo can be found on the GLWOF 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.

21.08.1998 RenderIt 3D! 15.04.1998

RenderIt 3D! is Direct3D game programmers library from Indotek Software Productions.

Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping.
Support for Direct3D and 3D accelerator cards.
Alpha texture support.
Automatic 2 pass rendering.
Z-Buffer rendering.
Level of detail support.
Preliminary collision detection support.
Support for 3D Studio 3DS, Direct3D X, AutoCad DFX and R3D.
C API with easy-to-use functions.

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the RenderIt 3D! Homepage .

21.08.1998 Meshbase 21.08.1998

Meshbase is a commercial 3d modeler for Windows 95 / NT from ModelSoft Inc.

Support for OpenGL and 3d hardware.
OpenGL compliant shading, lighting, and texture mapping.
KeyFrame editing and animation.

More information and a demo can be found via the Meshbase 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.

05.08.1998 START Engine 05.08.1998

The START Engine is a (work in progress) Direct3D Engine from Mirko Mignini ( mirko@lert.it ).

Support for Direct3D and 3D accelerator cards.
Dynamic colored lighting sources.
Support for multiple cameras.
Frustum clipping and back face culling.
Z-Buffer rendering
C++ Simple/Extensible API.
Support for 3D Studio files.
Hierarchical world management.
Written in C++.

More information and screenshots can be found via START Engine Homepage .

04.08.1998 Madcow 3D Engine 04.08.1998

M3D is a 3D engine for 3DFX Voodoo graphics hardware on Windows 95 from Madcow ( acowley@seas.upenn.edu ).

Lightmapped perspective texture mapping.
Portal rendering.
Dynamic lights and shadows.
Portal rendering.
Lens-Flares.
Translucent materials.
Sound support.

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on Madcow's Homepage.

04.08.1998 Alternative Realities 04.08.1998

AR is a 3D engine for Windows by Stefan Maton ( metron@skynet.be ).

Perspective shaded texture mapping.
Z-Buffer and W-Buffer shading.
BSP-rendering.
Ambient and omni colored lights.
Chroma keying and alpha keying for textures.
Support for Glide (3DFX).
Fogging.
Written in C++.

More information, screenshots and a demos can be found via Stefan Metron's 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 .

23.07.1998 Lightspeed 3D 23.07.1998

Lightspeed 3D is an open-source realtime 3D engine for MacOS PowerPC from Joseph J. Strout ( joe@strout.net ).

Perspective shaded texture mapping.
Solid, computed, or texture-mapped color.
Flat, Gouraud, computed, or bump-mapped shading.
Sub-pixel accuracy.
Automatic depth sorting.
Real-valued S-buffer rendering.
C++ source (Metrowerks CodeWarrior), optimized for PowerPC.
Free licensing for any purpose, commercial or otherwise.

More information and screenshots can be found on the Lightspeed 3D Engine Homepage . A demo is available by request to Joseph J. Strout.

23.07.1998 JawMD2 16.02.1998

JawMD2 is a Quake2 Model Viewer by Jawed Karim ( jkarim@students.uiuc.edu ).

Unshaded, perspective texture mapping.
Antiliased wireframe, gouraud and textured rendering modes.
Full frame animation support
Uses OpenGL for 3D rendering.
Support for Windows 95/NT and Linux (using MesaGL).

More information, screenshots, the executables and the source can be found on the JawMD2 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 X-Engine 21.07.1998

XE is a 3D engine for Windows 95 from Ales Mlakar aka JaZzBrE ( jazzbre@slo.net ).

Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping.
BSP- and z-buffer rendering.
Collision detection.
Character animation.
Support for DirectX 5, needs PC 3D hardware.
Basic physics.
Particle systems.
Written in C++.

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

21.07.1998 4DBuilder 21.07.1998

4DBuilder is a shareware 3D modeller for Windows 95 from Erek van Grunderbeeck ( erik.vangrunderbeeck@village.uunet.be ).

Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping using Direct3D.
Support for PC 3D cards.
Import of DirectX Frame and Mesh objects, 3Dstudio and Caligari objects.
Primitive objects.
Support for BMP, 3DF, TIF, JPG, PPM and TGA (8, 16 or 24 bit) textures.
Animated textures (AVI files, procedural textures).
Hierarchical objects.
Material settings: ambient, diffuse, specular, emmisive.
Multiple cameras.
Realtime preview and manipulation.
Full edit list's of vertices and faces available.

