3D Engines List Linux This list contains 54 Linux rendering engines.

25.04.2000 Panard Vision

04.04.1997

PV is a free portable Realtime 3D engine allowing for high speed, with no quality loss, rendering on Windows2000/Win32/Dos/Linux platforms by Olivier Brunet (pvision@planet-d.net). It supports both hardware and software rendering.

• 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

More information and the Panard Vision SDK (including 3DS file/animation viewer, Quake I viewer and everything needed to use this engine in your own programs. ) can be found on the Panard Vision Homepage.

25.02.2000 Digital Dawn Graphics Toolkit

25.02.2000

The DDG toolkit is a OpenSource library of C++ classes to build real time 3D graphics applications from Alex Pfaffe ( ddg@oz.net).

• Support for OpenGL
• Support for Linux and Windows
• Shaded, perspective texture mapping
• Z-Buffer rendering
• Fog
• Scene graph archtecture
• Multiple viewports
• Generic objects
• Ground and ocean objects
• Sky changes color/opacity according to the time and day
• A ROAM based terrain Mesh capable of performing realtime LOD
• Animated morphing noise based clouds
• Support for Terragen's height map format
• DDG will be incorporated with the Crystal Space portal engine in the near future
• C++ source

More information, screenshots and the source can be found on the Digital Dawn Graphics Toolkit Homepage.

23.02.2000 Plush

16.12.1996

Plush is a portable high-performance realtime 3D rendering library by Justin Frankel (frankel@eng.utah.edu) of Nullsoft.

• Shaded perspective texture mapping.
• Environment mapping.
• Shaded translucent surfaces.
• Phong shading via environment maps.
• Z-buffer and painter's algorithm (with radix or qsort) rendering.
• Multiple light sources with point and directional lights.
• Hierarchical Objects.
• Palette optimization with dithering.
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS. Caligari COB and plush PLO object files.
• Support for PCX and PLT texture files.
• Full 3D frustrum clipping.
• Object morphing.
• Spline interpolation with tension,
• Limited to 256 colors.
• Resolution independand.
• Written in portable ANSI C, tested on DOS and with X11-Windows under Linux, SunOS, Solaris, MacOs, Windows, AIX and HP/UX.

More information and some demos and the libraries can be found on the Plush Homepage.

23.02.2000 Coin

23.02.2000

Coin is a portable open source C++ class library / toolkit based on the Open Inventor API from Systems In Motion.

• Support for OpenGL
• Perspective, shaded texture mapping
• Environment mapping
• Main goal is to achieve complete compatibility with the Open Inventor API
• GUI system is developed for the Qt library
• C++ source

More information, screenshots and the source (CVS snapshot) can be found via the Systems In Motion Homepage.

08.02.2000 LightSpeed 3D

08.02.2000

LightSpeed3D (former Exodus) is a commercial 3D engine for Windows 95/98/2K from Rogueprogramm.

• Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping
• Texture filtering
• Landscape rendering
• Underwater lighting effects
• Lens effect
• Dynamic Lighting
• Dynamic Fog
• Dynamic Shadows
• Support for 3dfx's Glide, partial support for Microsoft's Direct3d, software rendering using Span Buffering, and OpenGl support
• DirectSound, Direct 3d sound, Aureal 3d sound, and partial Linux sound support.
• Support for Win95, Win98, and WinNT and Linux
• Game editor
• TCP networking code, supporting UDP and TCP
• Texture support for Jpeg, FLI, PCX, TGA, BMP
• Support for WAV, MP3, MIDI sounds
• Written in C/ASM

More information can be found on the LightSpeed Homepage.

04.02.2000 Image Based Rendering

04.02.2000

Sergey Parilov ( parilov@orel.ru ) has developed a Windows and Linux IBR system. Image Based Rendering is a new technique that is capable of producing novel views of 3d scenes if it is given some existing images of it without explicit intermediate representation as a 3d geometry model.

