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3D Game Engines List
Part 3 of 3

Texture-mapping Engines

30.04.97 MindRender 26.02.96

BR is a high performance programmer's API for PCs from Themekit Ltd.

DOS and Windows 95 support (planned).
SVGA support.
Support for 3D input and output devices, like gloves and HMDs.
Z-buffer rendering.
BSP support.
Stereo rendering.
Perspective texture mapping.
Wireframe/solid, gouraud shading and optional phong highlights.
Transparent and shaded textures.
Light and shadow mapping.
Unlimited number of colored lights. Spot, point and directional lights.
Movable lightsources, dynamic light parameters, distance cueing, fogging.
Pre-Rendering of static scenes.
Collision detection.
Keyframe animation, morphing.
Sound support.
API interface to high- and low-level routines.

More information and a demo is available on the ThemeKit Homepage.

01.04.97 Threedom 15.08.96

MThreedom is a 3D engine from Philip Stephens (philip@galaxy.bocaraton.ibm.com). The DOS-port was done by Phil Frisbie (pfrisbie@geocities.com).

Flat shaded, perspective texture mapping.
Z-buffer rendering.
Windows 95, X11-Windows and DOS SVGA support.
C source.

The source and more information can be found on Threedom Homepage.
The DOS-port can be found at Phil Frisbie's Programming Page.

01.04.97 3D Objcad 01.04.97

3D Objcad is a 3D engine for PCs by Dhonn Lushine (Ludhonn@aol.com).

Unshaded linear texture mapping.
Gouraud shading.
Z sorting.
Support for Windows 3.1/ 95.
Written in Watcom C++.

The demo can be found at the Dhonn Lushine Programming Homepage.

27.01.97 VRend 06.11.95

VR is a 3D renderer from Kenny Hoff (hoff@cs.unc.edu).

Polygon-based model rendering includes convex, concave, and self-intersecting polygons.
Fully-generalized hidden surface removal allowing for protruding surfaces.
Shaded perspective texture mapping with tiling and transparency.
Full 3D clipping to the viewplane and the sides of the viewplane window.
Movable front clipping plane allowing a cut-away view of the "inside" of models.
Phong shading.
Complete hierachical modeling system.
Independent object and world coordinate system transformations.
Incremental depth-shading.
C++ source.
Support for X11-Windows and Windows 3.1.

More information (and lots of pictures) on the VRend Homepage or WinRend Homepage.
You also find some 3D tutorials and the source of the scanline-renderer on the Homepage of Kenny Hoff

10.12.96 CS-VWORLD/3D 10.12.96

CS-VWORLD/3D is a 3D engine from Norma Skopinski Software ( skopinski@aol.com ).

Unlit, single color or perspective-corrected texturemapped polygons.
Animated objects.
Red/blue stereo support.
3D object and world editor.
Sound support.
Script language for animations.
Support for DOS and Windows.
Scene compiler generates stand alone programs.

More information and a demo can be found on the (german!) Norma Skopinski Software Homepage.

19.11.96 Cancun 15.07.96

Cancun is a commercial 3D engine from Michael Case (mcase@digitald.com), Digital Dialect.

Perspective texture mapping with gouraud shading.
Sloping walls, full 6-degrees of freedom.
MIP-mapping.
Polygonal objects.
Direct3D support, Windows 95/NT.
Environment building tool.
3DS scene and animation support.

More information and a demo on the Digit Dialect Homepage.

05.11.96 Reality Lab 01.01.95

RL is a commercial 3D library by Microsoft RenderMorphics. The version 2.0 has the following features:

Wire Frame, Flat, Gourad and Phong shading models.
Perspective corrected texture mapping in any shading model.
Environment and motion video mapping.
Full transparency, including alpha maps for textures.
Z-buffering.
Animated backgrounds with optional depth information.
Multiple, movable, coloured lightsources.
4, 8, 16, 24 bit colour depths in both ramp and RGB modes.
SVGA and Windows 3.1/95/NT, X11-Windows on RS6000/SunSparc/SGI, System7 on Mac and PowerMac (both planned, no port yet), Sony PSX support.
Multiple instancing of objects and hierarchies.
Multiple viewports, devices and cameras.
Bezier patches with subdivision on the fly.
Depth cueing with atmospheric effects (e.g. fog, haze).
Projected shadows.
Stereoscopic capability.
Free form deformation toolkit.
Complex spline interpolated motion.
Collision detection toolkit.
Immediate mode allows low-level control over polygon lighting and rendering through direct access to vertices and normals.
70 pages documentation
C-based API.
Supports hardware accelerators like GLiNT, Matrox MGA Impression and 3D device standards like Intel 3DR, Microsoft 3DDDI.