More information, screenshots and the executable can be found on the 4DBuilder Homepage .

21.07.1998 T Vaughan's 3D Graphics Engine 21.07.1998

TV3DGE is a 3D for Windows 95 from Thomas Vaughan ( ThomasVaughan@classic.msn.com ).

Unshaded, perspective texture mapping.
Uses DirectDraw (no Dirct3D) for rendering.
BSP- and ZBuffer rendering.
Game physics.
Written in C++.

More information, screenshot of the map editor, a demo can be found on the T Vaughan's 3D Graphics Engine 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 Yager 14.01.1998

Yager is a 3D game engine for Direct3D from Roman Golka, Uwe Beneke, Timo Ullmann ( ullmann@informatik.hu-berlin.de ), Joerg Wagner, Philipp Schellbach, Thilo Böhm and Volker Strübing.

6-DoF landscape renderer using innovative "free tile" texturing.
3D objects.
Colored lights.
Particle systems.
Game physics based on flexible reality model.
Support for DirectSound.
16 bit gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping.
16 bit Z-Buffer used for hidden surface removal.
Collision detection.

More information and screenshots can be found via the Yager Homepage .

08.06.1998 Vindictive 27.03.1998

Vindictive is a 3D engine for PCs from Scorpion_x ( Vindicatorh@usa.net ).

Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping.
Transparent textures.
Z-Buffer rendering.
Color mixing.
Portal rendering.
3D objects.
Mirrors.
Basic collision detection with sliding.
Moving objects, swing doors, elevator system.
Animated objects.
Console.
3rd person and 1st person view with smooth switching.
Support for SVGA.

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

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 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.

05.05.1998 Spacefighters 05.05.1998

Spacefighters is a 3d space shooter engine for Windows/OpenGL from Perry Hart ( sci-pjh1@jcu.edu.au ).

Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping using OpenGL.
Lens flares.
3D objects.
Support for DirectInput and DirectSound.

More information, screenshots and the demo can be found on the Spacefighters 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.

16.04.1998 Crazy Marbles 16.04.1998

Crazy Marbles is a 3D landscape game that for 3DFX cards from Michael Boyko ( boykom@andrews.edu ). Crazy Marbles won the contest from http://www.voodooextreme.com/.

Support for GLIDE.
Perspective, fogged texture mapping.
Physics.
Sound support.

More information, screenshots and the demo can be found on the Crazy Marbles Homepage

14.04.1998 Motor 3D 15.04.1998

Motor 3D is a 3D engine for PCs from Ramiro Oliva ( ramcor@arrakis.es ).

Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping.
SVGA support from 320x200 to 800x600.
Implements wired, flat, shaded, gouraud, gouraud noise, textured, gouraud textures and transparent render modes.
Depth cueing and fog effects.
Imports 3D Studio ASC models.
Basic primitives such as triangles, quads, sphere...
Unlimited size of textures (optimized for 64x64, 256x256 and 512x512 sizes).
Material library.
Free camera control with "look at" function.
3D morphing.
Written under DJGPP.

More information, screenshots and the demo can be found on the Motor 3D 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 .

19.03.1998 Amp Game Development System 13.05.1997

The AGDS (formerly Diamond 3D Game Development System) is a complete game development system for Windows 95 from Slam Software.

Perspective shaded, texture mapping.
BSP rendering.
Gouraud shaded, hierarchical 3D characters.
Realistic light sourcing with shadows.
Movable Mirrors.
3D editor.
Collision detection.
Physics model / Particle Model.
Advanced animation system with animation blending
Direct-Sound based audio system.
Client/Server game architecture
8 bit color support, variable resolution.
Coming Soon: Multiplayer support and 3DFx Acceleration.

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

17.03.1998 Terra 17.03.1998

Terra is a commercial 3D terrain visualization engine for Windows 95 by Skyline Software Systems LTD.

