3D Engines List Mac This list contains 41 Mac rendering engines.

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.

02.02.2000 OpenGL

06.09.1995

OpenGLŪ is a software interface for applications to generate interactive 2D and 3D computer graphics. OpenGL is designed to be independent of operating system, window system, and hardware operations, and it is supported by many vendors. OpenGL is available on PCs, Macintosh and workstations.
OpenGL provides a wide range of graphics functions: from rendering a simple geometric point, line, or filled polygon, to texture mapping NURBS curved surfaces.

• Geometric primitives (points, lines, and polygons)
• Raster primitives (bitmaps and pixel rectangles)
• RGBA or color index mode
• Display list or immediate mode
• Viewing and modeling transformations
• Hidden Surface Removal (depth buffer)
• Alpha Blending (transparency)
• Antialiasing
• Texture Mapping
• Atmospheric Effects (fog, smoke, and haze)
• Polynomial Evaluators (to support Non-uniform rational B-splines)
• Pixel Operations (storing, transforming, mapping, zooming)
• Accumulation Buffer
• Stencil Planes
• Feedback, Selection, and Picking
• OpenSource

The OpenGL functions described are provided on every OpenGL implementation to make applications written with OpenGL easily portable between platforms. All licensed OpenGL implementations are required to pass the Conformance Tests, and come from a single specification and language binding document.
More information and the source of the sample implementation can be found on the OpenGL Sample Implementation 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

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 Supernova

10.05.1999

Supernova is a shareware 3D engine for Mac computers from Dan Adamson ( dna_man@yahoo.com) aka 'DNA Man'.

• Polygon support up to 32 vertices
• Support for Quickdraw wireframe and flatshaded rendering to any size window
• Camera and object animation features
• Glide support with texture-mapping, and z-buffer at 640x480
• Glide texture-mapping without z-buffer at 800x600
• Hierarchical objects capable of forward kinetics
• Object I/O system
• Object and camera animation features
• Easily expandable to use other rendering APIs (Glide, RAVE, OpenGL, etc)

For more information, screenshots and a demo of the SDK can be found on the Supernova 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.

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.

17.07.1999 Open Media Toolkit

17.07.1999

The OMT is an 3D engine and application framework for Mac, PowerPC, Windows 95/NT from Pacific Media WorX.

• High performance C++ mix-in architecture
• Perspective, shaded texture mapping
• Flat and gouraud shading
• Multiple colored lights
• Translucidity
• 3D sprites
• Three polygon sorting methods and two polygon software rasterizers
• 2D engine
• Network support
• Collision detection

More information and documentation can be found on the Pacific Media WorX 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

25.01.1999 Nightfall Engine

02.09.1997

The Nightfall Engine (former Altor Engine) is a 3D engine for Macintosh computers by Altor Systems Inc. The development environment is now shipping on CD-ROM with the game Nightfall. It includes:

• Level editor with example art.
• Custom cross platform resource builder.
• Plug-in DLL architecture with source code.
• Perspective Gouraud shaded texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• Volumetric real-time light model.
• Portal rendering.
• Dynamic depth cued colored fog and dust.
• 3D objects which may be imported from 3DMF files.
• Face on and perspective correct 2D sprites.
• PowerPC native.
• Software renderer for 8, 16 and 32 bit color.
• Dynamic dithering on 8 & 16bit screens.
• Support for 3D hardware via the Apple RAVE standard.
• 3D sound.
• Physics model for collision, gravity, and object stacking.
• VR hand to select and pick up objects during game play or editing.
• AI components for motion, sensing, and decision making in C.
• 2D interface links within the 3D game.

More information and screenshots can be found on the Altor Systems 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.

13.01.1999 True 3D

05.10.1998

True 3D is a 3D engine for Mac, Dos and Windows 95/NT from Kevin Olson ( kevin3d@earthlink.com ).

• Perspective correct bump-mapped textures.
• Multiple spherical light sources.
• Per pixel shadow casting.
• 320x200/640x480 resolutions with 8/24 bit versions.
• Written in C++/C/Asm using CodeWarrior/Watcom 10.0/Visual 5.0.