Contact: Servan@Render.com (Servan Keondjian) or morph@microsoft.com.
The old RealityLab Homepage is currently not available - i already did a search on AltaVista and at MicroSoft to find a new homepage - there are recent microsoft products that use the RealityLab engine, but no reference to the engine itself.
There is a free Windows 3.1/95/NT VRML viewer from InterVista Software Inc, using the RealityLab libraries available at the WorldView Homepage.
Information about WIRL (another Windows 3.1/95/NT VRML viewer that combines the VR capabilties of the VREAM package with the Reality Lab rendering engine) is available via the VREAM Homepage.

01.10.96 Virtual laboratory 01.10.96

The project "Virtual laboratory" is a virtual reality simulation system that implements the concept of a virtual laboratory. It was developped by Marc Bernatchez (mbernat@gel.ulaval.ca) at the Universit, Laval.

Flat shaded, perspective texture mapping.
Simulation system.
3D toolboxes.
Windows 95 and NT support.
16 bit color depth.

More information and a demo can be found on the Project Virtual Laboratory Homepage.

20.08.96 WordUp Graphics Toolkit 14.06.95

WGT is a graphics library for PCs by Chris Egerter (egerter@egerter.com). Beside a 3D engine, the 10 libraries offers sprite animation, 3d math, drop-down menus, scrolling engine, joystick commands, FLI/FLC animation routines, file selector, serial communications and a 32-bit protected mode digital sound system for playing music and mixing sound effects real-time.

DOS, VESA SVGA, Windows 95 with DirectX and OS/2 support
Perspective texturemapping with gouraud and phong shading.
Translucent polygons.
Motion blur.
No z-buffer or BSP, only polygon sorting.
Direct 3DS file format support.
400 page printed manual.

A demo of the library can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi . The wgt directory also contains 3 tutorials with source for linear texturemapped polygons and other interesting stuff like landscape rendering and texturemapped phong shading.
More information, demos and tutorials on the Egerter Software Homepage.

20.08.96 PSpace 20.08.96

Possibility Space is a complete development system for real-time 3D rendering by Non-Linear Arts (webmaster@nlarts.com).

Support for DOS and Windows (using WinG).
Perspective texture mapping.
Material textures may contain transparent areas and be of arbitrary size.
Gouraud shading.
Integrated collision detection supports variable collision proximity.
Multiple object instancing.
Hierarchical models.
3DS converter for objects and materials.
Full 32-bit code.

More information and demos is available on the Non-Linear Arts Homepage.

22.05.96 OpenGVS 22.05.96

OpenGVS is a high-level, applications programming interface (API) for professional, real-time, computer graphics software developers from Gemini Technology Corportation.

Support for OpenGL and Direct3D.
Hardware support for SGI, 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics, Intergraph's TDZ, 3DLabs GLINT, Lockheed-Martin's Real3D and DEC/E&S Freedom.
Texture mapping.
Fog model for atmospheric special effects.
Collision detection.
Hierarchical objects.
Import models from MultiGen, GameGen, Wavefront and others.

More information on the Gemini Technology Homepage.

22.05.96 BRender 01.01.95

BRender (Blazing Render) is a complete system with an applications interface, graphics libraries and device drivers by Argonaut Software.

Z-buffer and scanline renderer
Hierarchical, linked objects
Gouraud shading
Multiple cameras and lightsources
Collision detection
Sprite scaling and deformation effects
486PC, Apple Mac/PowerMac, OS/2, Windows could very easily be ported to the 3d0, Saturn, FM Towns or Jaguar
BRender is a 32 bit library, there are versions for Watcom or MS Visual C.
Supports hardware accelerators like GLiNT
Planed: fog-effects, depth-cueing, anti-aliasing, and covered light-sources such as spot-lights
140 pages documentation.
Non-commercial evaluation kit may be available if one asks via email.

