3D Engines List Portal rendering This list contains 64 portal rendering engines.

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.

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.

25.04.2000 Panard Vision

04.04.1997

PV is a free portable Realtime 3D engine allowing for high speed, with no quality loss, rendering on Windows2000/Win32/Dos/Linux platforms by Olivier Brunet (pvision@planet-d.net). It supports both hardware and software rendering.

• Perspective, phong-shaded texture-mapping
• Flat, gouraud and phong shading
• MIP-mapping
• Bump mapping
• Bilinear filtering
• Full sub-pixel/texel accuracy (no flicker, no gap in textures)
• Multitexturing pipeline, multitexturing support through GL extensions
• User definable clip planes.
• Multiple (non-recursive) geometric planar convex mirrors
• User definable visibility pipeline (allowing for BSP, Portals or whatever you may think about)
• Support for convex polygons, not only triangles
• Splines
• Static and pseudo dynamic lightmaps (soft or hard)
• Realtime dynamic shadow casting
• Detail texturing
• Procedural textures
• Mutltistage materials
• Collision Detection (RAPID)
• Extendable Object Oriented Particle system
• Big mesh classification using octrees
• Multiple, colored light sources
• Hierarchical animated objects
• Display lists
• Stencil buffer on hardware
• Support for user coded Special FX
• Little animation engine with hierarchy
• Span-buffer rendering and z-sorting
• Support for portal rendering
• Generic perspective span renderer to add perspective correction to your fillers
• Multicolored fog (linear/exp&exp2) and Unreal like volumeric FX.
• Vertex fog support
• Software blending
• Adavanced hierarchical world management/culling
• Switchable graph nodes (allowing for Mesh LODs for instance)
• Multithreaded realtime adptative LOD landscape renderer
• Support for PNG, TGA & JPG files
• Support for 8,15,16, 24 and 32 bits per pixel
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS - even animations
• Quake I and Quake 2 level support
• Support for user file formats
• Support for Zip files
• Support for DOS SVGA, Direct3D , Direct X7 (with hardware T&L and compressed textures support) OpenGL, 3DFX Glide, PC 3d hardware, X11-Windows on Linux
• Support for user made hardware drivers
• Support for Visual C++, Watcom C/C++,Borland C, DJGPP and GNU gcc
• Written in C/ASM
• Simple/Extensible API

More information and the Panard Vision SDK (including 3DS file/animation viewer, Quake I viewer and everything needed to use this engine in your own programs. ) can be found on the Panard Vision Homepage.

12.04.2000 Legus3D

23.03.1998

Legus3D (former LEGUS Virtual Reality System) is a commercial real-time rendering engine for PCs from Branimir Karadzic ( karadzic@eunet.yu ).

• Binary space partitioning (BSP) and potential visible sets (PVS).
• Object hierarchies.
• Object morphing.
• Fog/depth cueing.
• Keyframing (objects, lights and camera).
• Shadow volume (lightmap, surface or polygon).
• Dynamic lighting (with shadows).
• Volumetric lighting.
• Material (ambient, diffuse, specular, alpha blending, transparent texture).
• Mip mapping.
• Animated texture support.
• Animated mesh support.
• Collision detection (sphere, cylinder or box).
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS, Lightware LWO, Quake MD2 and LucasArts 3DO objects.
• Support for Quake1 BSP world files.
• Solid fill, texture mapping (affine or perspective corrected), enviroment mapping, bump mapping, 2D sprites.
• Sub-pixel and sub-texel accuracy.
• Bilinear filtering.
• Alpha blending.
• Z-buffer.
• Transparent texture.
• Filters: smooth, bilinear antialiasing, blur motion.
• 256 color, 15/16bit highcolor and 24/32bit true color modes.
• Support for OpenGL, Direct3D and software rendering
• Scene graph support
• Mirrors and portals
• Particle and special effects system
• Written in C/ASM.

More information, screenshots and demos can be found on the Legus 3D Homepage.

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 .

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

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 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 .

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

03.09.1999 Crystal Space

25.08.1997

Crystal Space is a 3D engine for Unix from Jorrit Tyberghein ( Jorrit.Tyberghein@uz.kuleuven.ac.be ).

