3DEL: Scene Graph

3D Engines List
Scene Graph

This list contains 14 scene graph engines.

Texture-mapping Engines

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

12.01.1999 Java3D 12.01.1999

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

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

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

27.10.1998 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 .

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.

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.

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