3D Engines List Source & Z-Sorting This list contains 35 z-sorting engines with source code.

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.

28.09.1999 Eng3D

22.04.1999

Eng3D is a small 3D engine for DOS from Gautier de Montmollin ( Gautier.deMontmollin@maths.unine.ch ).

• Shaded, perspective texture mapping
• Different perspective scanliners
• Multiple lights
• Z-Sorting
• Clipping
• SVGA support
• Written in Ada

More information, screenshots and the source can be found on the Eng3D Homepage

20.11.1998 TGMP

01.04.1997

TGMP is a 3D graphics engine for PCs using DELPHI by Peter Dove (peterd@graphicalmagick.com) and Don Peer (dpeer@mgl.ca).

• Shaded linear texture mapping.
• Gouraud shading and wireframe rendering.
• Z sorting.
• 16 bit color support for Windows 95.
• Object Pascal / Delphi 2 source with good comments.
• A longer text document describes the techniques used.

The source files can be found at the Delphi Informat 1997 File Library under the name DI9704DP.ZIP.

17.11.1998 3D-Mesh-Viewer

17.11.1998

3DMV is a PC 3D engine from Timothy S. Bowers ( tsb@icon.co.za ).

• Unshaded, perspective texture mapping
• Gouraud shading
• Phong shading (via environment mapping)
• Wire frame rendering
• Support for 3D Studio ASC files.
• Motion blur.
• Pascal source.

More information, screenshots and the source can be found via the Homepage of Timothy S. Bowers.

26.01.1998 RTMZ

14.07.1995

RTMZ is a 3D engine for PCs from Davide Pasca ( dpasca@ix.netcom.com) and Fabrizio Zavagli (f.zavagli@agora.stm.it).

• Flat, gouraud and phong shading of polygons.
• Texture mapping.
• Painters sorting and z-buffering.
• Written in C++/ASM, ModeX, 32 bit.
• GEO, GEM and 3DS file support, there are lots of modells in the package.
• 2 different interaction modes.
• SVGA support with resolution switching.
• Cool user interface.
• C source.

The source can be found on the Homepage of Davide Pasca..

23.10.1997 PXD Trainer

23.10.1997

The PXD Trainer is a tutorial 3D engine for PCs from Kasper Fauerby (tm@image.dk ) aka 'Telemachos' of Peroxide.

• Linear, unshaded texture mapping.
• Environment mapping, fake phong shading.
• Gouraud shading.
• Z-Sorting.
• Pascal source.

The source and tutorials can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi as pxdtut3.zip and pxdtut4.zip.

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.

22.10.1997 Threed

22.10.1997

Threed is the Linux port of the 3D engine by Jean-Francois Dube (deks@videotron.ca) aka 'Deks' of IncaMaster.

• Perspective, shaded texture-mapping.
• Sub-pixel & sub-textel accuracy
• Flat and gouraud shading.
• Multiple objects.
• Multiple rgb light sources.
• Z sort rendering.
• Light-source rendering.
• 2D clipping.
• Support for 3D Studio ASC, GEO and GEM object files.
• C++ source.

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

16.09.1997 Project SpandeX

01.01.1995

Project SpandeX (previously known as Latex) is a 3D engine from Paul Nettle (midnight@www.grafix3d.tzo.com).

• Commercial quality engine, written by commercial game developer.
• Open-GL like
• Texture-mapping, environment-mapping, bump-mapping, solid-color polygons, Phong shading, Gouraud shading, Lambert.
• Perspective correct, and affine texture mapping both supported
• Sub-pixel, sub-texel accuracy
• Z-buffering and sorting.
• Triangles, lines, points, text (mono or proportional).
• Up to 100 dynamic light sources.
• Material support with Ka, Kd and Ks variables (may change on the fly).
• Support for any resolution.
• Multiple cameras that can act JUST like 3DS cameras.
• Hierarchical database design with forward kinematics and inheritance.
• 100% Pure C for portability with small inline ASM parts.
• Over 250 API calls for maximum flexibility.
• Support for DOS and Linux/X11.
• Latest version is completely true-color.

More information, screenshots, the source and demos can be found on the Project SpandeX Homepage.

15.08.1997 Enigmatic Experience

30.12.1996

The Enigmatic Experience is a polygon renderer for Windows by Dion Picco (dpicco@garfield.cs.mun.ca) and Steven Lilly.

• Unshaded, affine texture mapping.
• Gouraud and flat shading.
• Z-buffer and z-sorting.
• Uses Win32 and WinG.
• Support for BMP texture files.
• Own scene file and object format.
• C++ source.

Dion Picco just moved his homepage, on the new page there is no information or link to the source of the Enigmatic Experience engine.

