3DEL: Changed entries since april 2000

3D Engines List
Changed entries since april 2000

This list contains the 44 changed engines since 01.04.2000 sorted by date.

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 JunkRender 28.01.1998

JR is a 3D engine for Win32, Java and DOS from tAAt (tAAt@mail.com).

Fast texture mapping (perspective, shaded)
3D Studio .3DS File Loader and JunkRender .JR Scenery Format with LZSS Compression
File Library System
Custom Procedural Textures
Texture Cache Optimization
Custom particle systems
Custom Post-processing Effects (e.g. Motion Blur and Cartoon Rendering)
Simulated Volume Lighting
Interactive Test Suite
Written in Java and C

More information and demos can be found on the JunkRender 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.

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.

12.05.2000 Miracle 3D 22.12.1999

Miracle 3D is a Windows 3D engine from Damir Sagidullin ( _spider@mail.ru ).

Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
Support for OpenGL
Portal rendering with BSPs
Dynamic RGB lights
Dynamic mirrors
Lens flares
Software rendering
Mip mapping
Transparent objects
Moving objects
Animated water
Volume fog
Fractal textures
Collision detection
Console

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

12.05.2000 pixelbase 02.02.2000

pixelbase is a commercial 3D engine for Windows from Engin Cilasun ( engin@pixelbase.net ) and Attila Uygun ( ati@pixelbase.net ).

Multitexturing OR Two-pass texturing using OpenGL
Support for Direct3D
Soft Body Dynamics
Lens flares
Plugin mechanism for great extensibility
Custom model editor with surface unfold capability
LightWave plugin for model import/export to our editor
Realtime shadows (needs HW stencil buffer support)
Metallic surfaces
Particle systems
Physics system
Compiled scripting with realtime bytecode interpreter
External script compiler
Support for shaders (like metal&rust)

More information and screenshots can be found on the Pixelbase Homepage

12.05.2000 Dark Basic Engine 12.05.2000

Dark Basic Engine is a 3D engine for Windows built into the Dark Basic programming language from Dark Basic Software.

Shaded, perspective texture mapping
Support for Direct 3D
Alphablending and transparency
Texture filtering
Fogging
Model loading and animation
Collision detection
Support for BMP textures

More information, screenshots, demos and a trial version of the programming language can be found on the Dark Basic Homepage.

12.05.2000 Xeios 12.05.2000

Xeios is a commercial 3D engine for Windows and Playstation 2 from AiCube Co.

Shaded, perspective texture mapping
Mip mapping
Bump mapping
Environment mapping
Multipass rendering
Scene graph support
Fogging
Deformable meshes (Skinning, Bones, Envelopes)
Key framed animation
Converters for Maya, Softimage, Lightwave and 3D Studio Max
Particle system
Support for custom shaders

More information can be found on the AiCube Homepage.

12.05.2000 Eraser 12.05.2000

Eraser is a fast DOS 3D engine from Lassi Kumpula ( musamies.rave@iobox.com ).

Unshaded, perspective texture mapping
Mip mapping
S-Buffer rendering
Fake FSP tree support
Written in Watcom C++ and Turbo Assembler

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

12.05.2000 KABOOM QBasic 3D Engine 12.05.2000

The KB3D is a simple wolfenstein type engine for DOS written in QBasic from Dieter Marfurt ( dietermarfurt@angelfire.com )

Texturemapped othrogonal walls
Ceiling and floor mapping
Sprite objects with mask
Moving enemies
Soundblaster support
Support for GIF textures
QBasic source

A screenshot and the package with mapeditor, demogame and source can be found on the Kaboom Homepage.

27.04.2000 Titan Engine 27.04.2000

The Titan Engine is a 3D engine for Windows from Ignacio Casta�o Aguado, Jos� Luis Fern�ndez Rueda, Gabriel Rodr�guez Alberich and Julio C�sar Espada Rodr�gue ( titan@talika.fie.us.es ).

Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
Support for OpenGL
Curved surfaces
BSP rendering
Support for 3D Studio 3DS files
Support for Quake3 bsp files
Real-time skeleton deformations
Dynamic mesh resolution
Keyframed animations
Support for shader script language which allows procedural vertex deformations and multiple texturing stages, with different blending modes and rendering states
Port to linux is beeing done

More information, screenshots, a demo and the source for an older version (called Nemesis) can be found on the Titan Project Homepage.

27.04.2000 Experience Engine 27.04.2000

The Experience Engine is a 3D engine for Direct X7 from The Whole Experience, Inc.

Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
Multi-textureing (Bump, detail and diffuse textures)
Cube enironment mapping
Support for texture compression
Transparency
Support for hardware transformation and lighting
Automatic tessellation of NURBS objects with full UV support
Bones/Cluster-based animation (single-mesh)
Hierarchical animation (multi-mesh)
Per-vertex color (can affect textures) and per-vertex transparency
Surface material support
Vertex lighting (8 most important lights per vertex using T&L hardware)
Different light types (point, spot, directional, ambient)
3D sound
Special effects (lightning, sparcs, rain, dynamic day/night changes, moving clouds)
Particle effects (for smoke, fire, water and other vapor and magical effects)
Real-time geometry warping (for extremely realistic water)
Dynamic scene culling
Export from Alias Power Animator or Maya

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

27.04.2000 ENG32 26.01.1999

ENG32 is a Windows 3D engine from Harald Nowak ( ishn@infrasoft.co.at ).

Perspective, gouraud shaded texture mapping
Support for hardware accelerated Direct3D only
Transparent and animated surfaces
RGB lighting with shadows (but no shadow maps)
Flashing/flickering lights
BSP rendering with limited portal capability
Polygon based leveleditor
Support for switch scripts, switched sounds
WAV and MIDI music
3D characters (imported from 3D Studio Max)
Particle system
Enhanced API

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on Harald Nowak's Homepage.

27.04.2000 Orion3D 27.04.2000

Orion3D is a 3D engine for Windows 95/98 from Gabriel Peyr� ( nikopol0@club-internet.fr ).

Shaded, perspective texture mapping
Support for OpenGL
Mip mapping
Fog effect
Static lights
Hierarchical objects with animation
Support for bmp textures
Support for 3D Studio Max via export plugin
C++ source for Visual Studio

More information, the OrionViewer and source to the Orion3D engine can be found on the french Orion3D Homepage.

27.04.2000 Castle Raycasting Engine 27.04.2000

The CRE is a very simple doomlike raycasting engine for DOS from Illco ( eelco@cheerful.com )

Texturemapped othrogonal walls
Support for PCX textures
C/ASM source

The source can be found under Downloads on Illco's Homepage.

25.04.2000 Panard Vision 04.04.1997

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

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

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

25.04.2000 Beam Engine 02.02.2000

The Beam Engine is a 3D engine for Windows from Tobias Johansson ( tobias_johansson@mailcity.com ).

Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
Support for Direct 3D
Mipmapping, created by engine to save diskspace
Lightmapping with raytraced lighting
Gouraud shaded/Environmentmapped objects
Collision detection
Loading of ASC, BMM and MAP files
Coronas
Particles, with nice physics
Octree subdivision
Simple scripting
C++ source

More information, screenshots, a demo and the source can be found on the PolyGone Homepage

25.04.2000 Hurricane 25.04.2000

Hurricane is a 3D engine for Windows 98 from marc Salmurri ( marc.salmurri@upcnet.es ).

Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
Support for OpenGL
Static and dynamic per pixel omnidirectional direct lighting
Static shadows
Colored lighting
MIP mapping
Support for 3DStudio MAX 2 ASE files
Written in C++

More information, screenshots and the demo can be found on the Hurricane 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.

12.04.2000 Genesis 3D 11.08.1998

G3D is a commercial 3D game SDK from Eclipse Entertainment.

