3D Engines List Windows This list contains 288 Windows rendering engines.

23.06.2000 TechNature Library

22.09.1999

The TechNature(tm) Library is a commercial game engine for Windows 95/98 written by David Paull( david@tanzanite.to ).

• Perspective texture mapping
• MIP mapping
• Multi-texturing
• Bump mapping
• Detail mapping
• Gouraud shading
• ZBuffer rendering
• Support for DirectX 6.0, and higher
• Spherical reflections
• Constructive solid geometry
• Collision detection
• Landscape rendering
• Mesh optimization
• Randomly generated landscape geometry
• Randomly generated tree geometry
• Fractal mathematics library
• Procedural textures ( Coriolis effect, Contour lines, Strata layers,...)
• 3D Studio MAX .ASE model loader
• Written in C and Assembly

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

23.06.2000 JunkRender

28.01.1998

JR is a 3D engine for Win32, Java and DOS from tAAt (tAAt@mail.com).

• Fast texture mapping (perspective, shaded)
• 3D Studio .3DS File Loader and JunkRender .JR Scenery Format with LZSS Compression
• File Library System
• Custom Procedural Textures
• Texture Cache Optimization
• Custom particle systems
• Custom Post-processing Effects (e.g. Motion Blur and Cartoon Rendering)
• Simulated Volume Lighting
• Interactive Test Suite
• Written in Java and C

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

12.05.2000 Miracle 3D

22.12.1999

Miracle 3D is a Windows 3D engine from Damir Sagidullin ( _spider@mail.ru ).

• Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
• Support for OpenGL
• Portal rendering with BSPs
• Dynamic RGB lights
• Dynamic mirrors
• Lens flares
• Software rendering
• Mip mapping
• Transparent objects
• Moving objects
• Animated water
• Volume fog
• Fractal textures
• Collision detection
• Console

The demo can be found on the Miracle 3D Homepage.

12.05.2000 pixelbase

02.02.2000

pixelbase is a commercial 3D engine for Windows from Engin Cilasun ( engin@pixelbase.net ) and Attila Uygun ( ati@pixelbase.net ).

• Multitexturing OR Two-pass texturing using OpenGL
• Support for Direct3D
• Soft Body Dynamics
• Lens flares
• Plugin mechanism for great extensibility
• Custom model editor with surface unfold capability
• LightWave plugin for model import/export to our editor
• Realtime shadows (needs HW stencil buffer support)
• Metallic surfaces
• Particle systems
• Physics system
• Compiled scripting with realtime bytecode interpreter
• External script compiler
• Support for shaders (like metal&rust)

More information and screenshots can be found on the Pixelbase Homepage

12.05.2000 Dark Basic Engine

12.05.2000

Dark Basic Engine is a 3D engine for Windows built into the Dark Basic programming language from Dark Basic Software.

• Shaded, perspective texture mapping
• Support for Direct 3D
• Alphablending and transparency
• Texture filtering
• Fogging
• Model loading and animation
• Collision detection
• Support for BMP textures

More information, screenshots, demos and a trial version of the programming language can be found on the Dark Basic Homepage.

12.05.2000 Xeios

12.05.2000

Xeios is a commercial 3D engine for Windows and Playstation 2 from AiCube Co.

• Shaded, perspective texture mapping
• Mip mapping
• Bump mapping
• Environment mapping
• Multipass rendering
• Scene graph support
• Fogging
• Deformable meshes (Skinning, Bones, Envelopes)
• Key framed animation
• Converters for Maya, Softimage, Lightwave and 3D Studio Max
• Particle system
• Support for custom shaders

More information can be found on the AiCube Homepage.

27.04.2000 Titan Engine

27.04.2000

The Titan Engine is a 3D engine for Windows from Ignacio Castaño Aguado, José Luis Fernández Rueda, Gabriel Rodríguez Alberich and Julio César Espada Rodrígue ( titan@talika.fie.us.es ).

• Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
• Support for OpenGL
• Curved surfaces
• BSP rendering
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS files
• Support for Quake3 bsp files
• Real-time skeleton deformations
• Dynamic mesh resolution
• Keyframed animations
• Support for shader script language which allows procedural vertex deformations and multiple texturing stages, with different blending modes and rendering states
• Port to linux is beeing done

More information, screenshots, a demo and the source for an older version (called Nemesis) can be found on the Titan Project Homepage.

27.04.2000 Experience Engine

27.04.2000

The Experience Engine is a 3D engine for Direct X7 from The Whole Experience, Inc.

• Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
• Multi-textureing (Bump, detail and diffuse textures)
• Cube enironment mapping
• Support for texture compression
• Transparency
• Support for hardware transformation and lighting
• Automatic tessellation of NURBS objects with full UV support
• Bones/Cluster-based animation (single-mesh)
• Hierarchical animation (multi-mesh)
• Per-vertex color (can affect textures) and per-vertex transparency
• Surface material support
• Vertex lighting (8 most important lights per vertex using T&L hardware)
• Different light types (point, spot, directional, ambient)
• 3D sound
• Special effects (lightning, sparcs, rain, dynamic day/night changes, moving clouds)
• Particle effects (for smoke, fire, water and other vapor and magical effects)
• Real-time geometry warping (for extremely realistic water)
• Dynamic scene culling
• Export from Alias Power Animator or Maya

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

27.04.2000 ENG32

26.01.1999

ENG32 is a Windows 3D engine from Harald Nowak ( ishn@infrasoft.co.at ).

• Perspective, gouraud shaded texture mapping
• Support for hardware accelerated Direct3D only
• Transparent and animated surfaces
• RGB lighting with shadows (but no shadow maps)
• Flashing/flickering lights
• BSP rendering with limited portal capability
• Polygon based leveleditor
• Support for switch scripts, switched sounds
• WAV and MIDI music
• 3D characters (imported from 3D Studio Max)
• Particle system
• Enhanced API

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on Harald Nowak's Homepage.

27.04.2000 Orion3D

27.04.2000

Orion3D is a 3D engine for Windows 95/98 from Gabriel Peyré ( nikopol0@club-internet.fr ).

• Shaded, perspective texture mapping
• Support for OpenGL
• Mip mapping
• Fog effect
• Static lights
• Hierarchical objects with animation
• Support for bmp textures
• Support for 3D Studio Max via export plugin
• C++ source for Visual Studio

More information, the OrionViewer and source to the Orion3D engine can be found on the french Orion3D Homepage.

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.

25.04.2000 Beam Engine

02.02.2000

The Beam Engine is a 3D engine for Windows from Tobias Johansson ( tobias_johansson@mailcity.com ).

• Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
• Support for Direct 3D
• Mipmapping, created by engine to save diskspace
• Lightmapping with raytraced lighting
• Gouraud shaded/Environmentmapped objects
• Collision detection
• Loading of ASC, BMM and MAP files
• Coronas
• Particles, with nice physics
• Octree subdivision
• Simple scripting
• C++ source

More information, screenshots, a demo and the source can be found on the PolyGone Homepage

25.04.2000 Hurricane

25.04.2000

Hurricane is a 3D engine for Windows 98 from marc Salmurri ( marc.salmurri@upcnet.es ).

• Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
• Support for OpenGL
• Static and dynamic per pixel omnidirectional direct lighting
• Static shadows
• Colored lighting
• MIP mapping
• Support for 3DStudio MAX 2 ASE files
• Written in C++

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

12.04.2000 Legus3D

23.03.1998

Legus3D (former LEGUS Virtual Reality System) is a commercial real-time rendering engine for PCs from Branimir Karadzic ( karadzic@eunet.yu ).

• Binary space partitioning (BSP) and potential visible sets (PVS).
• Object hierarchies.
• Object morphing.
• Fog/depth cueing.
• Keyframing (objects, lights and camera).
• Shadow volume (lightmap, surface or polygon).
• Dynamic lighting (with shadows).
• Volumetric lighting.
• Material (ambient, diffuse, specular, alpha blending, transparent texture).
• Mip mapping.
• Animated texture support.
• Animated mesh support.
• Collision detection (sphere, cylinder or box).
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS, Lightware LWO, Quake MD2 and LucasArts 3DO objects.
• Support for Quake1 BSP world files.
• Solid fill, texture mapping (affine or perspective corrected), enviroment mapping, bump mapping, 2D sprites.
• Sub-pixel and sub-texel accuracy.
• Bilinear filtering.
• Alpha blending.
• Z-buffer.
• Transparent texture.
• Filters: smooth, bilinear antialiasing, blur motion.
• 256 color, 15/16bit highcolor and 24/32bit true color modes.
• Support for OpenGL, Direct3D and software rendering
• Scene graph support
• Mirrors and portals
• Particle and special effects system
• Written in C/ASM.

More information, screenshots and demos can be found on the Legus 3D Homepage.

12.04.2000 Genesis 3D

11.08.1998

G3D is a commercial 3D game SDK from Eclipse Entertainment.

• Lightmapped perspective texture mapping
• Animated textures, procedural water textures
• Translucent textures
• Texture morphing
• Dynamic shadows
• Light diffraction
• Multiple colored light
• Fog.
• Vertex morphing
• Real time water surface distortion
• Real time light diffraction
• Mirrors
• Integrated rigid body physics simulation support for world objects
• Hierarchical and seamless, soft-skin polygonal characters
• Support for 3DS MAX animation files
• LOD support
• Area portals allow selective rendering of world geometry
• Software rasterizer, 3DFX Glide, and D3D support
• Open scripting API
• Level editor
• 3D sound positioning and attenuation
• Support for network streaming of geometry, animations and textures ( Hollywood 3D )
• OpenSource distribution

More information, screenshots, the SDK and some demos can be found on Genesis 3D Homepage.

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 .

12.04.2000 Fly3D

04.08.1998

Fly3D is a 3D engine for Windows by Fabio Policarpo ( fabio@paralelo.com.br ).

