3DEL: C++

3D Engines List
C++

This list contains 116 rendering engines written in C++ .

Texture-mapping Engines

23.06.2000 Carsten's 3D Engine 23.02.2000

Ca3D is a 3D engine for DOS from Carsten Fuchs ( CarstenFuchs@t-online.de ).

Unlit, perspective texture mapping
BSP / PVS / portal rendering
Span- and Z-Buffer
Optimization passes for ideal geometry
Software rendering
Natural player movement (clipping and world physics)
TrueColor (32-BPP) support
Written in Watcom C++

More information, screenshots and

a demo can be found on the Homepage of Carsten's 3D Engine.

12.05.2000 Eraser 12.05.2000

Eraser is a fast DOS 3D engine from Lassi Kumpula ( musamies.rave@iobox.com ).

Unshaded, perspective texture mapping
Mip mapping
S-Buffer rendering
Fake FSP tree support
Written in Watcom C++ and Turbo Assembler

More information and screenshots can be found on the Eraser 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 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

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).

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

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 Sparklight 05.08.1998

SL is a software rendering 3D engine for DOS and linux by Christian Fleischer (daydream@cs.tu-berlin.de)

Lightmap rendering
Perspective correction every 16 or 32 pixels, according to angle, distance and screen resolution
Subpixel, subtexel accuracy, edge coherency
Portal and BSP rendering
Spanbuffer und Z-Buffer rendering
Mip-Mapping with 3 texture-levels
Alpha transparency
Simple collision detection for the camera and the player with the dungeon
Synchronized double-buffering (Linux), unsynchronized triple-buffering (DOS)
Particle-system with gravity and collision-detection
Particle-system with spring-connections to simulate fluttering flags
Additive transparent particles (sprites)
Animated texturemaps (script-controlled)
Dynamic semi-soft shadows calculated & rendered in realtime
Shadow-map and light-map rendering
Moving mirrors
Arbitrary convex frustrum (up to 16 planes)
Script engine to control cameras, animations and movements, definitions of all animations / monsters in text-script
Quaternions for time-scaled matrix motion
Dolby Surround Sound Engine
Multiple colored lights with falloff
Written in C++

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

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 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 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.

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

04.02.2000 Ogopogo 04.02.2000

Ogopogo is a 3D engine for DOS from Christian Lange ( clange@nybro.dk ).

Perspective, shaded texture mapping
Lambert, gouraud and phong shading
Bilinear filtering
MIP mapping
Z-Buffer
Support for 3D Studio ASC and 3DS
24 bit rendering
C++ source

More information, the executable and source can be found on the Ogopogo 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.

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 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 Olino3D 02.02.2000

Olino3D is a 3D engine for DOS from Bruno Mace ( maceb@caramail.com ).

Gouraud shading, perspective texture mapping
Support for 3D Studio ASC files
Z-Buffer
Support for 8,16,24 and 32 bits
C++ source for DJGPP with Allegro

More information, screenshots and the source can be found on the (french) Homepage of Bruno.

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

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 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 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.

03.09.1999 Crystal Space 25.08.1997

Crystal Space is a 3D engine for Unix from Jorrit Tyberghein ( Jorrit.Tyberghein@uz.kuleuven.ac.be ).

Shaded perspective texture mapping.
MIP-mapping.
Sub-pixel and sub-texel accuracy.
Portal rendering.
Static lighting with precomputed shadows.
Dynamic colored lights with shadows
Transparent and semi-transparent textures.
Support for mirrors.
Support for BSP rendering.
Support for curved surfaces.
Support for depth-correct and colored volumetric fog.
Hierarchical Bounding Box collision detection system.
New c-buffer (coverage buffer) type visibility culling.
Sound support (for Windows and Linux only currently).
Moving objects and scripts controlling the movement.
3D triangle mesh sprites with gouraud shading and LOD (Level of Detail)
Skeleton animation for 3D triangle mesh sprites
Support for 8, 15, 16 and 32-bit displays.
Support for unix (linux and solaris are tested) and DOS, Macintosh, Amiga, Windows 95 version, BeOS, NextStep, Rhapsody and OpenStep ports.
Optional MMX support.
New ports to OS/2 and GDI.
OpenGL port works very well now for Linux, Windows, and BeOS.
Hierarchical objects (not used in current programs, but implementation exists)
Glide port works good for Linux and Windows.
Optional Direct3D hardware acceleration for Windows port.
3D sound support
Reading of Quake II MD2 and 3DS objects
Low-level networking support.
C++ source.