• Support for OpenGL and raytracing
• Lots of documentation

More information, screenshots and an interactive IBR demo can be found on the Image Based Rendering Homepage.

02.02.2000 Apprentice

11.12.1996

Apprentice is an Inventor emulation library that reads and displays .iv files from Eric Victor Powers (powerg@deltanet.com).

• Perspective texture mapping.
• Gouraud shading.
• Multiple lights.
• Hierarchical objects.
• NURB patches.
• Support for Windows 95 (with OpenGL) and X11-Windows (using Mesa or OpenGL) on SGI, SunOS, Solaris and Linux.
• C++ object-oriented concept.
• Source is available to educational institutes, staff members, and students for non-commercial, educational use only.

More information and the license agreement can be found on the Apprentice Homepage.

23.12.1999 Golk

23.12.1999

Golk is a 3D engine for Windows and Linux from Ingmar Stein ( Ingmar@digital-phenomenon.de ).

• Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
• Support for OpenGL (dynamic loading, compiled vertex arrays)
• Animated textures
• Curved surfaces
• Collision detection
• Q3A BSP support
• Point based particle system
• Shader script support
• M3D model support
• BMP/DIB, GIF, JPG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIFF texture support
• 3D sound support (EAX)
• DirectSound and DirectInput support
• TCP/IP networking
• 3DNow! and ISSE optimization

More information and screenshots can be found on the Digitial Phenomenon Homepage

22.12.1999 Quesa

22.12.1999

Quesa is a high level 3D graphics library, released as Open Source under the LGPL, which implements Apple's QuickDraw 3D API on top of OpenGL. Quesa was started by Dair Grant (dair@webthing.net), although substantial amounts of code have since been contributed by other developers.

• Support for retained and immediate mode rendering
• Extensible file format
• Hierarchical models
• Objectoriented API
• Support for MacOS, Linux and Windows - ports to Be and Mac Mac OS X are in progress
• Portable ANSI C source

More information, screenshots and links to download the source can be found on the Quesa Homepage

22.12.1999 Golgatha

17.11.1998

Golgatha is a 3D game engine from Crack dot Com. Crack dot Com left business and decided to release the source of their game that has been in development for more than 2 years.

• Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping
• Texture filtering
• Landscape rendering
• Using a single portable rendering API, support for 3dfx's Glide, partial support for Microsoft's Direct3d, software rendering using Span Buffering, and very partial OpenGl support
• DirectSound, Direct 3d sound, Aureal 3d sound, and partial Linux sound support.
• Support for Win95, Win98, and WinNT and Linux
• Plugin for 3D Studio Max for geometry im/export
• Game editor
• Portable TCP networking code, supporting UDP and TCP
• A LISP interpreter with threaded garbage collection
• Portable GUI system, with a window manager, support for dialog boxes, buttons, browse trees, pull down menu, context menus, scroll bars, sliders, dividers, list boxes, text input, status indicators, and context sensitive help
• Image loaders & savers for Jpeg, FLI, PCX, TGA, BMP
• Image histograms & quantization
• Sound loaders for WAV and MP3
• Hand crafted assembly language optimizations for pentiums, and k6-3d
• C/ASM source.

More information, screenshots and the complete sources (even game data, music and textures) can be found on the Golgatha Homepage .

28.09.1999 Gizmo3D

28.09.1999

Gizmo3D is a high performance 3D scene graph and visualisation toolkit for Linux, Win32 and Irix from Anders Moden ( anders@linux3d.net ).

• Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
• Scene graph API which features most nodes of Performer and Cosmo3D
• Multipass rendering (lightmapping, projective textures)
• Mirrors
• Parametric surfaces
• Collision detection
• Script control with an implemented java interpreter or phyton intepreter to control behaviours (brains) and motion with scripts.
• Animation control to provide animation built into the scene graph
• Support for WIN32 HWND windows, Unix Xt Widgets and QT QWidgets on both WIN32,Linux and Irix
• Image toolkit, DB toolkit and System toolkit
• Written in C++

More information, screenshots and the source can be found on the Gizmo3D Homepage.

