3D Engines List Source & Sub-pixel map. This list contains 11 sub-pixel/sub-texel accurate engines with source code.

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 .

13.09.1999 Tiny Java 3D Engine

13.09.1999

The TJ3D is a 3D engine for Java from Jorge Cabezas Garcia ( jorgecabezas@altavista.ne ).

• Texture mapping
• Sub- pixel/texel accuracy
• Phong shading via environment mapping
• Motion blur
• Oversampling antialiasing and simple blur antialiasing
• 3DS MAX 2.x export plugin

More information, the applet and the source can be found on the Tiny Java 3D Engine 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.

10.08.1999 Hi-Fi TextureMapper

10.08.1999

HiFiTM is a experimental texturemapper for DOS from Maxim Stepin ( m_stepin@chat.ru ).
It is written to see the quality of new method of adaptive nonlinear texture filtering.

• Perspective, unlit texture mapping
• Subpixel, subtexel accuraccy
• Fast bilinear texture filtering
• Fast adaptive nonlinear texture filtering
• SVGA support
• Watcom C/ASM source

More information, a demo and the source can be found via the Maxim Stepin Homepage.

18.03.1999 Inertia

09.09.1996

Inertia (former GFXFX3) is a 3d rendering system from Bas van Gaalen (bas@il.ft.hse.nl), Alex Chalfin (achalfin@netmagic.net), Sean Palmer (sean@delta.com) and Jeroen Bouwens (jay@il.ft.hse.nl).

• Unshaded, Ambient, Lambert, Gouraud, and Phong shading models
• Smooth, Texture, and Reflection surface models
• Surface and shading models can be mixed in any combination.
• Transparency for all surface/shading models.
• Support for multiple objects and cameras.
• Object import from 3D Studio .ASC and .3DS files
• PCX Texture support.
• Supports Borland Turbo Pascal v6 & v7, Borland Pascal v7 ( 16 bit DPMI protected mode) and TMT Pascal.
• Floating point transforms optimized for Pentium processors (TMT Pascal Version)
• Super accurate sub-pixel and sub-texel polygon rasterization in 100% Pentium optimized assembly code (TMT Pascal Version)
• Perspective correct texture mapping using 16-pixel affine subdivision (TMT Pascal Version)
• Fustrum polygon clipping performed in full 3d. (TMT Pascal Version)

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

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.

05.05.1998 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.

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 .

16.09.1997 Project SpandeX

01.01.1995

Project SpandeX (previously known as Latex) is a 3D engine from Paul Nettle (midnight@www.grafix3d.tzo.com).

• Commercial quality engine, written by commercial game developer.
• Open-GL like
• Texture-mapping, environment-mapping, bump-mapping, solid-color polygons, Phong shading, Gouraud shading, Lambert.
• Perspective correct, and affine texture mapping both supported
• Sub-pixel, sub-texel accuracy
• Z-buffering and sorting.
• Triangles, lines, points, text (mono or proportional).
• Up to 100 dynamic light sources.
• Material support with Ka, Kd and Ks variables (may change on the fly).
• Support for any resolution.
• Multiple cameras that can act JUST like 3DS cameras.
• Hierarchical database design with forward kinematics and inheritance.
• 100% Pure C for portability with small inline ASM parts.
• Over 250 API calls for maximum flexibility.
• Support for DOS and Linux/X11.
• Latest version is completely true-color.

More information, screenshots, the source and demos can be found on the Project SpandeX Homepage.

23.04.1997 Fatmap

23.04.1997

Fatmap is a tutorial about 'Fast affine texture mapping' by Mats Byggmastar (mri@penti.sit.fi) aka 'MRI' of Doomsday.

• Gouraud shaded, linear texture mapping.
• Flat and gouraud polygons.
• Subpixel & subtexel accuracy.
• Fixed point math.
• Optimised 6 cycle inner loop for Pentiums.
• Sutherland-Hodgman clipping.
• C / ASM source.
• Tutorial text.

The document, source and executable can be found at ftp.cdrom.com.