3DEL: ZBuffer rendering

3D Engines List
ZBuffer rendering

This list contains 154 zbuffer rendering 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 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.

12.04.2000 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 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 !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

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 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 !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

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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 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

09.11.1999 Heidi 09.11.1999

Hidi is a 3D rendering archicture for PCs from Autodesc Inc.

Gouraud shaded, texture mapping
Support for OpenGL, D3D and often direct hardware-driver support from 3D card vendors
Transparency
Dynamically loaded renderers
Point, directional, spot and ambient lights
Multiple views
Support for Visual C++

More information and the SDK can be found on the Heidi SDK Homepage. The Heide documentation is at www.autodesk.com/heididg/index.html.

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 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

18.10.1999 Supernova 10.05.1999

Supernova is a shareware 3D engine for Mac computers from Dan Adamson ( dna_man@yahoo.com) aka 'DNA Man'.

Polygon support up to 32 vertices
Support for Quickdraw wireframe and flatshaded rendering to any size window
Camera and object animation features
Glide support with texture-mapping, and z-buffer at 640x480
Glide texture-mapping without z-buffer at 800x600
Hierarchical objects capable of forward kinetics
Object I/O system
Object and camera animation features
Easily expandable to use other rendering APIs (Glide, RAVE, OpenGL, etc)

For more information, screenshots and a demo of the SDK can be found on the Supernova 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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 SimEngine 23.06.1999

SimEngine is a 3D engine for DOS from Jeff K ( zerocool000@hotmail.com ).

Unshaded, linear texture mapping
Gouraud shading
Z-Buffer
VGA and SVGA resolutions
Written in pure C++ for DJGPP / Allegro

More information and screenshots can be found on the SimEngine 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.

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 .

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.

26.03.1999 ClayRender 19.02.1998

CR is a 3D engine for PCs from Time Lewis ( luther2000@aol.com).

Gouraud shaded, linear texture mapping.
Transparency.
Z-buffer rendering.
Environment mapping.
Colored lights.
Support for Themekit MindRender, Clayworks and Lightwave object files.
16 bit color rendering.
Fogging.
Support for VESA 2.0.

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

26.03.1999 ClayJava 26.03.1999

ClayJava is a 3D engine for Java from Time Lewis ( luther2000@aol.com).

Gouraud shaded, linear texture mapping
Environment mapping
Phong lighting
Z-Buffer
Fogging
32bit internal renderer
Multiple objects
Frustum clipping
Pure Java, no extensions needed

The java applet can be found on the ClayJava 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.

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 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 .

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 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

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.

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 .

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 .

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.

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 .

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 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 .

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.

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 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.

21.07.1998 PIRACE 29.01.1996

PIRACE ( Platform Independent Rendering And Calculation Engine ) is the follow up to MEGR (multi purpose engine for graphics rendering), a 3D engine for PCs by Ben Constable (benc@cse.unsw.edu.au).

Linear, shaded texture mapping.
Gouraud and flat shading.
Windows 95/NT support.
Mipmapping.
Reflection mapping.
Transparency.
Advanced palette management.
DirectDraw rendering.
Z-buffering.
Multiple lights and different light types.
Hierarchical objects.
Proprietry format, converters from imagine and lightwave.
Written in ANSI C++ using STL.

More information and demos can be found on the PIRACE 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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

04.03.1998 enki Polygon Renderer 16.02.1998

The EPP is a polygon renderer in Java by Eben Upton ( eben@i-stream.com ).

Depthcued affine texture mapping.
Heightfield rendering.
Z-Buffer rendering.
Lightsourcing.
Written in Java.

More information and a demo found on the enki Polygon Renderer Homepage.

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 CyberGL 12.02.1998

CyberGL is a subset of the OpenGL API for Amiga computers by CyberGraphX.

Gouraud shaded, linear texture mapping.
Z-buffer rendering.
Environment mapping.
Fogging and depth cueing.
User clipping planes.
Support for 68030/68040 and 68060 processors.
Support for 8, 15,16 and 24 bits per pixel.

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

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.

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.

26.01.1998 RTMZ 14.07.1995

RTMZ is a 3D engine for PCs from Davide Pasca ( dpasca@ix.netcom.com) and Fabrizio Zavagli (f.zavagli@agora.stm.it).

Flat, gouraud and phong shading of polygons.
Texture mapping.
Painters sorting and z-buffering.
Written in C++/ASM, ModeX, 32 bit.
GEO, GEM and 3DS file support, there are lots of modells in the package.
2 different interaction modes.
SVGA support with resolution switching.
Cool user interface.
C source.