09.09.1999 Project: 3D Craft

21.07.1998

P3DC (former Gee-3D) is an open source 3D rendering engine based 3Dfx's Glide library written by Chuck McManis ( cmcmanis@mcmanis.com ).

• Glide 2.x compatible 3D accellerator
• Shaded, perspective texture mapping
• 3D Model definition with its own 3D model language
• Multiple Cameras on screen at the same time
• Screen shots in Portable Network Graphics (PNG) forma
• Compiles on Linux, FreeBSD and Win9x
• Includes all source code and BSD style license

More information, screen shots, sources, and a demo can be found at the Project: 3D Craft home page. A mailing list is at p3dc@home.mcmanis.com .

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

01.03.1999 3D Foundation Clases

19.12.1997

3DFC is a 3D portal rendering engine from Leandro Bernsmuller (lebe@geocities.com).

• Gouraud shaded, affine texturemapping.
• Portal rendering with edge clip buffer.
• Colored light sources.
• Collision detection between spheres and sectors.
• Support for DOS and Linux (using SvgaLib and X11 Windows).
• Support for backpropagation neural networks .
• Input from keyboard or sockets network communication .
• Support for PCX texture files.
• C++ sources.

More information, screenshots, the source and executables can be found on the 3D Foundation Classes Homepage.

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

12.10.1998 Roketz

05.05.1998

Roketz is a 3D game engine by Lars Andersson ( lars_and@algonet.se ).

• Unshaded, perspective texture mapping.
• Subtexel/subpixel accuracy.
• VGA, Tweaked VGA and VESA 2.0 resolutions.
• Support for DOS, Linux/SVGALib and Linux/X11.
• Quake-like console.
• Portal rendering.
• C++/ASM source that compiles under Watcom, DJGPP2 and GCC.

More information, screenshots, a demo and the source can be found via Lars' 3D Graphics Programming Page.

08.09.1998 Obsidian

08.09.1998

Obsidian is an open source 3D engine for Linux and OpenGL from Duncan Robertson ( duncan@zog.net.au ) , Jon Holdsworth ( jon@central.warehouse.net ) and David Karla ( dak@zog.net.au ).

• Perspective, gouraud shaded texture mapping.
• Support for OLinux/SVGALIB and OpenGL (tested on SGI).
• Network support.
• Polygon sorting.
• Collision detection.
• Scene editor.

More information, screenshots, binaries and the souce can be found on the Obsidian Homepage .

23.07.1998 JawMD2

16.02.1998

JawMD2 is a Quake2 Model Viewer by Jawed Karim ( jkarim@students.uiuc.edu ).

• Unshaded, perspective texture mapping.
• Antiliased wireframe, gouraud and textured rendering modes.
• Full frame animation support
• Uses OpenGL for 3D rendering.
• Support for Windows 95/NT and Linux (using MesaGL).

More information, screenshots, the executables and the source can be found on the JawMD2 Homepage.

21.07.1998 Magician

12.03.1998

Magician is a commercial set of Java classes from Arcane Technologies Ltd. that implement a Java interface to OpenGL

• Support for all OpenGL 1.1 GL and GLU calls. Many features of Aux and GLUT have also been translated to work within a Java environment
• Built-in, easy-to-use multiple simultaneous view support.
• Multi-threaded rendering.
• Support for direct OpenGL calls or polymorphic methods.
• Built-in OpenGL tracing and profiling support that is runtime switchable.
• Native library (that interfaces the OpenGL-driver) available for Linux, Sgi, Windows 95/NT, Solaris and AIX.
• Support for the Apple Macintosh, BeOS and OS/2 is currently undergoing testing.
• Over 70 demos available with full source code.
• Free runtime license, commercial runtime licens available.

