3D Engines List Z-Sorting This list contains 81 z-sorting engines.

25.04.2000 Panard Vision

04.04.1997

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

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

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

12.04.2000 Legus3D

23.03.1998

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

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

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

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 .

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.

22.12.1999 Power Render

09.09.1996

PR is a high performance 32-bit rendering engine for PC's by Chris Egerter (egerter@egerter.com), the author of the WordUp Graphics Toolkit.

• Perspective texture mapping with gouraud and phong shading.
• Environment mapping for all texture rendering modes.
• Support for hardware bump-mapping
• Multiple light sources.
• Real-time shadows
• 3D Sprites, with smoke, glow, translucency, shading and other lighting effects.
• 32 bit radix sort with Painter's sorting.
• Span buffering.
• Portal engine with realtime rotating mirrors and TV screens.
• Support for stencil buffer
• Motion blur and anti-aliasing.
• Supports linear 320x200x256 (0x13) and all SVGA modes.
• High Level C API with low level hand optimized assembly.
• Hierarchical object management with real-time object morphing and bending.
• Character animation and particle scripting system.
• Particle systems.
• Viewport control allows for multiple views and changing the viewport size on the fly.
• Import for 3D Studio 3DS,Lightwave LWO and LWS files.
• Keyframe animation playback of both 3DS and Lightwave scenes.
• Support for 3DS Character Studio.
• Assign materials and texture data for each individual polygon.
• MIP-mapping and material changes based on polygon distance.
• Polytype collision detection.
• Landscape Studio editor now has support for alpha fogging, sky boxes, and animated character or particle placement.
• Compiler Support: Watcom C/C++ and MSVC.
• Uses WGT 5.1/WGT95 for basic graphics functions. Support for DosGlide, DirectDraw software rendering, WinGlide, Direct3D (7.0 ) and OpenGL.
• Native 3Dfx support through Glide and 3Dfx Voodoo Rush support.
• 3D MAX glasses support.

More information and a demo on the Power Render Homepage.

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 .

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.

28.09.1999 Eng3D

22.04.1999

Eng3D is a small 3D engine for DOS from Gautier de Montmollin ( Gautier.deMontmollin@maths.unine.ch ).

• Shaded, perspective texture mapping
• Different perspective scanliners
• Multiple lights
• Z-Sorting
• Clipping
• SVGA support
• Written in Ada

More information, screenshots and the source can be found on the Eng3D Homepage

17.09.1999 SMF3D DeepEllum 3D Engine

17.09.1999

SMF3D DeepEllum 3D Engine is DOS 3D engine from Scott Geppert ( ScottGeppert@thePentagon.com ).

• Perspective, non shaded texture mapping
• Z-sorting
• Frustrum clipping
• Simple collision detection
• Sound support
• Client/server IPX multiplayer code
• Vector based physics
• Integrated console
• Written in DJGPP using Allegro GFX library

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the SMF3D DeepEllum 3D Engine Homepages.

03.09.1999 JView3D

27.03.1998

JV3D is a Java 3D engine from Thomas Landspurg of Tomsoft (tomsoft@worldnet.net).

• Unshaded, perspective texture mapping
• Shaded, flat polygons
• Wireframe rendering
• Z sorting
• Hierachical object model
• Multiple Views
• Support for backdrop images
• Support for Quake 1 models
• JDK1.0.2 and 1.1 compatible
• Can be used as a library, a beans or an applet
• Small (<40ko for V0.1)
• There is a small implementation of JView3D for Palm Pilot/CE, using Waba

More information, screenshots and demos can be found on the JView3D Homepage.

17.07.1999 Open Media Toolkit

17.07.1999

The OMT is an 3D engine and application framework for Mac, PowerPC, Windows 95/NT from Pacific Media WorX.

• High performance C++ mix-in architecture
• Perspective, shaded texture mapping
• Flat and gouraud shading
• Multiple colored lights
• Translucidity
• 3D sprites
• Three polygon sorting methods and two polygon software rasterizers
• 2D engine
• Network support
• Collision detection

More information and documentation can be found on the Pacific Media WorX 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

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

13.01.1999 VR-AGE

13.01.1999

VR-AGE is a commercial 3D rendering and sprite engine for Windows / DirectX from Webfoot Technologies.

• Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping
• Transparent/translucent polygons, sprites & particles
• Animated sprites and textures
• Particle system
• Colored lighting effects
• Depth sorting
• Polygonal characters
• Collision detection
• Lens flares and underwater FX
• Real-time WYSIWYG Level Editor
• Sound support
• Written in C/C++/ASM

More information, demos and screenshots can be found via the Webfoot Technologies Homepage .

13.01.1999 3D-Wage

13.01.1999

3D-Wage is a commercial 3D rendering and sprite engine for Windows / DirectX from Webfoot Technologies.

• Based on cube rendering
• Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping
• Animated sprites and textures
• Colored lighting effects
• Depth sorting
• Moving cubes and sprite
• Lifted and non-lifted floors and ceilings
• Sprite clipping against polygons
• Collision detection
• Real-time WYSIWYG Level Editor
• Sound support
• Written in C/C++/ASM

More information, demos and screenshots can be found via the Webfoot Technologies Homepage .

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 .

20.11.1998 TGMP

01.04.1997

TGMP is a 3D graphics engine for PCs using DELPHI by Peter Dove (peterd@graphicalmagick.com) and Don Peer (dpeer@mgl.ca).

• Shaded linear texture mapping.
• Gouraud shading and wireframe rendering.
• Z sorting.
• 16 bit color support for Windows 95.
• Object Pascal / Delphi 2 source with good comments.
• A longer text document describes the techniques used.

The source files can be found at the Delphi Informat 1997 File Library under the name DI9704DP.ZIP.

17.11.1998 3D-Mesh-Viewer

17.11.1998

3DMV is a PC 3D engine from Timothy S. Bowers ( tsb@icon.co.za ).

• Unshaded, perspective texture mapping
• Gouraud shading
• Phong shading (via environment mapping)
• Wire frame rendering
• Support for 3D Studio ASC files.
• Motion blur.
• Pascal source.

More information, screenshots and the source can be found via the Homepage of Timothy S. Bowers.

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.

21.07.1998 Jaw3D

16.12.1996

Jaw3D is a 3d engine by Jawed Karim ( jaw3d@jawed.com ).

• Shaded texture mapping.
• Lambert flat, gouraud and (fake) phong shading.
• Wireframe rendering.
• Environment mapping.
• Movable light source.
• Painter's algorithm: qsorted polygons.
• Support for 3 resolutions: 320x200, 640x480, 800x600 .
• Converter for POVray smooth trinagles and 3D Studio 3DS to j3d format, direkt support for Quake MDL.
• DOS and ix86 linux elf version.
• C API.

More information and a demo can be found on the Jaw3D Homepage.

23.03.1998 Luna

23.03.1998

Luna is a 3D engine for PCs from Adam Jenkins ( jenkins@jfam.demon.co.uk )

• Unshaded, linear texture mapping.
• Z-sorting.
• Wireframe and flatshading.

More information and screenshots can be found via the Homepage of Adam Jenkins .

30.01.1998 HiRender

29.10.1996

HiRender is a PC 3D rendering API by Mark Grocki (mgrocki@umd.umich.edu) from Hirise Software.

• Gouraud shaded perspective texture mapping.
• Bilinear texture mapping.
• Depth cueing.
• Z-sorting.
• Hither and yon clipping.
• Load and display 320x200x256 PCX files.
• 3D objects: load, translate, rotate and display with only a few function calls.
• 3D entities: use as characters in a game, simulation, etc.
• Timing functions: get FPS, lock frame rate, get elapsed time in seconds and 1/100th seconds.
• Mouse functions.
• Support for Jaw3D files.
• Used with DJGPP compiler.

More information, an SDK and a demo are available via the Hirise Homepage.

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..

14.01.1998 Regicide

14.01.1998

Regicide is a 3D engine for DOS from Richard Sim ( richard@hyper.net.au ).

• Lambert shaded, perspective texturemapping.
• Support for 640x480 with 256 grayscales.
• Z-Sorting.

More information and screenshots can be found via the Homepage of Richard Sim .

23.10.1997 PXD Trainer

23.10.1997

The PXD Trainer is a tutorial 3D engine for PCs from Kasper Fauerby (tm@image.dk ) aka 'Telemachos' of Peroxide.

• Linear, unshaded texture mapping.
• Environment mapping, fake phong shading.
• Gouraud shading.
• Z-Sorting.
• Pascal source.

