3D Engines List
- A comprehensive list of 3D graphics engines.
- http://cg.cs.tu-berlin.de/~ki/engines.html
Glide for UNIX - A project to support 3Dfx Glide API on Posix OS. - http://www.alasir.com/software/glide/
3DGPL - A Portable Library which provides basic set of tools for writing 3D applications. - http://www.gamers.org/dEngine/rsc/
OpenSG - A portable C++ scene graph library for 3D graphics applications. Its main distinguishing features are extensive support for multi-threading, reflectivity and good extensibility. [Open source, LGPL] - http://opensg.vrsource.org/trac
OpenNPAR - Provides a unifying framework for the creation of Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering. Images, videos, publications and demos available. - http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/research/opennpar/
The Lightfeather 3D Engine - A free and open source 3D library for MacOS X, Windows and Linux.[zlib/libpng] - http://lf.mmdevel.de/
VCG Library - A portable C++ templated library for efficient manipulation, processing and displaying with OpenGL of triangle and tetrahedral meshes. - http://vcg.sourceforge.net/
Gino - A suite of libraries for the development of 3D graphics applications. Available for Delphi, VB, Fortran, C++ and .NET. - http://www.gino-graphics.com/
Gizmo 3D - A software development kit that can be used in a variety of demanding application development projects. - http://www.gizmosdk.com/
Obsisian - A currently unsupported open source 3D virtual world for Linux and OpenGL. - http://old.zog.net.au/computers/obsidian/
GNU 3DKit - Free Software Foundation (FSF) - Provides several frameworks to render 3D graphics in a GNUstep environment. Its main purpose is to render any kind of 3D graphics in real-time on commodity hardware, using an optimised scene graph architecture. - http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu3dkit/gnu3dkit.html
OGRE 3D - A 3D library for OpenGL and/or Direct3D. [Open source, LGPL] - http://www.ogre3d.org/
Velocity 3D - Source code for an entirely software 3D-engine and a DirectX 3D-engine, along with screen shots, downloads and documentation. - http://www.razorforce.co.uk/dev/
Expression 3D Toolkit - A free Object Oriented 3D toolkit. It is written in C++/STL. It has support for interactive 3D graphics using OpenGL and non-interactive sphere tracing. - http://www.kotterink.com/expression/
PLIB Home Page - A set of libraries that are designed to help developers of interactive 3D applications such as games. - http://plib.sourceforge.net/
Quesa - A free (LGPL-ed) and open source, high level 3D graphics library which offers binary and source level compatibility with Apple's QuickDraw 3D API. - http://quesa.designcommunity.com/
Virtools - Tools for the development of 3D graphics, primarily for use with development of online applications. - http://www.virtools.com/