Support for Direct3D.
Realistically simulates weather phenomena such as clouds and fog.
Perspective texture-mapping with alpha blending and fog.
Static and dynamic 3D & 2D hierarchical objects.
Multi-resolution meshes.
Mesh animation.
Real-time fractal interpolation and texture merging.
Support for DFX and X objects.
Optional terrain builder.
C API interface.
Access to the terrain z-buffer and ground height values.

More information and screenshots can be found on the Terra Homepage

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 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.

12.03.1998 Flyby 14.10.1997

Flyby is a complete 3D game engine by Jean-Francois Nadeau (jfxstudios@ixmedia.com ) , F�lix 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.

11.03.1998 MalibuRace 3D-Engine 11.11.1997

MR3DE is a 3d race game engine for PC 3d cards from Riccardo Scarsi ( scarsi@athena.polito.it ) and Massimo Rossi.

Perspective, gouraud shaded texture mapping.
Support for Lightwave objects.
Support for hierarchical, quaternion-based animation of objects BSP rendering.
Needs accelerated 3d graphic cards (3dFx, 3dBlaster)

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the MalibuRace 3D-Engine Homepage.

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 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.

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.

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.

04.03.1998 PGS 04.03.1998

PGS is a commercial set of libraries for building 3D CAD applications and rendering 3D CAD models from Geometric Technology Systems.

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).

More information and contact information can be found on the Geometric Technology Systems Homepage.

13.02.1998 UltraFish 3D Engine 13.02.1998

The UltraFish 3D Engine is a commercial 3D game engine for Windows 95/NT from UltraFish Incorporated.

Lightmapped, perspective correct texture mapping.
Dynamic colored light sources.
Portals and display lists.
Advance character animation.
Support for 3D Studio MAX models.
Game editor toolkit.
Fully DirectX compatible, support for Direct3D hardware acceleration and own custom software renderer for non-accelerated machines.

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

13.02.1998 Cutting-Edge 3D Game Programming with C++ 13.02.1998

CE3DGP is a book (ISBN: 1-883577-70-5) from John De Goes that contains a 3D engine for DOS and Windows 95.

Perspective, gouraud shaded texture mapping.
Collision detection.
3D morphing.
3D sprites.
C++ source.

More information and reviews are availabe at the CE3DGP Page of the Amazon Bookstore.
The book is currently not available.

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.

12.02.1998 Oden3D 12.02.1998

Oden3D is object-oriented C++ 3D game engine for Windows 95 / NT platforms from Novel Productions. Oden3D provides (when finished):

Perspective, gouraud shaded texture mapping.
Hierarchical scene graph databases
Keyframed animations
Effiecient visible object culling through OBB or BSP trees
Portal rendering
Multiple instancing of objects and hierarchies
Multiple cameras and lightsources
Dynamic collision detection
Support for Direct3D and OpenGL
Dynamic lighting and fogging
Level-of-detail representation
Particle system
Landscape renderer
Support for 3D Studio 3DS scene and animation files
Networksupport
C++ object-oriented extendable API
3D hardware accelleration through Direct3D.

For more information send an email to astaroth@mail.databasen.se.

30.01.1998 HiRender 29.10.1996

HiRender is a PC 3D rendering API by Mark Grocki (mgrocki@umd.umich.edu) from Hirise Software.

Gouraud shaded perspective texture mapping.
Bilinear texture mapping.
Depth cueing.
Z-sorting.
Hither and yon clipping.
Load and display 320x200x256 PCX files.
3D objects: load, translate, rotate and display with only a few function calls.
3D entities: use as characters in a game, simulation, etc.
Timing functions: get FPS, lock frame rate, get elapsed time in seconds and 1/100th seconds.
Mouse functions.
Support for Jaw3D files.
Used with DJGPP compiler.

More information, an SDK and a demo are available via the Hirise Homepage.

29.01.1998 Screaming Cabala 16.07.1996

The SC is a graphics library for the Macintosh by Andrew Meggs (meggs@virginia.edu).

Linear and quadratic shaded texture mapping.
Depth cueing.
Transparent and translucent sections on textures.
Support for 8- and 16-bit screens.
Full sprite package.
Freely available for development.
Minimum CPU is a 68040LC (without FPU)

The library and more information can be found on the Screaming Cabala 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.

28.01.1998 Ray Dream 30.06.1997

RD is a 3D engine for PCs from Park chung koo aka 'Newblood' ( raydream@chollian.net ).

