3D Game Engines List Part 2 of 3

04.08.98 Alternative Realities

04.08.98

AR is a 3D engine for Windows by Stefan Maton ( metron@skynet.be ).

• Perspective shaded texture mapping.
• Z-Buffer and W-Buffer shading.
• BSP-rendering.
• Ambient and omni colored lights.
• Chroma keying and alpha keying for textures.
• Support for Glide (3DFX).
• Fogging.
• Written in C++.

More information, screenshots and a demos can be found via Stefan Metron's Homepage .

23.07.98 Dan Azzopardi's 3D Engine

23.07.98

DA3D is a 3d engine demo for 3DFX Voodoo graphics hardware on Windows 95 from Dan Azzopardi ( D.E.Azzopardi@qmw.ac.uk ).

• Uses Glide API for rendering.
• Z-Buffer rendering.
• Mip-mapping.
• Multiple lights.
• Reflection mapping.

More information, screenshots and the executable can be found on the Dan Azzopardi's 3D Engine Homepage .

23.07.98 JawMD2

16.02.98

JawMD2 is a Quake2 Model Viewer by Jawed Karim ( jkarim@students.uiuc.edu ).

• Unshaded, perspective texture mapping.
• Antiliased wireframe, gouraud and textured rendering modes.
• Full frame animation support
• Uses OpenGL for 3D rendering.
• Support for Windows 95/NT and Linux (using MesaGL).

More information, screenshots, the executables and the source can be found on the JawMD2 Homepage.

22.07.98 RealiMation

22.07.98

RealiMation is a commercial real-time 3D scene management and rendering API, developed by Datapath Ltd.

• Supported platforms: Intel based PC (Windows 95, 98, NT), DEC Alpha based PC (Windows NT) and Silicon Graphics.
• Drivers for Direct3D v5, OpenGL, RenderWare, 3dfx Glide for Voodoo & Voodoo2, 3DLabs GLINT based cards, Real3D Pro1000.
• Integrated Space Time Editor for scene preparation, optimisation, and application debugging
• Scene optimisation tools (polygon reduction, scene restructuring etc.)
• Z buffer support.
• Standard texture features such as trilinear mip mapping, bilinear, perspective correct
• Advanced texture features such as image blending, detail textures, illumination maps, alpha maps.
• Live video texturing on any 3D surface
• Instancing support.
• Unlimited Level of Detail by area and by distance.
• Automatic motions.
• Collision detection.
• Raytesting.
• Terrain following.
• Plugins for 3D Studio Max 1 & 2, SoftImage, MicroStation, AutoCad.
• Import OpenFlight, DXF, 3D Studio, VRML1 & 2.
• Multi screen/channel output.
• Remote rendering across a TCP/IP network.
• Full read/write access to scene graph from API
• SDK includes Debugging libraries, Automatic Application Wizards, memory leak tools.

More information, screenshots and a browser plugin can be found on the RealiMation Homepage.

21.07.98 Zen Engine

21.07.98

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.

21.07.98 Magician

12.03.98

Magician is a commercial set of Java classes from Arcane Technologies Ltd. that implement a Java interface to OpenGL

• Support for all OpenGL 1.1 GL and GLU calls. Many features of Aux and GLUT have also been translated to work within a Java environment
• Built-in, easy-to-use multiple simultaneous view support.
• Multi-threaded rendering.
• Support for direct OpenGL calls or polymorphic methods.
• Built-in OpenGL tracing and profiling support that is runtime switchable.
• Native library (that interfaces the OpenGL-driver) available for Linux, Sgi, Windows 95/NT, Solaris and AIX.
• Support for the Apple Macintosh, BeOS and OS/2 is currently undergoing testing.
• Over 70 demos available with full source code.
• Free runtime license, commercial runtime licens available.

Free evaluation downloads are available. Personal and commercial runtime and source licences are available for purchasing.

More information, screenshots, demos and the libraries can be found on the Magician Homepage.

21.07.98 X-Engine

21.07.98

XE is a 3D engine for Windows 95 from Ales Mlakar aka JaZzBrE ( jazzbre@slo.net ).

• Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping.
• BSP- and z-buffer rendering.
• Collision detection.
• Character animation.
• Support for DirectX 5, needs PC 3D hardware.
• Basic physics.
• Particle systems.
• Written in C++.

More information and a demo can be found on the X-Engine Homepage.

