3D Engines List Non-realtime This list contains 7 non-realtime engines.

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.

15.04.1996 NuGraf Developer's 3D Toolkit

15.04.1996

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

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

More info on the NuGraf's Homepage.

19.09.1995 RenderLib

19.09.1995

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

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

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

01.09.1995 ZRend

12.06.1995

ZR is an implementation of an accurate zbuffer renderer from Raghu Karinthi (raghu@cs.wvu.edu) of the West Virginia University.

• NFF input files.
• 24 bit color TARGA file rendering.
• Accurate fixed point arithmetic in all its calculations.
• Gouraud shading.

The source is published in the chapter 7-6 of the book Graphics Gems V from Alan Paeth (ISBN: ) and is available at ftp.princeton.edu. More info in the ZRend Readme.

12.06.1995 SIPP

12.06.1995

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

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

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

12.06.1995 3D Computer Graphics

12.06.1995

The book "3D Computer Graphics" by Alan Watt (ISBN: 0-201-63186-5) contains pascal source for a wireframe and polygonal rendering engine.

• Z-buffer scanline renderer.
• Gouraud shading.

Some more info on the 3D Graphics Booklist page.

12.06.1995 Fast Algorithms for 3D Graphics

12.06.1995

The book "Fast Algorithms for 3D Graphics" by Georg Glaeser (ISBN: 0-387-94288-2) contains source code for a PC rendering engine.

• Wireframe engine in C.
• Z-buffer renderer in Pascal.
• Shadow mapping.

More info on the 3D Graphics Booklist page.