Free evaluation downloads are available. Personal and commercial runtime and source licences are available for purchasing.

More information, screenshots, demos and the libraries can be found on the Magician Homepage.

21.07.1998 Jaw3D

16.12.1996

Jaw3D is a 3d engine by Jawed Karim ( jaw3d@jawed.com ).

• Shaded texture mapping.
• Lambert flat, gouraud and (fake) phong shading.
• Wireframe rendering.
• Environment mapping.
• Movable light source.
• Painter's algorithm: qsorted polygons.
• Support for 3 resolutions: 320x200, 640x480, 800x600 .
• Converter for POVray smooth trinagles and 3D Studio 3DS to j3d format, direkt support for Quake MDL.
• DOS and ix86 linux elf version.
• C API.

More information and a demo can be found on the Jaw3D Homepage.

06.05.1998 Tremor

06.05.1998

Tremor is a 3D game engine for Linux from Rich Drewes ( tremor@interstice.com ).

• Lightmapped perspective texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• Surface caching.
• PVS (Potential Visibility Set) pre-computation.
• Texture animation.
• BSP tree and z-buffer rendering.
• Dynamic objects.
• Collision detection.
• Sound support.
• Network support.
• Support for X11 windows.
• Written in C.

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

04.03.1998 PGS

04.03.1998

PGS is a commercial set of libraries for building 3D CAD applications and rendering 3D CAD models from Geometric Technology Systems.

• Wireframe, graphical HLR (hidden line removal), HLR with ghosting (hidden lines rendered in alternate color), mixed mode ( shading with edges), flat shading and gouraud shading.
• Perspective texture mapping.
• Direct support for NURB curves and surfaces.
• Z-Buffer rendering.
• Transparency
• Full support for sectioning: section outlining and fill, different types of rendering on opposite sides of section plane, section plan view.
• Real time re-tessellation of surfaces to screen resolution (when used with GTS Tessellation library).
• Direct support for picking.
• Optimized for large CAD models and triangle sets.
• Support for IGES (2D and 3D geometry), STL, VRML, HPGL, CGM, TIFF, TARGA, GIF, PNG, and JPEG.
• Dynamically switchable driver architecture.
• Support for Windows 95 / NT and UNIX (Sun, SGI, HP, IBM and Linux).

More information and contact information can be found on the Geometric Technology Systems Homepage.

14.11.1997 Sofie

14.11.1997

Sofie is a 3D game engine for X11 from Stephan Schiessling ( Stephan.Schiessling@mathematik.uni-regensburg.de ) .

• Perspective, non-shaded texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• BSP rendering.
• Multiple objects with physics (Mass, velocity...).
• Collision detection.
• 2D sprites (for explosions).
• Support for X11-Windows (with MIT-Shm-Extension) on Linux.
• Support for 8 and 16 bit color.
• Joystick support.
• C++ source.

More information, screenshots, documenation, binary and the source can be found on the Sofie 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.

22.10.1997 Threed

22.10.1997

Threed is the Linux port of the 3D engine by Jean-Francois Dube (deks@videotron.ca) aka 'Deks' of IncaMaster.

• Perspective, shaded texture-mapping.
• Sub-pixel & sub-textel accuracy
• Flat and gouraud shading.
• Multiple objects.
• Multiple rgb light sources.
• Z sort rendering.
• Light-source rendering.
• 2D clipping.
• Support for 3D Studio ASC, GEO and GEM object files.
• C++ source.

More information, screenshots and the source can be found on Threed Homepage .

22.09.1997 3D Game Engine

24.02.1997

3DGM is a landscape game engine for PCs by Raymond Penners ( raymondp@win.tue.nl )

• Unshaded affine texture mapping.
• Gouraud shaded polygons.
• Transparent polygons.
• Sky-mapping.
• Fogging.
• Moving sea.
• Polygonal 3D objects.
• 2D sprites.
• Polygon sorting.
• Support for DOS and Linux.