21.07.98 PIRACE

29.01.96

PIRACE ( Platform Independent Rendering And Calculation Engine ) is the follow up to MEGR (multi purpose engine for graphics rendering), a 3D engine for PCs by Ben Constable (benc@cse.unsw.edu.au).

• Linear, shaded texture mapping.
• Gouraud and flat shading.
• Windows 95/NT support.
• Mipmapping.
• Reflection mapping.
• Transparency.
• Advanced palette management.
• DirectDraw rendering.
• Z-buffering.
• Multiple lights and different light types.
• Hierarchical objects.
• Proprietry format, converters from imagine and lightwave.
• Written in ANSI C++ using STL.

More information and demos can be found on the PIRACE Homepage.

08.06.98 Geometry Box

15.07.96

Geometry Box (former Model 3DD) is a commercial Quake\Unreal style development system from Mike Richardson (starthro@winternet.com).

• Up to 256x256 texture resolution, 8 and 16 bit shaded perspective texture mapping, two-pass rendering.
• MIP-mapping.
• Transparence and translucence.
• Gouraud shading.
• Space-partitioned 3D modells.
• Depth cueing.
• Transparent coloured polygons.
• Spotlight, daylight and viewer light mode, multiple dynamic light sources.
• Light-mapping with shadow calculations.
• Bezier patches and height field support, real-time terrain generation.
• BSP-sorted and Z-buffer rendering.
• Hierarchical object system.
• Collision detection.
• CSG support.
• Shadow calculation, two pass lighting.
• Physics Systems.
• Unified rasterization architecture.
• Particle systems.
• Region-based Effects (Water & Fog).
• Support for DOS and Windows 95/NT.
• Object, level and terrain editor, modeller.
• Support for MultiGen OpenFlight.
• Animation and scripting support.
• Non-player Character Interactions & Reactions.
• Client / Server support.
• Sound and music support.
• C++ API, full source code in full version.

More information and screenshots can be found on the Geometry Box Homepage.

08.06.98 Yager

14.01.98

Yager is a 3D game engine for Direct3D from Roman Golka, Uwe Beneke, Timo Ullmann ( ullmann@informatik.hu-berlin.de ), Joerg Wagner, Philipp Schellbach, Thilo Böhm and Volker Strübing.

• 6-DoF landscape renderer using innovative "free tile" texturing.
• 3D objects.
• Colored lights.
• Particle systems.
• Game physics based on flexible reality model.
• Support for DirectSound.
• 16 bit gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping.
• 16 bit Z-Buffer used for hidden surface removal.
• Collision detection.

More information and screenshots can be found via the Yager Homepage .

08.06.98 3D Game Machine

01.01.95

3DGM is a professional 3D game development framework for Windows 95/NT and MacOS from Virtually Unlimited Corporation that aims to reduce time-to-market.

• Easy to use, high-level API.
• Fast free-form texture mapping with MIP-mapping.
• Smooth shading and alpha blending.
• Multiple directional, positional and cut-off, colored light sources.
• Polygon-precise collision detection.
• Convex/cave polygons with unlimited number of vertices.
• 3D sprites.
• Color fog and haze simulation.
• Material and light properties.
• Explosion simulation.
• Very large world management.
• World/level editor.
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS, 3D Studio MAX, AutoCad DFX, Mac 3DMF and MiniCad scene files.
• Fast rendering on 486, Pentium, 680x0 and PowerPC. Support for PC 3D cards (Glide and Direct3D)

Demos and more information can be found on the Virtually Unlimited Homepage .

06.05.98 LithTech

03.11.97

The LT (former DirectEngine) is a commercial game development tool for Windows 95 developed from Monolith Productions.

• Support for Direct3D, own renderer or 3DFX/Glide.
• Dynamic colored lighting.
• Lightmap rendering.
• 3D sprites.
• Hierarchical key-framed animation (with interpolation).
• Translucency/transparency for water/glass effects.
• Level of Detail support.
• Particle systems.
• Customizable physics.
• Real-time shadows.
• Multi-server networking

More information, screenshots, a demo and licensing information can be found on the LithTech Homepage.