Contact: Argonaut Software (paul@argonaut.com, rich@argonaut.com)
Information about BRender as taken from news and emails.
Move information and demos on the Brender Homepage .

06.03.96 3D EnvMap 11.12.95

3DEM is a little 3D engine for PCs by Thanassis Tsiodras (ttsiod@softlab.ece.ntua.gr).

Environment texture mapping. (Phong highlight and shading included in the environment map)
VESA support for DOS and WinG support for Windows.

A demo can be found on ftp.coast.net. More information and newer demos on the 3D EnvMap Homepage

01.01.95 Purple 01.01.95

Purple is an evaluation kit for fast 3D engines and virtual reality I/O devices from Karsten Isakovic (ki@cs.tu-berlin.de).

ANSI C, runs on X11-Windows, Mac, Windows, OSF and TOS. There is also a simple C++ interface.
Hierarchical, movable BSP subscenes with level of detail management for the objects, object grouping.
System-primitive rendering for wire/flat shading, z-buffer, framebuffer only or z-only rendering, direct 3D hardware support (for DEC Kubota)
Flat or gouraud shading in combination with dithering, transparency and texture-mapping.
Unlimited colored, movable lightsources (distant, point and spotlights).
Material constants (ambient, diffuse, specular).
File I/O: rib,asc,rwx,plg,fig,geo,geom,scn,tri,ply. Texture I/O: tga,tiff,gif
Multiple cameras with stereo-support that render into windows or textures.
Simulated virtual person, all elements are controllable with I/O devices like Bird-sensor, Logitech 3D mouse, K1 glove, Powerglove, Sega Activator, Flightstick or 2D Mouse.
Internal task concept, all actions run as purple tasks.
2D sprites, 2D and 3D text, overlay and underlay text, backdrop images, fog/distance cueing.
Environment mapping and mirrors.
Portal rendering with 3D frustrum clipping.
Stereo rendering for red/blue glasses or for CyberMaxx HMD.
Work in progress:
- MIP-mapping and animation for textures.
- Fast shadows with shadow mapping.
- Phong and bump-mapping.
- Anti-aliasing, 2D effects like lens-flares and fire.
- Distributes object visualisation, networked worlds.

Gouraud-shading Engines

18.01.99 Mercury 18.01.99

Mercury is a Windows 95/98 3D engine from Adam Jenkins ( jenkins@jfam.demon.co.uk ).

Gouraud shaded triangles
Uses OpenGL as triangle rasteriser
Z-sorting
Particle system
Landscape rendering
Written in Visual C++ 5

More information and screenshots can be found on the Homepage of Adam Jenkins .

28.01.98 Perspective Renderer 28.01.98

PR is a gouraud shading 3D engine for Windows from Gurpratap Virdi ( virdigur@ee.mcgill.ca ).

Depth cueing and gouraud interpolation.
Simple clipping.
Support for multiple objects.
Written in C++.

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

03.11.97 ENG32

03.11.97

ENG32 is a doom engine for PC from Harald Nowak ( ishn@infrasoft.co.at ).

Non orthogonal walls with different height.
Floor and ceiling mapping.
Looking up/down.
Sky mapping.
3D sprites.
Support for DOS and Windows with DirectX.
Level editor.

More information, screenshot and executables can be found on the Homepage of Harald Nowak.

09.09.97 Virtual Presence Engine

01.01.95

The VPE from Alexey Goloshubin (alexey@ii.uib.no) supports only 386+ PCs.

Non-orthogonal walls, variable level floors/ceilings.
3D regions, rooms above other rooms.
Moving walls / structures for doors and elevators.
Looking up / down.
Transparent and translucent walls / objects.
Multiple viewports, a camera can also render into a wall texture (TV effect).
Collision detection.
Frame speed adjustment.
Texture caching.
SVGA support and WinG and DirectX support.
Sound and Music support.

More information, screenshots, demos and the full source can be found via the Homepage of Alexey Goloshubin.
A port to DJGPP using the Allegro game library can be found on Phil Frisbie's Programming Page.

18.08.97 Ray Game Designer

18.08.97

RGD is a commercial wolfenstein engine for PCs from Momor Productions BPD ( icarte@aol.com ).