The source can be found on the Homepage of Davide Pasca..

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

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.

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 Spyd3r's 3D 06.10.1997

S3D is a PC 3D engine by Spyd3r (s2207530@cse.unsw.edu.au).

Shaded texture mapping.
Lambert/Gouraud/Phong shading.
Z-Buffer rendering and depth sorting.
View volume clipping.
Sprites/animation.
Hierarchical objects.
3D animation scripting.
Mouse support.
Written in C++/ASM.

More information, screenshots and demos can be found on Spyd3r's Homepage.

29.09.1997 Christian�s 3D-Engine 07.02.1997

C3D is a 3D engine for PCs by Christian Fleischer (daydream@cs.tu-berlin.de)

Shaded, perspective texture mapping.
Animated texture maps.
Transparent textures.
Collision detection.
16 Bit z-buffer rendering.
Dynamic polygonal 3D objects.
Support for point lights.
Animation scripts.

More information and a demo can be found on Christian�s 3D-Engine Homepage .

16.09.1997 Project SpandeX 01.01.1995

Project SpandeX (previously known as Latex) is a 3D engine from Paul Nettle (midnight@www.grafix3d.tzo.com).

Commercial quality engine, written by commercial game developer.
Open-GL like
Texture-mapping, environment-mapping, bump-mapping, solid-color polygons, Phong shading, Gouraud shading, Lambert.
Perspective correct, and affine texture mapping both supported
Sub-pixel, sub-texel accuracy
Z-buffering and sorting.
Triangles, lines, points, text (mono or proportional).
Up to 100 dynamic light sources.
Material support with Ka, Kd and Ks variables (may change on the fly).
Support for any resolution.
Multiple cameras that can act JUST like 3DS cameras.
Hierarchical database design with forward kinematics and inheritance.
100% Pure C for portability with small inline ASM parts.
Over 250 API calls for maximum flexibility.
Support for DOS and Linux/X11.
Latest version is completely true-color.

More information, screenshots, the source and demos can be found on the Project SpandeX Homepage.

16.09.1997 3D Editor 16.09.1997

The 3D Editor contains is a 3D engine for PC computers by Marcos Vazquez (jvazquezp@nexo.es).

Perspective shaded texture mapping.
Flat and gouraud shading.
Z-Buffer rendering.
Support for Windows 95.
Support for 16 bit color.
Spanish help files and menues.

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the Homepage of Marcos Vazquez.

15.08.1997 Zen 15.08.1997

Zen is a 3D engine for PCs from Gerber Dominique ( dominique.gerber@hol.fr ) of Atlantis Productions.

Shaded perspective texture mapping.
MIP-mapping.
BSP and Z-Buffer rendering.
Shadow mapping via light maps.
Surface cache rendering.
Multiple types of fog (distance based, layered, etc...).
Transparent surfaces colors lights.
Mirrors.
View frustrum clipping.
Support for Watcom C++.

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

30.06.1997 3D System 13.03.1997

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

Perspective, phong-shaded texture-mapping.
Flat, gouraud and phong shading.
Environment mapping.
MIP-mapping.
Z-buffer rendering or z sorting.
Bezier patch rendering.
Support for 3D Studio ASC, VED, GEO, 3DO, and 3D2 object files.
3D frustrum clipping.
Arbitrarily sized textures.
Multiple light sources.
Shadow rendering.
Written in C/ASM.

Many tutorials about 3D programming, demos and screenshots can be found on the Tom Hammersleys Graphics Coding Page.

09.06.1997 J3D SpaceCrafter 09.06.1997

J3D SpaceCrafter is a high level 3D Graphics and Virtual Reality API for Java from InWorld VR, Inc.

Shaded, perspective texture mapping.
Tested on Intel, Macintosh, Solaris, Javastation, JavaOS and SGI.
Hierarchical objects.
ZSorting and z-buffer.
Collision detection.
Multiple 3D clipping choices.
3D sprites.
Standard 3D objects.
Built in terrain generation and terrain following functions.
Support for 8 bit indexed and 24 bit color modes.
Java API.

More information and screenshots can be found on the J3D SpaceCrafter Homepage .

09.06.1997 IMAA 09.06.1997

The IMAA (Integrated Modeling, Animation & Analysis) toolkits by Hee S. Chung ( Hee@cyberkorea.com ) contain a 3D rendering engine. The IMAA toolkits are available for Windows, DOS and Silicon Graphics IRIX.
IMAGE, IMAA Graphics Environment

Texture mapping.
Gouraud shading.
Z-buffer rendering.