• Single front-end app supporting OpenGL (1.1) / Direct3D (DirextX 6.1) windowed / full-screen
• Editor for .fly files with realtime preview in windows explorer style
• Support for plugin dlls (make new games just writing new plugins)
• Visual C++ wizard for making fly3d plugins
• Perspective shaded texture mapping
• Static and dynamic lightmaps
• Dynamic shadows and soft-shadows, dynamic lightmap shadows
• Stencil buffer shadows support
• Dynamic volumetric fog with fogmaps
• Detail textures
• Curved bezier extrudes and lofts with lightmaps
• BSP/PSV rendering
• Transparency
• Volumetric fog using fogmaps
• Cartoon rendering
• Faster collision detection
• Adaptative subdivided bezier surfaces (extrude and loft)
• Multiplayer support
• Server frontend for client/server multiplayer
• Client/server playable deathmatch demo
• 3D sound support
• Lighting tool for static level lighting
• PVS tool for computing visibility
• 3DS MAX bsp import/export, texture mapping and landscape object plugins
• Fly3d plugins (jumppads, fogsphere, fogbox, ...) and sample level (q3test2 clone)
• Quake2 level converter
• Quake3 level import utility (geometry, textures and curved surfaces)
• Data files packing
• Particle systems
• Console window, also for server frontend
• Written in C++ (Visual C++ 5.0)
• Complete SDK with source code for all demo plugins

More information, screenshots, the sdk and a demos can be found on the Fly3D Homepage .
The engine will be featured in the book 3D Computer Game Technology - Theory and Practice from Alan Watt and Fabio Policarpo (Addion Wesley).

12.04.2000 !3D Morfit 3D Engine SDK

15.01.1999

The !3D Morfit 3D Engine SDK is a free SDK for Windows 95 from Morfit Ltd that allows to build 3D games and applications.

• Perspective, shaded texture mapping
• Transparency
• Lens-Flares
• Fogging
• Support for OpenGL, Direct3D and Glide
• Landscape rendering
• Mirrors
• Hierarchical objects
• Converter for 3D Studio Max 3.1 and Quake MD2
• Support for Borland C++ and Visual C++ 6
• World and Terrain builder

More information, screenshots, demos and the SDK can be found on the Morfit 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

10.04.2000 LOD

10.04.2000

The LOD engine is landscape 3D for Windows using OpenGL from Nicholas Anderson ( n.anderson@eidosnet.co.uk ).

• Shaded, perspective texture mapping
• Implementation of the paper [IMMD9] "Real-Time Generation of Continuous Levels of Detail for Height Fields" from S. Rottger, W. Heidrich, P. Slusallek, H. Seidel
• Support for bmp textures

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

07.04.2000 Quake 3 Map Viewer

07.04.2000

The Q3MV is a 3D engine for DirectX 7 from Xavi Albors ( smiker@teleline.es ).

• Multitextured, perspective mapping
• Transparency
• MipMapping
• Support blend, alpha, color vertex and animated textures
• Support for 16 bit graphics modes
• BSP support with collision detection
• Loads Quake3 bsp files with meshes and shaders
• Optimized for GeForce

More information, screenshots and the binary can be found on Smiker's Homepage.

07.04.2000 gxRealityEngine

07.04.2000

The gxRealityEngine is a 3D engine for Windows 95/98 from Lightcube Technologies.

• Multitextured, perspective mapping
• Support for Glide, Direct3D and OpenGL
• Object-oriented design with component model
• Multithreading support
• Scripting support
• Particle systems
• Physics system
• 3D sound support

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

07.04.2000 TwoQ2viewer

07.04.2000

The TwoQ2viewer is a Quake2 level viewer for Windows from Emmanuel Rivoire ( manutoo@imaginet.fr ).

• Lightmapped, perspective mapping
• Support for DirectX 6
• BSP rendering

More information, screenshots and the demo can be found on TwoQ2viewer Homepage.

07.04.2000 Aised

07.04.2000

The Aised is a landscape rendering engine for Windows from Emmanuel Rivoire ( manutoo@imaginet.fr ).

• Multitextured, perspective mapping
• Support for DirectX 6
• 3D objects
• Sky mapping

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

04.04.2000 Basic3D

04.04.2000

Basic3D is a 3D engine for Windows from Matthieu Gazin ( Matthieu.Gazin@wanadoo.fr ).

• Lightmapped perspective texture mapping
• MIP-mapping
• Colored dynamic lights
• BSP/ZBuffer rendering
• Collision detection
• Support for OpenGL
• Polygonal objects
• Particles and sprites
• Movable BSP models
• Suport for Quake 2 data
• Suport model/animation of MD2 model

More information and a demo can be found via the (french) Homepage of Matthieu Gazin under projects/Basic3D SDK.

04.04.2000 X3D Engine

04.04.2000

The X3D engine is a commercial 3D engine from 4X Technologies.

• Multitextured, perspective mapping
• C++ scene graph API
• Support for PC 3dcards via DirectX, support for Dreamcast and Playstation 2
• Animation controllers as in 3DS max
• High level culling
• LOD support
• Portal rendering
• Collision detection
• Atmospheric effects
• Direct 3DS Max export

More information and some demo can be found on the 4X Technologies Homepage.

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.

04.04.2000 !B

05.08.1998

!B is an isosurface based 3D engine from Florin Soreanu (florin@ica.net).

• Perspective shaded texture mapping using OpenGL.
• Mip mapping.
• Environment mapping.
• Blob rendering with Marching Cubes Algorithm.
• Surface underwater caustics.
• LOD support.
• Dynamic lighting.
• Fogging.
• Portable code.
• Written in C++, source release planned.

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

04.04.2000 IS Engine

04.04.2000

The IS engine is a small 3D engine for Windows using OpenGL from Matthew Fairfax ( mfairfa@clemson.edu ).

• Shaded, perspective texture mapping
• Static, predetermined lights
• Simple map

More information, binary and the source can be found on the IS Engine Homepage.

25.02.2000 TextEngine

25.02.2000

The TextEngine_ is a commercial rendering engine for Direct3D written by David Paull ( david@tanzanite.to ).

• Highly optimized antialiased text rendering.
• Kerning, or cell based placement.
• Colored text, and shading.
• Real time re-scaling of text.
• Pop up boxes, and pull down menus.
• File, and directory display.
• Text can be mixed with 3d objects.
• Text can be manipulated using 6DOF.
• 16, or 24 bit rendering.
• Written in C, and assembly.
• DirectX 6.0 or higher.

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the Tanzanite 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 Sonata

23.02.2000

Sonata is a 3D landscape rendering engine for Windows from Kien ( kien@post.com ).

• Support for OpenGL
• Fractal landscape generation, real-time continuous polygon rendering
• Bilinear texture-mapping
• Sky texture mapping
• Support for Wavefront objects
• Collision detection
• DirectSound/DirectMusic support
• Written in MS Visual C++

More information and a demo can be found on the Sonata 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.

11.02.2000 3D Rad

21.08.1998

3D Rad is a 3D game creator for Windows from Studio Bitplane.

• Perspective, shaded texture mapping
• Support for DirectX 6_0
• Multiple split-screen ability
• 3D sound
• Dynamic colored lights
• Advanced kinematics effects
• Collision detection.
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS models.
• Support for sprites.
• Scripting support.
• Multiple level support.
• Scene editor and scene compiler.

More information, screenshots, some demo games and a demo version of the 3D game creator can be found on the 3D Rad Homepage .

11.02.2000 Blaxxun Contact 3D

11.02.2000

Blaxxun Contact 3D is an OpenSource VRML 97 Viewer from Blaxxun Interactive.

• Support for OpenGL and Direct3D
• VRML 97 and VRML 2_0 EAI support, Javascript support
• Streaming Video support
• Trimmed NURBS extension
• MIP-mapping and trilinear texture filtering
• Sorted alpha blended transparency
• Anti-Aliasing
• Scene graph support
• Collision detection
• 3D sound
• BSP tree support
• ActiveX Control and standalone Version
• VRML node editor in the standalone GLview application
• C++ source with Documentation

More information about the Blaxxun Contact 3D Viewer can be found on the Blaxxun Contact Developers Homepage, the source and documentation can be found on the Blaxxun Contact 3D Source Homepage.

09.02.2000 Tumladen

09.02.2000

Tumladen is a script based 3D engine for Windows from Alex Busygin ( abdevelop@hotmail.com ).

• Unshaded, prespective texture mapping
• Support for OpenGL
• Support for TGA textures
• Camera with mouse and keyboard control

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

08.02.2000 QLeVe

08.02.2000

QLeVe is a Quake II level viewer for Windows from Claudiu Marinescu ( cobra_studios@yahoo.com ).

• Lightmapped perspective texture mapping
• MIP-mapping
• BSP rendering
• Precomputed PVS culling of leaves, dynamic PVS culling of nodes
• Animated textures
• There is also a version with gouraud shading instead of lightmapping
• Written in Delphi
• Support for Glide

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found via the Cobra Studios Homepage

08.02.2000 Ram Raider

07.06.1999

Ram Raider is a 3D game engine from Head Tapper Software.

• Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping
• Coloured dynamic specular lighting
• Colour key and alpha Transparency
• Seperate map editor, and map compiler
• Supports 16bit colours
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS, Quake 2 MD2 models
• Collision detection
• Uses Direct3D Immediate mode - DirectX7
• Sound using Direct Sound
• Cell based maps for very large map areas
• Fogging - depth based, vertex fog
• Multiplayer mode ( TCP/IP ) using Direct Play, operates in Server / Client mode
• Keyboard, Joystick, steering wheel and pedals input using Direct Input
• Written in C++ for Visual C++ 6.0

More information and screenshots can be found on the Ram Raiders 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 GEL

04.02.2000

GEL is an open source virtual reality system from UR Studios, 7F Research, Qube, Headlamp, ParallelGraphics, Mutation Labs and other contributors.

• Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping
• Adaptive nurbs tesselation
• Network support
• Scene graph support
• Support for DirectX and OpenGL
• Currently support platforms are: Windows NT/ 98 / 2000
• Portable C++ source

More information, screenshots and the source can be found on the GEL Community 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 Radiance

22.12.1999

Radiance is a (work in progress) rendering engine for Windows from Kyle Kestell ( kkestell@uswest.net ).

• Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
• Support for OpenGL
• Simple cube scene with TGA texture
• C source

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

02.02.2000 E-mersion

02.02.2000

E-mersion is technology project from Willem H. de Boer ( whdeboer@iname.com ). It's a collection of separate modules which can be linked together to make many different 3D engines.

• Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
• Point/area lightsource lightmapping
• Bilinear filtering
• Alpha blending
• 3DS MAX mesh support
• Real-time dynamic blinn/phong-lighting
• Support for hemispherical environment-mapping
• Terrain system with smart level of detail method
• Fully modifiable lensflare system
• Extended sky rendering system (supports animated clouds)
• Scene graph world visibility-system
• Animated sprite/billboarding management system
• Fully extendable particle system
• Built on DirectX 7.0
• Written in 100 % C++, fully OOP

More information and screenshots can be found on the E-mersion Homepage

02.02.2000 Grain Engine

02.02.2000

The Grain Engine is a 3D engine for Windows from Kurt Miller ( kurt@flipcode.com ).

• Lightmapped perspective texture mapping
• Static RGB Lightmaps
• Real-time LOD bezier surfaces
• Octree-Enhanced collision detection
• Sprites, Fonts, Special Effects
• Direct X 7.0 Support (Plugin Architecture)

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on The Grain Engine Homepage

02.02.2000 OpenGL

06.09.1995

OpenGL® 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.

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.

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

02.02.2000 Caladan

02.02.2000

Caladan is an OpenGL landscape engine for Windows by Nicholas Anderson ( ceenda@cee.hw.ac.uk ).

• Perspective texture mapping
• Fogging
• Sky mapping
• Polygonal objects
• Support for 3D Studio ASC files

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found via the Homepage of Nicholas Anderson.

23.12.1999 Purgatory

23.12.1999

Purgatory is a 3d pc engine for Windows by Marco Corbetta (ivy_mantled@yahoo.com , marcoc@prograph.it)

• Perspective lightmapped texture mapping
• BSP/PVS rendering
• Support for textures and models from Quake 3 Arena
• Realtime textured bezier tessellation and animation with LOD
• Electric fx effect on models like Q3 Arena
• Addictive lens flares
• Lens fade out ala Unreal
• Bitmaps animation
• Use OpenGL extension (multitexturing and lock arrays)
• Bezier sky with multiple transparency
• Semi-transparent Bezier surfaces
• Written in VC++ 6.0

More information,screenshots and a demo can be found at the Purgatory Homepage.

23.12.1999 Quake 1

23.12.1999

ID Software's lead programmer John Carmack has released the full source code of Quake, including the WinQuake, GLQuake, QuakeWorld, and GLQuakeWorld versions.

• Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
• Transparency and alpha textures
• Support for OpenGL
• BSP and PVS support
• Surface caching
• Hierarchical polygonal models
• Particle systems
• Collision detection
• Dynamic lights
• Multiplayer network support
• Sound support
• Console
• The C/ASM source for Visual C++ 6 is under GPL (gnu public license)

The source is available at the Q1 Source Download 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 Jet 3D

22.12.1999

Jet 3D is a commercial OpenSource 3D graphics engine from Eclipse Entertainment.

• Lightmapped perspective texture mapping
• Radiosity lighting
• Dynamic shadows
• Dynamic RGB lights
• Dynamic fog
• Dynamic mirror
• Dynamic water effects
• Animated textures, procedural textures
• Portal rendering
• Translucent rendering
• Spherically mapped sky
• Seamless soft-skin polygonal characters
• 3D sound support
• 3D editor
• Support for Glide, Direct 3D and software rendering
• Physics system
• Network support
• Collision detection
• Multiple renders from different cameras can be mixed in a single frame
• OpenSource distribution

More information, screenshots and the source can be found on the Jet 3D Homepage.

22.12.1999 Twister

28.09.1999

Twister is a "Quake-style" 3D engine for Windows by Stefano Lanza ( steflanz@tin.it ).

• Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
• BSP rendering
• Multiple cameras
• Mirrors
• Particle systems
• Quake II .bsp support
• Quake II model support
• S-buffer rendering
• Dynamic colored lightmaps
• Volumetric fog
• Support for Quake 2 models
• Direct3D acceleration
• Console
• Visual C++ 5.0 source

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

22.12.1999 zViewer

09.02.1999

zViewer is the second 3D engine being written by Dan Royer (aggravated@bigfoot.com) and Tauno T. Taipaleenmaki (tataipal@mail.student.oulu.fi).

• Perspective multitextured Z-Buffered rendering (mipmapping has been disabled in the latest version, though support exists)
• BSP rendering of leaf- and node-based trees. Portal rendering planned
• CSG addition and subtraction operators to build complex worlds
• Support for DirectX 7.0 andOpenGL 1.1
• Precalculated Potentially Visible Set to increase rendering speed
• Precalculated color radiosity lightmaps
• DirectInput for keyboard and mouse movement
• Support for hierarchial object modelling
• In-game console and user definded key bindings
• 100% C++ built in Microsoft Developer Studio for the Windows 9x and Windows 2K platforms
• Next update to include additinal OpenGL support

More information and a demo can be found via the Homepage of Dan Royer in the zViewer/zEditor section.

22.12.1999 GFX4D

22.12.1999

GFX4D is a Glide 3D engine from Ondrej Kollar (andygfx@gtinet.sk), Peter Popvec and Paval Lesnak.

• Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
• Animated textures
• Alpha textures and chromakeying
• Mip mapping
• Bilinear texture filtering
• Lens flares
• Mirrors
• Skybox
• Colored fog
• Translucent textures
• Spline patches
• BSP/C-Block/PVS optimalisation
• Support for TrueSpace and 3DSMax objects
• Particle system
• Support for Glide
• Force feedback support

More information and screenshots can be found on the GFX4D 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.

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 .

22.12.1999 Poly Nova

03.09.1999

Poly Nova is a Windows 95/98 3D engine from Chris Raynor of Novasoft Consulting.

• Support for Direct3D (7.0 )
• Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping
• Dynamic realtime colored lighting
• Z-Buffer support
• Support for ambient/directional and point light sources
• Collision detection
• Scene manager
• Floating point math
• C++ source for Visual C++

More information, screenshots, executables and the source can be found on the Poly Nova Homepage

22.12.1999 Gameforge

22.12.1999

Gameforge is a Glide 3D engine from Bernhard Kotzenberg, Petrus Viljoen, Carl de Jager ( info@gameforge.com ).

• Perspective texture mapping
• Texture filtering
• Animated textures
• LOD support
• Anti aliasing
• Landscape rendering
• Support for Glide hardware rendering
• EAX 3D sound

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

09.11.1999 MGRage

09.11.1999

MGRage is a 3D engine for Windows from Sebastien Chemin ( nanotech@club-internet.fr ).

• Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
• Support for DirectX 7
• Multitextureing
• Environment mapping
• Portal and BSP rendering
• Dynamic RGB light sourceing
• Lens flares
• Particle systems
• Mirrors
• Z-Buffer and W-Buffer support
• Hierarchical models

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

09.11.1999 Heidi

09.11.1999

Hidi is a 3D rendering archicture for PCs from Autodesc Inc.

• Gouraud shaded, texture mapping
• Support for OpenGL, D3D and often direct hardware-driver support from 3D card vendors
• Transparency
• Dynamically loaded renderers
• Point, directional, spot and ambient lights
• Multiple views
• Support for Visual C++

More information and the SDK can be found on the Heidi SDK Homepage. The Heide documentation is at www.autodesk.com/heididg/index.html.

29.10.1999 Nectar Engine

11.11.1998

The Nectar Engine is a real-time commercial 3D engine for Windows 95 from Jerome Lanquetot ( jlanquetot@hoplandbros.com).

• RGB lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
• Realtime shadow casting ( with shadow volume )
• Single mesh deformation with skeletton animation, motion capture, motion blending
• Realtime RGB lighting (Omni, directional )
• Very efficient visibility determination
• Advanced quaternion, matrix, spline and vector math libraries
• Support for LOD models
• Lens flares and particles system
• Collision detection system ( sphere, box, faces )
• Portal and anti-portals rendering
• Software renderer
  • Support for 16 bit Directdraw
  • Z-sorting and s-buffer rendering
  • Perspective correct texture mapping
  • RGB gouraud
  • RGB fog
  • Sub-pixel /-texel accuracy
  • MIP-mapping
  • Alpha-blending and transparency
• Volumetric fog
• Support for Direct3D version 6.1 ( Tnt, Voodoo/Voodoo2 , G200, ATI Rage 128 )
• Support for 3Dfx Voodoo/Voodoo2
• Support for OpenGL
• Very adaptive engine based on drivers, new native api can easily be supported.
• Import of Kinetix 3DS Max scenes and Newtek Lightwave .lwo object and scene files, Maya scenes ( groups, mesh, cameras, lights,animation, materials )
• Support for RAR, ARJ, JPG, TGA, PCX, 3DF texture files
• IE and Netscape 4+ plugin for a use on internet
• 3DS Max preview plugin
• Integrated terminal
• Developped with Visual C++ 6.0

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

29.10.1999 Exist

29.10.1999

Exist is a 3D Game Engine for Windows from Mike Fricker (mfricker@sprint.ca).

• Direct3D and OpenGL support
• Color lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
• Detail mapping
• Advanced material system with powerful multi-texture blending and animation capabilities
• Curved surfaces with collision detection, and dynamically tessellated via current framerate and level-of-detail
• 32-bit textures, and support for textures larger than 256x256
• Dynamic lighting
• Level editor
• Physics simulator
• Advanced client / server based networking engine, with client-side prediction and server-side extrapolation
• Support for 3D Studio MAX R2 models and animations
• Volumetric fog
• Hybrid BSP / portal rendering, with dynamic PVS
• 3D sound support via DirectSound3D
• Real-time mesh vertex interpolation or morphing
• Hierarchy-based model animation

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

29.10.1999 VB Revolution

29.10.1999

VB Revolution is a 3D library for Windows from Simon Theophil ( simon@nefo.de )

• Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping
• Support for DirectX and software rendering
• Z-Buffer rendering
• Texture filtering
• Colered lights
• Multi textureing (additive, subtraktive)
• Anti aliasing
• Support for DirectSound

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

18.10.1999 NBFB

13.10.1999

The NBFB Engine is a full 3D engine for DOS and Windows from Marcus Lynn ( Marcusl@CSL.COM ).