The source and tutorials can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi as pxdtut3.zip and pxdtut4.zip.

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.

22.10.1997 Threed

22.10.1997

Threed is the Linux port of the 3D engine by Jean-Francois Dube (deks@videotron.ca) aka 'Deks' of IncaMaster.

• Perspective, shaded texture-mapping.
• Sub-pixel & sub-textel accuracy
• Flat and gouraud shading.
• Multiple objects.
• Multiple rgb light sources.
• Z sort rendering.
• Light-source rendering.
• 2D clipping.
• Support for 3D Studio ASC, GEO and GEM object files.
• C++ source.

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

06.10.1997 Virtual Reality

06.10.1997

VR is a 3D flight simulator for DOS from Max Bennedich ( maxx.addictpc@usa.net ).

• Perspective shaded texture mapping.
• Flat and gouraud shading.
• Hazing.
• Huge fractal landscape world.
• Depth sorting.
• View frustrum clipping.
• 100% assembler code, handoptimized for Pentium+.

More information, screenshots, documentation and a demo can be found on the Virtual Reality 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.

22.09.1997 3D Game Engine

24.02.1997

3DGM is a landscape game engine for PCs by Raymond Penners ( raymondp@win.tue.nl )

• Unshaded affine texture mapping.
• Gouraud shaded polygons.
• Transparent polygons.
• Sky-mapping.
• Fogging.
• Moving sea.
• Polygonal 3D objects.
• 2D sprites.
• Polygon sorting.
• Support for DOS and Linux.

More information and the source can be found on the 3D Game 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.

15.08.1997 SMEG 3D

15.08.1997

SMEG 3D is a 3D engine for PCs by 'Gedge' ( gedge@eh.u-net.com ).

• Unshaded affine texture mapping.
• Wireframe, flat shading, gouraud and phong shading (via environment mapping) and environment mapping.
• Z-Sorting.
• Simple motion blur.

The demo can be found on the SMEG 3D Homepage.

15.08.1997 Enigmatic Experience

30.12.1996

The Enigmatic Experience is a polygon renderer for Windows by Dion Picco (dpicco@garfield.cs.mun.ca) and Steven Lilly.

• Unshaded, affine texture mapping.
• Gouraud and flat shading.
• Z-buffer and z-sorting.
• Uses Win32 and WinG.
• Support for BMP texture files.
• Own scene file and object format.
• C++ source.

Dion Picco just moved his homepage, on the new page there is no information or link to the source of the Enigmatic Experience engine.

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.

10.06.1997 Obj3d

10.06.1997

The Obj3d Java applet is a 3D engine by Bencsath Boldizsar (boldi@inf.bme.hu ).

• Unshaded texture mapping.
• Wireframe, flat shading, gouraud and phong shading (via environment mapping).
• Z-Sorting.

The java applet can be found on the Obj3d 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.

16.05.1997 The Chaos Engine

16.05.1997

TCE is a 3d engine for PCs from Lars Andersson ( lars_and@algonet.se ).

• Linear, shaded texture mapping.
• Gouraud and flat shading.
• Z clipping.
• Painters sorting.
• C/ASM source.

More information, screenshots, source and executable can be found via Lars' 3D Graphics Programming Page.

04.04.1997 Alpha Engine

24.10.1996

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

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

An older version of the engine also supported

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

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

01.04.1997 3D Objcad

01.04.1997

3D Objcad is a 3D engine for PCs by Dhonn Lushine (Ludhonn@aol.com).

• Unshaded linear texture mapping.
• Gouraud shading.
• Z sorting.
• Support for Windows 3.1/ 95.
• Written in Watcom C++.

The demo can be found at the Dhonn Lushine Programming Homepage.

17.01.1997 Shandy

10.01.1997

Shandy is a polygon renderer for PCs by Andrew Po-Wai Cheung ( apwc@doc.ic.ac.uk )

• Shaded affine texture mapping.
• Gouraud and flat shaded polygons.
• 6 degree of freedom.
• Painters sorting.
• Multiple objects and multiple point lights.
• SVGA support.
• 8 and 24 bit color support.
• TGA texture map support.
• 3D Studio ASC object file support.
• Keyboard interaction of scenes,objects,cameras & lights.
• 32 and 16 bit memory model support.
• C++/C/ASM source.