IMAML, IMAA Modeling Library

Low level ( Euler ) level modeling
Sweeping,
3D primitive objects.
Boolean set operation.
NURBS.

More information and demos can be found on the IMAA 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.

06.06.1997 3D Reality Rendering System 06.06.1997

3DRS is a 3D rendering library for PCs by TS Group Entertainment.

Shaded, perspective texture mapping.
Support for DOS, Windows 95/NT, Direct3D and PC 3D cards.
Z-buffer and z-sort rendering.
Transparent textures, arbitrarily sized texture maps.
Material management.
Multiple cameras.
Multiple light sources. Directional, point, spot and coloured lights using special built shading tables or hardware acceleration layer.
Scene and model picking.
Billboard objects and 3D sprites.
Support for 8 bit indexed and 16 bit true color modes.
Support for 3D Studio 3DS object files.
Support for BMP, GIF, CEL and TGA texture files.
C++ API.

More information and a demo can be found on the TS Group Entertainment Homepage.

14.05.1997 Fire & Forget 3D (Link Problems) 14.05.1997

The FF3D is a 3D game engine for the PowerMac from Alex Clarke ( ma5adc@bath.ac.uk ).

Perspective shaded, texture mapping.
16 bit color rendering.
Dithering.
Transparancy.
Colored lighting.
Collision detection.
Particle systems.
3D objects.
Terrain rendering.
32 bit Z-buffer rendering.
Support for RAVE rendering.
Support for 3D glasses.
C++ / ASM source.

More information, screenshots, a demo and source code to the span-buffer renderer can be found on the Fire & Forget 3D Homepage.

06.05.1997 World Toolkit 01.01.1995

WTK is a commercial, portable, cross-platform software development system for building high-performance, real-time, integrated 3D applications for scientific and commercial use from Sense 8 Corporation.

Shaded, perspective texture mapping.
Z-buffer rendering.
Multiple viewport and lightsources, 3D paths, portals, 2D texts and shapes, object animations.
Supports user-defined drawing routines
Multi-processing/multi-pipeline support
Support for Windows 95 (Direct 3D), Windows NT (OpenGL), Sun, Silicon Graphics, Evans & Sutherland Freedom Series, Hewlett-Packard, and DEC.
High level scene management such as hierarchical object culling, efficient use of transform information and level-of-detail switching.
Support for many I/O devices like HMDs, shutter glasses, 3D trackers, gloves and 3D audio systems.
Support for VRML, 3D Studio, Pro Engineer, Multigen and Wavefront files.
Network support.
C/C++ API.
Sense 8 also provides a 3D Editor (World Up) based on WTK.

More information on the Sense 8.

30.04.1997 MindRender 26.02.1996

BR is a high performance programmer's API for PCs from Themekit Ltd.

DOS and Windows 95 support (planned).
SVGA support.
Support for 3D input and output devices, like gloves and HMDs.
Z-buffer rendering.
BSP support.
Stereo rendering.
Perspective texture mapping.
Wireframe/solid, gouraud shading and optional phong highlights.
Transparent and shaded textures.
Light and shadow mapping.
Unlimited number of colored lights. Spot, point and directional lights.
Movable lightsources, dynamic light parameters, distance cueing, fogging.
Pre-Rendering of static scenes.
Collision detection.
Keyframe animation, morphing.
Sound support.
API interface to high- and low-level routines.

More information and a demo is available on the ThemeKit Homepage.

08.04.1997 TGMP V2 08.04.1997

TGMP V2 is a commercial real-time rendering system for PCs written in Delphi 2.0 from Graphical Magick Productions Ltd, written by Peter Dove (peterd@graphicalmagick.com).

Shaded linear texture mapping.
Gouraud and flat shading, wireframe and point rendering.
Z-buffer rendering.
Uses DirectX 3 for rendering.
BMP and PPM texture file support.
Cylindrical and spherical texture wrapping.
Loads DirectX X format, convertor available for 3DS to X .
Written in Object Pascal / Delphi 2 (also the api).

More information and a demo can be found on the TGMP V2 Homepage.

01.04.1997 Threedom 15.08.1996

MThreedom is a 3D engine from Philip Stephens (philip@galaxy.bocaraton.ibm.com). The DOS-port was done by Phil Frisbie (pfrisbie@geocities.com).

Flat shaded, perspective texture mapping.
Z-buffer rendering.
Windows 95, X11-Windows and DOS SVGA support.
C source.

