| 23.06.2000 TechNature Library | 22.09.1999 |
- 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
| 23.06.2000 JunkRender | 28.01.1998 |
- 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
| 23.06.2000 Carsten's 3D Engine | 23.02.2000 |
- 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++
a demo can be found on the
Homepage of Carsten's 3D Engine. | 23.06.2000
3D Echtzeitgrafik
|
23.06.2000 |
- Gouraud shading
- Wireframe rendering
- Z-Buffer
- 42 page tutorial (german) included
- Written in pure Borland Pascal
| 12.05.2000 Miracle 3D | 22.12.1999 |
- 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
| 12.05.2000 pixelbase | 02.02.2000 |
- 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)
| 12.05.2000 Dark Basic Engine | 12.05.2000 |
- Shaded, perspective texture mapping
- Support for Direct 3D
- Alphablending and transparency
- Texture filtering
- Fogging
- Model loading and animation
- Collision detection
- Support for BMP textures
| 12.05.2000 Xeios | 12.05.2000 |
- 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
| 12.05.2000 Eraser | 12.05.2000 |
- Unshaded, perspective texture mapping
- Mip mapping
- S-Buffer rendering
- Fake FSP tree support
- Written in Watcom C++ and Turbo Assembler
| 12.05.2000 KABOOM QBasic 3D Engine | 12.05.2000 |
- Texturemapped othrogonal walls
- Ceiling and floor mapping
- Sprite objects with mask
- Moving enemies
- Soundblaster support
- Support for GIF textures
- QBasic source
| 27.04.2000 Titan Engine | 27.04.2000 |
- 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
| 27.04.2000 Experience Engine | 27.04.2000 |
- 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
| 27.04.2000 ENG32 | 26.01.1999 |
- 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
| 27.04.2000 Orion3D | 27.04.2000 |
- 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
| 27.04.2000 Castle Raycasting Engine | 27.04.2000 |
- Texturemapped othrogonal walls
- Support for PCX textures
- C/ASM source
| 25.04.2000 Panard Vision | 04.04.1997 |
- 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
| 25.04.2000 Beam Engine | 02.02.2000 |
- 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
| 25.04.2000 Hurricane | 25.04.2000 |
- 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++
| 12.04.2000 Legus3D | 23.03.1998 |
- 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.
| 12.04.2000 Genesis 3D | 11.08.1998 |
- 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
| 12.04.2000 Blitz Engine | 05.10.1998 |
- 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)
| 12.04.2000 Fly3D | 04.08.1998 |
- 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
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 |
- 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
| 12.04.2000 Buzz 3D Browser | 12.04.2000 |
- Shaded. perspective texture mapping
- Doom like environment (angled walls with the same height)
- Support for Direct 3D hardware rendering
- Support for HTTP navigation
| 10.04.2000 JVector | 20.05.1999 |
- 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+
| 10.04.2000 Oxygen3D | 20.07.1999 |
- 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++
| 10.04.2000 LOD | 10.04.2000 |
- 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
| 07.04.2000 Quake 3 Map Viewer | 07.04.2000 |
- 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
| 07.04.2000 gxRealityEngine | 07.04.2000 |
- 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
| 07.04.2000 TwoQ2viewer | 07.04.2000 |
- Lightmapped, perspective mapping
- Support for DirectX 6
- BSP rendering
| 07.04.2000 Aised | 07.04.2000 |
- Multitextured, perspective mapping
- Support for DirectX 6
- 3D objects
- Sky mapping
| 07.04.2000 3D Engine | 07.04.2000 |
- Gouraud shading
- Sound support
- Support for 3D Studio 4 files
- Uses Koristi Allegro game library
- C++ DJGPP source
| 07.04.2000 Legend | 23.06.1999 |
- 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
| 04.04.2000 Basic3D | 04.04.2000 |
- 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
| 04.04.2000 X3D Engine | 04.04.2000 |
- 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
| 04.04.2000 JavaGL | 04.04.2000 |
- Shaded, perspective texture mapping
- Support for glaux
- Display list support
| 04.04.2000 Sparklight | 05.08.1998 |
- 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++
| 04.04.2000 !B | 05.08.1998 |
- 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.
| 04.04.2000 Jazz3D | 03.09.1999 |
- 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
| 04.04.2000 IS Engine | 04.04.2000 |
- Shaded, perspective texture mapping
- Static, predetermined lights
- Simple map
| 04.04.2000 Death Track | 04.04.2000 |
- 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
| 04.04.2000 Coockie's 3D Engine | 20.01.1997 |
- 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.
| 04.04.2000 Java Maze | 17.09.1999 |
- Unshaded orthogonal texture mapped walls with same height
- Texturemapped floor
- Sprites
- Optimized java code
| 04.04.2000 True3D | 04.04.2000 |
- Flat shaded rendering
- Z-Sorting
- Vector and matrix math
- Support for polygons and lines
- Java source