More information can be found on the Shandy Homepage. The source and demo can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi.

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 E3Dngine

09.09.1996

E3D is a 3d engine for PCs from Jacco Bikker (aka 'The Phantom') (Jacco.Bikker@QuestIntl.Com )

• Gouraud-shaded texture mapping.
• Dynamic lighting and scenery.
• Advanced sorting/clipping of polygons.
• Written in Pascal.

More information and a demo can be found on the Phantom Cyberspace 3D Homepage.

20.08.1996 WordUp Graphics Toolkit

14.06.1995

WGT is a graphics library for PCs by Chris Egerter (egerter@egerter.com). Beside a 3D engine, the 10 libraries offers sprite animation, 3d math, drop-down menus, scrolling engine, joystick commands, FLI/FLC animation routines, file selector, serial communications and a 32-bit protected mode digital sound system for playing music and mixing sound effects real-time.

• DOS, VESA SVGA, Windows 95 with DirectX and OS/2 support
• Perspective texturemapping with gouraud and phong shading.
• Translucent polygons.
• Motion blur.
• No z-buffer or BSP, only polygon sorting.
• Direct 3DS file format support.
• 400 page printed manual.

A demo of the library can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi . The wgt directory also contains 3 tutorials with source for linear texturemapped polygons and other interesting stuff like landscape rendering and texturemapped phong shading.
More information, demos and tutorials on the Egerter Software 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 .

15.07.1996 3DTOSHI

15.01.1996

3DTOSHI is a 3D engine for PCs by Toshiaki Tsuji (tsuji@cs.concordia.ca).

• Linear, shaded texture mapping.
• Gouraud and flat shading, wireframe rendering.
• Transparence and distance cueing/fogging.
• DOS 32 bit, Windows 3.1 and Win32 ( Win 95 & NT) support.
• Z sorting.
• 3D Studio ASC file support.
• C++ / ASM source.

A source/demo can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi.

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 .

25.03.1996 DCC 3DE

25.03.1996

3DE is a 3D engine for 386 PCs by Teemu Laakso (x-wizard@rack.improvers.fi) aka 'Zjack' of 'DCC VR Labs'.

• Environment texture mapping.
• Gouraud shading.
• Z-sorting.
• Clipping.
• ASM source.
• DCC file format, 3DS to DCC converter included.

A source anx executabled can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi .

21.03.1996 Citigrade 3D

21.03.1996

CG3D is a 3D API and editor for PCs from Claude Marais (Claude@wwg3.uovs.ac.za).

• Linear, shaded texture mapping.
• Wireframe, gouraud and flatshaded rendering.
• Z-sorting.
• PCX texture support.
• Uses WordUp Graphics Toolkit for rendering.
• 3D object editor.
• Animation files.
• C++ API for the library.
• Currently only single objects are supported.

The library and some tutorials can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi . More info in the Citigrade 3D Readme.

21.03.1996 SJM386

21.03.1996

SJM386 is a 3D engine for 386 PCs from Steve Madsen (smadsen@cs.muohio.edu).

• Linear, non-shaded texture mapping.
• Z-sorting of objects and polygons.
• Wireframe and flatshaded rendering.
• GIF and PXM texture support.
• Uses XLib library.

The source can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi . More info in the SJM386 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.

31.08.1995 Mech

19.06.1995

Mech is a 3D graphics/dynamics engine by David Wu.

• Perspective texturemapping and gouraud shading.
• BSP tree, polygon sorting.
• SVGA and VGA support.
• Depth cueing.
• Physical simulation of spring/mass systems.

A demo can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi .

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.

01.01.1995 Paradise

01.01.1995

Paradise is a 3D engine for 386 PCs from Robert-Jan Elias (Elias@fel.tno.nl).

• Perspective texture mapping for vertical/horizontal polygons, otherwise there are distortions.
• 2D sprites and transparent textures (billboard objects).
• Animated textures.
• BSP tree scenes with polygon sorting.
• Flat shaded polygons.
• Stereo rendering.
• CyberMan and joystick support.

A demo can be found on wuarchive.wustl.edu.

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.

18.01.1999 3D Studio

07.10.1997

3D is a simple object editor for PCs from Spencer Pickett ( spickett@lucent.com ).

