3DEL: Source & Landscape/Voxel

3D Engines List
Source & Landscape/Voxel

This list contains 31 landscape/Voxel engines with source code.

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.

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.

22.09.1997 3D Game Engine 24.02.1997

3DGM is a landscape game engine for PCs by Raymond Penners ( raymondp@win.tue.nl )

Unshaded affine texture mapping.
Gouraud shaded polygons.
Transparent polygons.
Sky-mapping.
Fogging.
Moving sea.
Polygonal 3D objects.
2D sprites.
Polygon sorting.
Support for DOS and Linux.

More information and the source can be found on the 3D Game Engine 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.

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.

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.

11.03.1996 RayDeal 06.03.1996

RD is a doom engine combined with voxel landscape graphics from Matt Howard (weirdo@primenet.com).

Non-orthogonal walls.
Variable level floors/ceilings.
Sector lighting.
Preshaded interpolated voxel heightfield for outdoor scenes.
Animated 2D sprites.
Collision detection.
C / ASM source.

The full source and more information can be found on the RayDeal 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.

04.02.2000 WinUfo 04.02.2000

WinUfo is a landscape engine for Windows 95 / 98 / 2000 by Bret Logan (logan-bret@cs.yale/edu).

Color interpolation between voxels
Y-Rotation and translation.
Utility for landscape generation.
Based on platform-independent C++ heightfield/voxel rendering class

More information, the source for the landscape rendering class and several demos using this class can be found on the Homepage of Bret Logan.

09.06.1999 Pulsar 09.06.1999

Pulsar is Voxel based 3D Engine for DOS from Sven Forstmann ( s_forstm@ira.uka.de ).

Two height-maps for floor and ceiling
Floor/ceiling texture mapping
Animated 3D water
Clipping
Sound output
Assembler-optimized inner Loop
Level-Editor ( integrated in the Engine )
Sprites (code is still buggy)
Backdrop images
Documentation
Pascal/ASM source for DOS Protected-Real-Mode

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

07.10.1998 Voxel landscape 23.10.1997

VL is a landscape engine for PC computers by Steven Don (shd@geocities.com ).

Color interpolation.
Y-Rotation and translation.
No sky mapping
Pascal source code (there is also a new Ada-port)

More information and the demo can be found via the Homepage of Steven Don in the source/graphics section.
A port of Voxel Landscape to Ada from Gautier de Montmollin ( gautier.demontmollin@maths.unine.ch ) can be found at ftp.gwu.edu.

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.

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.

22.04.1997 Matt's Fract 22.04.1997

Matt's Fract is a landscape engine for Macintosh computers by Matt Dawson (Misc1666@csc.canterbury.ac.nz).

No interpolation between voxels.
Y-Rotation and translation.
Randomly generated landscape.
Support for 8 bit displays.
C source.

The source can be found on fractals section of the Math Archives.

21.04.1997 Map 21.04.1997

Map is a landscape engine for Macintosh computers by Ingemar Ragnemalm (ingemar@lysator.liu.se).

No interpolation between voxels.
Y-Rotation and translation.
Support for 8 bit displays.
Support for 68K and PPC.
Pascal source.

The source can be found at ftp.lysator.liu.se or via the Programing Homepage of Ingemar Ragnemalm .

20.08.1996 Fly1 06.11.1995

Fly1 is a heightfield rendering engine from Chris Egerter (egerter@egerter.com) - author of WordUp Graphics Toolkit.

Textured voxel heightfield rendering.
Sky texturemapping.
Y-Rotation, tilt and translation.
3 detail levels.
C / ASM source.

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

13.08.1996 Voxelspace 13.08.1996

Voxelspace is a landscape engine by Rex Deathstar (deathstr@singnet.com.sg).

Skymapping.
Y-rotation.
No interpolation.
C / ASM source.

The source and demo can be found on ftp.cdrom.com.

11.04.1996 Iguana Heartquake Land 05.11.1995

IHL is a voxel landscape engine for 386 PCs by Jare ( jarevalo@ran.es) and JCAB of Iguana. The source contains only the landscape part of the Heartquake demo.

Voxel heightfield without interpolation.
6 degree of freedom.
No sky texturemapping.
Precalculated, natural landscape with shading.
C / ASM source.

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

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 Giant 05.11.1995

Giant is a 4 KB into demo by Jari Ky T�jo Ki (aka Sigma) that contains a landscape part.

Voxel landscape rendering with interpolation.
Sky mapping.
Only translation.
Precalculated shading.
ASM source.

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

05.11.1995 Moonbase 05.11.1995

Moonbase is a landscape engine for PCs by James McNeill (mcneja@wwc.edu).

Interpolated voxel rendering.
No skymapping.
Y-Rotation and translation.
C / ASM source.

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

05.11.1995 Venus 05.11.1995

Venus is a voxel terrain engine by Vincent Lepetit (lepetit@scinfo.u-nancy.fr) using the older TAGL 2.1 library.

Interpolated voxel heightfield rendering.
Textured sky backdrop mapping.
Plasma terrain generation.
Animated water waves.
Y-Rotation and translation.
X11-Windows, dynamic window size.
C source.

The source can be found at ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de. More info in the Venus Readme.

05.11.1995 OTMVOXEL 05.11.1995

OTM Voxel is a simple voxel engine and documentation by Zach Mortensen (mortens1@nersc.gov) aka 'Voltaire' of OTM.

Simple voxel rendering.
C / ASM source.

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

05.11.1995 4K Less 05.11.1995

4KL is a flatshaded polygon landscape demo (4K into) by Esa Pulkkinen (esap@cs.tut.fi) aka Brainstorm of Paranoids.

Flatshaded polygon landscape.
Rotation and translation.
C / ASM source.

The source can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi . More information on the Paranoids WWW page

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.

05.11.1995 3D Scape 05.11.1995

3D Scape is a dot landscape engine by David Hedley (hedley@cs.bris.ac.uk).

Dot landscape.
Fractal landscape generation.
Rotation and translation.
C / ASM source.

The source can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi . More info in the 3D Scape Readme.

05.11.1995 Gor Land 05.11.1995

Gor Land is a dot landscape demo for PCs by Paul Geary (gearyp@cs.man.ac.uk).

Dot plane mapping.
ASM source.

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

04.09.1995 CMars 04.09.1995

CMars is a newer version of Mars from David Lindauer (gclind01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu).

Interpolated voxel heightfield rendering.
Sky texturemapping.
Y-Rotation and translation.
C / ASM source.

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

04.09.1995 LL Land 04.09.1995

LL Land is a dot landscape engine from Lord Logics (ketrenoj@ucs.orst.edu).

Dot landscape.
Rotation and translation.
C / ASM source.

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

04.09.1995 3D Scape 04.09.1995

Rotscape is a dot landscape engine from TTT (ttaiple@phoenix.oulu.fi).

Dot landscape.
Y-Rotation and translation.
ASM source.

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

3D Engines List Source & Landscape/Voxel

This list contains 31 landscape/Voxel engines with source code.

3D Engines List
Source & Landscape/Voxel