3D Engines List DirectX This list contains 73 DirectX windows rendering engines.

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 .

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

02.02.2000 Magic3D

08.07.1999

Magic3D is a 3D engine for Windows 95 from Stefan Letz ( Stefan.Letz@online.de ).

• Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping
• Support for Direct3D
• Z-Buffer rendering
• Bilinear texture filtering
• Transparent textures
• Dithering
• Animated textures
• Scene fog
• Colored lights
• Script language
• Collision detection
• 3D sound
• Music player (.WAV, .MID and CD Audio)

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on Magic3D Homepage

22.12.1999 Power Render

09.09.1996

PR is a high performance 32-bit rendering engine for PC's by Chris Egerter (egerter@egerter.com), the author of the WordUp Graphics Toolkit.

• Perspective texture mapping with gouraud and phong shading.
• Environment mapping for all texture rendering modes.
• Support for hardware bump-mapping
• Multiple light sources.
• Real-time shadows
• 3D Sprites, with smoke, glow, translucency, shading and other lighting effects.
• 32 bit radix sort with Painter's sorting.
• Span buffering.
• Portal engine with realtime rotating mirrors and TV screens.
• Support for stencil buffer
• Motion blur and anti-aliasing.
• Supports linear 320x200x256 (0x13) and all SVGA modes.
• High Level C API with low level hand optimized assembly.
• Hierarchical object management with real-time object morphing and bending.
• Character animation and particle scripting system.
• Particle systems.
• Viewport control allows for multiple views and changing the viewport size on the fly.
• Import for 3D Studio 3DS,Lightwave LWO and LWS files.
• Keyframe animation playback of both 3DS and Lightwave scenes.
• Support for 3DS Character Studio.
• Assign materials and texture data for each individual polygon.
• MIP-mapping and material changes based on polygon distance.
• Polytype collision detection.
• Landscape Studio editor now has support for alpha fogging, sky boxes, and animated character or particle placement.
• Compiler Support: Watcom C/C++ and MSVC.
• Uses WGT 5.1/WGT95 for basic graphics functions. Support for DosGlide, DirectDraw software rendering, WinGlide, Direct3D (7.0 ) and OpenGL.
• Native 3Dfx support through Glide and 3Dfx Voodoo Rush support.
• 3D MAX glasses support.

More information and a demo on the Power Render Homepage.

18.10.1999 DDJ: RaveKit

15.07.1997

RaveKit is a portable 3D framework by Mark Carolan presented in Dr. Dobb's Journal July 1997 .

• Uses QuickDraw 3D RAVE library.
• Support for Windows 95 (DirectDraw) and Mac.
• Perspective texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping
• Z-buffer and z-sort rendering.
• C++ source.

The source (for Mac and Windows including the RAVE library) can be found on ftp.ddj.com.

18.10.1999 Daredevil's 3D Engine

01.07.1999

Daredevil's 3D Engine is a 3D engine for Windows 95 from Daredevil ( hauswiesner@bhak-weiz.ac.at ).

• Support for DirectX
• Z-Buffer rendering
• Collision detection
• Transparency
• Colored lights
• Support for DirectInput and DirectSound Support for tile-based rendering
• .x file loader
• MS Visual C++ source available

More information, screenshots, a demo can be found on the Daredevil's Homepage

28.09.1999 Exodus Engine

08.09.1999

Exodus is a commercial 3D game engine for Windows 95/98 and Macintosh from Video Game Workshop ( insurrect2@aol.com ).

• Lightmapped perspective texturemapping
• Skeletal motion system
• Animated textures
• Support for OpenGL 1.2(Win, Mac), and DirectX 7.0(Win)
• Volumetric light and fog
• B-Spline and skeletal motion system
• Particle effects
• Soft-shadows and dynamic shadows
• Lens flares
• Dynamic polygonal objects
• Collision detection
• Portal rendering
• Z-Buffer rendering
• Support for DXF, LWO, 3DS, MD2 object files
• 3D landscape, room and model editor
• Underwater Lighting Effects
• Multiplayer Support for up to 8 players on LAN, TCP/IP, and modem
• 3D sound support

For more information and licensing visit the Exodus Engine Homepage.

22.09.1999 Advanced 3D Game Programming using DirectX 7.0

22.09.1999

The book "Advanced 3D Game Programming using DirectX 7.0" from Adrian Perez ( cuban@cmu.edu ) contains a 3D engine with the following features:

• Multi-textureing (lightmaps, detail maps, glow maps, spec maps)
• Radiosity lighting
• Subidivision surfaces
• Parametric surfaces
• Progressive meshes
• B-splines
• Hardware acceleration
• Alpha blending
• BSP rendering
• Portal rendering

More information, screenshots and demos can be found on the "Advanced 3D Game Programming using DirectX 7.0" Book Homepage. The book will be released march 2000.

17.09.1999 Arfnold 2

17.09.1999

Arfnold 2 is a 3D engine for Windows 95/98 by by Andrei Fortuna ( andreif@mail.dntis.ro ) aka 'Stormbringer'.

• Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
• MIP-mapping
• Bilinear texture filtering
• Flat & gouraud shading
• Support for OpenGL and Direct3D 6.x
• Z-Buffer rendering
• BSP & PVS
• Hierarchical meshes
• Transparency
• Fog
• Colored lights
• Support for 3D Studio scenes
• Support for Quake2 levels (including monsters)
• Collision detection using axis aligned boxes
• Uses gamex86.dll from quake2 for monster movement in the quake2 level viewer
• Visual C++ 5/6 source

More information, screenshots, a demo and the source can be found on Stormbringer's Homepage.