05.05.98 Bolt3D

16.06.97

Bolt3D is a 3D engine for windows platforms from Chong Jiayi (chongjy@pacific.net.sg )

• Phong-shaded texture-mapping.
• Gouraud and phong shading.
• Bump mapping.
• Bilinear filtering for smooth textures.
• Real-time artificial "soft" spotlights.
• Fogging.
• Real-time transparency.
• Particle systems with transparent sprites for smoke, bubbles etc.
• Primitive object (spheres, cones, sweeps...) creation.
• Modeller with sweep and texture mapping and modification of object properties.
• Enhanced landscape rendering for large data meshes.
• Wave surface deformation for modelling blobby objects or water waves.
• Support for 8 and 24 color format.
• Library and header files are available.
• Hardware Acceleration via Direct3D.

More information, screenshots, the demo and library can be found on the Bolt3D Homepage.

30.03.98 Portal Engine

30.03.98

PE is a 3D engine for Windows 95 from JaZzBrE ( jazzbre@slo.net ).

• Perspective gouraud shaded texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• Portal rendering.
• Multiple light sources.
• Support for DirectX 5.
• 3D objects.
• Support for 3D Studio.
• Collision detection.

More information and a demo can be found on the Homepage of JaZzBrE .

19.03.98 Amp Game Development System

13.05.97

The AGDS (formerly Diamond 3D Game Development System) is a complete game development system for Windows 95 from Slam Software.

• Perspective shaded, texture mapping.
• BSP rendering.
• Gouraud shaded, hierarchical 3D characters.
• Realistic light sourcing with shadows.
• Movable Mirrors.
• 3D editor.
• Collision detection.
• Physics model / Particle Model.
• Advanced animation system with animation blending
• Direct-Sound based audio system.
• Client/Server game architecture
• 8 bit color support, variable resolution.
• Coming Soon: Multiplayer support and 3DFx Acceleration.

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the Slam Software Homepage.

17.03.98 Terra

17.03.98

Terra is a commercial 3D terrain visualization engine for Windows 95 by Skyline Software Systems LTD.

• Support for Direct3D.
• Realistically simulates weather phenomena such as clouds and fog.
• Perspective texture-mapping with alpha blending and fog.
• Static and dynamic 3D & 2D hierarchical objects.
• Multi-resolution meshes.
• Mesh animation.
• Real-time fractal interpolation and texture merging.
• Support for DFX and X objects.
• Optional terrain builder.
• C API interface.
• Access to the terrain z-buffer and ground height values.

More information and screenshots can be found on the Terra Homepage

12.03.98 Flyby

14.10.97

Flyby is a complete 3D game engine by Jean-Francois Nadeau (jfxstudios@ixmedia.com ) , F,lix 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.

11.03.98 Shark 3D Library

07.10.97

The S3DL is a 3D library for Windows 95 by Schamel Software.

• Realtime lighting maps and high-speed Gouraud shading.
• Realtime shadowing.
• Hierarchical world management.
• Collision detection.
• Realtime elimination of hidden objects/world parts.
• Drivers for D3D, Glide and OpenGl (all hardware accelerated).
• Shark 3D file format.
• Import compiler from VRML2.0 (e.g. export from 3D Studio Max).

For more information, screenshots and a demo to download see Schamel Software.

09.03.98 Venom

09.03.98

Venom is a 3D engine for Windows 95 from Alan Gordie ( 3dguy@mediaone.net ).

• Perspective, gouraud shaded texture mapping.
• MIP-mapping.
• Dynamic RGB light sources.
• Particles Systems.
• Lens Flares and Halos.
• Alpha-blending and transparency.
• Z Buffering.
• Support for 3D Studio .3DS meshes and animation.
• Support for TGA and BMP texture files.
• Support for Direct3D, OpenGL and 3Dfx Glide.
• Music and Sound using Midas Sound System.

More information, screenshots, a tutorial and a demo can be found on the Venom Homepage.

04.03.98 NetImmerse

21.07.97

NetImmerse is a commercial object oriented Game Engine for PCs from Numerical Design, Ltd. (NDL).

• Full C++ Source Code, no royalties.
• Drivers for Direct3D Immediate Mode, OpenGL and Glide
• Level of Detail (LOD) management.
• Portals Module
• Continuous LOD Terrain Module
• Support for BSP and ZBuffer rendering.
• RSX based spatialized 3D sound support
• Collision detection (Oriented Bounding Box technology)
• Support for 3D Studio MAX R2 (Integrated MAX Plugin support for animation, paths and particles) and 3DS, Multigen OpenFlight, and VRML 1.0.

NetImmerse is currently being used for upcoming games from Broderbund Red Orb Entertainment, FASA Interactive, Greystone and Media Station.
More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the NetImmerse Homepage.