16.05.1997 The Chaos Engine

16.05.1997

TCE is a 3d engine for PCs from Lars Andersson ( lars_and@algonet.se ).

• Linear, shaded texture mapping.
• Gouraud and flat shading.
• Z clipping.
• Painters sorting.
• C/ASM source.

More information, screenshots, source and executable can be found via Lars' 3D Graphics Programming Page.

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.

17.01.1997 Shandy

10.01.1997

Shandy is a polygon renderer for PCs by Andrew Po-Wai Cheung ( apwc@doc.ic.ac.uk )

• Shaded affine texture mapping.
• Gouraud and flat shaded polygons.
• 6 degree of freedom.
• Painters sorting.
• Multiple objects and multiple point lights.
• SVGA support.
• 8 and 24 bit color support.
• TGA texture map support.
• 3D Studio ASC object file support.
• Keyboard interaction of scenes,objects,cameras & lights.
• 32 and 16 bit memory model support.
• C++/C/ASM source.

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

15.07.1996 3DTOSHI

15.01.1996

3DTOSHI is a 3D engine for PCs by Toshiaki Tsuji (tsuji@cs.concordia.ca).

• Linear, shaded texture mapping.
• Gouraud and flat shading, wireframe rendering.
• Transparence and distance cueing/fogging.
• DOS 32 bit, Windows 3.1 and Win32 ( Win 95 & NT) support.
• Z sorting.
• 3D Studio ASC file support.
• C++ / ASM source.

A source/demo can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi.

25.03.1996 DCC 3DE

25.03.1996

3DE is a 3D engine for 386 PCs by Teemu Laakso (x-wizard@rack.improvers.fi) aka 'Zjack' of 'DCC VR Labs'.

• Environment texture mapping.
• Gouraud shading.
• Z-sorting.
• Clipping.
• ASM source.
• DCC file format, 3DS to DCC converter included.

A source anx executabled can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi .

21.03.1996 SJM386

21.03.1996

SJM386 is a 3D engine for 386 PCs from Steve Madsen (smadsen@cs.muohio.edu).

• Linear, non-shaded texture mapping.
• Z-sorting of objects and polygons.
• Wireframe and flatshaded rendering.
• GIF and PXM texture support.
• Uses XLib library.

The source can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi . More info in the SJM386 Readme.

02.02.2000 Trender

23.12.1999

Trender is portable a gouraud shading 3D engine for Linux and Windows from Thanassis Tsiodras ( ttsiod@softlab.ntua.gr ).

• Gouraud, flat, wireframe and point rendering
• Support for 3D Studio ASC files
• Z-Buffer and z-sorting
• Anti-aliased lines
• Software rendering (SDL - Simple DirectMedia Layer) or 3DFX support
• Portable C++ source

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

06.04.1998 Tutor

06.04.1998

Tutor is a tutorial 3D engine for DOS from Libor Capak (xcapak@fi.muni.cz) .

• Gouraud shading.
• Z-Sorting.
• Pascal / ASM source.

More information,a screenshot and the demo with source can be found on the Programming Page of Libor Capak.

15.04.1997 M3D

15.04.1997

M3D is a PC 3d engine by 'Memon' and 'Raynet' of iNSiDE informatics.

• Gouraud shading.
• Multiple, movable light sources.
• Painter's algorithm: qsorted polygons
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS files.
• C/ASM source.

The source and binary can be found via the iNSiDE Homepage on the Products page.

07.03.1996 Free3d (Link Problem!)

07.03.1996

F3D is a portable, object-oriented real-time 3d rendering library from Brandon Van Every (vanevery@blarg.net).

• Gouraud and flat shading, texture mapping is planned.
• Painters sorting.
• X11-Windows support.
• C++ source code.

More information and the source can be found on the Free3d Homepage.

31.08.1995 GVectors

19.06.1995

GV is a gouraud shading engine for PCs from Terry Sznober (tumblin@mi.net).

• C/ASM source, uses XLib.
• Single color objects, polygons sorting.

The source can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi . More info in the GVectors Readme. There is also a vector editor for the V10 format on x2ftp.oulu.fi .

31.08.1995 3D Vectors

10.06.1995

The Modex 3D Vector Library from John McCarthy (BRIAN.MCCARTHY@CANREM.COM) contains a PC gouraud shading engine.

• Multiple objects.
• Z-sorting.
• Translucency.
• 2D text, bitmap objects.
• Sound support for GUS and SB.
• Joystick support.
• 100% ASM.

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

04.04.2000 True3D

04.04.2000

True3D is a simple 3D engine for Java from Trevor Wilkin ( GamesProgramming@freenetname.co.uk ).