More information, screenshots, the source and a unix executable is available on the Crystal Space Homepage.

17.07.1999 Open Media Toolkit 17.07.1999

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

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

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

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

23.06.1999 SimEngine 23.06.1999

SimEngine is a 3D engine for DOS from Jeff K ( zerocool000@hotmail.com ).

Unshaded, linear texture mapping
Gouraud shading
Z-Buffer
VGA and SVGA resolutions
Written in pure C++ for DJGPP / Allegro

More information and screenshots can be found on the SimEngine 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 .

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.

10.03.1999 Fluxions 10.03.1999

Fluxions is a 3D engine for PCs by Jonathan Metzgar ( microwerx@fcmail.com ).

Perspective lightmapped texture mapping
Bi-linear texture-mapping with perspective-correction every 8-16 pixels
Portal rendering
Span-buffer hidden surface removal
3D sprites (triangle mesh) with Z-Buffering
C++/ASM source developed with DJGPP and Allegro.

More information, screenshots and the source can be found via the Microwerx Game Programming Homepage .

01.03.1999 3D Foundation Clases 19.12.1997

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

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

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

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 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.

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 .

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.

12.10.1998 Roketz 05.05.1998

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

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

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

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 .

17.09.1998 Gulliver 17.09.1998

Gulliver is a 3D game engine for SGI from Serge Grandjean ( serge@trix.be ).

Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping using OpenGL.
Mip-Mapping.
Portal rendering.
Dynamic lighting effects.
Lens flare and star effects.
Collision detection for player and bullets.
Character animation using skeletons and/or shape interpolation.

More information and screenshots can be found on the Gulliver 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.

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 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 Lightspeed 3D 23.07.1998

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

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

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

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.

05.05.1998 Arfnold 05.05.1998

Arfnold is a 3D engine for PCs by Andrei Fortuna ( andreif@mail.dntis.ro ) aka 'Stormbringer'.

Unshaded, perspective texture mapping.
Subtexel/subpixel accuracy.
MIP-mapping.
A basic surface cache (no lightning for now, but there is in old versions).
Conversion of Quake .mdl files.
BSP/PVS capabilities.
Edge span-buffer and z-buffer rendering.
Collision detection.
Moving platforms.
3D objects.
Particle system.
Uses Allegro Game library.
C/C++/ASM source.

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

12.03.1998 BumpMap 12.03.1998

BumpMap is a prototypical program written to see the quality of several bump-mapping and phong shading methods from Hans Kopp ( hskopp@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de ).

Perspective, phong shaded texture mapping.
3 Bump-mapping methods.
Flat, gouraud and phong shading.
Environment mapping, also bump-environment mapping.
Support for PCX texture files.
C++ source.

More information, the source and executables can be found on Hans Kopp's Graphics Page.

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.

04.03.1998 NetImmerse 21.07.1997

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

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

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

13.02.1998 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.

30.01.1998 P3D 30.01.1998

P3D is a quake like 3D engine for DOS by Pin Fei Sun ( pfsun@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca ).

Gouraud perspective texture mapping.
BSP rendering.
Collision detection.
Dynamic objects.
Animated textures.
Portal rendering.
Z-Buffer rendering
C++/ASM source.

More information, the source and other 3D demos can be found on the BSP3D Homepage.

26.01.1998 RTMZ 14.07.1995

RTMZ is a 3D engine for PCs from Davide Pasca ( dpasca@ix.netcom.com) and Fabrizio Zavagli (f.zavagli@agora.stm.it).

Flat, gouraud and phong shading of polygons.
Texture mapping.
Painters sorting and z-buffering.
Written in C++/ASM, ModeX, 32 bit.
GEO, GEM and 3DS file support, there are lots of modells in the package.
2 different interaction modes.
SVGA support with resolution switching.
Cool user interface.
C source.

The source can be found on the Homepage of Davide Pasca..

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.