• Full API with over 300 modular functions
• Perspective correct, fullz assemblz pipelined software renderers with mid scanline mipmapping
• Support for OpenGL and 3DFX rendering
• BSP rendering
• Lightmap rendering, chrome mapping
• Z-Buffer rendering
• Dynamic lightmap lights
• Spherical volumetric fog
• Hierarchical models
• Skeletal skinned mesh and skeletal animation system
• Pixel perfect ray cast collision for BSP and objects
• Sperical collision functionality for BSPs
• Realtime level of detail on objects using Garland approach
• Multiple camera support
• Morphing system
• Cartoon rendering

More information and screenshots can be found on the Homepage of Marcus Lynn.

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

08.10.1999 Xonnel

21.08.1998

Xonnel is a 3D engine for MSDOS and Windows from Vindicator ( vindicatorh@usa.net ).

• Lightmapped perspective texture mapping.
• Mip mapping.
• Alpha transparency.
• Portal rendering.
• True colored lighting.
• True Shadows, with redefinable grid sizes through world file.
• Collision detection / sliding.
• Updated landscape rendering and improved texture structure.
• Resolution independand, support for SVGA.
• Space Warping ( name given by Crystal Space -- sounds proper ).
• Asm script language.
• Physics system.
• Basic window based portal editor.
• Particle system
• DJGPP C source code
• C Scripting builtin using seer
• GUI/Editor/console using BGui

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

08.10.1999 Bullet3D

08.10.1999

Bullet3D is a 3D library for Windows from BIll Bo ( ufbl0361@ms25.hinet.net ).

• Unshaded, perspective texture mapping
• Support for DirectX 6 and OpenGL
• Z-Buffer rendering
• BSP rendering
• 3D Studio Max Plugin
• Collision detection
• Written in C++ (Visual C++ 6.0)

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the Bullet 3D 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.

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.

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.

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 .

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 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.

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

08.08.1999 Adamantium

08.08.1999

Adamantium is a commercial 3D engine for Windows 95 from Revenant.

• Support for OpenGL
• Z-Buffer and BSP rendering
• Collision detection
• MIP mapping
• Colored dynamic lights
• Polygonal objects and 2D sprites
• Support for Quake 2 scene files
• Physics system
• Source code available

More information can be found via the Revenant 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 .

20.07.1999 PowerVB3D

20.07.1999

PVB3D is a 3D engine for Windows from by Uthman Apatira (almaroof@msn.com).

• Unshaded affine texture mapping
• Support for 8 bit display
• Wireframe, solid, gouraud, glenzing and texture mapping
• Visual Basic 6.0 source

More information, screenshots, the demo and source can be found via the Visual Basic Game Programmers Ultra Gaming GigaSite II.

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.

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.

12.07.1999 Equinox (Link Problems!)

19.05.1999

Equinox is a PC 3D engine from Marco Corbetta ( ivy_mantled@yahoo.com ).

• Unlit, perspective texture mapping
• Procedural textures with syntethical painting structure
• Z-buffer rendering
• Quadratic Bezier surfaces with LOD
• Motion blur
• Real time characther shadows
• Colored volumetric fog
• Voxel to Bezier rendering
• Support for 3D Studio .3DS files
• Support for Quake II model (.md2) with frame-interpolation
• Support for Quake I level (.bsp)
• Support for 3DFX and GLIDE 3.0
• Written in pure C

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

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

07.07.1999 MythOS

22.07.1997

MythOS is a (former commercial) OpenSource 3D library from Charybdis Enterprises done by Chuck Walbourn (chuck@charybdis.com).

• Perspective texture mapping.
• Gouraud shading.
• Z-buffer rendering.
• Hierarchical objects.
• Support for 8 and 15 bit devices with Windows 95.
• Support for 3D Studio object files, cameras, lights and materials.
• Network support.
• C++ class library.

More information, a demo and the source can be found on the MythOS Homepage.

23.06.1999 ExcalibVR

23.06.1999

ExcalibVR is a commercial 3D API with cross-platform support from Realidad Virtual Ltda (ccorrea@rvltda.com) .

• Based on OpenGL
• Object Oriented API written in C++ (Visual C++ 5.0)
• Optimized Scene Hierarchy
• Extensible model
• Cross-platform support (although the actual version only supports Windows)
• VR devices support
• File format import options

More information can be found on the ExcalibVR Homepage

28.05.1999 6DX

28.05.1999

6DX is a commercial 3D game engine for Windows from Eldermage Entertainment Inc.

• Shaded, perspective texture mapping
• Transparent textures and overlays
• Hardware acceleration through Direct3D
• Support for 16 bit / true color rendering
• Dynamic lighting
• Particle systems
• Multiple cloud/fog planes, fogging
• Coronas/Halos on lights
• Shadows (like Heretic 2)
• Available as ActiveX and Delphi VCL
• Support for Quake scenes and editors
• Support for polygonal actors (MDL)

More information, screenshots and demos can be found on the Eldermage 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

27.05.1999 Architect III

15.07.1996

Architect III (former Geometry Box and even former Model 3DD) is a commercial Real-Time 3D development kit from Geometric Computing ( gb2@geometricom.com ).

• Lighting system including chromatic or achromatic lights, with Gouraud shading and two-pass lighting (light mapping)
• Hierarchical, dynamic lighting
• MIP-mapping
• Detail pass rendering
• Support for 3DFX Glide and Microsoft Direct3D (16, 24 and 32-bit)
• Mirrors
• Portal culling, view volume culling and hierarchical view volume culling
• Fogging
• Hierarchical objects
• Collision detection
• Physics system
• Alpha blending
• 3D Modeler with splines, csg, lathing, lofting and sweeping
• Bezier patches and height field support, real-time terrain generation.
• Texture import (Microsoft .BMP, Targa .TGA, Silicon Graphics .RGB, .RGBA, .INT and .A)
• Support for MultiGen OpenFlight .FLT, Kinetix .3DS and DirectX .X objects
• C++ API with documentation, lots of sample code
• Full c++ source code for renderer supplied (in full version)

More information and screenshots can be found on the Geometry Computing Homepage.

20.05.1999 EasyGen3D

11.08.1998

EasyGen3D is an OpenSource wrapper for the Genesis 3D library from Matthew Ellis ( matt@magmagames.com ).

• Easy setup of Genesis3D
• Easy scene setup
• Support for Gravity, Coronas, Electric bolts and dynamic lighting
• Texture loading
• C source for Visual C++ 6.0

More information and the SDK can be found on Genesis 3D Homepage.

12.05.1999 Gran3D

12.05.1999

Gran3D is a Windows 3D Engine by Kim Jeong Ju (haje01@netsgo.com) . It was designed to work seamlessly with 3D Studio Max and 3D acceleration card.

• Shaded, perspective texture mapping
• Support for DirectX 6.1
• Support for 3DS Max ASCII Export including materials and animations
• Support for multi-materials
• Support for 3DS Max bone and IK animations
• Support for Character Studio biped and physique animations
• Quake-like terrain component using BSP, Portal, PVS
• Collision detection

More information, screenshots and demos can be found on the Gran3D Homepage

22.04.1999 Glista 3D

22.04.1999

Glista 3D is a 3D engine for Windows from Milos Tosic (glista3d@hotmail.com).

• Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
• Multi texturing
• Sub-pixel and sub-texel accurate rasterising
• MIP mapping with trilinear filtering (trilinear filter supported by hardware only)
• Multiple coloured light sources (omni or directional) with distance attenuation
• Multiple cameras with custom FOV and clipping
• Z-Sorting and Z-buffer rendering
• Oct trees for large Outdoor scenes
• Support for TGA, PCX, GIF, IFF/LBM textures
• Support for 3DT and 3DS objects
• Support for 8, 15, 16, 24 and 32 bpp
• Windows95/98/NT Support trough DirectX v6.0+
• Support for hardware acceleration trough Direct3D v6.0+
• Written in pure C

More information and a demo can be found on the Glista 3D Homepage

22.04.1999 E3d Engine

22.04.1999

The E3d Engine is a commercial 3d engine for Windows from Act 3d Interactive.

• Perspective lightmapped texture mapping
• MIP-mapping
• Gouraud, flat and wireframe
• Dynamic lighting
• Hierarchical objects
• Collision detection
• Patch/Curved surfaces, Nurbs
• Z-Buffer rendering
• Anti-Aliasing
• Advanced Sparks engine(smoke, flares, water)
• Complex lensflares(inner glow 2x, central ring, random streaks, starstreaks, lensreflection)
• Volumetric fog
• Physical dynamics
• Support for lightwave meshes and motions
• Motion capture support
• Support for DirectInput, DirectSound (3D sound) and Direct3D
• Optimized for high polygon count rendering
• Optimized for fast application development
• Written in Visual C++ 6.0

More information and a demo can be found on the E3d Engine 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

23.03.1999 3D TT

01.03.1999

3D TT is a 3D game engine for a game like Transport Tycoon for Windows from Peter Dobrovka ( dobrovka@hkn.de ) and WAY-X (a group of hobby programmers).

• Based on OpenGL
• Multitextured landscape (without shading)
• Perspective and isometric view
• Large maps (1024x1024)
• 3D Sprites
• Moving objects (esp. trains)
• Integrated editor
• Written in Delphi Pascal

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the (german) WAY-X Homepage under 3DTT (click one of the four icons in the top frame to view screenshots etc).

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 .

12.03.1999 Frog Engine

25.01.1999

The Frog Engine is a 3D engine for Windows from Thierry Tremblay ( kzinti@microtec.net ).

• Shaded, perspective texture mapping
• Static lighting rendered with shadowmaps (lightmaps)
• Mip-mapping
• Environment mapping
• Portal rendering
• Z-Buffer support
• Collision detection
• Support for DirectX 6 and Glide 3
• Software rendering for Win32
• Windowed mode rendering on DirectX
• Depth rendering ( 16, 24, 32 bit)
• Support for many internal texture formats.
• C++ extension DLLs
• Multithread support, including mutexes, conditions and semaphores
• The source is available (under LGPL)

More information, a screenshot, the engine and a demo can be found on the Frog Engine Homepage.

