3D Engines List Source & Lens-flare This list contains 9 lens-flare engines with source code.

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 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 .

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.

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 .

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 .

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 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 .

04.04.1997 Alpha Engine

24.10.1996

The Alpha Engine is a PC 3D engine from Jacco Bikker (Jacco@LostCity.nl). The AE is the followup to his E3Dngine.

• Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping.
• Phong shaded polygons.
• Environment mapping.
• Color mixing tables.
• Transparent texture mapping.
• Full 2D portal clipping.
• Hierarchical relative rotation and displacement of objects
• Z-clipping.
• Fast tree-sorting.
• Scaled, transparent 2D sprites.
• Support for 3D Studio ASC and 3DS, PLG and GEM files.
• Support for PCX texture files.
• VESA linear framebuffer support.
• Protected mode using TMT Pascal.
• All sources available (TMT Pascal).

An older version of the engine also supported

• Bump mapping.
• Planar mirrors.
• Lens-flares.

More information, the sources and some tutorials (clipping, texturemapping, rotations...) can be found on the Homepage of Jacco Bikker.