15.09.1999 A4-Engine

15.09.1999

The A4-engine is a commercial game engine for Windows 95 / DirectX, and part of the GameStudio 3D game authoring system from Conitec. Here's the features:

• Lightmapped perspective texturemapping
• 3D and 2D views
• Mip mapping
• Flat shading, gouraud shading and shadow mapping
• Texture caching system
• Portal and BSP visibility system
• Software and D3D renderer
• Fog, translucency, flares
• Sky rendering system using multi-layer animation
• Bitmap particle system
• Static and dynamic colored light sources
• 3D sprites and 3D models
• MAP and MDL format import
• 3D sound system
• Collision detection
• 2D sprite support for overlays etc.
• AVI and CD player
• Scripting language
• Multi-user mode via split screen, modem, network, or Internet

More information, screenshots, tutorials, and demos can be found on the A4 Engine Homepage.

13.09.1999 R-Engine

13.09.1999

The R-engine is a 3D game engine for Windows 95/98 from Onil Jang ( jangunil@oigame.co.kr ).

• Lightmapped perspective texturemapping
• Support for Direct 3D
• Sector based engine
• Reatime pathfinder
• Collision detection
• Dynamic scene (windmill, bridge,door,trap....)
• Dynamic objects (support for 3D Studio Max Character Studio)
• Corona fire effect
• Lava, water, wall texture UV animation
• Particle systems with gravity
• Transparency and alpha-blending
• Fog

More information, screenshots, game AVI and etc.. can be found on the Oin-Enterprise Homepage.

13.09.1999 Zeta

22.11.1997

Zeta is a 3D engine for PCs from Adrian M Perez ( amperez+@andrew.cmu.edu ) .

• Perspective texture mapping.
• Fake phong and gouraud shading.
• Translucent polygons.
• BSP rendering.
• Portal rendering.
• 3D clipping.
• Multiple colored light sources.
• Lighting system (supporting ambient, omni, and directional lights)
• Terrain support.
• Collision detection.
• CSG support.
• Quaternion rotations.
• Bicubic surface patches (source for the surface included).
• Hierarchial objects.
• 16 bit affine gourad shaded z-buffered software rendering in a DIB section.
• Written in C++.

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

08.09.1999 V3D

07.07.1999

V3D is a 3D engine for Windows 95/98 from Rich ( v3dengine@hotmail.com ).

• Lightmapped perspective texturemapping
• Varible LightMap ratios ( 1:1, 8:1, 16:1 )
• Support for vertex alpha
• Shadow effects
• Gouraud shading
• RGB lighting
• Transparency
• Fog
• BSP tree rendering
• Hardware acceleration through Direct3D
• Written in C++
• MMX optimizations
• Solid Modeling Application

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the V3D Homepage .

03.09.1999 Claw Engine

08.07.1999

The Claw Engine is a landscape 3D engine for Windows 95/98/2000/NT from Andreas Löffler ( gd_crazy@gmx.net ) of United Bytes.

• Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping
• Support hardware acceleration via Direct3D
• Multitexturing
• Z-Buffer rendering
• Colored lights
• LOD support
• Colored fogging
• Vegetation primitive (stones, trees, plants)
• Landscape and scene editor
• Editor for houses and citys
• Support for sectors
• Skybox
• Collision detection
• Physics
• Lighting system (spot, environment)
• Written in Visual C++

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the United Bytes Homepage

20.07.1999 Peuck

01.07.1999

Peuck is a realtime 3D engine for Windows 95/NT from Francesco Carucci, Sebastiano Mandal and Maurizio Pianta aka 'Mental Fusion & 7th sense Team'.

• Lightmapped perspective texturemapping
• Diffuse and specular lightmapping or vertex lighting
• Virtual rendering machine, mapped on real drivers (currently implemented OpenGL, Glide, Direct3D)
• Multiple viewports
• Math driver (floating point supported, SSE under development)
• Transparency
• Environment mapping, chrome mapping
• Real time dynamic lightmapping (diffuse map and specular map)
• Real time dynamic bumpmapping (env bump mapping and real bump mapping)
• Support for 3D Studio .3DS and Lightscape .LWO files
• Motion blur
• Skeletal and hierarchical animation
• Planned port to Linux and Macintosh

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

12.07.1999 Polyspace 3D

12.07.1999

Polyspace 3D(TM) is a commercial 3D game engine from Maven Studios done by Matthew Huston and other contributers (mhuston@ameritech.net)

• Lightmapped perspective texturemapping
• Animated textures, procedural water textures
• Developed specifically for outdoor environments
• Translucent texture
• Fog
• Day - Night lighting
• Support for 3D Studio and Direct X (*.x) object files
• Support for BMP, PCX, JPG, GIF, and more textures
• Network support
• Coded in Visual Basic 5 and 6 with help from the Direct X Library (Patrice Scribe) and OGE II (Michael Jennings)
• Waste Runners, a driving simulator, is being developed on it

For more information and licensing visit Maven Studios.

09.07.1999 Void

09.07.1999

Void is a 3D engine for Windows 95 from Ripper (jmschreiner@students.wisc.edu) and Skid (skid@planetquake.com).

• Unshaded, perspective texture mapping
• Portal rendering
• OpenGL support
• PCX texture support
• Mip mapping
• Transparent textures (alpha blending)
• Mirror support with multiple recursions and transparent textures
• Skybox rendering - like quake2
• Dynamically change resolutions and fullscreen togg
• Partial quake2 md2 model support
• Collision detection
• Arbitrary clipping planes
• Input via DirectInput, Sounds via DirectSound, Music via DirectMusic
• Full ingame console with Console Vars and Commands
• Internal filesystem with support for zip files
• Custom level editor
• Written in C and C++

More information and screenshots can be found on the Void Homepage

18.03.1999 GPF (Broken Link ???)

03.09.1998

GPF is a 3D engine for PCs from Matti Dahlbom ( mdahlbom@cc.hut.fi ).

• Perspective, gouraud texture mapping.
• Mipmapping.
• S-Buffer rendering.
• Moving objects.
• Support for DOS (SVGA) and DirectX.
• C++ / ASM source.

More information, a demo and the souce can be found on the GPF Homepage .

25.02.1999 Poly Engine

27.09.1996

The PE is a PC 3D Quake-like game engine from Alexey Goloshubin ( alexey@ii.uib.no).