14.11.1997 Sofie 14.11.1997

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

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

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

03.11.1997 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 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 .

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.

22.10.1997 3D Engine (Link Problems!) 13.08.1996

3D Engine is a PC 3D engine by Jean-Francois Dube (deks@videotron.ca) aka 'Deks' of IncaMaster.

Perspective, shaded texture-mapping.
Flat, gouraud, phong and bump lightning.
Environment mapping.
Z-buffer rendering.
Multiple RGB light sources.
Lens-flares.
24bit internal rendering, 8 to 24 bit output.
Simple motion blur.
Multiple objects.
2D clipping.
Support for portal and BSP rendering.
Support for 3D Studio ASC, GEO and GEM object files.
C++ source with some ASM extensions.

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

22.10.1997 Threed 22.10.1997

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

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

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

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 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.

06.06.1997 World Of Fantasy 30.12.1996

WOF is a Quake viewer for PCs by Frank Willemsen (frankw@xs4all.nl) and Corin Langosch ( corinl@metronet.de ).

Perspective texture mapping with MIP-mapping.
Portal rendering.
BSP rendering.
Z-buffer and span-buffer.
Light-maps and Surface cache.
Realtime lightning effects (like flicker) and dynamic lighting (for fireballs).
SVGA support.
Improved collision detection.
Polygonal objects.
Moving doors and elevators.
Multiple viewports.
Water effect a la Quake.
Support for Quake level files.
C/C++ source.

More information, a demo and screenshots can be found on the WOF Homepage, the source of an older version is available on the old World Of Fantasy Homepage.

14.05.1997 Fire & Forget 3D (Link Problems) 14.05.1997

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

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

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

07.05.1997 SQuake 25.04.1997

SQuake is a DOS Quake viewer by Riccardo Scarsi (scarsi@athena.polito.it) and Massimo Rossi.

Perspective texture mapping.
BSP rendering with clip tests.
Visibility lists.
Simple lighting.
Surface cache.
Based on WOF by Frank Willemsen & Corin Langosch.
Support for Quake level files.
C/C++ source.

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

03.04.1997 Xvizn 04.10.1996

Xvizn is a VR library for PCs by Tomas Bily (tomby@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz).

Shaded, perspective texture mapping.
BSP rendering.
MAMLAS - language for describing 3D scenes ( basic keyword: if, else, while, int, float, point, vektor, polygon, scene, object ... ).
Level editor.
C++ class design.

More information and the source (to the alpha version) is available on Tomby's Virtual Reality and 3D graphics page.

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

23.01.1997 BSP3D 23.01.1997

BSP3D is a polygon renderer for PCs by Pin Fei Sun ( pfsun@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca ).

Unshaded affine texture mapping.
Flat shaded polygons.
BSP rendering.
C++/ASM source.

More information, the source and other 3D demos can be found on the BSP3D Homepage.

17.01.1997 Shandy 10.01.1997

Shandy is a polygon renderer for PCs by Andrew Po-Wai Cheung ( apwc@doc.ic.ac.uk )

Shaded affine texture mapping.
Gouraud and flat shaded polygons.
6 degree of freedom.
Painters sorting.
Multiple objects and multiple point lights.
SVGA support.
8 and 24 bit color support.
TGA texture map support.
3D Studio ASC object file support.
Keyboard interaction of scenes,objects,cameras & lights.
32 and 16 bit memory model support.
C++/C/ASM source.

More information can be found on the Shandy Homepage. The source and demo can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi.

09.01.1997 3D Demo 13.08.1996

The 3D Demo is a PC rendering engine from Kerrigan Burgess (k_burge@alcor.concordia.ca).

Linear texture-mapping with flat, gouraud and phong shading.
Wireframe rendering.
Transparent rendering.
2D shadows.
Backdrop images.
Dynamic object manipulation (morphing).
2D image functions (scale, rotate).
C++/ASM source.
Depth cueing/fogging.

The voxel-engine has the following features:

Skymapping.
Y-rotation, no tilt.

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

09.01.1997 MPhong 13.08.1996

MPhong is a PC demo from Rex Deathstar (deathstr@singnet.com.sg).

Transparent phong environment mapping.
Motion blur.
C++/ASM source.

