3DEL: Source & Lightmap rend.

3D Engines List
Source & Lightmap rend.

This list contains 22 lightmap rendering engines 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.

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 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.

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 .

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.

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 Twister 28.09.1999

Twister is a "Quake-style" 3D engine for Windows by Stefano Lanza ( steflanz@tin.it ).

Lightmapped, perspective texture mapping
BSP rendering
Multiple cameras
Mirrors
Particle systems
Quake II .bsp support
Quake II model support
S-buffer rendering
Dynamic colored lightmaps
Volumetric fog
Support for Quake 2 models
Direct3D acceleration
Console
Visual C++ 5.0 source

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

08.10.1999 Xonnel 21.08.1998

Xonnel is a 3D engine for MSDOS and Windows from Vindicator ( vindicatorh@usa.net ).

Lightmapped perspective texture mapping.
Mip mapping.
Alpha transparency.
Portal rendering.
True colored lighting.
True Shadows, with redefinable grid sizes through world file.
Collision detection / sliding.
Updated landscape rendering and improved texture structure.
Resolution independand, support for SVGA.
Space Warping ( name given by Crystal Space -- sounds proper ).
Asm script language.
Physics system.
Basic window based portal editor.
Particle system
DJGPP C source code
C Scripting builtin using seer
GUI/Editor/console using BGui

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

20.05.1999 EasyGen3D 11.08.1998

EasyGen3D is an OpenSource wrapper for the Genesis 3D library from Matthew Ellis ( matt@magmagames.com ).

Easy setup of Genesis3D
Easy scene setup
Support for Gravity, Coronas, Electric bolts and dynamic lighting
Texture loading
C source for Visual C++ 6.0

More information and the SDK can be found on Genesis 3D Homepage.

10.03.1999 Fluxions 10.03.1999

Fluxions is a 3D engine for PCs by Jonathan Metzgar ( microwerx@fcmail.com ).

Perspective lightmapped texture mapping
Bi-linear texture-mapping with perspective-correction every 8-16 pixels
Portal rendering
Span-buffer hidden surface removal
3D sprites (triangle mesh) with Z-Buffering
C++/ASM source developed with DJGPP and Allegro.

More information, screenshots and the source can be found via the Microwerx Game Programming 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 .

21.07.1998 Zen Engine 21.07.1998

ZE is 3D engine for Windows 95 by Stuart Abercrombie ( stuart@imaginator.com ).

Lightmapped perspective texture mapping.
MIP-mapping.
Coloured lightmap lighting.
Surface caching.
Translucency.
Mirrors.
Fogging.
Sky box rendering.
Portal rendering.
Texture coordinate effects (moving clouds, swirling water..)
Software perspective correct texture-mapping using DirectDraw.
3DFX hardware support via Glide.
C/C++/Asm source (Visual C).

More information, screenshots and the source with documentation can be found on the Zen Engine Homepage.

28.01.1998 Extrinsic Dawn 15.08.1997

ED is a Quake level viewer for PCs from Ben Cohee ( benco@gisco.net ) originally based on QMap from Sean Barrett.

Perspective texture mapping with scanline subdivision.
MIP-mapping.
Light-mapping with light cache.
BSP rendering.
PVS (possibly visible set) support.
S-Buffer rendering.
Frustrum clipping.
Support for Quake level files.
SVGA support.
Support for Watcom DOS, DJGPP DOS and MSVC 4.1 Win32 with DirectX.
C source.

More information and the source can be found on the Extrinsic Dawn Homepage.

01.12.1997 Alpha Project 12.08.1996

The Alpha Project is renderer with 6 DOF texturemapper by John DiCamillo (milod@netcom.com).

Perspective correct texture mapping using bilinear interpolation every 16 pixels.
Lighting done in texture cache (Light-mapping).
MIP-mapping.
Level editor.
BSP tree support.
DirectDraw support for Windows NT.
C++/ASM source.

More information, tutorials (and some source code) about 3D texture mapping and MIP-mapping can be found via the Homepage of John DiCamillo.

22.11.1997 CLIFF 03.11.1997

CLIFF is a PC 3D engine by Komodakis Nikos (komod@csd.uch.gr).

Shaded, perspective texture mapping.
SVGA support.
MIP-mapping.
Lightmap rendering.
BSP rendering, visibility lists, edge-sorting.
Collision detection.
Physics system.
Support for Quake level files.
CLIFF-shell - a shell mechanism (similar to Quake's console).
Animated textures.

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

03.11.1997 Direct3D Quake Viewer (Broken Link!) 03.11.1997

The D3DQV is a Direct3D engine for Windows 95 by Keith Harrison ( kh@netcomuk.co.uk ).

Perspective, shaded texture-mapping with lightmaps.
Support for Direct3D and PC 3D cards.
BSP tree.
Ported from the OpenGL version of the viewer.
Support for Quake level files.
Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 source.

More information, the source and binary can be found on the Direct3D Quake Viewer Homepage .

22.09.1997 QMap 16.06.1997

QMap is a Quake level viewer for PCs from Sean Barrett ( buzzard@world.std.com )

Perspective texture mapping.
MIP-mapping.
Light-mapping with light cache.
BSP rendering.
PVS (possibly visible set) support.
Frustrum clipping.
Quake-style water-surface animation.
Support for Quake level files.
Support for Watcom DOS, DJGPP DOS and MSVC 4.1 Win32 with DirectX.
C source.

More information and the source can be found on the QMap Homepage.

06.06.1997 World Of Fantasy 30.12.1996

WOF is a Quake viewer for PCs by Frank Willemsen (frankw@xs4all.nl) and Corin Langosch ( corinl@metronet.de ).

Perspective texture mapping with MIP-mapping.
Portal rendering.
BSP rendering.
Z-buffer and span-buffer.
Light-maps and Surface cache.
Realtime lightning effects (like flicker) and dynamic lighting (for fireballs).
SVGA support.
Improved collision detection.
Polygonal objects.
Moving doors and elevators.
Multiple viewports.
Water effect a la Quake.
Support for Quake level files.
C/C++ source.

More information, a demo and screenshots can be found on the WOF Homepage, the source of an older version is available on the old World Of Fantasy Homepage.

07.05.1997 SQuake 25.04.1997

SQuake is a DOS Quake viewer by Riccardo Scarsi (scarsi@athena.polito.it) and Massimo Rossi.

Perspective texture mapping.
BSP rendering with clip tests.
Visibility lists.
Simple lighting.
Surface cache.
Based on WOF by Frank Willemsen & Corin Langosch.
Support for Quake level files.
C/C++ source.

More information, the source and binary can be found on the SQuake Homepage.

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