More information and a screenshot can be found on the True 3D Homepage .

12.01.1999 3DGPL

27.06.1995

3DGPL 2.0 is a portable 3D engine from Sergei Savchenko (savs@cs.mcgill.ca).

• Perspective texturemapping (via linear interpolation every 32 pixels per scanline)
• Ray tracing.
• Gouraud shading, flat shading of polygons.
• Z-Buffer and BSP rendering.
• Bicubic patches.
• Landscape rendering.
• Portal rendering.
• 2D and 3D clipping.
• 3D transformations with fixed point or float math.
• 2D text rendering.
• Portable C with support for DOS, X11-Windows, NeXTStep, Windows 3.1/95 and Mac.
• Tutorial texts, source code available and extensive 3D documentation

The source, tutorial, screenshots and more information can be found on 3DGPL Homepage. A Mac port of 3DGPL 1.0 done by Ingemar Ragnemalm can be found at ftp.lysator.liu.se.

27.10.1998 Duality Engine

27.10.1998

The Duality Engine is a commercial 3D game engine for PCs and Macintosh from Double Aught, Inc.

• Perspective, lightmapped texture mapping
• 16-bit colored lightmaps
• Portal rendering
• BSP rendering
• Dynamic lighting
• Dynamic texture maps
• Translucency
• 3D sound.
• Multiplayer and network support.
• RAVE and Glide hardware support
• Advanced scripts.

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

23.10.1998 NimbusVR

09.03.1998

NVR is a 3D engine for Mac computers from Adam Coates ( hawking@neteze.com ).

• Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• Bump-mapping.
• Z-buffer rendering.
• Masked textures.
• Alpha maps and transparencies.
• Depth-cueing.
• Meshed vertices.
• Rotoscoping.
• Support for QuickDraw.
• Written in C++.

More information, screenshots, a tutorial and a demo can be found via the Hawking's Homepage .

23.07.1998 Lightspeed 3D

23.07.1998

Lightspeed 3D is an open-source realtime 3D engine for MacOS PowerPC from Joseph J. Strout ( joe@strout.net ).

• Perspective shaded texture mapping.
• Solid, computed, or texture-mapped color.
• Flat, Gouraud, computed, or bump-mapped shading.
• Sub-pixel accuracy.
• Automatic depth sorting.
• Real-valued S-buffer rendering.
• C++ source (Metrowerks CodeWarrior), optimized for PowerPC.
• Free licensing for any purpose, commercial or otherwise.

More information and screenshots can be found on the Lightspeed 3D Engine Homepage . A demo is available by request to Joseph J. Strout.

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 .

29.01.1998 Screaming Cabala

16.07.1996

The SC is a graphics library for the Macintosh by Andrew Meggs (meggs@virginia.edu).

• Linear and quadratic shaded texture mapping.
• Depth cueing.
• Transparent and translucent sections on textures.
• Support for 8- and 16-bit screens.
• Full sprite package.
• Freely available for development.
• Minimum CPU is a 68040LC (without FPU)

The library and more information can be found on the Screaming Cabala Homepage.

09.06.1997 J3D SpaceCrafter

09.06.1997

J3D SpaceCrafter is a high level 3D Graphics and Virtual Reality API for Java from InWorld VR, Inc.

• Shaded, perspective texture mapping.
• Tested on Intel, Macintosh, Solaris, Javastation, JavaOS and SGI.
• Hierarchical objects.
• ZSorting and z-buffer.
• Collision detection.
• Multiple 3D clipping choices.
• 3D sprites.
• Standard 3D objects.
• Built in terrain generation and terrain following functions.
• Support for 8 bit indexed and 24 bit color modes.
• Java API.

More information and screenshots can be found on the J3D SpaceCrafter Homepage .

14.05.1997 Fire & Forget 3D (Link Problems)

14.05.1997

The FF3D is a 3D game engine for the PowerMac from Alex Clarke ( ma5adc@bath.ac.uk ).