Flat shaded, perspective texture mapping.
Bilinear mapping.
Z-buffer rendering.
Support for 3D Studio 3DS object and animation files
Collision detection and reaction.

More information and a demo can be found via the Homepage of Newblood.

14.01.1998 Regicide 14.01.1998

Regicide is a 3D engine for DOS from Richard Sim ( richard@hyper.net.au ).

Lambert shaded, perspective texturemapping.
Support for 640x480 with 256 grayscales.
Z-Sorting.

More information and screenshots can be found via the Homepage of Richard Sim .

23.12.1997 Infected Mine 23.12.1997

IM is a 3D game engine for DOS from Peter Soltesz (soltesz@hotmail.com).

Shaded, perspective texturemapping.
Animated sprites.
Sound support.
ASM and Borland Pascal 7.0 source, only few (spanish?) comments.

The binary and source can be found as exe file (4 MB) on quake.pganet.com.

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.

01.12.1997 nGen 01.12.1997

The nGen Project is an exterior engine, suitable for space combat or flight simulators by John DiCamillo (milod@netcom.com).

Perspective correct texture mapping.
Gouraud shading.
Translucent 3D sprites and blobs
Colored Lighting in hardware .
Support for 8 and 16 bit color.
Zero-Gravity Physics Model with Linear Drag .
3D Acclerator Support through Direct3D.
Sound Support through DirectSound and DS3D.
Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 .

More information, tutorials (and some source code) about 3D texture mapping and MIP-mapping can be found via the Homepage of John DiCamillo.

24.11.1997 House Modelling Project 22.11.1997

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

Perspective, shaded texture mapping.
Lightmap rendering.
Bilinear texture filtering.
Sub-pixel and sub-texel accurate rasterising.
BSP rendering.
Radiosity effects for lighting.
16 bit color support.
Span buffer rendering.
Written in C.

More information, screenshots, documentation, tuorials and a demo can be found on the Graphics Coding Webpage of Tom Hammersley .

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.

24.11.1997 Textur 24.11.1997

Textur is a 3D texturemapper for PCs from Karlis Freivald (karlisf@cclu.lv).

Perspective, unshaded texture mapping.
Perspective is archive with a new approach to polygon subdivision.
Subpixel, subtexel accuracy.
No FPU instructions in inner loops.
Automatic quality control
Filling in tiles reduces cache misses
Support for 8 bit color.

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

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.

13.11.1997 SuperVision3D 13.11.1997

SV3D is a game development library for PCs from Pavel Sich (sichp@cs.felk.cvut.cz).

Uses RenderWare 3D library.
Improved object manipulation.
Support for hierarchical models animation.
Support for fli/flc animation files.
Spline functions.
Landscape renderer .
Support for 3D Studio 3DS scene and animation files.
Sound support.

More information can be found on the SuperVision3D Homepage.

11.11.1997 3Dplayer 11.11.1997

3Dplayer is a 3d polygon engine from Andrey Romanov ( aleksey@nica.ru ).

Perspective, shaded texture mapping.
MIP-mapped texture filtering.
Multiple cameras.
Resolution independand.
Collision detection.
Real characteristics of objects: mass, power,resilience, elasticity, aerodynamics, energy, etc.
Support for OS, OS/2 and Windows.
Support for SVGA.
Wad-file (for DOOM1) converter, support for 3D Studio ASC format

The demo can be found on ftp.nica.ru.

10.11.1997 Frag Isaland 10.11.1997

Frag Isaland is a pure Java 3D polygon engine from Niclas Thisell (niclas@thermometric.se) and Andreas Suurkuusk (andreas@thermometric.se) of the 'Carebears'.

Perspective shaded texture mapping.
Lightmap rendering.
BSP rendering.
Hierarchical objects.
Collision detection.
Keyboard support.
Landscape rendering.
Network client/server support.

More information and the applet can be found on the Frag Island Homepage.

03.11.1997 Direct3D Quake Viewer (Broken Link!) 03.11.1997

The D3DQV is a Direct3D engine for Windows 95 by Keith Harrison ( kh@netcomuk.co.uk ).

