3D Engines List Source & Network support This list contains 14 network support 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 .

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 GEL

04.02.2000

GEL is an open source virtual reality system from UR Studios, 7F Research, Qube, Headlamp, ParallelGraphics, Mutation Labs and other contributors.

• Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping
• Adaptive nurbs tesselation
• Network support
• Scene graph support
• Support for DirectX and OpenGL
• Currently support platforms are: Windows NT/ 98 / 2000
• Portable C++ source

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

22.12.1999 Golgatha

17.11.1998

Golgatha is a 3D game engine from Crack dot Com. Crack dot Com left business and decided to release the source of their game that has been in development for more than 2 years.

• Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping
• Texture filtering
• Landscape rendering
• Using a single portable rendering API, support for 3dfx's Glide, partial support for Microsoft's Direct3d, software rendering using Span Buffering, and very partial OpenGl support
• DirectSound, Direct 3d sound, Aureal 3d sound, and partial Linux sound support.
• Support for Win95, Win98, and WinNT and Linux
• Plugin for 3D Studio Max for geometry im/export
• Game editor
• Portable TCP networking code, supporting UDP and TCP
• A LISP interpreter with threaded garbage collection
• Portable GUI system, with a window manager, support for dialog boxes, buttons, browse trees, pull down menu, context menus, scroll bars, sliders, dividers, list boxes, text input, status indicators, and context sensitive help
• Image loaders & savers for Jpeg, FLI, PCX, TGA, BMP
• Image histograms & quantization
• Sound loaders for WAV and MP3
• Hand crafted assembly language optimizations for pentiums, and k6-3d
• C/ASM source.

More information, screenshots and the complete sources (even game data, music and textures) can be found on the Golgatha 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.

07.07.1999 MythOS

22.07.1997

MythOS is a (former commercial) OpenSource 3D library from Charybdis Enterprises done by Chuck Walbourn (chuck@charybdis.com).

• Perspective texture mapping.
• Gouraud shading.
• Z-buffer rendering.
• Hierarchical objects.
• Support for 8 and 15 bit devices with Windows 95.
• Support for 3D Studio object files, cameras, lights and materials.
• Network support.
• C++ class library.

More information, a demo and the source can be found on the MythOS 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 .

08.09.1998 Obsidian

08.09.1998

Obsidian is an open source 3D engine for Linux and OpenGL from Duncan Robertson ( duncan@zog.net.au ) , Jon Holdsworth ( jon@central.warehouse.net ) and David Karla ( dak@zog.net.au ).

• Perspective, gouraud shaded texture mapping.
• Support for OLinux/SVGALIB and OpenGL (tested on SGI).
• Network support.
• Polygon sorting.
• Collision detection.
• Scene editor.

More information, screenshots, binaries and the souce can be found on the Obsidian Homepage .

11.01.1999 WinDoom/glDoom

11.11.1998

WinDoom and glDoom are enhanced ports of the Linux version of DOOM (released by ID Software on December 23, 1997) to Windows 95 and OpenGL from Bruce Lewis ( brucel@abraxis.com ).

• WinDoom: Support for DirectX5 (DirectDraw)
• glDoom: Support for OpenGL hardware rendering.
• Network support.
• Bugfixes.

More information, screenshots and the source and executable for WinDoom and OpenGL Doom can be found on the WinDoom/glDoom Homepage .

09.09.1996 WebView 3D

25.09.1995

WV is doom style 3d engine from Philip Stephens ( philip@galaxy.bocaraton.ibm.com).

• X11-Windows support for Solaris, SunOS, BSDI, AIX and Linux. HiColor (16 bit) support for DOS.
• Variable window size.
• Non-orthogonal walls, texturemapped floor and ceiling.
• Regions can have different light levels.
• Depth cueing.
• Dithered lighting and light cueing.
• Backdrop images.
• BSP rendering.
• Collision detection.
• 8 sided sprites.
• Networking support and network server. World Wide Web support.
• 3D chat function.
• C source with special adaptions for Intel-based machines.
• GIF and JPG texture support.
• WT- and WORLD-file to BSP converter.
• Real-time physics.

The source and more information can be found on the WebView3D Development Page.

01.09.1995 MultiVerse

01.01.1995

MV is a multi-user, non-immersive, X11-Windows based Virtual Reality system, primarily focused on entertainment. MultiVerse was written by Robert Grant (RGrant.LAX1B@Xerox.com).

• Client-Server based model, using Berkeley sockets.
• No limit to the number of users (apart from performance).
• Hierachical Objects (allowing attachment of cameras and light sources).
• Multiple light sources (ambient, point and spot).
• Objects can have extension code, to handle unique functionality, easily attached.

Source: ftp.u.washington.edu or at ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de . More info in the Multiverse Readme.

16.02.1998 FLY8

03.07.1995

The FLY8 package is a wireframe multiplayer flightsimulator from Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal@eyal.emu.id.au ).

• DOS (MsVC, Borland c, Quick C, DJGPP), Windows (3.1, 95, NT), Unix/X11-Windows (shm) and OS/2 DIVE.
• SVGA and stereo shutter glasses support.
• Landscape generation and collision detection.
• Algorithmic sky painting.
• Sound and joystick support.
• 2D vector text.
• Networking support.

Screenshots and the source are available via the Homepage of Eyal.