13.02.98 UltraFish 3D Engine

13.02.98

The UltraFish 3D Engine is a commercial 3D game engine for Windows 95/NT from UltraFish Incorporated.

• Lightmapped, perspective correct texture mapping.
• Dynamic colored light sources.
• Portals and display lists.
• Advance character animation.
• Support for 3D Studio MAX models.
• Game editor toolkit.
• Fully DirectX compatible, support for Direct3D hardware acceleration and own custom software renderer for non-accelerated machines.

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the Ultrafish Homepage.

12.02.98 Torch

12.02.98

Torch is a commercial 3D engine for Windows 95/NT from Newfire.

• Lightmapped, perspective correct texture mapping.
• Z-Buffer and bsp support.
• Level of Detail (LOD) management.
• Arbitrary texture map sizes.
• Support for JPEG, PNG and GIF texture files.
• Texture and geometry cache.
• Texture transparency.
• MIP-mapping.
• Fogging and depth cueing.
• Pre-computed lighting with soft-edge shadows.
• Dynamic lighting on non-textured objects.
• Collision detection.
• Support for VRML 2.0.
• Support for Direct3D, OpenGL and 3Dfx Glide and software rendering.
• Multichannel sound and and stereo midi support.
• C and Java API, JavaScript support in WWW browser.
• Standalone and WWW browser plugin.
• Development Environment for Torch is called Catalyst.

More information, screenshots and the browser plugin (for software developers only) can be found on the Newfire Homepage.

12.02.98 Oden3D

12.02.98

Oden3D is object-oriented C++ 3D game engine for Windows 95 / NT platforms from Novel Productions. Oden3D provides (when finished):

• Perspective, gouraud shaded texture mapping.
• Hierarchical scene graph databases
• Keyframed animations
• Effiecient visible object culling through OBB or BSP trees
• Portal rendering
• Multiple instancing of objects and hierarchies
• Multiple cameras and lightsources
• Dynamic collision detection
• Support for Direct3D and OpenGL
• Dynamic lighting and fogging
• Level-of-detail representation
• Particle system
• Landscape renderer
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS scene and animation files
• Networksupport
• C++ object-oriented extendable API
• 3D hardware accelleration through Direct3D.

For more information send an email to astaroth@mail.databasen.se.

01.12.97 Alpha Project

12.08.96

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.

24.11.97 XDC 97

24.11.97

XDC 97 is a mixed rendering mode demo from Haim Barad from Intel Corporation published in the Game Developers Magazine in september 1997.

• Perspective, shaded texture mapping.
• Uses Direct3D hardware rendering in conjunction with a software renderer (mixed mode rendering).
• Phong-like shading.
• Procedural texture mapping.
• Support for MMX.
• Support for Windows 95 with Direct3D 5.0 and graphics accelerator card with 4MB texture memory.
• C source.

More information and the source can be found as sept97.zip on the Source Code page of the Game Developers Magazine.

11.11.97 3Dplayer

11.11.97

3Dplayer is a 3d polygon engine from Andrey Romanov ( aleksey@nica.ru ).

• Perspective, shaded texture mapping.
• MIP-mapped texture filtering.
• Multiple cameras.
• Resolution independand.
• Collision detection.
• Real characteristics of objects: mass, power,resilience, elasticity, aerodynamics, energy, etc.
• Support for OS, OS/2 and Windows.
• Support for SVGA.
• Wad-file (for DOOM1) converter, support for 3D Studio ASC format

The demo can be found on ftp.nica.ru.

03.11.97 Direct3D Samples

03.11.97

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 .

27.10.97 MythOS

22.07.97

MythOS is commercial a PC 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 and a demo can be found on the MythOS Homepage.

13.10.97 Tekktonic Game Engine

13.10.97

The TGE is a commercial Windows 95 engine by the Reakktor Media Group.

• Perspective, shaded texture-mapping.
• Independent lighting levels for each polygon.
• Portal rendering.
• Depth shading, fogging.
• Realtime lighting fx.
• Hierarchical polygon characters.
• Collision detection.
• Support for DirectX.
• 3D sound system.
• Multiplayer support.
• Optimized for Intel Pentium.
• Windows 95 editor.

This engine will be used to create the indoor part of the game Typherra which will be released early 1998. The Tekktonic Game Engine will be available for Sublicensing after Typherra has been finished.
More information and screenshots can be found on the Typherra Homepage.