The source and more information can be found on Threedom Homepage.
The DOS-port can be found at Phil Frisbie's Programming Page.

21.03.1997 3dGen (Link Problem!) 16.11.1995

3DGen is a 3D Games Engine by Michael L. Lewis ( mlewis@ny.ubs.com).

Perspective corrected texture mapping.
Realtime light shading of texture maps.
Z-buffer rendering.
Object instancing.
3D morphing of objects.
3D collision detection.
Fogging and hazing.
Multi-resolution objects (LOD switching).
Support for 3D-Studio ASC files.
ANSI C code.
Support for X11-Windows.

More information and screenshots can be found on the Homepage of Michael L. Lewis. For a demo, contact the autor via email.

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.

29.11.1996 UVision 22.05.1996

UVision is a commercial 3D engine from Utopia Technologies.

Six degrees of freedom.
Fast Phong shaded, perspective texture mapped polygons.
Multiple, movable cameras and view ports.
Multiple, realtime movable light sources (point and spotlight).
Support for multiple resolutions and color depth up to 65,536 colors .
Surface attributes - sticky, slippery, bouncy, surface forces +++ .
Colored light sources.
Chrome mapping.
Realtime shadows (coming very soon) .
Polyon features: animated textures, screendoor opacity, edge smoothing, MIP-mapping, bump mapping, z-buffering, gouraud and fast phong shading.
Advanced forward kinematics simulation of rigid body motion/dynamically customizable environment (gravity, wind, air/surface friction).
Analytic collision detection and resolution with dynamic environment.
Realtime dynamic constraint solver.
Multi-joint inverse kinematic simulation .
Hierarchical, linked models .
3D model scaling and deformation effects.
Multiple instancing of objects and hierarchies .
Fog/darkness depth cuing.
Support for Stereoscopic capability.
Networking features (coming soon).
3D sound effects.
Weather effects.
SVGA (VESA) linear framebuffer support for the PC and soon support for the Playstation.
High-color rendering.
Support for graphics accelerator cards.

More information on the Utopia Technologies Homepage.

18.11.1996 Moove 07.11.1996

Moove is a PC 3D engine by Oliver Belaifa (spline@cs.tu-berlin.de) aka 'Sharon' of Artwork.

Gouraud shaded texture mapping with multiple lightsources.
Phong shaded texture mapping with movable point lightsource.
Bumpmapping with movable lightsource.
Environment mapping.
Light bitmaps, lens-flares.
Z buffer rendering.
Z front/back clipping
Dynamic spline objects, object morphing with envelopes.
Spline path support.
Support for 486 PCs, optimised for pentium.
Lightwave scene player.
Audio support.

A demo can be found on ftp.cdrom.com.

12.11.1996 GRAFICA NATURA 20.09.1996

GRAFICA NATURA is a 3-D realtime rendering system which was primarily designed for realistic visualization of natural objects and phenomena, e.g. plants, landscapes, clouds and water. GN is written by Steffen Hauser (stephen@cs.tu-berlin.de).

Linear, shaded polygon texture-mapping.
Support for X11-Windows and DOS.
Primitive objects (e.g. cube, disk, sphere, cone, cylinder, plane, bezier-patch, rotation curve, height field).
Procedural plant models.
Hierarchical object construction.
Lambert and gouraud shaded surfaces.
Unlimited number of light sources.
Wireframe or solid rendering (gouraud shaded and textured surfaces).
Z-buffer rendering.
Transparent surfaces.
Import:
- Objects: 3DS, GEM, NFF, PLG, TRI
- Textures: PPM, TGA
Output:
- Objects: VRML (no materials and textures yet)
- Images: PPM, TGA
Color specification with RGB-, HSV-, HLS- or CMY-format.
Atmospheric effects (e.g. fog, haze).
C++ source.
Simple but powerful stack-based programming language with more than 150 build-in commands for definition of objects, surfaces, textures, camera movements and lightning effects.

The source and more information can be found on the GRAFICA NATURA Homepage.