11.03.1999 Nano3D

11.03.1999

Nano3D is a 3D engine for Windows from Bejan Bogdan ( bogdan.bejan@freemail.fx.ro ).

• Perspective, gouraud shaded texture mapping
• Support for Direct3D and Glide
• Optimized for large out door scenes
• Global iluminatio
• Parameric surfaces (curved surfaces)
• Direct input and direct play support
• Convertor for 3D Studio 3DS with mapping and material support
• Texture file format with convertor from 3df file format
• Written in 100% ASM.

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the Nano3D Homepage.

04.03.1999 Future Colors

04.03.1999

Future Colors is a demo 3D engine for Windows from Peter Soltesz ( soltesz@hotmail.com ) aka 'Archee/CoNTRACT'.

• Perspective, shaded texture mapping
• Support for Direct3D
• Environment mapping
• Object morphing
• Real time lighting
• Phong shading
• Sound support
• Source available

More information, the demo and the source can be found on the Future Colors Homepage.

17.02.1999 Vital

17.02.1999

Vital is a 3D game engine for Windows from Lut Roman and Sergey Zabaryansky ( root@zssoft.carrier.kiev.ua ).

• Perspective, gouraud shaded texture mapping
• Support for Direct3D
• Environment mapping
• Colored, dynamic lightsources
• Mirrors
• Lens flares and halos
• Local fog
• Realistic water (geometry underwater warps)
• Object falling into water sets out 3d waves
• Physics system
• Support for DirectSound3D and A3D

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

09.02.1999 Venerium

09.02.1999

Venerium is a Windows'9x/NT 3D engine by Ivan Sheblucin > (ivan@elma.zgrad.ru).

• Perspective lightmapped texture mapping
• MIP-Mapping
• BSP and z-buffer rendering
• Static & dinamic coloured Lightmaps
• 32 bit internal rendering
• Support 15,16,24,32 bit per pixel
• Sound support
• Collision detection
• Written in Visual C++ 5.0

More information, screenshots and demo can be found on Venerium Homepage .

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 .

05.02.1999 Game Creation System

05.02.1999

GCS is a commercial 3D system for non-programmers by Pie in the Sky Software.

• Shaded erspective texture mapping
• Support for all Direct 3D/Direct X 3D accelerated video cards
• Use 8,16, 24, or 32 bit color in modes up to 1280x1024
• Light source effects for incredible graphic
• DirectSound digitally mixed sound effects
• Weapons, enemy guys, and basic artwork included
• Level editor and paint program included

More information and screenshots can be found on the Game Creation System Homepage.

29.01.1999 Visualization ToolKit

29.01.1999

The Visualization ToolKit (vtk) is an open source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing, and visualization.

• Perspective, gouraud shaded texture mapping
• Volume rendering
• Support for nearly every Unix-based platform and PC's (Windows NT and Windows95)
• Hardware rendering support for OpenGL, Starbase, XGL
• Transparency
• Multiple lights
• Stereo rendering (red/blue or crystal eyes)
• Motion and focal blur
• Support for many 3d formats including 3D Studio 3ds and Wavefront obj.
• Many modelling primitives
• Support for C++, Tcl, Java and Python
• C++ source with object-oriented design
• Extensive documentation, there is also a book about the Visualization ToolKit.

More information, documentation and the toolkit itself can be found on The Visualization Toolkit Homepage.

27.01.1999 Voodoo3D

22.07.1998

V3D is a flat shading engine for 3DFX Voodoo graphics hardware on Windows 95 from Roger Boerdijk ( boerdijk@xs4all.nl ) wrot

• Support for wireframe, flat rendering and (unshaded) perspective texturemapping.
• Support for 3D Studio ASC files.
• Sutherland-hodgeman 3D Clipping.
• Watcom C++ source.

More information, the executable and the source can be found via the Homepage of Roger Boerdijk.

25.01.1999 Soul Port

05.10.1998

Soul Port is a 3D engine for Windows from Engin Cilasun ( ecilasun@chip.com.tr ).

• Unlit perspective texture mapping.
• True bilinear texture mapping thru software.
• MIP-mapping, palettized textures.
• Subpixel correction.
• Skeletal animation system
• Water effect.
• Custom 3D editor.
• 16 bit color rendering.
• Supports RGB textures at a fixed size (256x256 pixels)
• Support for DirectDraw, PC 3D card support via OpenGL.
• Written in Visual C++ and ASM.

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

18.01.1999 Dream Engine

28.01.1998

DE is a 3D engine for DOS from Martin Valigursky ( valigursky@geocities.com ).

• Perspective, shaded texture-mapping.
• Static and dynamic point/directional lights.
• Depthcueing.
• Z-buffer and BSP rendering.
• Collision detection.
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS object and animation files.
• Support for mouse, keyboard and VFX1 headtracker.
• Support for DirectX and hardware acceleration

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found via the Homepage of Martin Valigursky.

18.01.1999 libCON

18.01.1999

libCON is a 3D game programming library for Windows 95/98 from Amir Geva aka 'Photon' ( __Photon__@yahoo.com ). libCON provides an easy to use API to programmers who don't want to mess around with Windows/DirectX.

• Perspective, shaded texture mapping
• Multiple colored lights
• Support for DirecX 6.0, uses hardware acceleration, if available
• Sound support
• Collision detection using RAPID package
• Written in MS Visual C++ 4.2
• C++ API

More information, screenshots, the library and a demo ( a 3D modeller using the library) can be found on the Photon2038 Game Programming Homepage.

18.01.1999 VERA VRML

18.01.1999

VERA VRML is a Windows DLL for rendering VRML 1.0 into an image buffer from Steven Marthouse ( comments@vrml3d.com )

• Perspective, shaded texture mapping
• Raytracing, Phong and flatshading
• Z-Buffer rendering
• Wireframe rendering
• Multiple lights
• Support for JPG and GIF textures
• Support for VRML 1.0
• Needs WinG libraries
• 8 and 32 bit color modes

More information, screenshots and the DLL can be found on the VERA VRML Homepage.

15.01.1999 V3X

23.07.1998

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

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

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

15.01.1999 SurRender

01.01.1995

SR is a commercial visualization class library from Hybrit Ltd (surrender@hybrid.org).

• Open architecture, with source code supplied.
• Scene graph support.
• Cross-platform compatibility, fully portable across various operating systems and hardware platforms. Support for proprietary software rendering, Direct3D, OpenGL, 3Dfx Glide, NEC PowerSGL, P3D HAL, Rendition RRedline and Matrox MSI95.
• Support for Windows 95/98/NT,older ports exist for Linux and Irix.
• Material support.
• Multiple light sources with a realistic lighting model.
• Advanced rendering with automatic multi-pass operation where required.
• LOD support.
• Complete hierarchy support for all objects, cameras and lights.
• MIP-mapping.
• Various 8/15/16/24/32 bit image formats supported.
• Easy mesh animation and morphing.
• Easy bitmap/billboard objects and 3D sprites.
• Sub-pixel accuracy for texture mapping.
• Lens-flare, lens reflection, smoke and glow special effects.
• Z-buffer rendering.
• Filtering and real-time image post-processing.
• Motion blur and anti-aliasing.
• Stereoscopic rendering.
• Support for 3D Studio .max and Lightwave .lwo objects.
• Support for multithreading and multiprocessor systems
• C++ API.

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

15.01.1999 Flatland Rover

15.01.1999

Flatland Rover is 3d engine with 3DML (3D Markup Language) support that works as WWW browser plugin (Netscape Navigator, MS Internet Explorer, AOL) from Flatland Online Inc. 3DML is a easy to write 3D description language that support building blocks and animations.

• Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping
• Bilinear filtering
• Support for DirectX and PC 3D hardware
• Support for Windows 95/98/NT
• 3D audio support ((DirectSound and A3D 2.0)
• 16bit and 8bit color support
• BSP sorting
• Dynamic lighting - moving spotlights, pulse lights, point lights
• Player gravity
• Support for GIF, animated GIF, JPEG textures
• Transparent texture color
• Translucency
• Support for TombRaider 3 texture and building blocks

Information, software, tutorials, screenshots, and more can be found at the Flatland Web Site.

14.01.1999 3D API Bindings for Delphi

14.01.1999

Erik Unger manages a site for 3D API Bindings for Delphi:

• Support for DirectX 6.0 for Delphi 2, 3 and 4 (Erik Unger )
• Support for OpenGL 1.1 ( Mike Lischke )
• Support for Glide 2.43 (Erik Unger and Eric Nowinski)

More information and the source can be found on the Delphi Graphics Homepage.

13.01.1999 Archee`s 3d engine

13.01.1999

A3E is a 3d engine for Direct3D from Archee ( soltesz@hotmail.com ) from CoNTRACT.

• Support for Direct3D with 3d card support
• Perspective lightmapped texture mapping
• Phong shading using light maps
• Realtime shadows
• Movable camera
• Written in C

More information and a demo can be found on Archee`s 3d Engine Homepage .

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 .

13.01.1999 VR-AGE

13.01.1999

VR-AGE is a commercial 3D rendering and sprite engine for Windows / DirectX from Webfoot Technologies.

• Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping
• Transparent/translucent polygons, sprites & particles
• Animated sprites and textures
• Particle system
• Colored lighting effects
• Depth sorting
• Polygonal characters
• Collision detection
• Lens flares and underwater FX
• Real-time WYSIWYG Level Editor
• Sound support
• Written in C/C++/ASM

More information, demos and screenshots can be found via the Webfoot Technologies Homepage .

13.01.1999 3D-Wage

13.01.1999

3D-Wage is a commercial 3D rendering and sprite engine for Windows / DirectX from Webfoot Technologies.

• Based on cube rendering
• Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping
• Animated sprites and textures
• Colored lighting effects
• Depth sorting
• Moving cubes and sprite
• Lifted and non-lifted floors and ceilings
• Sprite clipping against polygons
• Collision detection
• Real-time WYSIWYG Level Editor
• Sound support
• Written in C/C++/ASM

More information, demos and screenshots can be found via the Webfoot Technologies Homepage .

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.

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.

11.01.1999 Katharsis

11.01.1999

Katharsis is a commercial 3D engine for Windows 95/NT from Digital Infinity.

