3D Engines List Span-Buffer This list contains 27 span-buffer 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 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.

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 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 .

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 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 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 .

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 .

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.

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 .

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 .

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 .

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 .

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 .

22.07.1997 work in progress

22.07.1997

A PC 3d engine from Mark J Gallagher (mjgallagher@taz.dra.hmg.gb)

• Perspective texture-mapping.
• Flat and gouraud shading.
• Transparent polygons.
• Span-buffer rendering.
• Support for 15 bit (or more) displays.
• SVGA support.

22.07.1997 work in progress

22.07.1997

A PC 3d engine from Steve Humphries ( stevehumphries@hotmail.com ).

• Texture-mapping.
• Transparent polygons.
• Span-buffer rendering.
• SVGA support.

16.06.1997 Nanotech

27.09.1996

NT is a PC 3D game engine from Sean Lane Fuller (fuller@cafes.net).

• Perspective flatshaded texturemapping.
• Uses Span-buffer algorithm to ensure proper drawing order with no overdraw.
• SVGA support.
• Sound and music support.
• Build-in level editor.
• C / ASM source.
• Some documentation about scanline rendering.

The Natotech platform game, 3d tutorial and source code is available on the Nanotech Homepage.

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.

26.05.1999 DJDOOM

26.05.1999

DJDOOM is a DOOM level viewer from Kais Dukes of Majestic-12 Games (majestictwelve@postmaster.co.uk).

• Perspective correct texture mapped walls
• Depth cueing
• Non-orthogonal, variable height walls
• Higher graphics resolutions (up to 1024 x 768)
• Direct reading of textures and maps from WAD files
• DOOM BSP-tree rendering, using a span-buffe
• Flat shaded floors and ceilings
• Quake-style console and Mouse-look
• DJGPP/Allegro source code

The full source code, screenshots and executables can be found on the Majestic-12 Games website.

22.07.1997 Boxes

22.07.1997

Boxes is a PC 3D rendering engine from David Farrell ( fdavid@utdallas.edu ).

• Flat shading.
• 3D clipping.
• Moving light source.
• Span-buffer rendering.
• Support for 3D Studio object files.
• SVGA support.
• C++ / ASM source.

More information, screenshots and the source can be found on the Homepage of David Farrell .

17.07.1996 DDJ: ZSort

16.07.1996

ZS is a sample system to render 3-D scenes with a span-buffer as discussed in the May/June -- July/August 1996 issues of "Dr. Dobb's Sourcebook" from Michael Abrash (mikeab@idsoftware.com).

• Windows output.
• Span-buffer rendering with zsorted insertion.
• Single coloured polygons.
• Uses own display buffer that is copied into a window, easy to expand to texture mapping.
• C / C++ source.

The source can be found on ftp.idsoftware.com. There is also a DOS port to DJGPP Allegro at the Michael Abrash porting page. More information can be found on the Quake Hidden Surface Removal webpage.