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

16.09.1997 Project SpandeX

01.01.1995

Project SpandeX (previously known as Latex) is a 3D engine from Paul Nettle (midnight@www.grafix3d.tzo.com).

• Commercial quality engine, written by commercial game developer.
• Open-GL like
• Texture-mapping, environment-mapping, bump-mapping, solid-color polygons, Phong shading, Gouraud shading, Lambert.
• Perspective correct, and affine texture mapping both supported
• Sub-pixel, sub-texel accuracy
• Z-buffering and sorting.
• Triangles, lines, points, text (mono or proportional).
• Up to 100 dynamic light sources.
• Material support with Ka, Kd and Ks variables (may change on the fly).
• Support for any resolution.
• Multiple cameras that can act JUST like 3DS cameras.
• Hierarchical database design with forward kinematics and inheritance.
• 100% Pure C for portability with small inline ASM parts.
• Over 250 API calls for maximum flexibility.
• Support for DOS and Linux/X11.
• Latest version is completely true-color.

More information, screenshots, the source and demos can be found on the Project SpandeX Homepage.

11.03.1997 Virtual Reality Toolkit Lightning Eagle

08.07.1997

VLE is a OpenGL / CosmoGL C++ / Mesa class wrapper from Martin Faust (faust@informatik.uni-bremen.de ).

• Support for Windows 95/NT, PC 3D cards, Sun (Mesa), Linux (Mesa) and SGI computers.
• Object hierarchies.
• Animated backdrops.
• Primitve objects.

More information, the source, libraries and documentation can be found on the (german!) VLE Homepage.

06.03.1997 AC3D Modeler

06.03.1997

AC3D is an object/scene modeler by Andy Colebourne (andy@comp.lancs.ac.uk).
There are different versions of AC3D available:

• Shaded texture mapping and smooth gouraud polygon version using OpenGL on SGI.
• Non-shaded polygons and wireframe version on SunOS and Sun Solaris using X11-Windows.
• Shaded texture mapping and smooth gouraud polygon version using Mesa on Linux systems.

The features of the modeler are:

• Tree, object and vertex manipulation.
• Extrusion and revolving of polylines and objects.
• Surface normal generation.
• Texture coordinate manipulation.
• Spline surface generation.
• Surface attribute manipulation.
• Support for DXF, lightwave and raw triangle import.
• Output of VRML, Dive, Massive, RenderMan and POV-Ray files.
• Written in C.

More information and the binaries for the different platforms can be found on the AC3D Modeler Homepage.

17.10.1996 TPolygon

17.10.1996

TPolygon is a simple 3D engine for PCs from Janne Löf (jlof@paju.oulu.fi).

• Linear texture mapped or flat shaded polygons.
• Single polygon rendering, no support for objects.
• No zbuffer, painters or BSP support.
• VGA support for DOS and Linux (using vga lib).
• C++ with class design, vector and matrix operator overloading...

The source can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi.

19.04.1996 TAGL

01.01.1995

TAGL (Threedee Advanced Graphic Libraryis) a portable 3D C++ class library from Bruno Levy (bruno@ensg.u-nancy.fr).

• Linear texturemapping in RGB and colormap mode.
• Environment mapping.
• Support for 8bpp, 15bpp, 16bpp, 24bpp and 32bpp displays.
• Z-buffer rendering.
• Gouraud shading and dithering, wireframe and flatshading rending.
• RGB emulation in 8bpp mode.
• Dynamic linking, to load new drivers at run time.
• Multiple output windows or rendering ports inside a single window.
• Tested with DOS and under X11-Windows with Linux, SunOs, Solaris, HPUX, OSF1 and IRIX.
• C++ design with inheritance, C++ inlining, generic scanliners.
• 3 layer design (GraphicPort for portable framebuffer access, PolygonEngine for rasterization and GeometryManager for 3D transformation and graphic primitives).
• GEOM file object viewer.
• C++ API with lots of sample programs,

The full source can be found at sunsite.unc.edu. More information in the TAGL Readme.