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

30.12.1996 Midpoint Algorithm Paper 30.12.1996

The Midpoint Algorithm Paper by John Mears (john.mears@oxinst.co.uk ) describes a technique for perspective texture mapping.

Perspective texture mapping with MIP-mapping.
C++/ASM Sources for DOS.
Very long documentation about the algorithm.

The documentation and sources can be found on the Midpoint Algorithm Homepage.

11.11.1996 MCP-Fly 11.11.1996

MCP-Fly (magic car pet) is a polygon landscape renderer for PCs by Aatu Koskensilta (zaphod@sci.fi) aka 'Sqrt(-1)'.

Shaded affine texture mapping.
Heightfield rendering.
6 degree of freedom.
Fixedpoint math.
Depth cueing.
C++ source.

The source and more information can be found on the Sqrt(-1) Homepage.

11.11.1996 Texture Mapping Howto 25.09.1996

TMH is a tutorial about texture-mapping from Jeremiah Zanin (strider7@unm.edu).

Non-shaded perspective and affine texture mapping scaliner.
C/C++ source.

The tutorial can be found on the Texture Mapping Howto Homepage, there are also some demos on the Strider Demo page.

17.10.1996 TPolygon 17.10.1996

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

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

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

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.

19.04.1996 TAGL 01.01.1995

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

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

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

Gouraud-shading Engines

07.04.2000 3D Engine 07.04.2000

This i a gouraud shading engine for DOS from Srecko Morovic ( srecko_morovic@hotmail.com ).

Gouraud shading
Sound support
Support for 3D Studio 4 files
Uses Koristi Allegro game library
C++ DJGPP source

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

02.02.2000 Trender 23.12.1999

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

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

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

18.01.1999 3D Studio 07.10.1997

3D is a simple object editor for PCs from Spencer Pickett ( spickett@lucent.com ).

Gouraud, flat and wireframe rendering.
Movable light source.
Construction of sweep objects (tori, cones, spheres etc..) .
Z-sorting.
Support for SVGA.
Written in C++.

More information and the demo can be found on the Spencer Picketts Project Homepage

12.03.1998 MegaGraph Graphics Library 01.01.1995

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

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

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

10.01.1997 Graph3D (Link Problems!) 01.01.1995

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

07.03.1996 Free3d (Link Problem!) 07.03.1996

F3D is a portable, object-oriented real-time 3d rendering library from Brandon Van Every (vanevery@blarg.net).

Gouraud and flat shading, texture mapping is planned.
Painters sorting.
X11-Windows support.
C++ source code.

More information and the source can be found on the Free3d Homepage.

01.11.1995 XVirtual 14.06.1995

XVirtual is a 3D animation engine from Marcus Roth (roth@aix01.rz.fht-mannheim.de).

Animation support.
Shadow mapping.
Z-buffer rendering.
The C++ source has german comments.
Support for X11-Windows, needs xview library.

The source can be found on ftp.fht-mannheim.de. More info in the XVirtual Readme.

31.08.1995 3D Tools 01.01.1995

3DT is a 3D engine for PCs by Voltaire/OTM (mortens1@nersc.gov).

Z-buffer
C++ and ASM
Reads 3D-Studio ASC files

A full source can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi , more info in the 3D Tools Readme.

Doom/Wolfenstein Engines

09.02.2000 BOOM 2 09.02.2000

BOOM 2 (followup to BOOM 3D) is a 3D engine for Windows from Ivailo Belchev ( ivob@geocities.com ).

Non orthogonal walls
Floor and ceiling texture mapping
Looking up and down
2D sprites
No lighting, shading or depthcueing
Support for Direct3D and software rendering
Map editor
C++ / ASM source

More information, screenshots, the demo and source can be found on the BOOM 2 Engine Homepage.

09.02.2000 SHS Engine 09.02.2000

The SHS Engine is a 3D engine for Windows from Stefan Sigwarth ( sigwarthsoft@hotmail.com ). It is based on the BOOM 2 engine.

Non orthogonal walls
Floor and ceiling texture mapping
Looking up and down
2D sprites
No lighting, shading or depthcueing
Support for Direct3D and software rendering
Written for Visual C++ 6.0

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

09.04.1999 BSP 15.08.1997

BSP is a doom level viewer for PCs from Ivailo Belchev (ivob@geocities.com ) .

