This 3D engine is experimental and under HEAVY construction, but some partial results are available.
 

Current Features:

-don't need top of hardware configuration to run

-6 DOF - rotations and translations like the game Descent

-scenery rendering with portal clip (with clipping by edge buffers)

-objects rendering with backface culling

-spherical collision detection (working more or less)

-polygons are shaded and with affine texture mapping (like gouraud)

-many movable objects and light sources

-platform: DOS/PM, Linux - SvgaLib, or, X Window

-compilers: DJGPP 2 or GCC

-sources: C++

-input: keyboard or TCP/IP (sockets)

-artificial intelligence: suport for backpropagation neural networks. Message system and script language under construction

-sources, documentation (incomplete) and examples in english

-C++ classes to manipulate: strings, lists, arrays, buffers, files, sockets, ....

Download from here:

Download only one 3DFC SOURCE and DEMO, they are the same; I just Gzip and Zip to make more easy the installation in both platforms.

Sources:

3dfc008_tar.gz (204kb)

3dfc008.zip (272kb)

Demo data, no executable:

demo008_tar.gz (182kb)

demo008.zip (187kb)

Demo executables (copy to demo root directory):

fly-dos.zip (176kb) - DOS

fly-svga.gz (62kb) - Linux SvgaLib

fly-x11.gz (66kb) - Linux X Window

To install a Linux package:

gunzip file_tar.gz
tar xvf file_tar

 
If you know something about the questions bellow pleace send me an e-mail.

1) 3DFC is a portal engine, this mean the scenery unit must be a convex polyedron. A convex polyedron is an object where your polygons don't overlap each others in any point of view inside this object, examples are: a box or a ball. Do you know an 3D editor that save the scenery divided by convex polyedrons?

 
lebe@geocities.com

Click here to get an overview about 3DFC programming.

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