• Support for OpenGL, Direct3D and Glide, support for PC 3D cards
• Software rendering with bilinear texture filtering.
• Perspective. lightmapped texture mapping
• MIP-mapping
• Sub-pixel / sub-texel accuracy
• Lightmaps, shadowmaps and opacity maps
• Lens flares and glow
• Flat, gouraud, phong and metal shading
• Multiple dynamic shadows
• Projected textures
• Z buffering, Z sorting and visibility lists.
• Advanced physics system
• LOD support
• Programmable behavior control per entity
• 3D editor with support for Lightwave LWO, 3D Studio 3DS / MAX and Autocad DFX.
• Written in C++ and Assembler

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

11.01.1999 TerrEng (Link Problem!)

11.01.1999

TerrEng is a software renderer for fast 3D visualisation form SCS Software.

• Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping
• Triangle subdivision
• Sub-pixel and sub-texel precision
• MIP-mapping
• Mixed span-buffer and z-buffer rendering
• Internal true color renderer, output to 15/16/24/32 bit depths
• Distance based fog
• Transparency, translucency and stipple
• 3D sprites
• OpenGL like C API
• Hand optimized assembly inner loops, MMX optimized paths

More information can be found on the SCS Software Homepage .

18.12.1998 VD/Eclipse

02.09.1997

VD/Eclipse is a commercial Windows 3D graphics engine from Vulpine Design.

• Front-to-back zero-overdraw BSP-based rendering.
• PVS system.
• Lightmapped perspective texture mapping.
• Bump-mapping.
• Environment mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• Very fast dynamic multiple-lightsource multiple-object realtime shadowing, combined with light-mapping. Shadows from multiple lightsources are additive. Shadowing is completely accurate.
• Radiosity lightmap calculations.
• Infinite moving dynamic-intensity lightsources.
• Real, arbitrary-sized and -shaped mirrors and glass.
• Colored ambient/point/directed/spot lightsources.
• Projected Lights - for effects like 35mm slides.
• Specularity Mapping
• Color key transparency and alpha/stipple translucency.
• Material support and specular highlights.
• Lens Flares and coronas around bright lightsources
• Advanced Particle System, including support for opaque/alpha/shaded particles
• Volumetric Lighting/Localized fog - even dynamic, with any color you want, and dynamic density.
• Sky effects, both spherical and planar.
• Water effect.
• Hierarchical collision detection/prediction routines.
• Tools for conversion of MAP, BSP, MDL, ASC objects/3d worlds.
• Interpolated keyframed vector object animations and morphing, including a convenient animation system.
• Virtually unlimited rendering resolution.
• Supports n-edged polygons, sprites and pixels as drawing primitives.
• Support for PC 3D cards via OpenGL.
• 8bpp and 16bpp Renderers in Software, 16bpp/24bpp/32bpp in Hardware.
• Sophisticated, well-designed Game Development System with C++ API.

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

18.12.1998 VRaniML

11.11.1997

VRaniML is a VRML 2.0 C++ class library for building 3D graphics applications from Great Hill Corporation ( info@greathill.com ).

• Perspective, shaded texture mapping.
• Animated textures.
• API support for VRML 2.0 build-in nodes including DEF/USE, PROTOs, ROUTEs and the VRML execution model.
• Support for multipass rendering.
• Uses OpenGL for rendering, support for D3D is planned.
• Support for Windows 95 / NT.
• Audio support.
• Written in C++.
• Free for non-commercial use.
• The full source is available for licensing.
• VRML 2.0 parser seperated into freely available, freely redistributable source code.

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

20.11.1998 TGMP

01.04.1997

TGMP is a 3D graphics engine for PCs using DELPHI by Peter Dove (peterd@graphicalmagick.com) and Don Peer (dpeer@mgl.ca).

• Shaded linear texture mapping.
• Gouraud shading and wireframe rendering.
• Z sorting.
• 16 bit color support for Windows 95.
• Object Pascal / Delphi 2 source with good comments.
• A longer text document describes the techniques used.

The source files can be found at the Delphi Informat 1997 File Library under the name DI9704DP.ZIP.

11.11.1998 Kick Engine

11.11.1998

The Kick Engine is a commercial real-time 3D engine for Windows 95 from Kick Engine.

• Support for OpenGL and DirectX 6, support for PC 3D cards.
• Perspective. lightmapped texture mapping
• Dynamic lightmaps with specular lighting
• Dynamic shadows
• Volumetric fog and water.
• Liquid rendering with underwater caustics
• Detail mapping
• Movie textures
• View-volume HSR
• Coronas on lights
• Adaptive portal system
• Optimized for 3dNow
• Advanced 2-way texture system designed for AGP 2X

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

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 .

27.10.1998 VisKit

27.10.1998

VisKit is a commercial real-time 3D scene graph rendering engine for Windows from Paradigm Entertainment.

• Layered on top of OpenGL
• Perspective texture mapping
• Lightmap rendering
• Texture filtering
• Mip mapping.
• Hierarchical state management
• Intersection tests
• Particle systems
• Multiple cameras
• Primitive objects
• 3D positional audio layered on DirectSound.
• 3D Studio import
• Collision detection
• C++ API.
• Support for Multithreading
• Support for Windows 95/98 and NT 4.0
• Support for PC 3D cards

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

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.

05.10.1998 Archee Scent

05.10.1998

Archee Scent is a 3D game engine for Windows 95 using Direct3D from Archee ( soltesz@hotmail.com ).

• Perspective gouraud-shaded texture mapping.
• Procedural textures and objects (with LOD).
• Enemies AI.
• Multiple dynamic colred lights.
• Level editor (DOS, DJGPP,NASM).
• Written in C++/Asm using Visual 5.0 and NASM.

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the Archee Scent 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.

04.09.1998 GLWOF

04.09.1998

GLWOF (OpenGL World Of Fantasy) is the new version of the WOF Quake viewer by Frank Willemsen (frankw@xs4all.nl) and Corin Langosch ( corinl@metronet.de ).

• Perspective texture-mapping (with MIP-mapping)
• Colored Lightmaps done in Surface-Cache (with interpolation) & Blending
• Support for all avaible 3d cards with OpenGL drivers
• Support for all resoluton & color depths the 3d card supports
• Colored Realtime lightning effects (flicker etc)
• Colored Dynamic lighting (fireballs etc)
• Hidden surface removal via BSP-Tree
• Fast Frustum Culling
• 100% dynamic collision dection using brushes
• Polygonal Characters like Monsters etc..
• Particle & Sprite System
• BSP-SubModels (like doors, platforms etc) with collision detection
• GAME-DLL interface for easy & fast creation of new awesome games
• Support for 8-bit as well as 24-bit PCX textures
• Texture Manager to change charcteristics of surfaces
• Multiline-Funcion-Line-Tracing to support special effects like different sounds when walking on Ice etc...
• Real Mirrors
• Enhanced Console System with commands & variables
• Own fileformats & compiling tools (still similar to quake utils)
• Model Editor for Alias models as Monster etc...
• Sound Engine with stereo seperation & distance attenution using DirectSound
• Support for various Input Devices as Keyboard, Mouse, Joystick using DirectInput
• Well documented & structuraed Watcom C+ 10.6 sourcecode (compiling utils are straight C)

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

03.09.1998 SKOUT Engine

03.09.1998

The SKOUT engine is a commercial 3D engine for Windows from Soft Enterprises (mh@soft-enterprises.com). It will be available for licensing for third parties.

• Colored dynamic lightmaps.
• Mip mapping.
• Transparency (additive, multiplicative).
• Portal based thus allowing mirrors and other special effects ( mirrors not implemented yet).
• Volumetric effects like fogging and heat haze.
• Physics model with collision detection etc.
• Hardware accelerated Direct3D only.
• Support for Lightwave objects, scenes and animations.
• Animated textures.
• Procedural textures.
• Particle effects.
• LOD support.
• Multiplayer support.
• Fully script driven using a C++ like object oriented script language.

More information, screenshots and a very early demo can be found at the SKOUT Engine 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 .

21.08.1998 Meshbase

21.08.1998

Meshbase is a commercial 3d modeler for Windows 95 / NT from ModelSoft Inc.

• Support for OpenGL and 3d hardware.
• OpenGL compliant shading, lighting, and texture mapping.
• KeyFrame editing and animation.

More information and a demo can be found via the Meshbase 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.

05.08.1998 START Engine

05.08.1998

The START Engine is a (work in progress) Direct3D Engine from Mirko Mignini ( mirko@lert.it ).

• Support for Direct3D and 3D accelerator cards.
• Dynamic colored lighting sources.
• Support for multiple cameras.
• Frustum clipping and back face culling.
• Z-Buffer rendering
• C++ Simple/Extensible API.
• Support for 3D Studio files.
• Hierarchical world management.
• Written in C++.

More information and screenshots can be found via START Engine Homepage .

04.08.1998 Madcow 3D Engine

04.08.1998

M3D is a 3D engine for 3DFX Voodoo graphics hardware on Windows 95 from Madcow ( acowley@seas.upenn.edu ).

• Lightmapped perspective texture mapping.
• Portal rendering.
• Dynamic lights and shadows.
• Portal rendering.
• Lens-Flares.
• Translucent materials.
• Sound support.

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on Madcow's Homepage.

04.08.1998 Alternative Realities

04.08.1998

AR is a 3D engine for Windows by Stefan Maton ( metron@skynet.be ).

• Perspective shaded texture mapping.
• Z-Buffer and W-Buffer shading.
• BSP-rendering.
• Ambient and omni colored lights.
• Chroma keying and alpha keying for textures.
• Support for Glide (3DFX).
• Fogging.
• Written in C++.

More information, screenshots and a demos can be found via Stefan Metron's Homepage .

23.07.1998 Dan Azzopardi's 3D Engine

23.07.1998

DA3D is a 3d engine demo for 3DFX Voodoo graphics hardware on Windows 95 from Dan Azzopardi ( D.E.Azzopardi@qmw.ac.uk ).

• Uses Glide API for rendering.
• Z-Buffer rendering.
• Mip-mapping.
• Multiple lights.
• Reflection mapping.

More information, screenshots and the executable can be found on the Dan Azzopardi's 3D Engine 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.