Lightmapped perspective texture mapping
Animated textures, procedural water textures
Translucent textures
Texture morphing
Dynamic shadows
Light diffraction
Multiple colored light
Fog.
Vertex morphing
Real time water surface distortion
Real time light diffraction
Mirrors
Integrated rigid body physics simulation support for world objects
Hierarchical and seamless, soft-skin polygonal characters
Support for 3DS MAX animation files
LOD support
Area portals allow selective rendering of world geometry
Software rasterizer, 3DFX Glide, and D3D support
Open scripting API
Level editor
3D sound positioning and attenuation
Support for network streaming of geometry, animations and textures ( Hollywood 3D )
OpenSource distribution

More information, screenshots, the SDK and some demos can be found on Genesis 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 Fly3D 04.08.1998

Fly3D is a 3D engine for Windows by Fabio Policarpo ( fabio@paralelo.com.br ).

Single front-end app supporting OpenGL (1.1) / Direct3D (DirextX 6.1) windowed / full-screen
Editor for .fly files with realtime preview in windows explorer style
Support for plugin dlls (make new games just writing new plugins)
Visual C++ wizard for making fly3d plugins
Perspective shaded texture mapping
Static and dynamic lightmaps
Dynamic shadows and soft-shadows, dynamic lightmap shadows
Stencil buffer shadows support
Dynamic volumetric fog with fogmaps
Detail textures
Curved bezier extrudes and lofts with lightmaps
BSP/PSV rendering
Transparency
Volumetric fog using fogmaps
Cartoon rendering
Faster collision detection
Adaptative subdivided bezier surfaces (extrude and loft)
Multiplayer support
Server frontend for client/server multiplayer
Client/server playable deathmatch demo
3D sound support
Lighting tool for static level lighting
PVS tool for computing visibility
3DS MAX bsp import/export, texture mapping and landscape object plugins
Fly3d plugins (jumppads, fogsphere, fogbox, ...) and sample level (q3test2 clone)
Quake2 level converter
Quake3 level import utility (geometry, textures and curved surfaces)
Data files packing
Particle systems
Console window, also for server frontend
Written in C++ (Visual C++ 5.0)
Complete SDK with source code for all demo plugins

More information, screenshots, the sdk and a demos can be found on the Fly3D Homepage .
The engine will be featured in the book 3D Computer Game Technology - Theory and Practice from Alan Watt and Fabio Policarpo (Addion Wesley).

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.

12.04.2000 Buzz 3D Browser 12.04.2000

The Buzz 3D Browser is a WWW browser that uses a 3D engine to show multiple websites simultaneously in a fully immersive 3D environment from Virtual Reality Marketing Ltd.

Shaded. perspective texture mapping
Doom like environment (angled walls with the same height)
Support for Direct 3D hardware rendering
Support for HTTP navigation

More information, screenshots and the executable can be found on the Buzz 3D Browser 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

10.04.2000 LOD 10.04.2000

The LOD engine is landscape 3D for Windows using OpenGL from Nicholas Anderson ( n.anderson@eidosnet.co.uk ).

Shaded, perspective texture mapping
Implementation of the paper [IMMD9] "Real-Time Generation of Continuous Levels of Detail for Height Fields" from S. Rottger, W. Heidrich, P. Slusallek, H. Seidel
Support for bmp textures

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

07.04.2000 Quake 3 Map Viewer 07.04.2000

The Q3MV is a 3D engine for DirectX 7 from Xavi Albors ( smiker@teleline.es ).

Multitextured, perspective mapping
Transparency
MipMapping
Support blend, alpha, color vertex and animated textures
Support for 16 bit graphics modes
BSP support with collision detection
Loads Quake3 bsp files with meshes and shaders
Optimized for GeForce

More information, screenshots and the binary can be found on Smiker's Homepage.

07.04.2000 gxRealityEngine 07.04.2000

The gxRealityEngine is a 3D engine for Windows 95/98 from Lightcube Technologies.

Multitextured, perspective mapping
Support for Glide, Direct3D and OpenGL
Object-oriented design with component model
Multithreading support
Scripting support
Particle systems
Physics system
3D sound support

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

07.04.2000 TwoQ2viewer 07.04.2000

The TwoQ2viewer is a Quake2 level viewer for Windows from Emmanuel Rivoire ( manutoo@imaginet.fr ).