• Gouraud, flat and wireframe rendering.
• Movable light source.
• Construction of sweep objects (tori, cones, spheres etc..) .
• Z-sorting.
• Support for SVGA.
• Written in C++.

More information and the demo can be found on the Spencer Picketts Project Homepage

18.01.1999 Mercury

18.01.1999

Mercury is a Windows 95/98 3D engine from Adam Jenkins ( jenkins@jfam.demon.co.uk ).

• Gouraud shaded triangles
• Uses OpenGL as triangle rasteriser
• Z-sorting
• Particle system
• Landscape rendering
• Written in Visual C++ 5

More information and screenshots can be found on the Homepage of Adam Jenkins .

06.04.1998 Tutor

06.04.1998

Tutor is a tutorial 3D engine for DOS from Libor Capak (xcapak@fi.muni.cz) .

• Gouraud shading.
• Z-Sorting.
• Pascal / ASM source.

More information,a screenshot and the demo with source can be found on the Programming Page of Libor Capak.

15.04.1997 M3D

15.04.1997

M3D is a PC 3d engine by 'Memon' and 'Raynet' of iNSiDE informatics.

• Gouraud shading.
• Multiple, movable light sources.
• Painter's algorithm: qsorted polygons
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS files.
• C/ASM source.

The source and binary can be found via the iNSiDE Homepage on the Products page.

07.03.1996 Free3d (Link Problem!)

07.03.1996

F3D is a portable, object-oriented real-time 3d rendering library from Brandon Van Every (vanevery@blarg.net).

• Gouraud and flat shading, texture mapping is planned.
• Painters sorting.
• X11-Windows support.
• C++ source code.

More information and the source can be found on the Free3d 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.

08.11.1995 work in progress

08.11.1995

A gouraud shading engine by Davide Pasca (dpasca@vv.val.net).

• Scanline based bucket z sort renderer.
• 3D sprites.

31.08.1995 GVectors

19.06.1995

GV is a gouraud shading engine for PCs from Terry Sznober (tumblin@mi.net).

• C/ASM source, uses XLib.
• Single color objects, polygons sorting.

The source can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi . More info in the GVectors Readme. There is also a vector editor for the V10 format on x2ftp.oulu.fi .

31.08.1995 3D Vectors

10.06.1995

The Modex 3D Vector Library from John McCarthy (BRIAN.MCCARTHY@CANREM.COM) contains a PC gouraud shading engine.

• Multiple objects.
• Z-sorting.
• Translucency.
• 2D text, bitmap objects.
• Sound support for GUS and SB.
• Joystick support.
• 100% ASM.

The source can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi . More info in the 3D Vectors Readme.

31.08.1995 3D World

31.08.1995

3DW is an engine from Istvan Adam Frits (I.A.Frits@derby.ac.uk).

• Phong, gouraud, flat shading.
• Object sorting.
• Written in C++.

The demo can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi . More info in the 3D World Readme.

04.04.2000 True3D

04.04.2000

True3D is a simple 3D engine for Java from Trevor Wilkin ( GamesProgramming@freenetname.co.uk ).

• Flat shaded rendering
• Z-Sorting
• Vector and matrix math
• Support for polygons and lines
• Java source

More information, the applet and source can be found on Trev's Java Homepage.

04.02.2000 Evil3D

04.02.2000

Evil3D is a simple 3D engine for Java from Trevor Wilkin ( GamesProgramming@freenetname.co.uk ).

• Flat shaded rendering
• Z-Sorting
• Support for 3D Studio models
• Java source

More information, the applet and source can be found on Trev's Java Homepage.

26.05.1999 Blast3D

26.05.1999

Blast3D is a flatshading 3D engine for DOS from Tobias Johansson ( tobias_johansson@mailcity.com ).

• Colored lambert shading
• Object transformations
• Z-sorting (Painters)
• Support for 3D Studio ASC and Nullsoft MD2 files
• Full DJGPP/Allegro source code release

More information, screenshots and the source can be found on the Blast3D Homepage.

27.12.1997 3D Clip

27.12.1997

3DC is a simple 3D engine for DOS from Nils Pipenbrinck aka 'Submissive'.

• Flat shaded polygons.
• Z sorting.
• 3D clipping.
• C/ASM sources.

More information about 3D clipping, a screenshot, the source and executables can be found on the 3D Clipping Homepage.