Perspective, shaded texture-mapping with lightmaps.
Support for Direct3D and PC 3D cards.
BSP tree.
Ported from the OpenGL version of the viewer.
Support for Quake level files.
Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 source.

More information, the source and binary can be found on the Direct3D Quake Viewer Homepage .

03.11.1997 OpenGL Component for Delphi 07.10.1997

OGLCFD are Delphi 3.0 VCL components providing an object oriented interface to the OpenGL API for Windows 95 and Windows NT. The OGLCFD is distributed by SignSoft GmbH.

Simple API wrapper around OpenGL, the standard OpenGL calls are also awailable.
OpenGL view
Cameras
Camera controllers
Light sources
Materials
Textures
3D objects

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the OpenGL Component for Delphi Homepage or the german OpenGL Component for Delphi 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 .

03.11.1997 OpenGL rendering techniques 03.11.1997

The PGPT are sample programms and tutorials using the OpenGL API from Mark Kilgard (mjk@sgi.com) from Silicon Graphics.

Lens-flares.
Shadows, lighting, textures and reflections.
Halos.
Underwater caustics.
Colored shadows.
C source.

More information, the source and tutorials can be found on the OpenGL rendering techniques Homepage.

27.10.1997 XGL 21.05.1996

The Solaris XGL Graphics Library is a mature graphics interface, providing foundation-level geometry graphics support for Solaris-based applications from Sun Microsystems.
The XGL Graphics Library is both an Application Program Interface (API) and a geometry foundation library and is just one part of the powerful graphics environment provided as standard with the SUN Solaris 2.x operating system.

Shaded, perspective texture mapping.
Transparency.
Accumulation buffer.
Antialiasing.
Nurbs, meshes, polygons, triangle lists, lines.
Dynamic loadable devices, hardware acelleration.
Support for SPARC and x86 microprocessor architectures.
C++ API.

More information on the XGL Homepage.

23.10.1997 3D Mountain Dew can screensaver (Link Problem!) 23.10.1997

The 3DMDCS is a 3D screensaver for Windows 95 using Direct3D / Direct X 5.0 from Jason Cwik ( jcwik@dept.agecon.umn.edu ) of Ice Brewed Software Company.

Support for PC 3D cards.
C++ source.

More information, screenshots, binaries and the source code can be found on the Ice Brewed Software Company Homepage.

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 .

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.

22.10.1997 Threed 22.10.1997

Threed is the Linux port of the 3D engine by Jean-Francois Dube (deks@videotron.ca) aka 'Deks' of IncaMaster.

Perspective, shaded texture-mapping.
Sub-pixel & sub-textel accuracy
Flat and gouraud shading.
Multiple objects.
Multiple rgb light sources.
Z sort rendering.
Light-source rendering.
2D clipping.
Support for 3D Studio ASC, GEO and GEM object files.
C++ source.

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

13.10.1997 Tekktonic Game Engine 13.10.1997

The TGE is a commercial Windows 95 engine by the Reakktor Media Group.

Perspective, shaded texture-mapping.
Independent lighting levels for each polygon.
Portal rendering.
Depth shading, fogging.
Realtime lighting fx.
Hierarchical polygon characters.
Collision detection.
Support for DirectX.
3D sound system.
Multiplayer support.
Optimized for Intel Pentium.
Windows 95 editor.

This engine will be used to create the indoor part of the game Typherra which will be released early 1998. The Tekktonic Game Engine will be available for Sublicensing after Typherra has been finished.
More information and screenshots can be found on the Typherra Homepage.

13.10.1997 3D Coding BlackHole Engine 13.10.1997

The 3DCBE is a tutorial 3D engine for PCs by Jerome St-Louis (jerstlouis@videotron.ca).

Perspective, shaded texture-mapping.
Z-Buffer rendering.
C source.

More information, tutorials and the source of the engine can be found on the 3D Coding BlackHole Engine Homepage.

06.10.1997 Virtual Reality 06.10.1997

VR is a 3D flight simulator for DOS from Max Bennedich ( maxx.addictpc@usa.net ).

Perspective shaded texture mapping.
Flat and gouraud shading.
Hazing.
Huge fractal landscape world.
Depth sorting.
View frustrum clipping.
100% assembler code, handoptimized for Pentium+.

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

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