Support for Windows 3.x/95.
Orthogonal walls with fixed height.
Floor and ceiling texture mapping.
Depthcueing and fogging.
3D sprites.
Animated textures.
Sound support.
Map, path, level and texture editor available.
Stereo rendering support (red/green).
Game compiler.
Simple behaviour model for objects.

More informations, screenshots and a demo can be found on the Ray Game Designer Homepage.

15.08.97 WWD (Link Problems !)

13.03.97

WWD is doom engine for PCs by Marius Schilder ( marius@digicash.com ).

Non orthogonal walls.
Variable height walls.
Sky texture mapping.
Depth cueing.
2D BSP rendering.
Scaled 2D sprite drawing.
Transparent walls.
Elevators.
Changing light levels.
DirectX support for Windows 95.
Java programmable object behaviour (external .class files loaded, uses SUN's JDK).
Collision detection: objects to world, objects to objects.
Java,C/C++/ASM source.
Watcom DOS minimal version.

The source and demo can be found on the Homepage of Marius.

02.05.97 4DX

06.07.95

The 4DX Rendering Engine is a commercial doom/heretic game engine from Jaimi McEntire (jaimimc@aol.com) from Eldermage Corp.

Animated sky mapping.
Non rectangular walls with different height.
Looking up/down is done via y-shearing (as in Heretic, Dark Forces etc).
Animated sprite objects.
Transparent textures.
Interactive level and texture editor.
2D effects like snow.
Sound support.
DOS and Windows libraries available.
4DX is a C++ Library and requires Watcom C++ v 10.0, 4DX is fully 32bit.
Doom WAD file importer.
Available as Delphi 2.0 VCL, as ActiveX control for Visual Basic, as Linkable Library for Visual C++ or as DLL.
Map editor.

More information and a demo can be found on the Eldermage Homepage.
An older demo can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi . More info in the 4DX Readme.

01.04.97 Baltimore

01.04.97

Baltimore is a portable doom engine by Song Li (sli2@gl.umbc.edu).

Orthogonal, texturemapped, variable height walls.
Floor, ceiling and sky texture mapping.
No shading yet.
Simple collision detection, no sliding on walls yet.
Stairs and elevators.
Support for Windows 95/NT and for X11-Windows (binaries are available for Irix, Solaris, Aix and Linux).
C++ source.

The source and binaries can be found on the Baltimore Homepage.

12.09.96 Jupiter

09.09.96

Jupiter is a 3D DOOM engine by Jeff Jam (jjam@mustang.uwo.ca).

Non-orthogonal variable-height walls.
Perspective-correct texture mapping on walls, roofs and floors.
BSP polygon sorting.
Sector-based dynamic lighting
8-sided monsters/objects
Imports and displays DOOM .WAD files.
Runs under DOS, Windows 95 and Windows 3.x.
100% C for portability.

More information and a demo on the Jupiter Homepage.

15.07.96 Verbum (Link Problems!)

15.07.96

Verbum is a doom engine from Stuart Denman (sdenman@cs.washington.edu).

Non orthogonal walls.
Floor and ceiling texture mapping.
Backdrops.
No depth cueing or fogging.

Some more information and pictures can be found on the Surreal 3D Landscape Engine Homepage.

22.05.96 Rage

01.01.95

RAGE (Raycasting Algorithmic Graphical Engine) is a commercial doom-style engine under Windows.

Animated texture maps and transparent textures
Flat shaded polygon objects
Collision detection
Look up / look down, variable eye level
Sector lighting and distance cueing
Non rectangular worlds
Support for DirectX under Windows 95.

More info and demos on the Monolith Homepage. Contact: rage@lith.com

19.06.95 I3D

01.01.95

I3D is a commercial software toolkit for interactive 3D programs similar to Castle Wolfenstein or Ultima Underworld.

Joystick, Cyberman, keyboard and mouse support for navigation
Animated texture maps and transparent textures
Collision detection
Look up / look down, variable eye level
Automapping - as the user "sees" areas they are marked on map
Lighting effects (fade to color with distance)
Rectangular worlds Windows driver that uses WinG.

A demo can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi . More info in the I3D Readme.
Contact: Jim O'Keane (jokeane@aol.com)

01.01.95 Pie 3D Game engine

01.01.95

The P3D engine is a commercial game engine somewhere between Wolf and DOOM in appearance and features.