05.01.1996 work in progress

01.01.1995

PC 3D engine from Christian Nentwich (brain@eleet.iddc.via.at).

• ASM
• Gouraud shaded polygons.
• Gouraud shaded texture mapping.
• Phong & bump texture mapping.
• DOS and Linux support.

01.01.1995 Dore

01.01.1995

Dore' is a powerful 3D graphics subroutine library, made freely available by the Kubota Graphics Corp. It provides a comprehensive set of tools for creating graphics applications. It is also easy to use, portable, and extendable. This version has interfaces/drivers to X11-Windows, PEX, IrisGL, OpenGL, Postscript and more. It has been ported onto most Unix systems, including Linux, NetBSD, and FreeBSD. It has also been ported to Windows NT 3.5. Dore is available on the Dore FTP Server

02.02.2000 World Foundry

02.02.2000

World Foundry is a 3D Game Develeopers Kit for Windows 95 / 98 / NT and Linux from Kevin T. Seghetti ( kts@worldfoundry.org ).

• Perspective correct texture mapping
• Animated textures
• Depth cueing
• Collision detection
• Support for OpenGL and Direct3D
• LOD support
• Animation playback system
• Scripting language

More information, screenshots and the sources for the GDK can be found on the World Foundry Homepage.

01.01.1995 work in progress

01.01.1995

From Mike Field (mafield@ibm.net).

• C++/C.
• Texture mapping, with MIP-mapping.
• Distant, point and spot lights.
• Script language for shapes, lighting and camera positions.
• Linux and DOS support.

02.02.2000 Trender

23.12.1999

Trender is portable a gouraud shading 3D engine for Linux and Windows from Thanassis Tsiodras ( ttsiod@softlab.ntua.gr ).

• Gouraud, flat, wireframe and point rendering
• Support for 3D Studio ASC files
• Z-Buffer and z-sorting
• Anti-aliased lines
• Software rendering (SDL - Simple DirectMedia Layer) or 3DFX support
• Portable C++ source

More information, screenshots and the source can be found on the Trender Homepage.

06.04.1998 View3DS

06.04.1998

View3DS is 3D Studio file viewer from David Farrell (fdavid@cyberramp.net).

• Z-buffered gouraud shading.
• Uses OpenGL rendering API.
• Support for 3DS object files.
• Conversion of 3D model to OpenGL C source code.
• Support for X11-Windows, Linux, Windows 95 / NT.
• C source.

More information, screenshots, executables and the source can be found on the Homepage of David Farrell.

23.10.1997 3Dom

23.10.1997

3Dom is gouraud shading 3D editor from Samuel Debleeckere aka 'silicon' and Koen Deforch aka 'jozef' (3dom@cs.kuleuven.ac.be).

• Uses open OpenGL or Mesa for 3D output.
• Support for X11-Windows on Linux, HP-UX, Solaris and SGI.
• Gouraud and wireframe rendering.
• Movable light sources.
• Object primitives and object manipulation.
• Support for Rayshade scene files, output of MGF and povray files.
• C source.

More information, screenshots, binaries and the source can be found on the 3Dom Homepage.

23.10.1997 GL-Space

23.10.1997

GL-Space is gouraud shading 3D editor from Philip Eckenroth and Michael Tipping ( greywolf@unm.edu ).

• Uses open OpenGL or Mesa for 3D output.
• Support for X11-Windows on Linux, Solaris, SunOS and SGI.
• Gouraud and wireframe rendering.
• Movable light sources and cameras.
• Object primitives and object manipulation.
• User interface based on TrueSpace.
• Support for TrueSpace 2.0 ASCII model format.
• C source.

More information, screenshots and the source can be found on the GL-Space Homepage.