• Full object support.
• Collision-detection
• Physics system
• Movable bsp models
• Client-server networking (IPX, null-modem)
• 3D Sound.
• VFX1 head-tracking
• BSP/ZBuffer rendering
• Polygonal objects
• Sprites
• Support for Quake II maps and models.
• Particle systems.
• Software renderer
  • Supports any resolution
  • Span buffer
  • Perspective tex-mapping (16-pix subdivision)
  • Mip-mapping
  • Surface caching (light maps)
  • Dynamic lights
• Hardware renderer
  • Support for OpenGL.
  • DirectX port.
  • Colored lightmaps
  • Colored dynamic lights

More information and the source is available via the Homepage of Alexey Goloshubin .

09.02.1999 Focus

27.10.1998

Focus is a simple 3D engine for Windows that is intended as a experimental engine for testing various new techniques from Jacco Bikker ( Jacco.Bikker@HTA.nl ) aka 'The Phantom'.

• Perspective correct (real) bilinear filtered texture mapping
• Tileable 8bit textures (with a palette per texture)
• Sub-pixel, sub-texel accuracy
• MIP-mapping
• Fast tree-based S-buffer rendering and Z-Buffer rendering.
• Curved surfaces
• 32/16/15bit output in a window (5/5/5 and 5/6/5 schemes)
• Light volume based illumination model.
• Lens flares.
• Bump-mapping.
• Real-time shadows.
• Portal rendering.
• Hierarchical objects.
• Supports 16bpp output using the MGL or PCT library.
• Edge anti-aliasing
• Scene smoothing
• Plane clipping: Z=0 or frustum clipping
• Clipping against arbitrary convex 2D region
• Support for Caligary Truespace file
• Import of Targa 24bit image files
• Support for PCT library
• Quake-like console
• C source, critical code in ASM (but C version can be used as toggle)

More information, screenshots, binaries and the souce can be found on the Phantom Cyberspace 3D 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.

27.10.1998 JTGame

10.11.1997

JTGame is a C++ interactive 3D game framework based on top of Microsoft Windows, MFC, and DirectX from John Thompson ( john@gildea.net ).

• Perspective shaded texture mapping.
• 3D display objects (worlds, actors, props, simple and compound mesh-based images).
• 2D display objects (decals, sprites, and backgrounds) .
• 3D sounds .
• Mesh primitives.
• Lights .
• Cameras .
• Animation control .
• Fogging.
• Hierarchical objects.
• Z-Buffer rendering.
• High and low level mouse, joystick, and keyboard support.
• Automated paths, collision detection, blocking, bouncing .
• Automated object translation and orientation for "watching" or "following" ther objects.
• Main and multiple scene windows .
• Inherit MFC's GUI components, i.e. menus, dialogs, events, etc.
• 3D sounds using DirectSound.
• Full C++ sources included .

More information, screenshots, documentation, sample programs, tutorials and the source of the library can be found on the JTGame Homepage.

05.10.1998 3D Graphics Engine

12.02.1998

3DGE is a commercial 3D API for PCs from Twilight 3D.

• Perspective correct texture mapping.
• Sub-pixel/-texel accurate scan conversions.
• MIP-mapped or Tri-linear texture filtering
• Point sampled or bilinear texel reads.
• Dual texturing with configurable and versatile txcombine modes.
• Alpha-blending and transparency.
• Z Buffering, z-sorting and s-buffer rendering.
• Monochromatic and RGB light sources (dynamic).
• Fog and specularity.
• Geometric 3D clipping.
• Advanced quaternion, matrix, spline and vector math libraries.
• Lense flares and particle systems.
• Support for VGA and DirectDraw support.
• Support for 3Dfx Voodoo/Rush, Direct 3D and OpenGL drivers plus highly optimized native software fillers.
• Support for Playstation (console).
• Native Newtek Lightwave and Autodesk 3D Studio .3DS and native 3DS MAX import.
• Support for JPG, PNG, TGA, BMP, PCX, GIF and PPM, IFF LBM, XBM texture files.
• C++ API.

More information and screenshots can be found on the 3D Graphics Engine Homepage.

10.09.1998 Alice

12.09.1996

Alice is a 3D Interactive Graphics Programming Environment for Windows 95 by members of Randy Pausch's Stage 3 Research Group at Carnegie Mellon University.

• Perspective texture mapping.
• Support for DirectX under Windows 95.
• Support for VRML 1.0, DXF and OBJ models.
• 3D localised sound using Intel's RSX 3D Sound Library.
• Scripting language.

More information and the Alice binaries on the Alice Homepage.

21.08.1998 RenderIt 3D!

15.04.1998

RenderIt 3D! is Direct3D game programmers library from Indotek Software Productions.

• Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping.
• Support for Direct3D and 3D accelerator cards.
• Alpha texture support.
• Automatic 2 pass rendering.
• Z-Buffer rendering.
• Level of detail support.
• Preliminary collision detection support.
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS, Direct3D X, AutoCad DFX and R3D.
• C API with easy-to-use functions.

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the RenderIt 3D! Homepage .

07.08.1998 Direct3D

29.10.1996

D3D is part of Microsofts DirectX Programming API (DirectDraw, DirectSound, DirectPlay, Direct3D, DirectInput).

• Windows 95 / NT support.
• Support for PC 3D cards, software emulation for PCs without 3D card.
• Gouraud shaded, perspective and linear texure mapping.
• Bump mapping.
• Multiple texture mapping, lightmapping.
• Depth cueing, fogging.
• Multiple, movable, colored light sources.
• Spot, point, ambient, and directional light sources.
• Ramp and true color red, green, and blue (RGB) model.
• Color depths of 8, 16, 24, or 32 bits.
• Dithering.
• Vertex colors.
• Multiple viewports, devices, and cameras.
• Materials support.
• Bilinear, trilinear, anisotropic, MIP-mapped texture filtering.
• Full transparency, including alpha maps for texture.
• Environment (reflection) and motion video mapping.
• Texture compression.
• Real-time object deformation.
• Animated backgrounds with optional depth information.
• Full picking support for user interaction.
• Optional z-buffer rendering.
• Lens-Flares.
• 2D sprites.
• Projected shadows in retained mode.
• Complex-spline interpolated motion in retained mode.
• High-level API for manipulating 3D objects and managing 3D scenes.
• Low-level API with direct access to features of 3D hardware in a device-independent manner.
• Support for 3D sound.
• Support for Microsoft Visual C++ and Watcom C/C++.