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 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 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 PortalRend

15.12.1997

PR is a windows 95 portal rendering engine from Alex Clarke (ma5adc@bath.ac.uk ).

• Shaded perspective texture mapping.
• Imporved lightmap rendering of multiple dynamic, colored lightsources with accurate realtime shadows.
• Radiosity.
• Twopass rendering.
• Portal rendering.
• Moving objects cast moving shadows.
• Collision detection.
• MIP-mapping.
• Particle systems.
• Negative and positive quake like brushes to ease level design.
• Support for 3DFX's opengl32.dll on Windows 95.
• Support for multi-texturing on Voodoo2.

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

08.06.1998 HAWK

12.03.1998

The HAWK game engine is a Windows 95/NT 4.0 library from Hawk Software.

• Support for OpenGL and Mesa.
• Perspective, lightmapped texture mapping.
• Multipass colored dynamic lighting.
• Fullscreen color blending effect.
• Translucent textures.
• MIP-mapping.
• Visibility lists.
• Z-buffer rendering.
• Multiple views.
• Frustum culling.
• Collision detection.
• Sprite objects.
• Particle system for explosions, smoke trains etc.
• Support for Quake2 level files.
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS and Alias files.
• OpenGL rendered mouse pointer.
• Library or DLL interface.

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

06.05.1998 LithTech

03.11.1997

The LT (former DirectEngine) is a commercial game development tool for Windows 95 developed from Monolith Productions.

• Support for Direct3D, own renderer or 3DFX/Glide.
• Dynamic colored lighting.
• Lightmap rendering.
• 3D sprites.
• Hierarchical key-framed animation (with interpolation).
• Translucency/transparency for water/glass effects.
• Level of Detail support.
• Particle systems.
• Customizable physics.
• Real-time shadows.
• Multi-server networking

More information, screenshots, a demo and licensing information can be found on the LithTech 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.

05.05.1998 Spacefighters

05.05.1998

Spacefighters is a 3d space shooter engine for Windows/OpenGL from Perry Hart ( sci-pjh1@jcu.edu.au ).

• Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping using OpenGL.
• Lens flares.
• 3D objects.
• Support for DirectInput and DirectSound.

More information, screenshots and the demo can be found on the Spacefighters 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 .

19.03.1998 Amp Game Development System

13.05.1997

The AGDS (formerly Diamond 3D Game Development System) is a complete game development system for Windows 95 from Slam Software.

• Perspective shaded, texture mapping.
• BSP rendering.
• Gouraud shaded, hierarchical 3D characters.
• Realistic light sourcing with shadows.
• Movable Mirrors.
• 3D editor.
• Collision detection.
• Physics model / Particle Model.
• Advanced animation system with animation blending
• Direct-Sound based audio system.
• Client/Server game architecture
• 8 bit color support, variable resolution.
• Coming Soon: Multiplayer support and 3DFx Acceleration.

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

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

16.03.1998 zEditor

14.02.1997

zEditor is a 3D engine for Windows 95 by Dan Royer (aggravated@bigfoot.com) and Tauno Taipaleenmaki (tataipal@mail.student.oulu.fi)

• DLLs provide support for hardware acceleration. Planned are Glide, OpenGL and Direct3D support.
• Perspective shaded texture mapping, solid fill and wireframe rendering with 0 overdraw.
• MIP-mapped textures.
• 6 degrees of freedom and true 3D BSPs.
• CSG operations and a tree display of brushes and sub-brushes for easy manipulation.
• Written in C/ASM.

More information, demos, screenshots, updates and tutorials can be found via the Homepage of Dan Royer.

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.

11.03.1998 Shark 3D Library

07.10.1997

The S3DL is a 3D library for Windows 95 by Schamel Software.

• Realtime lighting maps and high-speed Gouraud shading.
• Realtime shadowing.
• Hierarchical world management.
• Collision detection.
• Realtime elimination of hidden objects/world parts.
• Drivers for D3D, Glide and OpenGl (all hardware accelerated).
• Shark 3D file format.
• Import compiler from VRML2.0 (e.g. export from 3D Studio Max).

For more information, screenshots and a demo to download see Schamel Software.

10.03.1998 Continuous LOD Terrain Renderer

10.03.1998

CLTR is a 3D polygonal landscape engine for Windows 95 / NT from Bjoern Stensrud.

• Perspective, gouraud shaded texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• Fogging.
• Real-time, continuous level of detail polygon rendering.
• View frustrum clipping.
• Support for DEM terrain data.
• Adjustable water level.
• Sky texture mapping.
• Support for OpenGL on Windows 95/NT.

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the Continuous LOD Terrain Renderer 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.

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.

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.

13.02.1998 Cutting-Edge 3D Game Programming with C++

13.02.1998

CE3DGP is a book (ISBN: 1-883577-70-5) from John De Goes that contains a 3D engine for DOS and Windows 95.

• Perspective, gouraud shaded texture mapping.
• Collision detection.
• 3D morphing.
• 3D sprites.
• C++ source.

More information and reviews are availabe at the CE3DGP Page of the Amazon Bookstore.
The book is currently not available.

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.

11.11.1997 3Dplayer

11.11.1997

3Dplayer is a 3d polygon engine from Andrey Romanov ( aleksey@nica.ru ).

• Perspective, shaded texture mapping.
• MIP-mapped texture filtering.
• Multiple cameras.
• Resolution independand.
• Collision detection.
• Real characteristics of objects: mass, power,resilience, elasticity, aerodynamics, energy, etc.
• Support for OS, OS/2 and Windows.
• Support for SVGA.
• Wad-file (for DOOM1) converter, support for 3D Studio ASC format

The demo can be found on ftp.nica.ru.

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 .

03.11.1997 OpenGL Component for Delphi

07.10.1997

OGLCFD are Delphi 3.0 VCL components providing an object oriented interface to the OpenGL API for Windows 95 and Windows NT. The OGLCFD is distributed by SignSoft GmbH.

• Simple API wrapper around OpenGL, the standard OpenGL calls are also awailable.
• OpenGL view
• Cameras
• Camera controllers
• Light sources
• Materials
• Textures
• 3D objects

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the OpenGL Component for Delphi Homepage or the german OpenGL Component for Delphi Homepage

03.11.1997 Direct3D Samples

03.11.1997

The D3DS are sample programms using the Direct3D API for Windows 95 by Microsoft Corporation.

• Lens-flares. (Currently not available)
• Fogging.
• 3D game using DirectInput
• MIP-map texture rendering. (Currently not available)
• Billboard rendering. (Currently not available)
• 3D sound
• C++ source.

More information, the source and binaries can be found on the DirectX Samples 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.

03.11.1997 PyrSav

03.11.1997

The PyrSav is a 3D screensaver for Windows 95 PC from Ralf Rosenkranz ( Ralf.Rosenkranz@cww.de ).

• Linear, flat shaded texture mapping.
• Multiple objects.
• Screensaver for Windows 95.

The demo and a screenshot can be found on the (german) Homepage of Ralf Rosenkranz.

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.

16.09.1997 3D Editor

16.09.1997

The 3D Editor contains is a 3D engine for PC computers by Marcos Vazquez (jvazquezp@nexo.es).

• Perspective shaded texture mapping.
• Flat and gouraud shading.
• Z-Buffer rendering.
• Support for Windows 95.
• Support for 16 bit color.
• Spanish help files and menues.

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the Homepage of Marcos Vazquez.

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.

15.08.1997 Enigmatic Experience

30.12.1996

The Enigmatic Experience is a polygon renderer for Windows by Dion Picco (dpicco@garfield.cs.mun.ca) and Steven Lilly.

• Unshaded, affine texture mapping.
• Gouraud and flat shading.
• Z-buffer and z-sorting.
• Uses Win32 and WinG.
• Support for BMP texture files.
• Own scene file and object format.
• C++ source.

Dion Picco just moved his homepage, on the new page there is no information or link to the source of the Enigmatic Experience engine.

08.07.1997 Dark Tide

08.07.1997

Dark Ride is a 3D game engine by Søren Mou Jakobsen (smj@post6.tele.dk ), David Zeuthen ( dzeuthen@post3.tele.dk ), Joel Ostrowski and Thomas Jørgensen ( tj@kampsax.dtu.dk ).

• Support for OpenGL or own rendering system under Windows 95/NT.
• Colored light sources.
• Light-mapping.
• Lens-flares.
• Support for 15,16, 24 and 32 bit color in all resolutions.
• Network support.
• 3D editor.

More information and screenshots can be found on the Dark Tide Homepage.

08.07.1997 Player Project

08.07.1997

The Player Project is a C++ class wrapper to Direct 3D and OpenGL from Eric Victor Powers ( powerg@deltanet.com ).

• Simple collision detection.
• Hierarchical objects.
• Multiple lights.
• Material support.

More information and the source can be found on the Player Project Homepage.

07.07.1997 GLView

07.07.1997

GLView is a fast 3D viewer and integrated VRML 2.0 browser and editor for PCs by MKC Software ( sales@mkcsoft.com ).

• Shaded perspective texture mapping.
• Transparent texture mapping.
• Collision detection.
• Hierarchical objects.
• Multiple, colored light sources.
• Support for Windows NT/95 and hardware accelerators.
• Support for OpenGL and Direct3D.
• VRML script support.
• Support for 3D sound using RSX.

More information and a demo version can be found on the GLView 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 .

09.06.1997 IMAA

09.06.1997

The IMAA (Integrated Modeling, Animation & Analysis) toolkits by Hee S. Chung ( Hee@cyberkorea.com ) contain a 3D rendering engine. The IMAA toolkits are available for Windows, DOS and Silicon Graphics IRIX.
IMAGE, IMAA Graphics Environment

• Texture mapping.
• Gouraud shading.
• Z-buffer rendering.

IMAML, IMAA Modeling Library

• Low level ( Euler ) level modeling
• Sweeping,
• 3D primitive objects.
• Boolean set operation.
• NURBS.

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

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.

30.04.1997 MindRender

26.02.1996

BR is a high performance programmer's API for PCs from Themekit Ltd.