15.01.1996 LibRaum (Link Problems!)

15.01.1996

LR is a commerical 3D API from Bitblox (hedu@ipn.uni-kiel.de).

• X11-Windows running under HPUX and Linux.
• Wireframe, flat and gouraud shading.
• Multiple camera support.
• Multiple lights, point and spotlights.
• Painters sorting and z-buffering.
• RAD scene language, builtin shapes.
• C++ API.

More info and demos on the libRaum Homepage.

17.09.1998 DUMB

08.09.1997

DUMB is an enhanced doom engine for Linux from Josh Parsons ( josh@coombs.anu.edu.au ).

• Non orthogonal walls with different height.
• Floor and ceiling mapping.
• Looking up/down.
• Support for 8, 16 and 32 bit color.
• Support for DOOM WAD files.
• Level editor.

More information, screenshots, the source and executables can be found on the DUMP Homepage.

27.12.1997 Doom

27.12.1997

ID Software released the original sourcecode to DOOM.

• ASM/C.
• Non-othogonal walls with different height.
• Floor or ceiling mapping.
• Sector lighting and distance cueing.
• 3D sprites.
• Source release for linux.

The source is available at ftp.idsoftware.com .

01.04.1997 Baltimore

01.04.1997

Baltimore is a portable doom engine by Song Li (sli2@gl.umbc.edu).

• Orthogonal, texturemapped, variable height walls.
• Floor, ceiling and sky texture mapping.
• No shading yet.
• Simple collision detection, no sliding on walls yet.
• Stairs and elevators.
• Support for Windows 95/NT and for X11-Windows (binaries are available for Irix, Solaris, Aix and Linux).
• C++ source.

The source and binaries can be found on the Baltimore Homepage.

30.12.1996 Red Sector

30.12.1996

Red Sector is a 3D engine by Byron Foster (foster@enuxsa.eas.asu.edu).

• Non-orthogonal variable-height walls.
• Sloped walls.
• Rooms above rooms.
• Perspective-correct texture mapping on walls, roofs and floors.
• Transparent texture mapping.
• Look up / look down, variable eye level
• Collision detection with walls and objects.
• Distance cueing, fogging.
• Animated 3D sprite objects.
• Runs under DOS and X11-Windows under Linux.
• Support for SVGA resolutions.

A demo can be found on the Red Sector Homepage.

09.09.1996 WebView 3D

25.09.1995

WV is doom style 3d engine from Philip Stephens ( philip@galaxy.bocaraton.ibm.com).

• X11-Windows support for Solaris, SunOS, BSDI, AIX and Linux. HiColor (16 bit) support for DOS.
• Variable window size.
• Non-orthogonal walls, texturemapped floor and ceiling.
• Regions can have different light levels.
• Depth cueing.
• Dithered lighting and light cueing.
• Backdrop images.
• BSP rendering.
• Collision detection.
• 8 sided sprites.
• Networking support and network server. World Wide Web support.
• 3D chat function.
• C source with special adaptions for Intel-based machines.
• GIF and JPG texture support.
• WT- and WORLD-file to BSP converter.
• Real-time physics.

The source and more information can be found on the WebView3D Development Page.

15.04.1996 The Difference Engine / r95

15.04.1996

TDE/r95 is DOOM style renderer by Michael Schöne and Bernd Kreimeier (bernd@nero.uni-bonn.de).

• Non rectangular walls with different height.
• No floor or ceiling mapping.
• Sky mapping.
• No depth cueing.
• Loosely based on Chris Laurel's "wt".
• X11-Windows under Linux (ELF, XFree, X SHM) and Solaris (X SHM) binaries.
• WAD file I/O, multi file management, load on demand, caching basics.
• Written in ANSI C (GNU GCC-2.7.x).

More information and a demo on The Difference Engine / r95 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.

27.10.1998 (Cy)bernetic Worlds

27.10.1998

CW is a flatshading 3D engine for DOS and Linux from Maddin ( m.schwalb@liebig.gi.he.schule.de ) aka 'Llama' of .tSCc.