You find lot more information, sample code and the DirectX 6 SDK (91 MB!) and enduser packages (4 MB) on the Microsoft DirectX Homepage.

22.07.1998 RealiMation

22.07.1998

RealiMation is a commercial real-time 3D scene management and rendering API, developed by Datapath Ltd.

• Supported platforms: Intel based PC (Windows 95, 98, NT), DEC Alpha based PC (Windows NT) and Silicon Graphics.
• Drivers for Direct3D v5, OpenGL, RenderWare, 3dfx Glide for Voodoo & Voodoo2, 3DLabs GLINT based cards, Real3D Pro1000.
• Integrated Space Time Editor for scene preparation, optimisation, and application debugging
• Scene optimisation tools (polygon reduction, scene restructuring etc.)
• Z buffer support.
• Standard texture features such as trilinear mip mapping, bilinear, perspective correct
• Advanced texture features such as image blending, detail textures, illumination maps, alpha maps.
• Live video texturing on any 3D surface
• Instancing support.
• Unlimited Level of Detail by area and by distance.
• Automatic motions.
• Collision detection.
• Raytesting.
• Terrain following.
• Plugins for 3D Studio Max 1 & 2, SoftImage, MicroStation, AutoCad.
• Import OpenFlight, DXF, 3D Studio, VRML1 & 2.
• Multi screen/channel output.
• Remote rendering across a TCP/IP network.
• Full read/write access to scene graph from API
• SDK includes Debugging libraries, Automatic Application Wizards, memory leak tools.

More information, screenshots and a browser plugin can be found on the RealiMation Homepage.

21.07.1998 Zen Engine

21.07.1998

ZE is 3D engine for Windows 95 by Stuart Abercrombie ( stuart@imaginator.com ).

• Lightmapped perspective texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• Coloured lightmap lighting.
• Surface caching.
• Translucency.
• Mirrors.
• Fogging.
• Sky box rendering.
• Portal rendering.
• Texture coordinate effects (moving clouds, swirling water..)
• Software perspective correct texture-mapping using DirectDraw.
• 3DFX hardware support via Glide.
• C/C++/Asm source (Visual C).

More information, screenshots and the source with documentation can be found on the Zen Engine Homepage.

21.07.1998 X-Engine

21.07.1998

XE is a 3D engine for Windows 95 from Ales Mlakar aka JaZzBrE ( jazzbre@slo.net ).

• Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping.
• BSP- and z-buffer rendering.
• Collision detection.
• Character animation.
• Support for DirectX 5, needs PC 3D hardware.
• Basic physics.
• Particle systems.
• Written in C++.

More information and a demo can be found on the X-Engine Homepage.

21.07.1998 4DBuilder

21.07.1998

4DBuilder is a shareware 3D modeller for Windows 95 from Erek van Grunderbeeck ( erik.vangrunderbeeck@village.uunet.be ).

• Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping using Direct3D.
• Support for PC 3D cards.
• Import of DirectX Frame and Mesh objects, 3Dstudio and Caligari objects.
• Primitive objects.
• Support for BMP, 3DF, TIF, JPG, PPM and TGA (8, 16 or 24 bit) textures.
• Animated textures (AVI files, procedural textures).
• Hierarchical objects.
• Material settings: ambient, diffuse, specular, emmisive.
• Multiple cameras.
• Realtime preview and manipulation.
• Full edit list's of vertices and faces available.

More information, screenshots and the executable can be found on the 4DBuilder Homepage .

21.07.1998 T Vaughan's 3D Graphics Engine

21.07.1998

TV3DGE is a 3D for Windows 95 from Thomas Vaughan ( ThomasVaughan@classic.msn.com ).

• Unshaded, perspective texture mapping.
• Uses DirectDraw (no Dirct3D) for rendering.
• BSP- and ZBuffer rendering.
• Game physics.
• Written in C++.

More information, screenshot of the map editor, a demo can be found on the T Vaughan's 3D Graphics Engine Homepage.

21.07.1998 PIRACE

29.01.1996

PIRACE ( Platform Independent Rendering And Calculation Engine ) is the follow up to MEGR (multi purpose engine for graphics rendering), a 3D engine for PCs by Ben Constable (benc@cse.unsw.edu.au).

• Linear, shaded texture mapping.
• Gouraud and flat shading.
• Windows 95/NT support.
• Mipmapping.
• Reflection mapping.
• Transparency.
• Advanced palette management.
• DirectDraw rendering.
• Z-buffering.
• Multiple lights and different light types.
• Hierarchical objects.
• Proprietry format, converters from imagine and lightwave.
• Written in ANSI C++ using STL.

More information and demos can be found on the PIRACE Homepage.

08.06.1998 Yager

14.01.1998

Yager is a 3D game engine for Direct3D from Roman Golka, Uwe Beneke, Timo Ullmann ( ullmann@informatik.hu-berlin.de ), Joerg Wagner, Philipp Schellbach, Thilo Böhm and Volker Strübing.

• 6-DoF landscape renderer using innovative "free tile" texturing.
• 3D objects.
• Colored lights.
• Particle systems.
• Game physics based on flexible reality model.
• Support for DirectSound.
• 16 bit gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping.
• 16 bit Z-Buffer used for hidden surface removal.
• Collision detection.

More information and screenshots can be found via the Yager Homepage .

08.06.1998 3D Game Machine

01.01.1995

3DGM is a professional 3D game development framework for Windows 95/NT and MacOS from Virtually Unlimited Corporation that aims to reduce time-to-market.