Floor and sky mapping
Fog effects and distance cueing
Animated sprite objects
Transparent textures
45 degree wall-layout with different floor and ceiling height
Included paint programm and universe builder

More info on the Pie in the Sky Software Homepage.
A demo can be found on ftp.catalog.com .
Contact: dwhc72a@prodigy.com

02.03.98 Portal Demo

02.03.98

PD is a portal rendering engine from Adrian Perez ( amperez+@andrew.cmu.edu ) published in the Game Developers Magazine in march 1998.

Flat colored polygons.
Portal rendering.
3D clipping.
Support for Windows 95 and Direct3D.

More information and the source can be found as mar98.zip on the Source Code page of the Game Developers Magazine.

17.07.96 DDJ: ZSort

16.07.96

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.

04.01.96 DDJ: BSP Rendering

04.01.96

BR is a sample system to render 3-D scenes from 2-D BSP trees, as discussed in "Ramblings in Realtime" column in the May/June, July/August, and November/December 1995 issues of "Dr. Dobb's Sourcebook" from Michael Abrash (mikeab@idsoftware.com).

Windows output, mouse support.
BSP generator and 3D display program.
All 3D walls have the same height and only one color.
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. More info in the BSP Rendering Readme.

15.10.96 Soft2Map

15.10.96

Soft2Map is a landscape engine by Alex Turin (al@tav.kiev.ua).

Interpolated top and bottom mapping (as in Magic Carpet II).
Camera translation and Y-rotation.
Additional 3D objects in the scene.
Support for DirectDraw under Windows 95.

A demo and more information can be found on the Homepage of Alex Turin.

NOTABLE ON-LINE GAMING ENGINES

15.01.99 Flatland Rover

15.01.99

Flatland Rover is 3d engine with 3DML (3D Markup Language) support that works as WWW browser plugin (Netscape Navigator, MS Internet Explorer, AOL) from Flatland Online Inc. 3DML is a easy to write 3D description language that support building blocks and animations.

Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping
Bilinear filtering
Support for DirectX and PC 3D hardware
Support for Windows 95/98/NT
3D audio support ((DirectSound and A3D 2.0)
16bit and 8bit color support
BSP sorting
Dynamic lighting - moving spotlights, pulse lights, point lights
Player gravity
Support for GIF, animated GIF, JPEG textures
Transparent texture color
Translucency
Support for TombRaider 3 texture and building blocks

Information, software, tutorials, screenshots, and more can be found at the Flatland Web Site.

12.01.99 Java 3D

12.01.99

The Java 3DTM 1.1 API is a set of classes for writing three-dimensional graphics applications and 3D applets from Sun Microsystems.

Uses OpenGL as rendering core, DirectX and QuickDraw3D versions will be available
2 and 3D textures, MIP-mapping
Scenegraph management
Collision detection
Interpolators
Support for geometry compression
LOD management
Hierarchical objects
3D audio support
6 DOF input device support
Behavior modeling
Network support
Support for Windows NT/95 or Solaris SPARC.
Java API

More information, the library and documentaion can be found on the Java 3D Homepage.

The "We Got Next" Award for Using Technology ahead of its time

27.10.98 !B

05.08.98

!B is an isosurface based 3D engine from Florin Soreanu (florin@ica.net).

Perspective shaded texture mapping using OpenGL.
Mip mapping.
Environment mapping.
Blob rendering with Marching Cubes Algorithm.
Surface underwater caustics.
LOD support.
Dynamic lighting.
Fogging.
Portable code.
Written in C++, source release planned.
Slow product sure does make pretty pictures.

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

09.06.97 J3D SpaceCrafter

09.06.97

J3D SpaceCrafter is a high level 3D Graphics and Virtual Reality API for Java from InWorld VR, Inc.

Shaded, perspective texture mapping.
Tested on Intel, Macintosh, Solaris, Javastation, JavaOS and SGI.
Hierarchical objects.
ZSorting and z-buffer.
Collision detection.
Multiple 3D clipping choices.
3D sprites.
Standard 3D objects.
Built in terrain generation and terrain following functions.
Support for 8 bit indexed and 24 bit color modes.
Java API.

More information and screenshots can be found on the J3D SpaceCrafter Homepage .

