3D Engines List Solaris This list contains 18 Solaris rendering engines.

04.04.2000 JavaGL

04.04.2000

JavaGL is a pure Java implementation of a subset of OpenGL from Robin Bing-Yu Chen ( robin@nis-lab.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp ).

• Shaded, perspective texture mapping
• Support for glaux
• Display list support

More information, the library and documentaion can be found on the JavaGL 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.

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.

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.

28.05.1999 RightSpace

28.05.1999

RightSpace is a CAD application based on Java3D from from Andrei Cioroianu (andcio@hotmail.com).

• Unlit, perspective texture mapping
• Gouraud shading and wire-frame
• Different light types
• 3D DXF import/export, 2D DXF to 3D objects conversion
• Standard primitives
• Support for Windows 95/98/NT and Solaris using JDK 1.2 and Java3D 1.1.1 (OpenGL version)
• Object and scene editor with multiple views
• Written in Java

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the Java Developer's Page

12.01.1999 Java3D

12.01.1999

The Java 3DTM 1.1 API is a set of classes for writing three-dimensional graphics applications and 3D applets from Sun Microsystems.

• Uses OpenGL as rendering core, DirectX and QuickDraw3D versions will be available
• 2 and 3D textures, MIP-mapping
• Scene graph management
• Collision detection
• Interpolators
• Support for geometry compression
• LOD management
• Hierarchical objects
• 3D audio support
• 6 DOF input device support
• Behavior modeling
• Network support
• Support for Windows NT/95 or Solaris SPARC.
• Java API

More information, the library and documentaion can be found on the Java 3D 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.

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 .

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.

21.03.1997 3dGen (Link Problem!)

16.11.1995

3DGen is a 3D Games Engine by Michael L. Lewis ( mlewis@ny.ubs.com).

• Perspective corrected texture mapping.
• Realtime light shading of texture maps.
• Z-buffer rendering.
• Object instancing.
• 3D morphing of objects.
• 3D collision detection.
• Fogging and hazing.
• Multi-resolution objects (LOD switching).
• Support for 3D-Studio ASC files.
• ANSI C code.
• Support for X11-Windows.

More information and screenshots can be found on the Homepage of Michael L. Lewis. For a demo, contact the autor via email.

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.

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.

22.12.1999 PHIGS

22.12.1999

PHIGS is a standard 3D graphics API for the workstation market.

• Gouraud and flat shaded triangles
• Depth cueing
• Z-buffer rendering
• Primitive picking
• Nurbs support
• Transparency
• C, C++ and Fortran bindings

More information can be found on the PHIGS Page of TGS.

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.

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.

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.