• Easy to use, high-level API.
• Fast free-form texture mapping with MIP-mapping.
• Smooth shading and alpha blending.
• Multiple directional, positional and cut-off, colored light sources.
• Polygon-precise collision detection.
• Convex/cave polygons with unlimited number of vertices.
• 3D sprites.
• Color fog and haze simulation.
• Material and light properties.
• Explosion simulation.
• Very large world management.
• World/level editor.
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS, 3D Studio MAX, AutoCad DFX, Mac 3DMF and MiniCad scene files.
• Fast rendering on 486, Pentium, 680x0 and PowerPC. Support for PC 3D cards (Glide and Direct3D)

Demos and more information can be found on the Virtually Unlimited Homepage .

05.05.1998 Bolt3D

16.06.1997

Bolt3D is a 3D engine for windows platforms from Chong Jiayi (chongjy@pacific.net.sg )

• Phong-shaded texture-mapping.
• Gouraud and phong shading.
• Bump mapping.
• Bilinear filtering for smooth textures.
• Real-time artificial "soft" spotlights.
• Fogging.
• Real-time transparency.
• Particle systems with transparent sprites for smoke, bubbles etc.
• Primitive object (spheres, cones, sweeps...) creation.
• Modeller with sweep and texture mapping and modification of object properties.
• Enhanced landscape rendering for large data meshes.
• Wave surface deformation for modelling blobby objects or water waves.
• Support for 8 and 24 color format.
• Library and header files are available.
• Hardware Acceleration via Direct3D.

More information, screenshots, the demo and library can be found on the Bolt3D Homepage.

16.04.1998 Crazy Marbles

16.04.1998

Crazy Marbles is a 3D landscape game that for 3DFX cards from Michael Boyko ( boykom@andrews.edu ). Crazy Marbles won the contest from http://www.voodooextreme.com/.

• Support for GLIDE.
• Perspective, fogged texture mapping.
• Physics.
• Sound support.

More information, screenshots and the demo can be found on the Crazy Marbles Homepage

30.03.1998 Portal Engine

30.03.1998

PE is a 3D engine for Windows 95 from JaZzBrE ( jazzbre@slo.net ).

• Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• Portal rendering.
• Multiple light sources.
• Support for DirectX 5.
• 3D objects.
• Support for 3D Studio.
• Collision detection.

More information and a demo can be found on the Homepage of JaZzBrE .

17.03.1998 Terra

17.03.1998

Terra is a commercial 3D terrain visualization engine for Windows 95 by Skyline Software Systems LTD.

• Support for Direct3D.
• Realistically simulates weather phenomena such as clouds and fog.
• Perspective texture-mapping with alpha blending and fog.
• Static and dynamic 3D & 2D hierarchical objects.
• Multi-resolution meshes.
• Mesh animation.
• Real-time fractal interpolation and texture merging.
• Support for DFX and X objects.
• Optional terrain builder.
• C API interface.
• Access to the terrain z-buffer and ground height values.

More information and screenshots can be found on the Terra Homepage

12.03.1998 Flyby

14.10.1997

Flyby is a complete 3D game engine by Jean-Francois Nadeau (jfxstudios@ixmedia.com ) , Félix Lapointe (lapointg@total.net ) and Mathieu Routhier (mrouthier@cyberdude.com).

• Perspective, shaded texture-mapping.
• Support infinite real-time coloured omni and directional lights. (Always use the four nearest lights.)
• MIP-mapping dynamic caching algorithm.
• 3D clipping and backface culling code.
• Basic collision detection code.
• Z-Buffer rendering.
• Support for DirectX and PC 3D cards.
• Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 source.

More information, screenshots, binaries, 3D models and source code can be found on the Flyby Homepage.

09.03.1998 Venom

09.03.1998

Venom is a 3D engine for Windows 95 from Alan Gordie ( 3dguy@mediaone.net ).

• Perspective, gouraud shaded texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• Dynamic RGB light sources.
• Particles Systems.
• Lens Flares and Halos.
• Alpha-blending and transparency.
• Z Buffering.
• Support for 3D Studio .3DS meshes and animation.
• Support for TGA and BMP texture files.
• Support for Direct3D, OpenGL and 3Dfx Glide.
• Music and Sound using Midas Sound System.

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

04.03.1998 NetImmerse

21.07.1997

NetImmerse is a commercial object oriented Game Engine for PCs from Numerical Design, Ltd. (NDL).

• Full C++ Source Code, no royalties.
• Drivers for Direct3D Immediate Mode, OpenGL and Glide
• Level of Detail (LOD) management.
• Portals Module
• Continuous LOD Terrain Module
• Support for BSP and ZBuffer rendering.
• RSX based spatialized 3D sound support
• Collision detection (Oriented Bounding Box technology)
• Support for 3D Studio MAX R2 (Integrated MAX Plugin support for animation, paths and particles) and 3DS, Multigen OpenFlight, and VRML 1.0.

NetImmerse is currently being used for upcoming games from Broderbund Red Orb Entertainment, FASA Interactive, Greystone and Media Station.
More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the NetImmerse Homepage.

13.02.1998 UltraFish 3D Engine

13.02.1998

The UltraFish 3D Engine is a commercial 3D game engine for Windows 95/NT from UltraFish Incorporated.

• Lightmapped, perspective correct texture mapping.
• Dynamic colored light sources.
• Portals and display lists.
• Advance character animation.
• Support for 3D Studio MAX models.
• Game editor toolkit.
• Fully DirectX compatible, support for Direct3D hardware acceleration and own custom software renderer for non-accelerated machines.

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

12.02.1998 Torch

12.02.1998

Torch is a commercial 3D engine for Windows 95/NT from Newfire.