Lightmapped, perspective mapping
Support for DirectX 6
BSP rendering

More information, screenshots and the demo can be found on TwoQ2viewer Homepage.

07.04.2000 Aised 07.04.2000

The Aised is a landscape rendering engine for Windows from Emmanuel Rivoire ( manutoo@imaginet.fr ).

Multitextured, perspective mapping
Support for DirectX 6
3D objects
Sky mapping

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

07.04.2000 3D Engine 07.04.2000

This i a gouraud shading engine for DOS from Srecko Morovic ( srecko_morovic@hotmail.com ).

Gouraud shading
Sound support
Support for 3D Studio 4 files
Uses Koristi Allegro game library
C++ DJGPP source

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

07.04.2000 Legend 23.06.1999

Landscape is a 3D engine for DOS from Alexander Kornyusckin ( korn@isan.troitsk.ru ).

New rendering method, support for many triangles
Resolution: 640x680, 600x400 with Hi-color
Texture mapping
Shadow mapping
SVGA support
Import- export from 3d studio
Written in C/C++ (Watcom 11) with ASM files

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the Legend 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 X3D Engine 04.04.2000

The X3D engine is a commercial 3D engine from 4X Technologies.

Multitextured, perspective mapping
C++ scene graph API
Support for PC 3dcards via DirectX, support for Dreamcast and Playstation 2
Animation controllers as in 3DS max
High level culling
LOD support
Portal rendering
Collision detection
Atmospheric effects
Direct 3DS Max export

More information and some demo can be found on the 4X Technologies Homepage.

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 Sparklight 05.08.1998

SL is a software rendering 3D engine for DOS and linux by Christian Fleischer (daydream@cs.tu-berlin.de)

Lightmap rendering
Perspective correction every 16 or 32 pixels, according to angle, distance and screen resolution
Subpixel, subtexel accuracy, edge coherency
Portal and BSP rendering
Spanbuffer und Z-Buffer rendering
Mip-Mapping with 3 texture-levels
Alpha transparency
Simple collision detection for the camera and the player with the dungeon
Synchronized double-buffering (Linux), unsynchronized triple-buffering (DOS)
Particle-system with gravity and collision-detection
Particle-system with spring-connections to simulate fluttering flags
Additive transparent particles (sprites)
Animated texturemaps (script-controlled)
Dynamic semi-soft shadows calculated & rendered in realtime
Shadow-map and light-map rendering
Moving mirrors
Arbitrary convex frustrum (up to 16 planes)
Script engine to control cameras, animations and movements, definitions of all animations / monsters in text-script
Quaternions for time-scaled matrix motion
Dolby Surround Sound Engine
Multiple colored lights with falloff
Written in C++

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

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

04.04.2000 IS Engine 04.04.2000

The IS engine is a small 3D engine for Windows using OpenGL from Matthew Fairfax ( mfairfa@clemson.edu ).

Shaded, perspective texture mapping
Static, predetermined lights
Simple map

More information, binary and the source can be found on the IS Engine Homepage.

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.

04.04.2000 Coockie's 3D Engine 20.01.1997

C3D is a 3D engine for Pentium PC by Erwin Coumans ( coockie@chello.nl ) aka 'Cookie'.

Perspective texture mapping.
MIP-mapping.
Collision detection.
3D BSP rendering.
Moving objects.
Support for 3D Studio ASC files.
VESA 2.0 linear framebuffer support.
Support for 3Dfx pc 3d cards using Glide.
C/ASM source.

The source can be found at http://members.xoom.com/gamedev/download/sources/demosrc.zip, the demo is found at http://members.xoom.com/gamedev/download/sources/demosrc.zip.

04.04.2000 Java Maze 17.09.1999

Java Maze is a Java 3D engine from by Jonathan Thomas ( jht2000@hotmail.com ).

Unshaded orthogonal texture mapped walls with same height
Texturemapped floor
Sprites
Optimized java code

More information, a screenshot, the applet and the source can be found on the Java Maze Homepage.

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.

3D Engines List Changed entries since april 2000

This list contains the 44 changed engines since 01.04.2000 sorted by date.

3D Engines List
Changed entries since april 2000