05.11.1996 Reality Lab 01.01.1995

RL is a commercial 3D library by Microsoft RenderMorphics. The version 2.0 has the following features:

Wire Frame, Flat, Gourad and Phong shading models.
Perspective corrected texture mapping in any shading model.
Environment and motion video mapping.
Full transparency, including alpha maps for textures.
Z-buffering.
Animated backgrounds with optional depth information.
Multiple, movable, coloured lightsources.
4, 8, 16, 24 bit colour depths in both ramp and RGB modes.
SVGA and Windows 3.1/95/NT, X11-Windows on RS6000/SunSparc/SGI, System7 on Mac and PowerMac (both planned, no port yet), Sony PSX support.
Multiple instancing of objects and hierarchies.
Multiple viewports, devices and cameras.
Bezier patches with subdivision on the fly.
Depth cueing with atmospheric effects (e.g. fog, haze).
Projected shadows.
Stereoscopic capability.
Free form deformation toolkit.
Complex spline interpolated motion.
Collision detection toolkit.
Immediate mode allows low-level control over polygon lighting and rendering through direct access to vertices and normals.
70 pages documentation
C-based API.
Supports hardware accelerators like GLiNT, Matrox MGA Impression and 3D device standards like Intel 3DR, Microsoft 3DDDI.

Contact: Servan@Render.com (Servan Keondjian) or morph@microsoft.com.
The old RealityLab Homepage is currently not available - i already did a search on AltaVista and at MicroSoft to find a new homepage - there are recent microsoft products that use the RealityLab engine, but no reference to the engine itself.
There is a free Windows 3.1/95/NT VRML viewer from InterVista Software Inc, using the RealityLab libraries available at the WorldView Homepage.
Information about WIRL (another Windows 3.1/95/NT VRML viewer that combines the VR capabilties of the VREAM package with the Reality Lab rendering engine) is available via the VREAM Homepage.

28.10.1996 3DR 01.01.1995

3DR is Intel's scalable, real-time 3D graphics library which has been optimized for the Pentium(R) processor.

Up to 16 light sources.
Texture mapping, environment mapping, modulated textures.
Sprites and bitmaps.
Atmospheric effects.
Optional z-buffering, antialiasing, transparency, alpha blending.
Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and Windows NT support.
Free of charge, no royalty fee.

Intel announced on the 23 october 1996, that 3DR is no longer supported.

09.09.1996 Genesis 19.06.1995

Genesis is a 3D rendering toolkit for Windows from Steven Woodman (spike@silicond.demon.co.uk).

Perspective texturemapping and gouraud shading.
Enhanced spanline algorithm.
Unlimited light sources.
Specular highlights.
Z-buffer rendering.
Underlying geometry engine can be changed to make use of another renderer.
Windows based object editor with spin tool, primitive creators, boolean CSG operations.
Lightwave file support.

More information and a demo on the Genesis Homepage.

25.07.1996 3d Graphic Tools 25.07.1996

3DGT is a graphics software developer's tool for the Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C++ environments from Micro System Options ( moptions@concentric.net ).

Windows 95 / NT and 3.1 support.
Procedural textures and picture mapping.
Z-buffer and painters sorting.
Sophisticated lighting using multiple, movable color light sources with optional ambient light, depth cueing and special effects.
Flat and Phong shading.
Flexible, color, translucency and other object level attributes for control of objects'appearance.
3d point, line, wireframe drawing and clipping.
Edge anti-aliasing and image post processing .
Extruded, rotated, swept, lofted, spline and arbitrary curves and surfaces.
Object generators (cube, cylinder, sphere, etc.)
DFX, STL and 3GT file format support.
The Windows C/C++ versions include complete source code.

More information on the Micro System Options Homepage .

17.07.1996 Tex 17.07.1996

Tex is a graphics library for the PC by Daniel Vollmer. (FIDO: 2:241/1140.7 Daniel.Vollmer@P1140.F7.N2.Z241.FIDONET.ORG).

Phong shaded, linear texture mapping (via enviroment mapping).
Z-buffer rendering.
Optional red/blue stereo rendering.
Pascal/ASM source.

The Tex package is part of a bigger source distribution of stuff that Daniel Vollmer had done. The source can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi .

16.07.1996 Convex Renderer in 3D 16.07.1996

The CR3D is a 3D graphics engine for Delphi 2.0 from Romesh (prakash@earthlink.net).

Support for DirectDraw or WinG under Windows 95 / NT 4.0.
8 and 16-bit color mode.
Linear texture mapping.
Flat shading.
Z-buffer rendering.
3DS and PLG file reader.

More information and a beta version on the CR3D Homepage.

22.05.1996 BRender 01.01.1995

BRender (Blazing Render) is a complete system with an applications interface, graphics libraries and device drivers by Argonaut Software.