• Lightmapped, perspective correct texture mapping.
• Z-Buffer and bsp support.
• Level of Detail (LOD) management.
• Arbitrary texture map sizes.
• Support for JPEG, PNG and GIF texture files.
• Texture and geometry cache.
• Texture transparency.
• MIP-mapping.
• Fogging and depth cueing.
• Pre-computed lighting with soft-edge shadows.
• Dynamic lighting on non-textured objects.
• Collision detection.
• Support for VRML 2.0.
• Support for Direct3D, OpenGL and 3Dfx Glide and software rendering.
• Multichannel sound and and stereo midi support.
• C and Java API, JavaScript support in WWW browser.
• Standalone and WWW browser plugin.
• Development Environment for Torch is called Catalyst.

More information, screenshots and the browser plugin (for software developers only) can be found on the Newfire Homepage.

12.02.1998 Oden3D

12.02.1998

Oden3D is object-oriented C++ 3D game engine for Windows 95 / NT platforms from Novel Productions. Oden3D provides (when finished):

• Perspective, gouraud shaded texture mapping.
• Hierarchical scene graph databases
• Keyframed animations
• Effiecient visible object culling through OBB or BSP trees
• Portal rendering
• Multiple instancing of objects and hierarchies
• Multiple cameras and lightsources
• Dynamic collision detection
• Support for Direct3D and OpenGL
• Dynamic lighting and fogging
• Level-of-detail representation
• Particle system
• Landscape renderer
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS scene and animation files
• Networksupport
• C++ object-oriented extendable API
• 3D hardware accelleration through Direct3D.

For more information send an email to astaroth@mail.databasen.se.

28.01.1998 Extrinsic Dawn

15.08.1997

ED is a Quake level viewer for PCs from Ben Cohee ( benco@gisco.net ) originally based on QMap from Sean Barrett.

• Perspective texture mapping with scanline subdivision.
• MIP-mapping.
• Light-mapping with light cache.
• BSP rendering.
• PVS (possibly visible set) support.
• S-Buffer rendering.
• Frustrum clipping.
• Support for Quake level files.
• SVGA support.
• Support for Watcom DOS, DJGPP DOS and MSVC 4.1 Win32 with DirectX.
• C source.

More information and the source can be found on the Extrinsic Dawn Homepage.

01.12.1997 Alpha Project

12.08.1996

The Alpha Project is renderer with 6 DOF texturemapper by John DiCamillo (milod@netcom.com).

• Perspective correct texture mapping using bilinear interpolation every 16 pixels.
• Lighting done in texture cache (Light-mapping).
• MIP-mapping.
• Level editor.
• BSP tree support.
• DirectDraw support for Windows NT.
• C++/ASM source.

More information, tutorials (and some source code) about 3D texture mapping and MIP-mapping can be found via the Homepage of John DiCamillo.

01.12.1997 nGen

01.12.1997

The nGen Project is an exterior engine, suitable for space combat or flight simulators by John DiCamillo (milod@netcom.com).

• Perspective correct texture mapping.
• Gouraud shading.
• Translucent 3D sprites and blobs
• Colored Lighting in hardware .
• Support for 8 and 16 bit color.
• Zero-Gravity Physics Model with Linear Drag .
• 3D Acclerator Support through Direct3D.
• Sound Support through DirectSound and DS3D.
• Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 .

More information, tutorials (and some source code) about 3D texture mapping and MIP-mapping can be found via the Homepage of John DiCamillo.

24.11.1997 XDC 97

24.11.1997

XDC 97 is a mixed rendering mode demo from Haim Barad from Intel Corporation published in the Game Developers Magazine in september 1997.

• Perspective, shaded texture mapping.
• Uses Direct3D hardware rendering in conjunction with a software renderer (mixed mode rendering).
• Phong-like shading.
• Procedural texture mapping.
• Support for MMX.
• Support for Windows 95 with Direct3D 5.0 and graphics accelerator card with 4MB texture memory.
• C source.

More information and the source can be found as sept97.zip on the Source Code page of the Game Developers Magazine.

03.11.1997 Direct3D Quake Viewer (Broken Link!)

03.11.1997

The D3DQV is a Direct3D engine for Windows 95 by Keith Harrison ( kh@netcomuk.co.uk ).

• Perspective, shaded texture-mapping with lightmaps.
• Support for Direct3D and PC 3D cards.
• BSP tree.
• Ported from the OpenGL version of the viewer.
• Support for Quake level files.
• Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 source.

More information, the source and binary can be found on the Direct3D Quake Viewer Homepage .

23.10.1997 3D Mountain Dew can screensaver (Link Problem!)

23.10.1997

The 3DMDCS is a 3D screensaver for Windows 95 using Direct3D / Direct X 5.0 from Jason Cwik ( jcwik@dept.agecon.umn.edu ) of Ice Brewed Software Company.

• Support for PC 3D cards.
• C++ source.

More information, screenshots, binaries and the source code can be found on the Ice Brewed Software Company Homepage.

13.10.1997 Tekktonic Game Engine

13.10.1997

The TGE is a commercial Windows 95 engine by the Reakktor Media Group.

• Perspective, shaded texture-mapping.
• Independent lighting levels for each polygon.
• Portal rendering.
• Depth shading, fogging.
• Realtime lighting fx.
• Hierarchical polygon characters.
• Collision detection.
• Support for DirectX.
• 3D sound system.
• Multiplayer support.
• Optimized for Intel Pentium.
• Windows 95 editor.

This engine will be used to create the indoor part of the game Typherra which will be released early 1998. The Tekktonic Game Engine will be available for Sublicensing after Typherra has been finished.
More information and screenshots can be found on the Typherra Homepage.

08.09.1997 Lost Shadows

21.07.1997

LS is a commercial 3D game engine from Lost Boys Interactive done by Jacco Bikker (Jacco@LostCity.nl) and Jurgen Kluft ( Jurgen@LostCity.nl ).

• Support for Windows 95 and hardware accelerators.
• Perspective correct texture mapping.
• Transparent textures.
• Bump mapping and phong shading.
• Portal rendering and dynamic level structure.
• Real-time dynamic shadows cast by dynamic lights.
• Mirrors.
• 16 bit gouraud shading.
• Multiple, dynamic spotlights with accurate shadows.
• Lens-flares.
• Hierarchical 3D objects.
• Hi-color rendering.