08.09.97 Lost Shadows

21.07.97

LS is a commercial 3D game engine from Lost Boys Interactive done by Jacco Bikker (Jacco@LostCity.nl) and Jurgen Kluft ( Jurgen@LostCity.nl ).

• Support for Windows 95 and hardware accelerators.
• Perspective correct texture mapping.
• Transparent textures.
• Bump mapping and phong shading.
• Portal rendering and dynamic level structure.
• Real-time dynamic shadows cast by dynamic lights.
• Mirrors.
• 16 bit gouraud shading.
• Multiple, dynamic spotlights with accurate shadows.
• Lens-flares.
• Hierarchical 3D objects.
• Hi-color rendering.

More information, screenshots and a interactive demo can be found on the Lost Boys VR-Section.

15.08.97 Enigmatic Experience

30.12.96

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.

08.07.97 Dark Tide

08.07.97

Dark Ride is a 3D game engine by Soren Mou Jakobsen (smj@post6.tele.dk ), David Zeuthen ( dzeuthen@post3.tele.dk ), Joel Ostrowski and Thomas Jorgensen ( tj@kampsax.dtu.dk ).

• Support for OpenGL or own rendering system under Windows 95/NT.
• Colored light sources.
• Light-mapping.
• Lens-flares.
• Support for 15,16, 24 and 32 bit color in all resolutions.
• Network support.
• 3D editor.

More information and screenshots can be found on the Dark Tide Homepage.

09.06.97 IMAA

09.06.97

The IMAA (Integrated Modeling, Animation & Analysis) toolkits by Hee S. Chung ( Hee@cyberkorea.com ) contain a 3D rendering engine. The IMAA toolkits are available for Windows, DOS and Silicon Graphics IRIX.
IMAGE, IMAA Graphics Environment

• Texture mapping.
• Gouraud shading.
• Z-buffer rendering.

IMAML, IMAA Modeling Library

• Low level ( Euler ) level modeling
• Sweeping,
• 3D primitive objects.
• Boolean set operation.
• NURBS.

More information and demos can be found on the IMAA Homepage.

06.06.97 3D Reality Rendering System

06.06.97

3DRS is a 3D rendering library for PCs by TS Group Entertainment.

• Shaded, perspective texture mapping.
• Support for DOS, Windows 95/NT, Direct3D and PC 3D cards.
• Z-buffer and z-sort rendering.
• Transparent textures, arbitrarily sized texture maps.
• Material management.
• Multiple cameras.
• Multiple light sources. Directional, point, spot and coloured lights using special built shading tables or hardware acceleration layer.
• Scene and model picking.
• Billboard objects and 3D sprites.
• Support for 8 bit indexed and 16 bit true color modes.
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS object files.
• Support for BMP, GIF, CEL and TGA texture files.
• C++ API.

More information and a demo can be found on the TS Group Entertainment Homepage.

05.06.97 SimStudio

05.06.97

SimStudio is a commercial 3D simulation environment by NDimension Simulations Pty Ltd.

• Perspective texture mapping.
• Support for DirectX and PC3D cards under Windows 95 and NT.
• Hierarchical objects.
• Behavior simulation.
• Collision detection.
• Support for 3D Studio 3DS, 3D Studio MAX and MultiGen OpenFlight scene files.
• C++ API.

More information and screenshots can be found on the NDimension Homepage.

06.05.97 World Toolkit

01.01.95

WTK is a commercial, portable, cross-platform software development system for building high-performance, real-time, integrated 3D applications for scientific and commercial use from Sense 8 Corporation.

• Shaded, perspective texture mapping.
• Z-buffer rendering.
• Multiple viewport and lightsources, 3D paths, portals, 2D texts and shapes, object animations.
• Supports user-defined drawing routines
• Multi-processing/multi-pipeline support
• Support for Windows 95 (Direct 3D), Windows NT (OpenGL), Sun, Silicon Graphics, Evans & Sutherland Freedom Series, Hewlett-Packard, and DEC.
• High level scene management such as hierarchical object culling, efficient use of transform information and level-of-detail switching.
• Support for many I/O devices like HMDs, shutter glasses, 3D trackers, gloves and 3D audio systems.
• Support for VRML, 3D Studio, Pro Engineer, Multigen and Wavefront files.
• Network support.
• C/C++ API.
• Sense 8 also provides a 3D Editor (World Up) based on WTK.

More information on the Sense 8.