3D Engines List Console This list contains 8 Console rendering engines.

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.

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.

15.01.1999 V3X

23.07.1998

V3X is a commercial 3d game engine from Realtech VR Software. The engine is not available for licensing.

• Perspective, gouraud/phong shaded texture mapping.
• Environment mapping.
• Texture filtering.
• Hardware 16bit or 32bit Z-Buffer and W-Buffer.
• Collision detection (sphere, boxes, and mesh).
• Support for JPEG,IFF,PCX,GIF,BMP,TGA and PNG textures. 4bit, 8bit, 16bit, 32bit and alpha textures.
• Animated texture maps (.FLC).
• Transparency (additive, alpha, substractive).
• Support for DOS, Windows 95 (DirectDraw), MacOs, BeOS, Power Macintosh OS and Sony Playstation.
• Support for Watcom C/C++, Borland C/C++, DJGPP, Metrowerks Codewarrior (For BeOS and MacOS) and Visual C++.
• Realtime gravity engine.
• Multitexturing or multi-pass rendering for phong shading or lightmap.
• Support for Glide 3.0, Direct 3D 6,S3 Metal, S3 ToolKit and PSX.
• Support for MMX (32bpp) with software RGB gouraud shading.
• Portal rendering.
• RGB or mono multiple omnidirectionnal,spots or direct lights with fog.
• Pre-lighting with raytrace.
• 3DS MAX 2.5, 3D Studio 4.0, Lightwave format compatible.

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found via the Realtech VR World Web Site. (Click V3X in the bottom frame)
A new demo will be also available showing all the possibility of the engine. A licensable version will be also available.

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

17.03.1997 ZEUS (Link Problems!)

11.11.1996

ZEUS is a PC 3D commercial game engine by BRAINSTORM ( brainstorm@ndirect.co.uk).

• Gouraud-shaded perspective texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping and MIP-texture calculation routines.
• Multiple levels of semi transparency.
• Wireframe and flatshading.
• RGB and RAMP color models, 8 and 16 bit colors.
• Multiple colored light sources.
• Z clipping , back face culling and polygon sub-division routines.
• Depth cueing and fogging.
• Multiple level parallaxing routines.
• Supports fast spherical blitting (Special sphere primitives that render just as fast as a polygon primitive)
• Collision detection.
• Direct 3d studio 3DS file support.
• LBM/GIF support.
• Watcom C, hand optimized for Pentium.
• SVGA (VESA 2.0) support, Windows 95 Direct Draw Primitive version.
• Map editor and palette remapper utility.
• Low level access to primitives.
• Cross compatible with Playstation low level libraries allowing games to be converted in virtually no time at all.
• High level API, including a system for creating orbital planetery systems.
• GUI which supports many comman features such as windows, dlg boxes, requesters, list boxes etc.
• 8/16 bit MONO/STERO 64 channel DMA support (for in game sound fx).
• MIDI music support (for background music).
• Multiplayer IPX networking support.
• In development: full 3D game editor for worlds, characters etc.

More information and a demo can be found on the BRAINSTORM - ZEUS Homepage.

29.11.1996 UVision

22.05.1996

UVision is a commercial 3D engine from Utopia Technologies.

• Six degrees of freedom.
• Fast Phong shaded, perspective texture mapped polygons.
• Multiple, movable cameras and view ports.
• Multiple, realtime movable light sources (point and spotlight).
• Support for multiple resolutions and color depth up to 65,536 colors .
• Surface attributes - sticky, slippery, bouncy, surface forces +++ .
• Colored light sources.
• Chrome mapping.
• Realtime shadows (coming very soon) .
• Polyon features: animated textures, screendoor opacity, edge smoothing, MIP-mapping, bump mapping, z-buffering, gouraud and fast phong shading.
• Advanced forward kinematics simulation of rigid body motion/dynamically customizable environment (gravity, wind, air/surface friction).
• Analytic collision detection and resolution with dynamic environment.
• Realtime dynamic constraint solver.
• Multi-joint inverse kinematic simulation .
• Hierarchical, linked models .
• 3D model scaling and deformation effects.
• Multiple instancing of objects and hierarchies .
• Fog/darkness depth cuing.
• Support for Stereoscopic capability.
• Networking features (coming soon).
• 3D sound effects.
• Weather effects.
• SVGA (VESA) linear framebuffer support for the PC and soon support for the Playstation.
• High-color rendering.
• Support for graphics accelerator cards.

More information on the Utopia Technologies Homepage.

05.11.1996 Reality Lab

01.01.1995

RL is a commercial 3D library by Microsoft RenderMorphics. The version 2.0 has the following features:

• Wire Frame, Flat, Gourad and Phong shading models.
• Perspective corrected texture mapping in any shading model.
• Environment and motion video mapping.
• Full transparency, including alpha maps for textures.
• Z-buffering.
• Animated backgrounds with optional depth information.
• Multiple, movable, coloured lightsources.
• 4, 8, 16, 24 bit colour depths in both ramp and RGB modes.
• SVGA and Windows 3.1/95/NT, X11-Windows on RS6000/SunSparc/SGI, System7 on Mac and PowerMac (both planned, no port yet), Sony PSX support.
• Multiple instancing of objects and hierarchies.
• Multiple viewports, devices and cameras.
• Bezier patches with subdivision on the fly.
• Depth cueing with atmospheric effects (e.g. fog, haze).
• Projected shadows.
• Stereoscopic capability.
• Free form deformation toolkit.
• Complex spline interpolated motion.
• Collision detection toolkit.
• Immediate mode allows low-level control over polygon lighting and rendering through direct access to vertices and normals.
• 70 pages documentation
• C-based API.
• Supports hardware accelerators like GLiNT, Matrox MGA Impression and 3D device standards like Intel 3DR, Microsoft 3DDDI.

Contact: Servan@Render.com (Servan Keondjian) or morph@microsoft.com.
The old RealityLab Homepage is currently not available - i already did a search on AltaVista and at MicroSoft to find a new homepage - there are recent microsoft products that use the RealityLab engine, but no reference to the engine itself.
There is a free Windows 3.1/95/NT VRML viewer from InterVista Software Inc, using the RealityLab libraries available at the WorldView Homepage.
Information about WIRL (another Windows 3.1/95/NT VRML viewer that combines the VR capabilties of the VREAM package with the Reality Lab rendering engine) is available via the VREAM Homepage.

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 .