• Perspective shaded, texture mapping.
• 16 bit color rendering.
• Dithering.
• Transparancy.
• Colored lighting.
• Collision detection.
• Particle systems.
• 3D objects.
• Terrain rendering.
• 32 bit Z-buffer rendering.
• Support for RAVE rendering.
• Support for 3D glasses.
• C++ / ASM source.

More information, screenshots, a demo and source code to the span-buffer renderer can be found on the Fire & Forget 3D Homepage.

07.04.1997 QuickDraw 3D

01.01.1995

QD3D is a cross-platform application program interface (API) for creating and rendering real-time, workstation-class 3D graphics from Apple.

• Support for hardware acceleration boards.
• 3DMF meta file format, with free available parser.
• Support for Level of Detail switching.
• Plug-in renders.
• Support for Power Macintosh hardware and Windows 95/NT on Pentium PCs.

More info and a demo can be found on the Quickdraw 3D 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 .

18.01.1996 RenderWare

01.01.1995

RW is a portable 3D API for DOS, Windows, Mac and X11-Windows by Criterion Software Ltd.

• Z-buffer and scanline renderer
• Multiple colored lightsources (distant, point and spot lights)
• Multiple cameras.
• Gouraud lighted, dithered, transparent, perspective texturemapping.
• Animated textures and environment mapping.
• Object picking.
• Materials support.
• 3D sprites.
• Backdrop images.
• Depth cueing.
• Support for graphics accelerator cards like the GLINT chip.
• Support for stereo glasses and headsets.
• DFX, 3DS and VRML converters.
• 900 pages documentation

More info on the Criterion Software Ltd Homepage.
RenderWare FTP Some RW-Demos: ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de
A demo of Meme (Multitasking Extensible Messaging Environment) that uses the RenderWare API is available via the Immersive Systems Homepage.

06.11.1995 Virtus

01.01.1995

VW is a real-time 3-D rendering and "walk through" engine for Macintosh and Windows from Virtus Corporation.

• Perspective texture mapping.
• Transparency.
• Dithered flatshading.
• Modelling and editing tools.
• Freeware "Virtus Player" to share 3-D models with clients, colleagues, friends and family who don't have VWP software.
• VRML support is planned.

More information and demo versions on the Virtus Homepage.

16.06.1995 VReam

01.01.1995

VREAM is a complete solution for developing virtual worlds. It runs on standard PC platforms.

• Monoscopic and stereoscopic rendering
• World and object editor.
• Support for 3D input and output devices, like gloves, trackers and HMDs.
• Hierarchical objects with attributes like sound, motion, penetrability, throwability, weight and elasticity.
• Complex interactive cause and effect relationships.
• 1000 pages documentation
• Script language, no programming interface.

More information about VREAM, VRCreator and the WIRL VRML viewer for Windows (that uses the Reality Lab rendering engine...) is available on the VREAM Homepage.

02.05.1997 3D with Hoops: Build Interactive 3D Graphics into your C++ Applications

02.05.1997

3DWH is a book (ISBN: 0-201-87025-8) from Wm Leler and Jim Merry that contains a CD rom with the HOOPS library for all supported platforms ( Windows 3.1/NT, Mac, X11-Windows on Silicon Graphics, HP, IBM RS/6000, Sun Sparc and DEC OSF/1).

10.01.1997 Graph3D (Link Problems!)

01.01.1995

The Graph3D library supports Gouraud shading, color dithering, good support for a range of color palettes (i.e. 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit color), and support for the MSDL scene file format. It is written in C++ for maximum portability. The engine runs under X11-Windows and MacOs. The full source is available at ftp.math.ohio-state.edu or via the homepage of the author Greg Ferrar.

11.12.1995 HOOPS

06.11.1995

HOOPS is a commerical 3D API from Ithaca Software, which was bought by Autodesc Inc a few years back.