Other Weird Crap

03.11.97 OpenGL rendering techniques

03.11.97

The PGPT are sample programms and tutorials using the OpenGL API from Mark Kilgard (mjk@sgi.com) from Silicon Graphics.

Lens-flares.
Shadows, lighting, textures and reflections.
Halos.
Underwater caustics.
Colored shadows.
C source.

More information, the source and tutorials can be found on the OpenGL rendering techniques Homepage.

22.04.97 OpenGL

06.09.95

OpenGLr is a software interface for applications to generate interactive 2D and 3D computer graphics. OpenGL is designed to be independent of operating system, window system, and hardware operations, and it is supported by many vendors. OpenGL is available on PCs, Macintosh and workstations.
OpenGL provides a wide range of graphics functions: from rendering a simple geometric point, line, or filled polygon, to texture mapping NURBS curved surfaces.

Geometric primitives (points, lines, and polygons)
Raster primitives (bitmaps and pixel rectangles)
RGBA or color index mode
Display list or immediate mode
Viewing and modeling transformations
Hidden Surface Removal (depth buffer)
Alpha Blending (transparency)
Antialiasing
Texture Mapping
Atmospheric Effects (fog, smoke, and haze)
Polynomial Evaluators (to support Non-uniform rational B-splines)
Pixel Operations (storing, transforming, mapping, zooming)
Accumulation Buffer
Stencil Planes
Feedback, Selection, and Picking

The OpenGL functions described are provided on every OpenGL implementation to make applications written with OpenGL easily portable between platforms. All licensed OpenGL implementations are required to pass the Conformance Tests, and come from a single specification and language binding document.
More information on the OpenGL Homepage.

18.01.96 RenderWare

01.01.95

RW is a portable 3D API for DOS, Windows, Mac and X11-Windows by Criterion Software Ltd.

Z-buffer and scanline renderer
Multiple colored lightsources (distant, point and spot lights)
Multiple cameras.
Gouraud lighted, dithered, transparent, perspective texturemapping.
Animated textures and environment mapping.
Object picking.
Materials support.
3D sprites.
Backdrop images.
Depth cueing.
Support for graphics accelerator cards like the GLINT chip.
Support for stereo glasses and headsets.
DFX, 3DS and VRML converters.
900 pages documentation

More info on the Criterion Software Ltd Homepage.
RenderWare FTP Some RW-Demos: ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de
A demo of Meme (Multitasking Extensible Messaging Environment) that uses the RenderWare API is available via the Immersive Systems Homepage.

16.11.95 Amber (Link Problems!)

16.11.95

Amber is a set of C++ classes from DIVE Laboratories Inc. Amber enable developers to create complex distributed virtual environments on multiple platforms.

Windows 3.1/95 support (using 3DR or RealityLab ), SGI, DOS/Windows with Creative 3DBlaster and Sun running Solaris with X11-Windows.
File support for NFF, WRL and TGA.
Hardware support for 5DT Glove, VIO HMD.
Physical properties and behavior modeling.
Distributed interactive simulation (DIS) and multi-user system support using windows sockets and TCP/IP.
Add on modules like special fx, atmospheric fx, agents, inverse kinematics, morphing...

More infomation, demos and a shareware version can be found on the Amber Homepage.

11.12.95 HOOPS

06.11.95

HOOPS is a commerical 3D API from Ithaca Software, which was bought by Autodesc Inc a few years back.

Windows 3.1/NT, Mac, X11-Windows on Silicon Graphics, HP, IBM RS/6000, Sun Sparc and DEC OSF/1 .
Flat, gouraud, phong and silhoutte mode.
Fast software z-buffer.
Display, printer and plotter support.
Support for hardware acceleration boards.
Object database management.
HDI (Heidi, Hoops Device Interface) is used for 3D Studio Max under Windows NT and in AutoCAD R13c3.
Easy to programm.

Contact:1001 Marina Village Parkway, Alemeda, CA 94501
More info on the Hoops Homepage of Tech Soft.

20.09.95 Learning Windows(tm) Programming Using Virtual Reality

01.01.95

LWPUVR is a book (ISBN: 0-12-737842-1) from Christopher D. Watkins (cwatkins@algorithm.com) and Russell J Berube that contains the source for a 4D doom-style engine under Windows. The engine also supports anaglyph 3-D glasses.
More info on the Algorithm's Homepage page.

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