Z-buffer and scanline renderer
Hierarchical, linked objects
Gouraud shading
Multiple cameras and lightsources
Collision detection
Sprite scaling and deformation effects
486PC, Apple Mac/PowerMac, OS/2, Windows could very easily be ported to the 3d0, Saturn, FM Towns or Jaguar
BRender is a 32 bit library, there are versions for Watcom or MS Visual C.
Supports hardware accelerators like GLiNT
Planed: fog-effects, depth-cueing, anti-aliasing, and covered light-sources such as spot-lights
140 pages documentation.
Non-commercial evaluation kit may be available if one asks via email.

Contact: Argonaut Software (paul@argonaut.com, rich@argonaut.com)
Information about BRender as taken from news and emails.
Move information and demos on the Brender Homepage .

19.04.1996 TAGL 01.01.1995

TAGL (Threedee Advanced Graphic Libraryis) a portable 3D C++ class library from Bruno Levy (bruno@ensg.u-nancy.fr).

Linear texturemapping in RGB and colormap mode.
Environment mapping.
Support for 8bpp, 15bpp, 16bpp, 24bpp and 32bpp displays.
Z-buffer rendering.
Gouraud shading and dithering, wireframe and flatshading rending.
RGB emulation in 8bpp mode.
Dynamic linking, to load new drivers at run time.
Multiple output windows or rendering ports inside a single window.
Tested with DOS and under X11-Windows with Linux, SunOs, Solaris, HPUX, OSF1 and IRIX.
C++ design with inheritance, C++ inlining, generic scanliners.
3 layer design (GraphicPort for portable framebuffer access, PolygonEngine for rasterization and GeometryManager for 3D transformation and graphic primitives).
GEOM file object viewer.
C++ API with lots of sample programs,

The full source can be found at sunsite.unc.edu. More information in the TAGL Readme.

18.01.1996 RenderWare 01.01.1995

RW is a portable 3D API for DOS, Windows, Mac and X11-Windows by Criterion Software Ltd.

Z-buffer and scanline renderer
Multiple colored lightsources (distant, point and spot lights)
Multiple cameras.
Gouraud lighted, dithered, transparent, perspective texturemapping.
Animated textures and environment mapping.
Object picking.
Materials support.
3D sprites.
Backdrop images.
Depth cueing.
Support for graphics accelerator cards like the GLINT chip.
Support for stereo glasses and headsets.
DFX, 3DS and VRML converters.
900 pages documentation

More info on the Criterion Software Ltd Homepage.
RenderWare FTP Some RW-Demos: ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de
A demo of Meme (Multitasking Extensible Messaging Environment) that uses the RenderWare API is available via the Immersive Systems Homepage.

01.01.1995 Dore 01.01.1995

Dore' is a powerful 3D graphics subroutine library, made freely available by the Kubota Graphics Corp. It provides a comprehensive set of tools for creating graphics applications. It is also easy to use, portable, and extendable. This version has interfaces/drivers to X11-Windows, PEX, IrisGL, OpenGL, Postscript and more. It has been ported onto most Unix systems, including Linux, NetBSD, and FreeBSD. It has also been ported to Windows NT 3.5. Dore is available on the Dore FTP Server

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.

Non-realtime Engines

04.04.2000 Death Track 04.04.2000

Death Track is a 3D racing engine for DOS from Surgutsky Sergey ( crazy_ser@mail.ru ).

Perspective correct texture mapping
Support for VGA 320x200x256
Light effects (16 gradations of light)
Movable lightsources
Z-Buffer rendering
Collision detection
Written in Pascal 7.0 and Turbo Assembler 3.2

More information and the demo can be found via the Homepage of Surgutsky Sergey.

Gouraud-shading Engines

23.06.2000 3D Echtzeitgrafik 23.06.2000

3D Echtzeitgrafik is a Wireframe and Gouraud Shading Engine with (german) documentation on "How to Build a 3D Engine from the Scratch" by Gabriel Wurzer (mccool@writeme.com).

Gouraud shading
Wireframe rendering
Z-Buffer
42 page tutorial (german) included
Written in pure Borland Pascal

More information, documentation, source and tutorials can be found on the (german) Homepage of Gabriel Wurzer.

02.02.2000 Trender 23.12.1999

Trender is portable a gouraud shading 3D engine for Linux and Windows from Thanassis Tsiodras ( ttsiod@softlab.ntua.gr ).

Gouraud, flat, wireframe and point rendering
Support for 3D Studio ASC files
Z-Buffer and z-sorting
Anti-aliased lines
Software rendering (SDL - Simple DirectMedia Layer) or 3DFX support
Portable C++ source

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

22.12.1999 PHIGS 22.12.1999

PHIGS is a standard 3D graphics API for the workstation market.