• Flat shaded rendering
• Z-Sorting
• Vector and matrix math
• Support for polygons and lines
• Java source

More information, the applet and source can be found on Trev's Java Homepage.

04.02.2000 Evil3D

04.02.2000

Evil3D is a simple 3D engine for Java from Trevor Wilkin ( GamesProgramming@freenetname.co.uk ).

• Flat shaded rendering
• Z-Sorting
• Support for 3D Studio models
• Java source

More information, the applet and source can be found on Trev's Java Homepage.

26.05.1999 Blast3D

26.05.1999

Blast3D is a flatshading 3D engine for DOS from Tobias Johansson ( tobias_johansson@mailcity.com ).

• Colored lambert shading
• Object transformations
• Z-sorting (Painters)
• Support for 3D Studio ASC and Nullsoft MD2 files
• Full DJGPP/Allegro source code release

More information, screenshots and the source can be found on the Blast3D Homepage.

27.12.1997 3D Clip

27.12.1997

3DC is a simple 3D engine for DOS from Nils Pipenbrinck aka 'Submissive'.

• Flat shaded polygons.
• Z sorting.
• 3D clipping.
• C/ASM sources.

More information about 3D clipping, a screenshot, the source and executables can be found on the 3D Clipping Homepage.

19.12.1997 Checkers 3D

19.12.1997

C3D is a 3D checkers game for DOS from Leandro Bernsmuller (lebe@geocities.com) and Sandro Daniel Camillo.

• Flat shaded polygons.
• Z sorting.
• Game artificial inteligence: minimax.
• C++/ASM sources (with portuguese comments).

More information, screenshots, the source and executables can be found on the 3D Checkers Homepage.

23.10.1997 3D Tutor

23.10.1997

3DT is a simple 3D engine tutorial by Johan E. Thelin ( pstjohan@hotmail.com ).

• Flat shaded polygons.
• Simple shading.
• Polygon sorting.
• C source.

The tutorials and source can be found on the 3D Tutor Homepage.

23.10.1997 Java Solid Shading

23.10.1997

JSS is a 3D java tutorial engine from Johan E. Thelin (todd.sundsted@javaworld.com).

• Flat shaded polygons.
• Simple shading.
• Polygon quicksort.
• Portable java source.

The tutorial, source and demo can be found on the Java Solid Shading Homepage.

14.02.1997 3D Probe

14.02.1997

3DP is a simple 3D engine by Wayne (powen@ilink.nis.za) posted in comp.graphics.algorithms.

• Flat shaded polygons.
• Polygon sorting.
• Pascal source.

The source can be found in the 3D Probe info file.

17.07.1996 DDJ: ZSort

16.07.1996

ZS is a sample system to render 3-D scenes with a span-buffer as discussed in the May/June -- July/August 1996 issues of "Dr. Dobb's Sourcebook" from Michael Abrash (mikeab@idsoftware.com).

• Windows output.
• Span-buffer rendering with zsorted insertion.
• Single coloured polygons.
• Uses own display buffer that is copied into a window, easy to expand to texture mapping.
• C / C++ source.

The source can be found on ftp.idsoftware.com. There is also a DOS port to DJGPP Allegro at the Michael Abrash porting page. More information can be found on the Quake Hidden Surface Removal webpage.

26.02.1996 Great Evil's Vectors

01.01.1995

The Vector library from Robert Copeland (aka 'Great Evil') (gt5111a@prism.gatech.edu) contains a Mode X flatshading engine for 386 PCs.

• Z-sorting.
• No clipping.
• Protected mode ASM.

The source can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi . More info in the Greater Evil Vectors Readme or on the Homepage of Robert Copeland.

04.01.1996 DDJ: 3D Clip

04.01.1996

3C is a sample system to render 3-D scenes to illustrate 3-D clipping, as discussed in "Ramblings in Realtime" column in the March/April 1995 issue of "Dr. Dobb's Sourcebook" from Michael Abrash (mikeab@idsoftware.com).

• Windows output, mouse support.
• 6D movement.
• Simple convex objects with polygon sorting.
• Uses own display buffer that is copied into a window, easy to expand to other shading method.
• C / C++ source.

The source can be found on ftp.idsoftware.com. More info in the 3D Clip Readme. or on the Quake 3D Clipping webpage.

11.11.1997 ZED

22.06.1995

The ZED engine is a very basic 3D engine from Sebastion Loisel (zed@sgi.com). It was developed in conjuction with the ZED 3D tutorial about polygon scanconversion, texture mapping and phong shading.

• Z-sorting.
• No light calculations.
• No clipping.
• Reads ASC files.

The tutorial and source is available on the Homepage of Sebastion Loisel.