• Resolution independand software rendering.
• Geometric clipping.
• Z-Buffer rendering.
• Simple object handling.
• Converter for 3D Studio objects.

More information can be found on the (Cy)bernetic Worlds Homepage.

24.02.1997 Mirage

22.01.1997

Mirage is a unix port and followup of VR386 from Christophe Maurel ( maurel@electech.polymtl.ca ).

• Hierarchical linked figures.
• Animation state machine.
• Support for WorldToolKit NFF, AutoCad DXF and VR386/Render386 PLG and WLD files.
• Support for X11-Windows on SGI, SunOs and Linux.
• Tcl/Tk interface.
• Portable C source.

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

19.04.1996 WatRend

19.04.1996

WR is portable scanline-based 3D rendering engine from Gavriel State (gav@mag1.magmacom.com).

• Support for Macintoshes, SGI machines, X11-Windows, x86 DOS and Linux.
• Fixed-point and floating-point math.
• Based on Rend386 and Avril.
• Active edge table scanlining.
• PLG file support.

More information and the source on Gav's Homepage.

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.

28.09.1998 Attack

13.08.1998

Attack is a simple 3D landscape game engine from ( TimD@buffbody.com ).

• No shading yet.
• Uses OpenGL for rendering.
• Depth cueing.
• Sky rendering
• Collision detection with the ground.
• Support for Windows, Linux and SunOs.
• C++ source.

More information, screenshots and the source can be found on Attack Homepage.

15.04.1996 NuGraf Developer's 3D Toolkit

15.04.1996

The NG D3DT is a commercial 3D library from Okino Computer Graphics, Inc (sales@okino.com). NuGraf's renderer is designed to create fast, high quality photo-realistic images using software generation methods. NuGraf is a complete development system for creating 3D computer graphics applications, the toolkit handles all aspects of the 3D modeling and rendering process.

• High-speed, 32-bit broadcast-quality scanline renderer based on a hybrid Z-scanline/A-buffer algorithm.
• Support for third party renderers via a back-end custom rendering interface. NuGraf ships with a full featured OpenGL(tm) interface module.
• Hierarchical database management and inquiry system.
• 650 pages of documentation.
• Efficient interfaces provided to allow large quantities of polygonal data to be passed into the database, including a host-based callback mechanism (the "user-defined" primitive). A mathematically stable sub-library of polygon welding and smoothing operations optimize any raw data for rendering (ex: DXF).
• Meshed polygon vertices can be assigned a color, normal, (u,v) texture coordinates, and U/V tangent information.
• Complex n-sided polygons with recursive holes & islands.
• Sphere, cone, and cylinder quadric primitives with implicit texture parameterizations. Box, prism, disc and rectangle primitives with implicit texture parameterizations.
• NURB and bicubic patch primitives with selectable basis.
• Scenes are created using object instancing and hierarchical attachment.
• Omnidirectional, unidirectional or spot light sources with numerous options: intensity, color, decay,fall-off, softness, shadow parameters.
• Implementation of PIXAR's soft shadow technique with tiling optimizations.
• A wide selection of predefined surface shaders: 2D texture mapping, Perlin and Peachy 3D procedural texture functions, spherical/cubical environment and planar reflectance mapping, mist and fog full-featured atmospheric shaders, flat, gouraud or phong shading models, phong or blinn specular highlight.
• State-of-the-art analytic 2D texture filtering algorithms.
• Output drivers for images, X11-Windows, SGI, Windows and VGA.
• The library is available on a wide range of platforms, including Apple Macintosh, IBM PC 32-bit DOS, Microsoft Windows v3.1 (32-bit), Microsoft Windows NT (32-bit DLL), Linux + X11, SUN workstations, Silicon Graphics workstations and DEC Alpha AXP (Windows NT).

More info on the NuGraf's Homepage.