3DEL: New engines since april 2000

3D Engines List
New engines since april 2000

This list contains the 23 new engines since 01.04.2000 sorted by date.

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 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 Castaño Aguado, José Luis Fernández Rueda, Gabriel Rodríguez Alberich and Julio César Espada Rodrígue ( 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 Peyré ( 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 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 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 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.

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 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 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 New engines since april 2000

This list contains the 23 new engines since 01.04.2000 sorted by date.

3D Engines List
New engines since april 2000