Gouraud and flat shaded triangles
Depth cueing
Z-buffer rendering
Primitive picking
Nurbs support
Transparency
C, C++ and Fortran bindings

More information can be found on the PHIGS Page of TGS.

06.04.1998 View3DS 06.04.1998

View3DS is 3D Studio file viewer from David Farrell (fdavid@cyberramp.net).

Z-buffered gouraud shading.
Uses OpenGL rendering API.
Support for 3DS object files.
Conversion of 3D model to OpenGL C source code.
Support for X11-Windows, Linux, Windows 95 / NT.
C source.

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

12.03.1998 MegaGraph Graphics Library 01.01.1995

The MGL is a 3D graphics library for PCs from SciTech.

Flat and gouraud shading.
Support for DOS, Windows 3.1 / 95 / NT.
SVGA support.
BSP sorting and zbuffer rendering
2D and 3D functions.
3D modeling system.
Written in C++ and ASM.
Support for Borland C++, Watcom C++, Delphi, Visual C++.
Support for DirectDraw acceleration functions.
Support for OpenGL for Windows ( Microsoft, Silicon Graphics and Mesa ) API within the MGL framework.
Support for stereo LC shutter glasses (requires hardware stereo support)

More information and source can be found on the MGL Homepage.

28.01.1998 MOTE 28.01.1998

MOTE is a 3D cartoon rendering engine for DOS from Mikko E. Mononen ( memon@iki.fi ).

Realtime 3D cartoon rendering with NZ buffer approach.
Z-buffer rendering.
Gouraud shading with dithering.
Multiple omni lights with ranges.
Keyframing (using CLAX).
Support for 3D Studio 3DS objects and animations (using CLAX).
Support for DOS.

CLAX is a portable keyframing engine from Borzom ( borzom@hotmail.com).

Support for 3D Studio 4.0 animations.
Support for X11, Linux and DOS.
Spline and quaternion interpolation.
Full hierarchy support (cameras can be linked to objects, etc..) .
Collision detection.
Can fit into any 3d engine without major changes.

More information, screenshots and a demo of MOTE can be found on the MOTE Homepage.
More information and the source of CLAX can be found on the CLAX Homepage.

23.10.1997 3Dom 23.10.1997

3Dom is gouraud shading 3D editor from Samuel Debleeckere aka 'silicon' and Koen Deforch aka 'jozef' (3dom@cs.kuleuven.ac.be).

Uses open OpenGL or Mesa for 3D output.
Support for X11-Windows on Linux, HP-UX, Solaris and SGI.
Gouraud and wireframe rendering.
Movable light sources.
Object primitives and object manipulation.
Support for Rayshade scene files, output of MGF and povray files.
C source.

More information, screenshots, binaries and the source can be found on the 3Dom Homepage.

23.10.1997 GL-Space 23.10.1997

GL-Space is gouraud shading 3D editor from Philip Eckenroth and Michael Tipping ( greywolf@unm.edu ).

Uses open OpenGL or Mesa for 3D output.
Support for X11-Windows on Linux, Solaris, SunOS and SGI.
Gouraud and wireframe rendering.
Movable light sources and cameras.
Object primitives and object manipulation.
User interface based on TrueSpace.
Support for TrueSpace 2.0 ASCII model format.
C source.

More information, screenshots and the source can be found on the GL-Space Homepage.

02.05.1997 3D with Hoops: Build Interactive 3D Graphics into your C++ Applications 02.05.1997

3DWH is a book (ISBN: 0-201-87025-8) from Wm Leler and Jim Merry that contains a CD rom with the HOOPS library for all supported platforms ( Windows 3.1/NT, Mac, X11-Windows on Silicon Graphics, HP, IBM RS/6000, Sun Sparc and DEC OSF/1).

22.04.1997 Grampian 22.04.1997

Grampian is a 3d landscape engine by Ben Gillett (bjg@dcs.ed.ac.uk).

6 degree of freedom movement.
Gouraud shading.
Fogging.
Z-buffer rendering.
SVGA support for 16 and 24 bits.
Written in C.

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on Ben's 3D Graphics Page.

15.07.1996 Lib3d (Link Problems) 15.07.1996

Lib3d is a 3d library from Keith Whitwell ( keithw@ozemail.com.au ).

Gouraud shading.
Z-buffer rendering.
Support for X11-Windows and DOS.
8, 16 and 32 bit graphics modes.
Pascal/ASM source code.

More information and the source can be found on the Lib3d Homepage.

26.02.1996 Interactive 3D Graphics in Windows 31.08.1995

I3DGW is a book (ISBN: 0-387-94573-3) from Roy Hall and Danielle Forsyth.