• Windows 3.1/NT, Mac, X11-Windows on Silicon Graphics, HP, IBM RS/6000, Sun Sparc and DEC OSF/1 .
• Flat, gouraud, phong and silhoutte mode.
• Fast software z-buffer.
• Display, printer and plotter support.
• Support for hardware acceleration boards.
• Object database management.
• HDI (Heidi, Hoops Device Interface) is used for 3D Studio Max under Windows NT and in AutoCAD R13c3.
• Easy to programm.

Contact:1001 Marina Village Parkway, Alemeda, CA 94501
More info on the Hoops Homepage of Tech Soft.

06.06.1997 Pfhorte

31.10.1996

Pfhorte is a map editor for the Marathon game with integrated 3D viewer for Macintosh computers from Steve Israelson (steve_israelson@mindlink.net)

• Non orthogonal walls.
• Floor and ceiling texture mapping with MIP-mapping.
• Translucent textures.
• Depth cueing.
• Map editor available.

Some more information, screenshots and documentation, the source and binaries can be found on the Pfhorte Homepage.

10.02.1997 3D Engine

10.02.1997

3D Engine is a 3D game engine for Macintosh computers from Steve Israelson (steve_israelson@mindlink.net)

• Non orthogonal walls.
• 256x256 textures with MIP-mapping.
• Moving platforms.
• Dynamic lighting.
• Depth cueing.
• Sprites.
• Map editor available.

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

27.12.1996 Fear

15.07.1996

Fear is a doom engine from Gyro Gearloose ( gyro@blarg.net ).

• Non orthogonal walls.
• Floor and ceiling texture mapping.
• No depth cueing or fogging.
• 2D BSP support.
• Support for DOOM WAD files.
• DOS and Macintosh suport.

The demo,source and some more pictures can be found on the File Area of Gyro Gearloose.

23.11.1995 Final

01.01.1995

Final is the final project of Peter Mattis (petm@soda.csua.berkeley.edu). The engine is written in portable ANSI C and was tested with a Apple Macintosh and X11-Windows on HP's and Sun SparcStation.

• Gouraud shading and depth shading.
• Collision detection between objects and walls.
• Support for true 3D objects instead of sprites.
• Support for 8 and 24 Bits.

More info, the source and textures can be found on the Homepage of Peter Mattis or in the Final Readme .

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.

12.02.1997 BSP Tree Sample

12.02.1997

The BTS is the companion source code to the BSP Tree FAQ of Bretton Wade ( bwade@qualia.com ) .

• BSP rendering of unshaded polygons.
• Support for Mac and Windows 95.

The source can be found on ftp.sgi.com.

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.

01.01.1995 Gossammer

01.01.1995

Gossamer is a flatshading engine for the Macintosh. The engine can be found on freebsd.cdrom.com .

22.04.1997 Matt's Fract

22.04.1997

Matt's Fract is a landscape engine for Macintosh computers by Matt Dawson (Misc1666@csc.canterbury.ac.nz).

• No interpolation between voxels.
• Y-Rotation and translation.
• Randomly generated landscape.
• Support for 8 bit displays.
• C source.

The source can be found on fractals section of the Math Archives.

21.04.1997 Map

21.04.1997

Map is a landscape engine for Macintosh computers by Ingemar Ragnemalm (ingemar@lysator.liu.se).

• No interpolation between voxels.
• Y-Rotation and translation.
• Support for 8 bit displays.
• Support for 68K and PPC.
• Pascal source.

The source can be found at ftp.lysator.liu.se or via the Programing Homepage of Ingemar Ragnemalm .

18.01.1996 Flight through / around Clouds

04.01.1996

FTAC is a landscape engine from Kiselyov Oleg (oleg@pobox.com).

• Mac and X11-Windows port using XVT/Motif GUI engine.
• Conversion of IR satellite pictures of land/sea (partially) covered with clouds into heightfield.
• Fractal generation of random heightfield.
• C++ source.
• Heightfield with interpolation.
• Rotation and translation.
• No sky texturemapping.

The source and more information can be found on the FTAC 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.