3D Engines List Source & MIP-mapping This list contains 25 mip-mapping engines with source code.

27.04.2000 Orion3D

27.04.2000

Orion3D is a 3D engine for Windows 95/98 from Gabriel Peyré ( nikopol0@club-internet.fr ).

• Shaded, perspective texture mapping
• Support for OpenGL
• Mip mapping
• Fog effect
• Static lights
• Hierarchical objects with animation
• Support for bmp textures
• Support for 3D Studio Max via export plugin
• C++ source for Visual Studio

More information, the OrionViewer and source to the Orion3D engine can be found on the french Orion3D 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 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 .

04.04.2000 Coockie's 3D Engine

20.01.1997

C3D is a 3D engine for Pentium PC by Erwin Coumans ( coockie@chello.nl ) aka 'Cookie'.

• Perspective texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• Collision detection.
• 3D BSP rendering.
• Moving objects.
• Support for 3D Studio ASC files.
• VESA 2.0 linear framebuffer support.
• Support for 3Dfx pc 3d cards using Glide.
• C/ASM source.

The source can be found at http://members.xoom.com/gamedev/download/sources/demosrc.zip, the demo is found at http://members.xoom.com/gamedev/download/sources/demosrc.zip.

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.

04.02.2000 Ogopogo

04.02.2000

Ogopogo is a 3D engine for DOS from Christian Lange ( clange@nybro.dk ).

• Perspective, shaded texture mapping
• Lambert, gouraud and phong shading
• Bilinear filtering
• MIP mapping
• Z-Buffer
• Support for 3D Studio ASC and 3DS
• 24 bit rendering
• C++ source

More information, the executable and source can be found on the Ogopogo 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.

18.10.1999 DDJ: RaveKit

15.07.1997

RaveKit is a portable 3D framework by Mark Carolan presented in Dr. Dobb's Journal July 1997 .

• Uses QuickDraw 3D RAVE library.
• Support for Windows 95 (DirectDraw) and Mac.
• Perspective texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping
• Z-buffer and z-sort rendering.
• C++ source.

The source (for Mac and Windows including the RAVE library) can be found on ftp.ddj.com.

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.

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.

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.

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.

12.03.1998 Flyby

14.10.1997

Flyby is a complete 3D game engine by Jean-Francois Nadeau (jfxstudios@ixmedia.com ) , Félix Lapointe (lapointg@total.net ) and Mathieu Routhier (mrouthier@cyberdude.com).

• Perspective, shaded texture-mapping.
• Support infinite real-time coloured omni and directional lights. (Always use the four nearest lights.)
• MIP-mapping dynamic caching algorithm.
• 3D clipping and backface culling code.
• Basic collision detection code.
• Z-Buffer rendering.
• Support for DirectX and PC 3D cards.
• Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 source.

More information, screenshots, binaries, 3D models and source code can be found on the Flyby 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.

14.11.1997 Sofie

14.11.1997

Sofie is a 3D game engine for X11 from Stephan Schiessling ( Stephan.Schiessling@mathematik.uni-regensburg.de ) .

• Perspective, non-shaded texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• BSP rendering.
• Multiple objects with physics (Mass, velocity...).
• Collision detection.
• 2D sprites (for explosions).
• Support for X11-Windows (with MIT-Shm-Extension) on Linux.
• Support for 8 and 16 bit color.
• Joystick support.
• C++ source.

More information, screenshots, documenation, binary and the source can be found on the Sofie Homepage.

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 .

22.10.1997 EGLE

15.08.1997

EGLE ( Enhanced OpenGl Engine ) is a 3D game engine by Phil Frisbie ( pfrisbie@geocities.com ).

• Perspective texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• BSP, Z-Buffer and z-sorting rendering.
• Anti-aliasing.
• 32 bit color support (RGBA).
• Collision detection.
• Uses OpenGL API (Mesa/3DFx) .
• Support for Quake level files.
• ANSI C, no C++ or Windows specific code. EGLE should compile on any system that has OpenGL and GLUT.

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

30.12.1996 Midpoint Algorithm Paper

30.12.1996

The Midpoint Algorithm Paper by John Mears (john.mears@oxinst.co.uk ) describes a technique for perspective texture mapping.

• Perspective texture mapping with MIP-mapping.
• C++/ASM Sources for DOS.
• Very long documentation about the algorithm.

The documentation and sources can be found on the Midpoint Algorithm Homepage.

10.02.1997 3D Engine

10.02.1997

3D Engine is a 3D game engine for Macintosh computers from Steve Israelson (steve_israelson@mindlink.net)

• Non orthogonal walls.
• 256x256 textures with MIP-mapping.
• Moving platforms.
• Dynamic lighting.
• Depth cueing.
• Sprites.
• Map editor available.

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