3D Engines List Amiga This list contains 10 Amiga rendering engines.

03.09.1999 Crystal Space

25.08.1997

Crystal Space is a 3D engine for Unix from Jorrit Tyberghein ( Jorrit.Tyberghein@uz.kuleuven.ac.be ).

• Shaded perspective texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• Sub-pixel and sub-texel accuracy.
• Portal rendering.
• Static lighting with precomputed shadows.
• Dynamic colored lights with shadows
• Transparent and semi-transparent textures.
• Support for mirrors.
• Support for BSP rendering.
• Support for curved surfaces.
• Support for depth-correct and colored volumetric fog.
• Hierarchical Bounding Box collision detection system.
• New c-buffer (coverage buffer) type visibility culling.
• Sound support (for Windows and Linux only currently).
• Moving objects and scripts controlling the movement.
• 3D triangle mesh sprites with gouraud shading and LOD (Level of Detail)
• Skeleton animation for 3D triangle mesh sprites
• Support for 8, 15, 16 and 32-bit displays.
• Support for unix (linux and solaris are tested) and DOS, Macintosh, Amiga, Windows 95 version, BeOS, NextStep, Rhapsody and OpenStep ports.
• Optional MMX support.
• New ports to OS/2 and GDI.
• OpenGL port works very well now for Linux, Windows, and BeOS.
• Hierarchical objects (not used in current programs, but implementation exists)
• Glide port works good for Linux and Windows.
• Optional Direct3D hardware acceleration for Windows port.
• 3D sound support
• Reading of Quake II MD2 and 3DS objects
• Low-level networking support.
• C++ source.

More information, screenshots, the source and a unix executable is available on the Crystal Space Homepage.

22.04.1999 Mesa

01.01.1995

Mesa is a 3-D graphics library with an API which is very similar to that of OpenGL by Brian Paul (brianp@ssec.wisc.edu).

• Mesa works on X11-Windows based systems, Windows, Linux SVGA, NeXT, Macintosh, DOS, Amiga, VMS and OS/2. Mesa was written with portability in mind.
• Support for PC 3D hardware (3DFX chip).
• Smooth shading, accumulation buffer.
• Dithering
• Fog/depth cuing.
• Shaded perspective texture mapping.
• Gouraud shading .
• Support for NURBS patches.

More info and links to download the source can be found on the Mesa Homepage

12.02.1998 CyberGL

12.02.1998

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

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

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

03.11.1997 OpenGL rendering techniques

03.11.1997

The PGPT are sample programms and tutorials using the OpenGL API from Mark Kilgard (mjk@sgi.com) from Silicon Graphics.

• Lens-flares.
• Shadows, lighting, textures and reflections.
• Halos.
• Underwater caustics.
• Colored shadows.
• C source.

More information, the source and tutorials can be found on the OpenGL rendering techniques Homepage.

02.09.1997 CyberGL

02.09.1997

CyberGL is a 2D/3D graphics AMIGA shared library whose API is a subset of the OpenGL API from Phase 5 Digital Product.

• Shaded perspective texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• Gouraud and flat shading.
• Wireframe rendering.
• Anti-aliasing.
• Material support.
• Spot, point and directional lights.
• Support for 8bit or less and 15,16 and 24 bit color.
• Support for 68020/30/40/60 and FPU.

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

12.01.1999 Genetic Species

12.01.1999

The Genetic Species engine is a commercial ray-casting pseudo 3d engine for the Amiga by Per Bloksgaard ( powdi@marble-eyes.dk ).

• Orthogonal wall with same height
• Walls, objects, doors, floor and ceiling support with texture mapping
• Movable animated 2D sprites
• Distance cueing, mist and fogging
• Distortion blending
• Collision detection
• Solid, distortion or alpha transparent objects or doors
• Variable window size
• High level of enemy AI
• Scriptbased level editor available
• Dynamic multiable objects lightsourcing
• Shots with smoke tails, explode, flying animations
• Animated walls, objects, floor and ceiling
• Distance dependand volume sound control
• Event priority based CD-Audio and sound control
• Re-Targetable Graphics support for all graphics boards
• Screenmode promotion (Ntsc, Pal, Multiscan, CyberGfx, Picasso96)
• Supports 8 and 24 bit true colour
• Floor refraction feature
• Object chain reaction
• On-screen Map and status information
• Written in pure 68k assembler

More information and a playable demo can found on the Marble Eyes Development Homepage.

22.07.1998 Rot3D

22.07.1998

Rot3D is a simple Wolfenstein-type raycasting engine for Amiga computers from Jason Freund ( freund@cis.uab.edu ).

• Non orthogonal walls with same height.
• Depth cueing.
• Moving walls (like doors, pushed walls).
• C/ASM source.

More information, a screenshot and the source can be found on the Rot3D Homepage.

31.08.1995 WT

01.01.1995

WT (What's That) is a portable 3D game engine, Copyright (C) 1994 by Chris Laurel (claurel@mr.net)

• Supports X11-Windows, Linux, MacOS, OS/2, DOS, Amiga
• TCL interface
• Extension with collision detection

The source and some extensions can be found at the WT ftp site magoo.uwsuper.edu or at ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de (wt-05 source only). More info in the WT Readme.
The MacWT version can be found on ftp.circa.ufl.edu or via the Homepage of William Hayden.

27.07.1995 VR Studio

27.07.1995

VRS is a commercial flatshading engine and 3D package from DoMark.

• Joystick and mouse support.
• Ad-Lib sound support.

A PC demo can be found on ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de.
There is also a world viewer for the Amiga on ftp.uni-paderborn.de

16.02.1998 FLY8

03.07.1995

The FLY8 package is a wireframe multiplayer flightsimulator from Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal@eyal.emu.id.au ).

• DOS (MsVC, Borland c, Quick C, DJGPP), Windows (3.1, 95, NT), Unix/X11-Windows (shm) and OS/2 DIVE.
• SVGA and stereo shutter glasses support.
• Landscape generation and collision detection.
• Algorithmic sky painting.
• Sound and joystick support.
• 2D vector text.
• Networking support.

Screenshots and the source are available via the Homepage of Eyal.