Knowledge: 3d

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Links

3D Rad 
http://www.3drad.com/

A programmable, user-friendly, 3D real-time engine which allows you to build interactive 3D worlds by simply placing animated and intelligent 3D objects into a virtual scenery.

3D Graphic Engines List 
http://cg.cs.tu-berlin.de/~ki/engines.html

A comprehensive list of free and commercial graphics engines

Havok 
http://www.havok.com/

Software development kit for PC, PS2, and Mac.

Simpren 
http://simpren.tripod.com/

3D renderer DLL based on the Direct3D. [Only for testing]

Amp II 
http://www.4drulers.com/amp.html

A 3D Game Design System that provides fast scene rendering with per pixel lighting, bump mapping, specular highlighting and stencil shadowing used to create stunning real time graphics.

Chris Hecker/Texture Mapping 
http://www.gamers.org/dEngine/quake/papers/checker_texmap.html

Perspective Texture Mapping by Chris Hecker

Phil Frisbie's Programming Page 
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/7220/

My personal 3D game programming pages. You will find several past and present projects, most with full source code.

Subshock HQ 
http://www.tekscode.com/

The headquarters of the Subshock 3D Games programming group.

sbdev 
http://www.sbdev.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

A series of tutorials on raycasting and 3D Programming without a 3D API.

3D Graphics Math 
http://cs.fit.edu/~wds/classes/graphics/

A mathematical overview of computer graphics starting with model space and advancing down the graphics pipeline through world space, all the way to device space.

3D Graphics Pattern Recognition 
http://www.geocities.com/cohvi/projects.htm

Programming projects in OpenGL and Java3D that demonstrate artificial intelligence and pattern recognition useful in 3D games programming.

Programming Multimedia and 3D in Realtime 
http://www.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/

SouthGreece - the OpenGL Trender implementation; Trender SDL - a software-only realtime renderer of 3D Studio files; Earth - a Linux renderer that uses Voodoo cards to show a simple model of the earth and the sun; 3DEnvMap - a Real-time 3D Renderer with Gouraud-Shaded Environment Mapping.

3d engines programming in Java and MS-DOS 
http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/campus/5009/

Information on programming various types of 3D engines (raycasting, indoor, landscape) in Java and MS-DOS. Source code available.

Golgotha Forever 
http://golgotha.sourceforge.net/

the game, and I4, the game SDK.

Touchdown Entertainment 
http://www.touchdownentertainment.com/

Tool set for developing 3D applications for the PC, Sony PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Xbox.

Opale.Soya 
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/opalesoya/

High-level, object-oriented 3D engine designed for 3D games in Java. Uses GL4Java to access native OpenGL. [Open Source, LGPL]

Truevision3D 
http://www.truevision3d.com/

A 3D Engine, Media Engine and Net Engine for 3D game and application development using any major programming language.

Excession Software.com 
http://www.peter.co.nz/

OpenGL based 3D wargame construction kit

Superfluxus Media 
http://www.superfluxus.de/

A 3D audio tool, used to arrange sound spatially allowing new ways of audio programming. It is mainly based on Direct3d Sound and the EAX technology of Creative. Extra feature: space morphing.

Ben Woodhead 
http://www.benwoodhead.com

An open source 3d game development resource containing 3D engine source code and documentation.

Desgraff 
http://www.desgraff.com/

Tutorials on OpenGL and 3D Studio Max, links to games programming resources, home site of the Decoy3d Engine.

Serenity Engine 
http://www.hemiware.com/

A suite of libraries and tools that provide solution for multi-platform game development on consoles and PC. Supports most major 3D packages.

Power Render 3D Engine 
http://www.powerrender.com/

Powerful 3D engine that combines indoor BSP and outdoor terrain levels. Includes Windows based tools and editors using DirectX 8's latest features. [Commercial, w/ demo]

Developing UTF & DGL Technology Presentation 
http://drg.com.sapo.pt/dgraph/index.html

Project description and goals, the objective is to build a game engine, that makes easy to program any kind of 3D game, on Visual C++ and OpenGL.

Sylphis 3D 
http://devnet.sylphis3d.com

A 3d game engine, that supports per pixel lighting and shadows along with realistic physics.

3D Engines Database 
http://www.devmaster.net/engines/

Provides a comprehensive list of 3D engines and their features, along with reviews, ratings, and screenshots of each engine.

G3D 
http://g3d-cpp.sourceforge.net/

A C++ 3D graphics library for game developers, researchers, and students. [Open source, BSD License]

QuakeForge 
http://www.quakeforge.net/

A 3D graphics game engine based on id Software's legendary Quake and QuakeWorld game engine.

3DzzD 
http://dzzd.net/

A Web 3D engine using Java 1.1 technologie.

Diesel Engine 
http://diesel.n5home.net/

An OpenGL Quake3 Arena Map Viewer, written in c++. It supports a variety of features including volumetric fog, portals/mirrors, items, basic entities, skyboxes/cloudlayers, videotextures and multitexturing for up to 6 texture units. [Open source, GPL]

Antiryad Gx 
http://www.arkham-development.com/

Cross platform 3d engine with embeded Basic language (Gel Basic) compiler. [Freeware]

Java Monkey Engine 
http://www.jmonkeyengine.com

A 3D game engine written in and for Java. Many features including collisions, particle systems, shaders, terrain system, renderer abstraction.

Obsidian 
http://old.zog.net.au/computers/obsidian/

An open source 3D virtual world for Linux and OpenGL.

3D GameStudio 
http://www.conitec.net/english/gstudio/

Create 2D and 3D games using a visual interface and a JavaScript style programming language. Latest versions includes support for pixel and vertex shaders, physics and high-quality rendering.

World Foundry 
http://tenetti.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view.cgi/WorldFoundry/WebHome

A 3D level game engine. Originally a commercial product, now released under the GPL. Designed from the beginning to be cross-platform, runs on windows, working on linux port.

Ray Game Designer 
http://eicart.free.fr/rgd/

Freeware 3D construction kit for Windows based on a RayCaster.

Revolution3D-Engine 
http://www.revolution3d.net

3D game engine. It uses DX9, and has 3D, 2D, Mouse, Joystick, Keyboard support.

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