• Shaded perspective texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• Sub-pixel and sub-texel accuracy.
• Portal rendering.
• Static lighting with precomputed shadows.
• Dynamic colored lights with shadows
• Transparent and semi-transparent textures.
• Support for mirrors.
• Support for BSP rendering.
• Support for curved surfaces.
• Support for depth-correct and colored volumetric fog.
• Hierarchical Bounding Box collision detection system.
• New c-buffer (coverage buffer) type visibility culling.
• Sound support (for Windows and Linux only currently).
• Moving objects and scripts controlling the movement.
• 3D triangle mesh sprites with gouraud shading and LOD (Level of Detail)
• Skeleton animation for 3D triangle mesh sprites
• Support for 8, 15, 16 and 32-bit displays.
• Support for unix (linux and solaris are tested) and DOS, Macintosh, Amiga, Windows 95 version, BeOS, NextStep, Rhapsody and OpenStep ports.
• Optional MMX support.
• New ports to OS/2 and GDI.
• OpenGL port works very well now for Linux, Windows, and BeOS.
• Hierarchical objects (not used in current programs, but implementation exists)
• Glide port works good for Linux and Windows.
• Optional Direct3D hardware acceleration for Windows port.
• 3D sound support
• Reading of Quake II MD2 and 3DS objects
• Low-level networking support.
• C++ source.

More information, screenshots, the source and a unix executable is available on the Crystal Space Homepage.

08.08.1999 Adamantium

08.08.1999

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

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

More information can be found via the Revenant Homepage

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

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.

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

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.

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 .

01.03.1999 3D Foundation Clases

19.12.1997

3DFC is a 3D portal rendering engine from Leandro Bernsmuller (lebe@geocities.com).

• Gouraud shaded, affine texturemapping.
• Portal rendering with edge clip buffer.
• Colored light sources.
• Collision detection between spheres and sectors.
• Support for DOS and Linux (using SvgaLib and X11 Windows).
• Support for backpropagation neural networks .
• Input from keyboard or sockets network communication .
• Support for PCX texture files.
• C++ sources.

More information, screenshots, the source and executables can be found on the 3D Foundation Classes 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 .

25.01.1999 Nightfall Engine

02.09.1997

The Nightfall Engine (former Altor Engine) is a 3D engine for Macintosh computers by Altor Systems Inc. The development environment is now shipping on CD-ROM with the game Nightfall. It includes:

• Level editor with example art.
• Custom cross platform resource builder.
• Plug-in DLL architecture with source code.
• Perspective Gouraud shaded texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• Volumetric real-time light model.
• Portal rendering.
• Dynamic depth cued colored fog and dust.
• 3D objects which may be imported from 3DMF files.
• Face on and perspective correct 2D sprites.
• PowerPC native.
• Software renderer for 8, 16 and 32 bit color.
• Dynamic dithering on 8 & 16bit screens.
• Support for 3D hardware via the Apple RAVE standard.
• 3D sound.
• Physics model for collision, gravity, and object stacking.
• VR hand to select and pick up objects during game play or editing.
• AI components for motion, sensing, and decision making in C.
• 2D interface links within the 3D game.

More information and screenshots can be found on the Altor Systems Homepage.

25.01.1999 Soul Port

05.10.1998

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

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

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

15.01.1999 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.

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.

11.11.1998 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 .

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 .

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.

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 P3D

30.01.1998

P3D is a quake like 3D engine for DOS by Pin Fei Sun ( pfsun@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca ).

• Gouraud perspective texture mapping.
• BSP rendering.
• Collision detection.
• Dynamic objects.
• Animated textures.
• Portal rendering.
• Z-Buffer rendering
• C++/ASM source.

More information, the source and other 3D demos can be found on the BSP3D Homepage.

03.11.1997 I-POD

03.11.1997

I-POD is a 3d portal engine by Aatu Koskensilta (squirt@seaga.org ) aka 'sqrt(-1)'.

• Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping.
• Support for any 16/15bit VESA mode.
• Dynamic lighting and shadows.
• Dynamic environment.
• Zero overdraw using portals.
• Support for DOS SVGA.
• Written in C++.

More information and a demo can be found on the Homepage of Sqrt(-1).

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 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.

08.09.1997 Lost Shadows

21.07.1997

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

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

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

06.06.1997 World Of Fantasy

30.12.1996

WOF is a Quake viewer for PCs by Frank Willemsen (frankw@xs4all.nl) and Corin Langosch ( corinl@metronet.de ).

• Perspective texture mapping with MIP-mapping.
• Portal rendering.
• BSP rendering.
• Z-buffer and span-buffer.
• Light-maps and Surface cache.
• Realtime lightning effects (like flicker) and dynamic lighting (for fireballs).
• SVGA support.
• Improved collision detection.
• Polygonal objects.
• Moving doors and elevators.
• Multiple viewports.
• Water effect a la Quake.
• Support for Quake level files.
• C/C++ source.