19.12.1997 Checkers 3D

19.12.1997

C3D is a 3D checkers game for DOS from Leandro Bernsmuller (lebe@geocities.com) and Sandro Daniel Camillo.

• Flat shaded polygons.
• Z sorting.
• Game artificial inteligence: minimax.
• C++/ASM sources (with portuguese comments).

More information, screenshots, the source and executables can be found on the 3D Checkers Homepage.

03.11.1997 Java 3D Viewer

03.11.1997

The J3DV is a flat shading 3d engine from Paul Flavin ( imaging@frontiernet.net ).

• Flat shaded polygons and wireframe rendering.
• Support for off, nff, obj and VRML wrl files.
• Mouse support.
• Written in portable java.

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

23.10.1997 Raven3D

23.10.1997

Raven3D is a simple commercial PC 3D game engine from Joe T. McCormack ( jmccorm@midusa.net ).

• Flat shaded polygons.
• 3D sprites;
• Keyboard , mouse and joystick support
• Z-Sorting.
• Written in C++.

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the Raven3D Homepage .

23.10.1997 3D Tutor

23.10.1997

3DT is a simple 3D engine tutorial by Johan E. Thelin ( pstjohan@hotmail.com ).

• Flat shaded polygons.
• Simple shading.
• Polygon sorting.
• C source.

The tutorials and source can be found on the 3D Tutor Homepage.

23.10.1997 Java Solid Shading

23.10.1997

JSS is a 3D java tutorial engine from Johan E. Thelin (todd.sundsted@javaworld.com).

• Flat shaded polygons.
• Simple shading.
• Polygon quicksort.
• Portable java source.

The tutorial, source and demo can be found on the Java Solid Shading Homepage.

10.06.1997 MOSHE

10.06.1997

MOSHE is a 3D engine for PCs from Ohad Eder Pressman (kombat@netvision.net.il ) aka `Kombat` of iMMoRTaLs.

• Flat polygons, later version will do shaded texture-mapping.
• Z-sorting, later version will do z-buffer rendering.
• Hierarchical objects and keyframing.
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS files.
• SVGA support.

Some more information and a demo can be found on the iMMoRTaLS Homepage under Latest News.

14.02.1997 3D Probe

14.02.1997

3DP is a simple 3D engine by Wayne (powen@ilink.nis.za) posted in comp.graphics.algorithms.

• Flat shaded polygons.
• Polygon sorting.
• Pascal source.

The source can be found in the 3D Probe info file.

17.07.1996 DDJ: ZSort

16.07.1996

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

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

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

26.02.1996 Great Evil's Vectors

01.01.1995

The Vector library from Robert Copeland (aka 'Great Evil') (gt5111a@prism.gatech.edu) contains a Mode X flatshading engine for 386 PCs.

• Z-sorting.
• No clipping.
• Protected mode ASM.

The source can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi . More info in the Greater Evil Vectors Readme or on the Homepage of Robert Copeland.

04.01.1996 DDJ: 3D Clip

04.01.1996

3C is a sample system to render 3-D scenes to illustrate 3-D clipping, as discussed in "Ramblings in Realtime" column in the March/April 1995 issue of "Dr. Dobb's Sourcebook" from Michael Abrash (mikeab@idsoftware.com).

• Windows output, mouse support.
• 6D movement.
• Simple convex objects with polygon sorting.
• Uses own display buffer that is copied into a window, easy to expand to other shading method.
• C / C++ source.

The source can be found on ftp.idsoftware.com. More info in the 3D Clip Readme. or on the Quake 3D Clipping webpage.

31.08.1995 The Guts

01.01.1995

TG is a test for some very fast and expandable object oriented graphics and animation routines from Matthew Lamari (eng-mcl@jcu.edu.au).

• C++.
• Simple painters sorting.
• Robot motion is automatically calculated by the length of the legs.
• Multiple viewports.

A demo can be found on falcon.jcu.edu.au. More information in the The Guts Readme.

11.11.1997 ZED

22.06.1995

The ZED engine is a very basic 3D engine from Sebastion Loisel (zed@sgi.com). It was developed in conjuction with the ZED 3D tutorial about polygon scanconversion, texture mapping and phong shading.

• Z-sorting.
• No light calculations.
• No clipping.
• Reads ASC files.

The tutorial and source is available on the Homepage of Sebastion Loisel.