More information, screenshots and a interactive demo can be found on the Lost Boys VR-Section.

15.08.1997 L-Engine

16.12.1996

The L-Engine is a polygon landscape renderer for PCs by Dion Picco (dpicco@garfield.cs.mun.ca ).

• Depthcued affine texture mapping.
• Heightfield rendering.
• 6 degree of freedom.
• DirectDraw support for Windows 95/NT.
• C++ source.

Dion Picco just moved his homepage, on the new page there is no information or link to the source of the L-Engine.

06.06.1997 3D Reality Rendering System

06.06.1997

3DRS is a 3D rendering library for PCs by TS Group Entertainment.

• Shaded, perspective texture mapping.
• Support for DOS, Windows 95/NT, Direct3D and PC 3D cards.
• Z-buffer and z-sort rendering.
• Transparent textures, arbitrarily sized texture maps.
• Material management.
• Multiple cameras.
• Multiple light sources. Directional, point, spot and coloured lights using special built shading tables or hardware acceleration layer.
• Scene and model picking.
• Billboard objects and 3D sprites.
• Support for 8 bit indexed and 16 bit true color modes.
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS object files.
• Support for BMP, GIF, CEL and TGA texture files.
• C++ API.

More information and a demo can be found on the TS Group Entertainment Homepage.

05.06.1997 SimStudio

05.06.1997

SimStudio is a commercial 3D simulation environment by NDimension Simulations Pty Ltd.

• Perspective texture mapping.
• Support for DirectX and PC3D cards under Windows 95 and NT.
• Hierarchical objects.
• Behavior simulation.
• Collision detection.
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS, 3D Studio MAX and MultiGen OpenFlight scene files.
• C++ API.

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

06.05.1997 World Toolkit

01.01.1995

WTK is a commercial, portable, cross-platform software development system for building high-performance, real-time, integrated 3D applications for scientific and commercial use from Sense 8 Corporation.

• Shaded, perspective texture mapping.
• Z-buffer rendering.
• Multiple viewport and lightsources, 3D paths, portals, 2D texts and shapes, object animations.
• Supports user-defined drawing routines
• Multi-processing/multi-pipeline support
• Support for Windows 95 (Direct 3D), Windows NT (OpenGL), Sun, Silicon Graphics, Evans & Sutherland Freedom Series, Hewlett-Packard, and DEC.
• High level scene management such as hierarchical object culling, efficient use of transform information and level-of-detail switching.
• Support for many I/O devices like HMDs, shutter glasses, 3D trackers, gloves and 3D audio systems.
• Support for VRML, 3D Studio, Pro Engineer, Multigen and Wavefront files.
• Network support.
• C/C++ API.
• Sense 8 also provides a 3D Editor (World Up) based on WTK.

More information on the Sense 8.

08.04.1997 TGMP V2

08.04.1997

TGMP V2 is a commercial real-time rendering system for PCs written in Delphi 2.0 from Graphical Magick Productions Ltd, written by Peter Dove (peterd@graphicalmagick.com).

• Shaded linear texture mapping.
• Gouraud and flat shading, wireframe and point rendering.
• Z-buffer rendering.
• Uses DirectX 3 for rendering.
• BMP and PPM texture file support.
• Cylindrical and spherical texture wrapping.
• Loads DirectX X format, convertor available for 3DS to X .
• Written in Object Pascal / Delphi 2 (also the api).

More information and a demo can be found on the TGMP V2 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.

19.11.1996 Cancun

15.07.1996

Cancun is a commercial 3D engine from Michael Case (mcase@digitald.com), Digital Dialect.

• Perspective texture mapping with gouraud shading.
• Sloping walls, full 6-degrees of freedom.
• MIP-mapping.
• Polygonal objects.
• Direct3D support, Windows 95/NT.
• Environment building tool.
• 3DS scene and animation support.

More information and a demo on the Digit Dialect Homepage.

20.08.1996 WordUp Graphics Toolkit

14.06.1995

WGT is a graphics library for PCs by Chris Egerter (egerter@egerter.com). Beside a 3D engine, the 10 libraries offers sprite animation, 3d math, drop-down menus, scrolling engine, joystick commands, FLI/FLC animation routines, file selector, serial communications and a 32-bit protected mode digital sound system for playing music and mixing sound effects real-time.

• DOS, VESA SVGA, Windows 95 with DirectX and OS/2 support
• Perspective texturemapping with gouraud and phong shading.
• Translucent polygons.
• Motion blur.
• No z-buffer or BSP, only polygon sorting.
• Direct 3DS file format support.
• 400 page printed manual.

A demo of the library can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi . The wgt directory also contains 3 tutorials with source for linear texturemapped polygons and other interesting stuff like landscape rendering and texturemapped phong shading.
More information, demos and tutorials on the Egerter Software Homepage.

25.07.1996 3d Graphic Tools

25.07.1996

3DGT is a graphics software developer's tool for the Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C++ environments from Micro System Options ( moptions@concentric.net ).

• Windows 95 / NT and 3.1 support.
• Procedural textures and picture mapping.
• Z-buffer and painters sorting.
• Sophisticated lighting using multiple, movable color light sources with optional ambient light, depth cueing and special effects.
• Flat and Phong shading.
• Flexible, color, translucency and other object level attributes for control of objects'appearance.
• 3d point, line, wireframe drawing and clipping.
• Edge anti-aliasing and image post processing .
• Extruded, rotated, swept, lofted, spline and arbitrary curves and surfaces.
• Object generators (cube, cylinder, sphere, etc.)
• DFX, STL and 3GT file format support.
• The Windows C/C++ versions include complete source code.

More information on the Micro System Options Homepage .

16.07.1996 Convex Renderer in 3D

16.07.1996

The CR3D is a 3D graphics engine for Delphi 2.0 from Romesh (prakash@earthlink.net).

• Support for DirectDraw or WinG under Windows 95 / NT 4.0.
• 8 and 16-bit color mode.
• Linear texture mapping.
• Flat shading.
• Z-buffer rendering.
• 3DS and PLG file reader.