More information, a demo and screenshots can be found on the WOF Homepage, the source of an older version is available on the old World Of Fantasy Homepage.

05.06.1997 Omniscent 4K Intro

05.06.1997

The Omniscent 4K Intro is a demo (using only 4K bytes of disc space) that contains a complete 6DOF engine ala descent from Dirk Kueppers ( kueppers@informatik.uni-koblenz.de ) aka 'Pinker' of Sanction.

• Perspective, shaded texture-mapping.
• Portal rendering.
• Animated textures.
• Spline path camera animation.
• Midi music.
• Contains the first level of Descent.

The file can be found on the Hornet Demo Archive.

15.04.1997 Real-time 3D Engine

15.04.1997

RT3D is a 3D engine for PCs by Nicholas Michon (mznmicho@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca).

• Perspective, unshaded texture mapping.
• Polygon clipping.
• Object oriented design.

More information and screenshots can be found on the RT3D Homepage.

04.04.1997 Alpha Engine

24.10.1996

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

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

An older version of the engine also supported

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

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

17.02.1997 VEX (Link Problem!)

19.08.1996

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

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

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

19.07.1996 Deskent

25.03.1996

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

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

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

01.01.1995 Purple

01.01.1995

Purple is an evaluation kit for fast 3D engines and virtual reality I/O devices from Karsten Isakovic (ki@cs.tu-berlin.de).

• ANSI C, runs on X11-Windows, Mac, Windows, OSF and TOS. There is also a simple C++ interface.
• Hierarchical, movable BSP subscenes with level of detail management for the objects, object grouping.
• System-primitive rendering for wire/flat shading, z-buffer, framebuffer only or z-only rendering, direct 3D hardware support (for DEC Kubota)
• Flat or gouraud shading in combination with dithering, transparency and texture-mapping.
• Unlimited colored, movable lightsources (distant, point and spotlights).
• Material constants (ambient, diffuse, specular).
• File I/O: rib,asc,rwx,plg,fig,geo,geom,scn,tri,ply. Texture I/O: tga,tiff,gif
• Multiple cameras with stereo-support that render into windows or textures.
• Simulated virtual person, all elements are controllable with I/O devices like Bird-sensor, Logitech 3D mouse, K1 glove, Powerglove, Sega Activator, Flightstick or 2D Mouse.
• Internal task concept, all actions run as purple tasks.
• 2D sprites, 2D and 3D text, overlay and underlay text, backdrop images, fog/distance cueing.
• Environment mapping and mirrors.
• Portal rendering with 3D frustrum clipping.
• Stereo rendering for red/blue glasses or for CyberMaxx HMD.
• Work in progress:
  • MIP-mapping and animation for textures.
  • Fast shadows with shadow mapping.
  • Phong and bump-mapping.
  • Anti-aliasing, 2D effects like lens-flares and fire.
  • Distributes object visualisation, networked worlds.

27.10.1998 G-Engine

27.10.1998

GE is a PC 3D engine from Peter N. Oleynikov ( oleynikov@icr.chem.msu.ru ).

• Uses OpenGL on Windows 95.
• Portal rendering.
• Mirrors.
• Colored lighting.
• Written in C++.

More information and screenshots can be found on the G-Engine Homepage.

20.07.1999 3D Game Engine

20.07.1999

3DGE is a portal rendering engine for windows. It was a 3rd years university project of Paul Constant ( paul.constant@bigfoot.com ).

• Flat shaded rendering using DirectDraw
• Collision detection
• Dynamic 3D objects inside convex sectors
• Very good documentation about portals, bsp trees and hidden surface removal

More information and screenshots can be found on the 3D Game Engine Project Homepage.

02.03.1998 Portal Demo

02.03.1998

PD is a portal rendering engine from Adrian Perez ( amperez+@andrew.cmu.edu ) published in the Game Developers Magazine in march 1998.

• Flat colored polygons.
• Portal rendering.
• 3D clipping.
• Support for Windows 95 and Direct3D.

More information and the source can be found as mar98.zip on the Source Code page of the Game Developers Magazine.

08.07.1997 EarthQuake

08.07.1997

EarthQuake is a wireframe Quake level viewer from Eric Victor Powers (powerg@deltanet.com).

• Support for Windows 95.
• Perspective wireframe rendering of levels and dynamic objects (BSP and MDL) .
• Extracts and packs Quake PAK files.
• Portal rendering.
• C source.

The source can be found on the EarthQuake Hopmepage.