• DOS and Windows 95 support (planned).
• SVGA support.
• Support for 3D input and output devices, like gloves and HMDs.
• Z-buffer rendering.
• BSP support.
• Stereo rendering.
• Perspective texture mapping.
• Wireframe/solid, gouraud shading and optional phong highlights.
• Transparent and shaded textures.
• Light and shadow mapping.
• Unlimited number of colored lights. Spot, point and directional lights.
• Movable lightsources, dynamic light parameters, distance cueing, fogging.
• Pre-Rendering of static scenes.
• Collision detection.
• Keyframe animation, morphing.
• Sound support.
• API interface to high- and low-level routines.

More information and a demo is available on the ThemeKit Homepage.

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.

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.

01.04.1997 Threedom

15.08.1996

MThreedom is a 3D engine from Philip Stephens (philip@galaxy.bocaraton.ibm.com). The DOS-port was done by Phil Frisbie (pfrisbie@geocities.com).

• Flat shaded, perspective texture mapping.
• Z-buffer rendering.
• Windows 95, X11-Windows and DOS SVGA support.
• C source.

The source and more information can be found on Threedom Homepage.
The DOS-port can be found at Phil Frisbie's Programming Page.

01.04.1997 3D Objcad

01.04.1997

3D Objcad is a 3D engine for PCs by Dhonn Lushine (Ludhonn@aol.com).

• Unshaded linear texture mapping.
• Gouraud shading.
• Z sorting.
• Support for Windows 3.1/ 95.
• Written in Watcom C++.

The demo can be found at the Dhonn Lushine Programming 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.

27.01.1997 VRend

06.11.1995

VR is a 3D renderer from Kenny Hoff (hoff@cs.unc.edu).

• Polygon-based model rendering includes convex, concave, and self-intersecting polygons.
• Fully-generalized hidden surface removal allowing for protruding surfaces.
• Shaded perspective texture mapping with tiling and transparency.
• Full 3D clipping to the viewplane and the sides of the viewplane window.
• Movable front clipping plane allowing a cut-away view of the "inside" of models.
• Phong shading.
• Complete hierachical modeling system.
• Independent object and world coordinate system transformations.
• Incremental depth-shading.
• C++ source.
• Support for X11-Windows and Windows 3.1.

More information (and lots of pictures) on the VRend Homepage or WinRend Homepage.
You also find some 3D tutorials and the source of the scanline-renderer on the Homepage of Kenny Hoff

10.12.1996 CS-VWORLD/3D

10.12.1996

CS-VWORLD/3D is a 3D engine from Norma Skopinski Software ( skopinski@aol.com ).

• Unlit, single color or perspective-corrected texturemapped polygons.
• Animated objects.
• Red/blue stereo support.
• 3D object and world editor.
• Sound support.
• Script language for animations.
• Support for DOS and Windows.
• Scene compiler generates stand alone programs.

More information and a demo can be found on the (german!) Norma Skopinski Software 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.

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.

28.10.1996 3DR

01.01.1995

3DR is Intel's scalable, real-time 3D graphics library which has been optimized for the Pentium(R) processor.

• Up to 16 light sources.
• Texture mapping, environment mapping, modulated textures.
• Sprites and bitmaps.
• Atmospheric effects.
• Optional z-buffering, antialiasing, transparency, alpha blending.
• Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and Windows NT support.
• Free of charge, no royalty fee.

Intel announced on the 23 october 1996, that 3DR is no longer supported.

01.10.1996 Virtual laboratory

01.10.1996

The project "Virtual laboratory" is a virtual reality simulation system that implements the concept of a virtual laboratory. It was developped by Marc Bernatchez (mbernat@gel.ulaval.ca) at the Université Laval.

• Flat shaded, perspective texture mapping.
• Simulation system.
• 3D toolboxes.
• Windows 95 and NT support.
• 16 bit color depth.

More information and a demo can be found on the Project Virtual Laboratory Homepage.

09.09.1996 Genesis

19.06.1995

Genesis is a 3D rendering toolkit for Windows from Steven Woodman (spike@silicond.demon.co.uk).

• Perspective texturemapping and gouraud shading.
• Enhanced spanline algorithm.
• Unlimited light sources.
• Specular highlights.
• Z-buffer rendering.
• Underlying geometry engine can be changed to make use of another renderer.
• Windows based object editor with spin tool, primitive creators, boolean CSG operations.
• Lightwave file support.

More information and a demo on the Genesis 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.

20.08.1996 PSpace

20.08.1996

Possibility Space is a complete development system for real-time 3D rendering by Non-Linear Arts (webmaster@nlarts.com).

• Support for DOS and Windows (using WinG).
• Perspective texture mapping.
• Material textures may contain transparent areas and be of arbitrary size.
• Gouraud shading.
• Integrated collision detection supports variable collision proximity.
• Multiple object instancing.
• Hierarchical models.
• 3DS converter for objects and materials.
• Full 32-bit code.

More information and demos is available on the Non-Linear Arts 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 .

17.07.1996 GDM: Perspective Texture Mapping

16.07.1996

The Game Developer Magazine of April 1996 featured an article by Chris Hecker (checker@netcom.com) about perspective texture mapping.

• Windows support.
• Perspective texture mapping with different routines.
• C++ / ASM source.

The sources, an overview of the articles and more information can be found on the Perspective Texture Mapping by Chris Hecker webpage.

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.

15.07.1996 3DTOSHI

15.01.1996

3DTOSHI is a 3D engine for PCs by Toshiaki Tsuji (tsuji@cs.concordia.ca).

• Linear, shaded texture mapping.
• Gouraud and flat shading, wireframe rendering.
• Transparence and distance cueing/fogging.
• DOS 32 bit, Windows 3.1 and Win32 ( Win 95 & NT) support.
• Z sorting.
• 3D Studio ASC file support.
• C++ / ASM source.

A source/demo can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi.

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.

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 .

06.03.1996 3D EnvMap

11.12.1995

3DEM is a little 3D engine for PCs by Thanassis Tsiodras (ttsiod@softlab.ece.ntua.gr).

• Environment texture mapping. (Phong highlight and shading included in the environment map)
• VESA support for DOS and WinG support for Windows.

A demo can be found on ftp.coast.net. More information and newer demos on the 3D EnvMap 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.

11.12.1995 3D Explorer

06.11.1995

The 3DE is a virtual reality CAD viewer for Windows from Third Dimension Software Ltd (webmaster@third.demon.co.uk).

• Windows NT / 3.1 / 95 support.
• Reads DXF and VRML files.
• Materials, textures and lights can be changed in realtime.
• Based on RenderWare, but using an own interfacing layer - the 3D API can be changed if a better/faster 3D API is available.
• Perspective, flat shaded texture mapping.

For more information (and registration for a free demo of 3D Explorer) see the 3D Explorer Homepage.

16.11.1995 Amber (Link Problems!)

16.11.1995

Amber is a set of C++ classes from DIVE Laboratories Inc. Amber enable developers to create complex distributed virtual environments on multiple platforms.

• Windows 3.1/95 support (using 3DR or RealityLab ), SGI, DOS/Windows with Creative 3DBlaster and Sun running Solaris with X11-Windows.
• File support for NFF, WRL and TGA.
• Hardware support for 5DT Glove, VIO HMD.
• Physical properties and behavior modeling.
• Distributed interactive simulation (DIS) and multi-user system support using windows sockets and TCP/IP.
• Add on modules like special fx, atmospheric fx, agents, inverse kinematics, morphing...

More infomation, demos and a shareware version can be found on the Amber 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.

06.11.1995 Object3D

01.01.1995

Object 3D is a 3D real time graphic library from Thomas Landspurg (tomsoft@worldnet.net).

• Linear texturemapping, animated texture maps.
• Light sourcing and gouraud shading.
• Transparency.
• Sphere-primitive.
• Windows (uses WinG), DOS and maybe soon on X11-Window (Unix).
• C++ classes, one can easily add new kind of graphic element by subclassing existing classes.
• A Visual Basic VBX allows to add 3D graphics without writing one line of code.

A windows demo is available on x2ftp.oulu.fi , for more information see the Object3D 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.

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

01.01.1995 Cyberspace Development Kit

01.01.1995

The CDK is a library to create VR application under Windows 3.1 or Windows NT. CDK is from Autodesk Inc.

• C++ class library.
• Color dithering.
• Support for many I/O devices.
• Support for graphics hardware.
• Physical simulation classes.

More info and a demo on the CDK 2.0 Homepage. A newer version of the 3ds/dxf/ast viewer for windows can be found on the Johnny Mnemonic VR Player Homepage.
Some info is found the CDK Viewer Helpfile.

01.01.1995 Purple

01.01.1995

Purple is an evaluation kit for fast 3D engines and virtual reality I/O devices from Karsten Isakovic (ki@cs.tu-berlin.de).

• ANSI C, runs on X11-Windows, Mac, Windows, OSF and TOS. There is also a simple C++ interface.
• Hierarchical, movable BSP subscenes with level of detail management for the objects, object grouping.
• System-primitive rendering for wire/flat shading, z-buffer, framebuffer only or z-only rendering, direct 3D hardware support (for DEC Kubota)
• Flat or gouraud shading in combination with dithering, transparency and texture-mapping.
• Unlimited colored, movable lightsources (distant, point and spotlights).
• Material constants (ambient, diffuse, specular).
• File I/O: rib,asc,rwx,plg,fig,geo,geom,scn,tri,ply. Texture I/O: tga,tiff,gif
• Multiple cameras with stereo-support that render into windows or textures.
• Simulated virtual person, all elements are controllable with I/O devices like Bird-sensor, Logitech 3D mouse, K1 glove, Powerglove, Sega Activator, Flightstick or 2D Mouse.
• Internal task concept, all actions run as purple tasks.
• 2D sprites, 2D and 3D text, overlay and underlay text, backdrop images, fog/distance cueing.
• Environment mapping and mirrors.
• Portal rendering with 3D frustrum clipping.
• Stereo rendering for red/blue glasses or for CyberMaxx HMD.
• Work in progress:
  • MIP-mapping and animation for textures.
  • Fast shadows with shadow mapping.
  • Phong and bump-mapping.
  • Anti-aliasing, 2D effects like lens-flares and fire.
  • Distributes object visualisation, networked worlds.