Non orthogonal walls.
Floor and ceiling texture mapping.
Depthcueing.
C++ / ASM source.

The demo and source can be found on the Homepage of Ivailo Belchev .
Paul Toth has made two pascal versions of the BSP engine (for Delphi 2+ and BP7) that can be found on the Mysoft Homepage.

31.03.1998 3D Ray-Caster 31.03.1998

3DRC is ray-casting wolfenstein engine for DOS computers from Gabor Nagy ( gabor@jps.net ).

Orthogonal walls with same height.
Floor and ceiling texture mapping.
Depth-cueing.
Wall reflections on the floor.
Sprites.
32-bit protected mode.
C++ source (DJGPP/Borland C++).

More information, screenshots, the source and binarie can be found on the 3D Ray-Caster Homepage.

09.01.1998 BOOM 3D 21.07.1997

B3D is a 3D engine for PCs from Emil Dochevsky ( zajo@geocities.com ) and Ivailo Belchev ( ivob@geocities.com ).

Non orthogonal walls.
Floor and ceiling texture mapping.
Looking up and down.
BOOM can render any geometry that consists of vertical walls and horizontal floors - not only rooms above rooms.
2D sprites.
No lighting, shading or depthcueing yet.
SVGA support.
C++ / ASM source.

More information, screenshots, the demo and source can be found on the BOOM 3D Engine Homepage.

15.08.1997 WWD (Link Problems !) 13.03.1997

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

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

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

01.04.1997 Baltimore 01.04.1997

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

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

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

Flat-shading Engines

20.07.1999 3D Game Engine 20.07.1999

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

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

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

21.05.1999 Smeeze's 3D Engine 21.05.1999

Smeeze's 3D Engine is a flatshading 3d engine for X11 from Robert Smies ( smies@hio.hen.nl ).

Flatshaded polygons
Z-Buffer rendering
Support for 16 bit color rendering
Should compile under most unixes
C++ source, no documentation

More information, screenshots and the source can be found on Smeeze's 3D Engine Homepage.

19.12.1997 Checkers 3D 19.12.1997

C3D is a 3D checkers game for DOS from Leandro Bernsmuller (lebe@geocities.com) and Sandro Daniel Camillo.

Flat shaded polygons.
Z sorting.
Game artificial inteligence: minimax.
C++/ASM sources (with portuguese comments).

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

22.07.1997 Boxes 22.07.1997

Boxes is a PC 3D rendering engine from David Farrell ( fdavid@utdallas.edu ).

Flat shading.
3D clipping.
Moving light source.
Span-buffer rendering.
Support for 3D Studio object files.
SVGA support.
C++ / ASM source.

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

25.02.1997 BattleBall 25.02.1997

BattelBall is a single-/multi-user 3D game which runs under X11-Windows from Philip Hardin (pahardin@cs.utexas.edu).

Flat polygons using X11 primitives.
BSP rendering.
3D objects, object morphing.
Simple physics.
Computer players.
C++ source, uses STL (Standard Template Library).

More information, compiled versions and the source can be found on the Homepage of Philip Hardin.

17.07.1996 DDJ: ZSort 16.07.1996

ZS is a sample system to render 3-D scenes with a span-buffer as discussed in the May/June -- July/August 1996 issues of "Dr. Dobb's Sourcebook" from Michael Abrash (mikeab@idsoftware.com).

Windows output.
Span-buffer rendering with zsorted insertion.
Single coloured polygons.
Uses own display buffer that is copied into a window, easy to expand to texture mapping.
C / C++ source.

The source can be found on ftp.idsoftware.com. There is also a DOS port to DJGPP Allegro at the Michael Abrash porting page. More information can be found on the Quake Hidden Surface Removal webpage.

04.01.1996 DDJ: BSP Rendering 04.01.1996

BR is a sample system to render 3-D scenes from 2-D BSP trees, as discussed in "Ramblings in Realtime" column in the May/June, July/August, and November/December 1995 issues of "Dr. Dobb's Sourcebook" from Michael Abrash (mikeab@idsoftware.com).

