3D Engines List Source & 3D sound This list contains 9 3d-sound engines with source code.

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.

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.

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 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 .

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 .

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.

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.

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 .