Gouraud-shading, dithering, wireframe, flat and unlit.
Z-buffer rendering.
3D metafiles.
Windows output, OLE linking.
JOEY toolkit for 3D rendering (without source), C++ interface.
Support for different rendering subsystems like OpenGL, HEIDI, GDI.
There are calls for texture mapping, but JOEY does not support it.

Move information and a demo can be found on the Crisis in Perspective Homepage .

15.01.1996 LibRaum (Link Problems!) 15.01.1996

LR is a commerical 3D API from Bitblox (hedu@ipn.uni-kiel.de).

X11-Windows running under HPUX and Linux.
Wireframe, flat and gouraud shading.
Multiple camera support.
Multiple lights, point and spotlights.
Painters sorting and z-buffering.
RAD scene language, builtin shapes.
C++ API.

More info and demos on the libRaum Homepage.

11.12.1995 HOOPS 06.11.1995

HOOPS is a commerical 3D API from Ithaca Software, which was bought by Autodesc Inc a few years back.

Windows 3.1/NT, Mac, X11-Windows on Silicon Graphics, HP, IBM RS/6000, Sun Sparc and DEC OSF/1 .
Flat, gouraud, phong and silhoutte mode.
Fast software z-buffer.
Display, printer and plotter support.
Support for hardware acceleration boards.
Object database management.
HDI (Heidi, Hoops Device Interface) is used for 3D Studio Max under Windows NT and in AutoCAD R13c3.
Easy to programm.

Contact:1001 Marina Village Parkway, Alemeda, CA 94501
More info on the Hoops Homepage of Tech Soft.

16.11.1995 work in progress 16.11.1995

A gouraud shading, z-buffer engine by John Price (jsp@netcom.com).

06.11.1995 VeriScope 06.11.1995

VS is a commerical 3D viewing system for 386 PCs from Pearson Interface (Vscope@pearsoni.demon.co.uk).

Gouraud-shading, dithered flat shading and wire-frame rendering in real-time.
Shadows and phong-shading in still rendering mode.
Stereo support using red-blue glasses.
3D navigation using the mouse.
Collision detection.
Z-buffer.
Reads DXF files, outputs FLC movies and PCS pictures.
DOS real-mode program.

For more information and a demo see the VeriScope Homepage.

01.11.1995 Geomview 01.01.1995

GV is an interactive program, written by staff members of the Geometry Center, for viewing and manipulating geometric objects. It can be used as a standalone viewer for static objects or as a display engine for other programs which produce dynamically changing geometry.

Z-buffer renderer
SGI, NeXT and X11-Windows, binary and source distribution
polyhedra with shared vertices (.off), quadrilaterals, rectangular meshes, vectors, and Bezier surface patches of arbitrary degree including rational patches.
Picking on an object, edge or vertex level
Direct mouse manipulation, control panels, and keyboard shortcuts
Supports OOGL, a 3D file format for WWW 3D objects.

More info on the Geomview Homepage or in the Geomview Readme.

01.11.1995 XVirtual 14.06.1995

XVirtual is a 3D animation engine from Marcus Roth (roth@aix01.rz.fht-mannheim.de).

Animation support.
Shadow mapping.
Z-buffer rendering.
The C++ source has german comments.
Support for X11-Windows, needs xview library.

The source can be found on ftp.fht-mannheim.de. More info in the XVirtual Readme.

31.08.1995 3D Tools 01.01.1995

3DT is a 3D engine for PCs by Voltaire/OTM (mortens1@nersc.gov).

Z-buffer
C++ and ASM
Reads 3D-Studio ASC files

A full source can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi , more info in the 3D Tools Readme.

Flat-shading Engines

21.05.1999 Smeeze's 3D Engine 21.05.1999

Smeeze's 3D Engine is a flatshading 3d engine for X11 from Robert Smies ( smies@hio.hen.nl ).

Flatshaded polygons
Z-Buffer rendering
Support for 16 bit color rendering
Should compile under most unixes
C++ source, no documentation

More information, screenshots and the source can be found on Smeeze's 3D Engine Homepage.

28.01.1998 3D Java Viewer 02.01.1998

3DJV is a simple 3D engine written in Java from Eric Harlow ( brain@netbrain.com ).

Shaded, flat polygons.
Z sorting and Z-buffering for VRML models.
Support for .OFF and .WRL (VRML) files.

More information and a demo can be found on the 3D Java Viewer Homepage.

Non-realtime Engines

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.

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