Windows output, mouse support.
BSP generator and 3D display program.
All 3D walls have the same height and only one color.
Uses own display buffer that is copied into a window, easy to expand to texture mapping.
C / C++ source.

The source can be found on ftp.idsoftware.com. More info in the BSP Rendering Readme.

04.01.1996 DDJ: 3D Clip 04.01.1996

3C is a sample system to render 3-D scenes to illustrate 3-D clipping, as discussed in "Ramblings in Realtime" column in the March/April 1995 issue of "Dr. Dobb's Sourcebook" from Michael Abrash (mikeab@idsoftware.com).

Windows output, mouse support.
6D movement.
Simple convex objects with polygon sorting.
Uses own display buffer that is copied into a window, easy to expand to other shading method.
C / C++ source.

The source can be found on ftp.idsoftware.com. More info in the 3D Clip Readme. or on the Quake 3D Clipping webpage.

04.09.1995 DView 04.09.1995

The DView package from Jack Hill (jkhil@dbsoftware.com) contains a flatshading engine for PCs.

Read DOOM I WAD files.
BSP rendering.
C++ Source.

The source can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi . More info in the DView Readme.

Wireframe Engines

19.06.1995 3DG 19.06.1995: 3DG is a wireframe viewer for PCs by Greg Ecker (eckerg@is.nyu.edu) that uses the Borland BGI interface. The C++/ASM source can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi.

Landscape/Voxel Engines

07.04.2000 Legend 23.06.1999

Landscape is a 3D engine for DOS from Alexander Kornyusckin ( korn@isan.troitsk.ru ).

New rendering method, support for many triangles
Resolution: 640x680, 600x400 with Hi-color
Texture mapping
Shadow mapping
SVGA support
Import- export from 3d studio
Written in C/C++ (Watcom 11) with ASM files

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

02.03.2000 terraVox 11.05.1999

terraVox (former OpenVL) is an Landscape Engine for PCs (DOS, Linux and Windows) from Alex J. Champandard ( ajc116@demeter.cs.york.ac.uk ).

4 DOF height field rendering
Bilinear interpolation between voxels
2 alpha blended planes for the sky
Fog and quality reduction in the distance
Voxels with bilinear filtered textures
Span level bi-directionnal mipmapping
Support for huge heightmaps (powers of two)
Lightmap shading
Realtime variable level of detail rendering
Fully customisable rendering options
Ported to linux X11, VESA under dos, Direct Draw and OpenGL
C++ or Pascal and Assembler source code

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

18.03.1999 Heightfield Landscape 13.08.1996

Heightfield Landscape is an example heightfield renderer for DOS from Alex Chalfin (achalfin@netmagic.net).

Bilinear interpolated heights
Bilinear interpolated color
No skymapping.
Y rotation.
Clean, commented C/C++ source.

More information, a screenshot and the source can be found on the Codepage of Alex Chalfin.

28.09.1998 Attack 13.08.1998

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

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

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

17.09.1998 UltraVox 17.09.1998

UltraVox is a real-time landscape renderer for SGI from Serge Grandjean ( serge@trix.be ).

Perspective texture mapping using OpenGL.
Landscape tiled databases.
Mip-Mapping.
Geometry bi-linear interpolation.
Vertical raycasting.
Panorama backgrounds / sky mapping.
Pitch, yaw and roll camera rotation.
Fogging.
Written in C/C++.

More information and the executable can be found on the UltraVox Homepage.

08.06.1998 V3Demo 09.03.1998

V3Demo is a landscape engine for PC computers by Marc Peter ( mrp@rz.uni-jena.de ).

Perspective texture-mapped landscape.
Landscape mipmapping.
Animated water.
Y-Rotation, looking up/down, rotation about flight axis and translation.
Submarine view.
Fogging.
VESA 2.0 support.
C++ source.

More information, screenshots,a demo and the source can be found on V3Demo Homepage.

18.01.1996 Flight through / around Clouds 04.01.1996

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

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

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

05.11.1995 KS Land 05.11.1995

KS Land is a wireframe landscape engine for PCs by Keith Sibson (ks@dcs.st-and.ac.uk) .

Wireframe plasma landscape.
C++ / C source.
Y-rotation and translation.

The source can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi . More info in the KS Land Readme.

3D Engines List C++

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