More information and a beta version on the CR3D Homepage.

22.05.1996 OpenGVS

22.05.1996

OpenGVS is a high-level, applications programming interface (API) for professional, real-time, computer graphics software developers from Gemini Technology Corportation.

• Support for OpenGL and Direct3D.
• Hardware support for SGI, 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics, Intergraph's TDZ, 3DLabs GLINT, Lockheed-Martin's Real3D and DEC/E&S Freedom.
• Texture mapping.
• Fog model for atmospheric special effects.
• Collision detection.
• Hierarchical objects.
• Import models from MultiGen, GameGen, Wavefront and others.

More information on the Gemini Technology Homepage.

12.03.1998 MegaGraph Graphics Library

01.01.1995

The MGL is a 3D graphics library for PCs from SciTech.

• Flat and gouraud shading.
• Support for DOS, Windows 3.1 / 95 / NT.
• SVGA support.
• BSP sorting and zbuffer rendering
• 2D and 3D functions.
• 3D modeling system.
• Written in C++ and ASM.
• Support for Borland C++, Watcom C++, Delphi, Visual C++.
• Support for DirectDraw acceleration functions.
• Support for OpenGL for Windows ( Microsoft, Silicon Graphics and Mesa ) API within the MGL framework.
• Support for stereo LC shutter glasses (requires hardware stereo support)

More information and source can be found on the MGL Homepage.

03.11.1997 ENG32

03.11.1997

ENG32 is a doom engine for PC from Harald Nowak ( ishn@infrasoft.co.at ).

• Non orthogonal walls with different height.
• Floor and ceiling mapping.
• Looking up/down.
• Sky mapping.
• 3D sprites.
• Support for DOS and Windows with DirectX.
• Level editor.

More information, screenshot and executables can be found on the Homepage of Harald Nowak.

09.09.1997 Virtual Presence Engine

01.01.1995

The VPE from Alexey Goloshubin (alexey@ii.uib.no) supports only 386+ PCs.

• Non-orthogonal walls, variable level floors/ceilings.
• 3D regions, rooms above other rooms.
• Moving walls / structures for doors and elevators.
• Looking up / down.
• Transparent and translucent walls / objects.
• Multiple viewports, a camera can also render into a wall texture (TV effect).
• Collision detection.
• Frame speed adjustment.
• Texture caching.
• SVGA support and WinG and DirectX support.
• Sound and Music support.

More information, screenshots, demos and the full source can be found via the Homepage of Alexey Goloshubin.
A port to DJGPP using the Allegro game library can be found on Phil Frisbie's Programming Page.

15.08.1997 WWD (Link Problems !)

13.03.1997

WWD is doom engine for PCs by Marius Schilder ( marius@digicash.com ).

• Non orthogonal walls.
• Variable height walls.
• Sky texture mapping.
• Depth cueing.
• 2D BSP rendering.
• Scaled 2D sprite drawing.
• Transparent walls.
• Elevators.
• Changing light levels.
• DirectX support for Windows 95.
• Java programmable object behaviour (external .class files loaded, uses SUN's JDK).
• Collision detection: objects to world, objects to objects.
• Java,C/C++/ASM source.
• Watcom DOS minimal version.

The source and demo can be found on the Homepage of Marius.

22.05.1996 Rage

01.01.1995

RAGE (Raycasting Algorithmic Graphical Engine) is a commercial doom-style engine under Windows.

• Animated texture maps and transparent textures
• Flat shaded polygon objects
• Collision detection
• Look up / look down, variable eye level
• Sector lighting and distance cueing
• Non rectangular worlds
• Support for DirectX under Windows 95.

More info and demos on the Monolith Homepage. Contact: rage@lith.com

20.07.1999 3D Game Engine

20.07.1999

3DGE is a portal rendering engine for windows. It was a 3rd years university project of Paul Constant ( paul.constant@bigfoot.com ).

• Flat shaded rendering using DirectDraw
• Collision detection
• Dynamic 3D objects inside convex sectors
• Very good documentation about portals, bsp trees and hidden surface removal

More information and screenshots can be found on the 3D Game Engine Project Homepage.

05.05.1998 Chrome

05.05.1998

Chrome is a portable flat shading 3D engine from Martijn Boekhorst ( m.boekhorst@wxs.nl ).

• Single colored polygons.
• Uses realtime BSP tree reconstruction and joining for surface ordering.
• Engine specializes in high object counts (i.e. 2000+).
• DirectX/DirectDraw based, does however not use Direct3D.
• Octree color quantization for using 24Bit colors on a 256 color screen.
• Highly portable (only 1 platform dependant sourcefile).
• Well commented ANSI/C sourcecode; highly Object Oriented design.

More information, screenshots and the source code can be found via Martijn Boekhorst's Homepage.

02.03.1998 Portal Demo

02.03.1998

PD is a portal rendering engine from Adrian Perez ( amperez+@andrew.cmu.edu ) published in the Game Developers Magazine in march 1998.

• Flat colored polygons.
• Portal rendering.
• 3D clipping.
• Support for Windows 95 and Direct3D.

More information and the source can be found as mar98.zip on the Source Code page of the Game Developers Magazine.

04.02.2000 WinUfo

04.02.2000

WinUfo is a landscape engine for Windows 95 / 98 / 2000 by Bret Logan (logan-bret@cs.yale/edu).

• Color interpolation between voxels
• Y-Rotation and translation.
• Utility for landscape generation.
• Based on platform-independent C++ heightfield/voxel rendering class

More information, the source for the landscape rendering class and several demos using this class can be found on the Homepage of Bret Logan.

15.10.1996 Soft2Map

15.10.1996

Soft2Map is a landscape engine by Alex Turin (al@tav.kiev.ua).

• Interpolated top and bottom mapping (as in Magic Carpet II).
• Camera translation and Y-rotation.
• Additional 3D objects in the scene.
• Support for DirectDraw under Windows 95.

A demo and more information can be found on the Homepage of Alex Turin.