3DEL: API & SRC: OpenGL

3D Engines List
API & SRC: OpenGL

This list contains 34 rendering engines using OpenGL for rendering and with source code.

Texture-mapping Engines

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 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.

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 .

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.

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 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 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.

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 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 Apprentice 11.12.1996

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

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

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

23.12.1999 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.

22.12.1999 Golgatha 17.11.1998

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

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

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

28.09.1999 Gizmo3D 28.09.1999

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

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

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

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.

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.

25.02.1999 Poly Engine 27.09.1996

The PE is a PC 3D Quake-like game engine from Alexey Goloshubin ( alexey@ii.uib.no).

Full object support.
Collision-detection
Physics system
Movable bsp models
Client-server networking (IPX, null-modem)
3D Sound.
VFX1 head-tracking
BSP/ZBuffer rendering
Polygonal objects
Sprites
Support for Quake II maps and models.
Particle systems.
Software renderer
- Supports any resolution
- Span buffer
- Perspective tex-mapping (16-pix subdivision)
- Mip-mapping
- Surface caching (light maps)
- Dynamic lights
Hardware renderer
- Support for OpenGL.
- DirectX port.
- Colored lightmaps
- Colored dynamic lights

More information and the source is available via the Homepage of Alexey Goloshubin .

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.

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.

08.09.1998 Obsidian 08.09.1998

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

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

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

23.07.1998 JawMD2 16.02.1998

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

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

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

03.11.1997 OpenGL rendering techniques 03.11.1997

The PGPT are sample programms and tutorials using the OpenGL API from Mark Kilgard (mjk@sgi.com) from Silicon Graphics.

Lens-flares.
Shadows, lighting, textures and reflections.
Halos.
Underwater caustics.
Colored shadows.
C source.

More information, the source and tutorials can be found on the OpenGL rendering techniques Homepage.

22.10.1997 EGLE 15.08.1997

EGLE ( Enhanced OpenGl Engine ) is a 3D game engine by Phil Frisbie ( pfrisbie@geocities.com ).

Perspective texture mapping.
MIP-mapping.
BSP, Z-Buffer and z-sorting rendering.
Anti-aliasing.
32 bit color support (RGBA).
Collision detection.
Uses OpenGL API (Mesa/3DFx) .
Support for Quake level files.
ANSI C, no C++ or Windows specific code. EGLE should compile on any system that has OpenGL and GLUT.

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

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.

Non-realtime Engines

02.02.2000 World Foundry 02.02.2000

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

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

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

08.09.1999 Craft 3D 08.09.1999

Craft 3D is a 3D game engine for Windows 95 / NT from Tony Hart ( TonyHart@griffydam.freeserve.co.uk ).

Perspective correct texture mapping
Fogging
Collision detection
Support for 3DFX opengl
Craft 3D editor available

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

Gouraud-shading Engines

06.04.1998 View3DS 06.04.1998

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

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

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

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.

23.10.1997 3Dom 23.10.1997

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

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

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

23.10.1997 GL-Space 23.10.1997

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

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

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

Doom/Wolfenstein Engines

13.04.1999 WinHeretic/GL-Heretic 13.04.1999

WinHeretic and GL-Heretic are ports of the orginal Heretic (released by Raven Software) to Windows and OpenGL from Michael Ryssen ( mryssen@club-internet.fr ) aka 'Kokak'.

Heretic is based on the Doom engine from ID-Software
Sound support using MIDAS
The WinHeretic port uses WindowsGDI
Non-othogonal walls with different height
Floor or ceiling mapping
Sector lighting and distance cueing
Looking up/down is done via shearing in Y
3D sprites
Support for Microsoft Visual C V4.0 and V5.0

More information, the source and binary can be found on the WinHeretic/GL-Heretic Homepage.

Landscape/Voxel Engines

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.

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.

3D Engines List API & SRC: OpenGL

This list contains 34 rendering engines using OpenGL for rendering and with source code.

Texture-mapping Engines

Non-realtime Engines

Gouraud-shading Engines

Doom/Wolfenstein Engines

Landscape/Voxel Engines

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