CFXweb - effects   Good links Author WebMaster    Last update 2003-05-07  English

BSP Trees   Interactive applet Author WebMaster    Last update 2003-02-26  English

Al's OpenGL Game Development   Author WebMaster    Last update 2003-02-16  English

PVS Tutorial + demo   This tutorial describes the method I have developed to calculate the Potentially Visible Set (PVS) of leaves of a BSP tree in real-time. Unlike other methods that pre-calculate the PVS as part of the world data, this method uses the view frustum and the current leaf node's portals to find which leaves are potentially in view. Author Alan Baylis    Last update 2003-02-11  English

THE BSP PROCESS   Animated Author WebMaster    Last update 2003-02-11  English

Extracting Connectivity Information From A BSP Tree   Finding the portals Author Nathan Whitaker    Last update 2003-02-11  English

Lightmapping Tutorial   Lightmapping is still the preferred method of lighting in most games, namely because it is fast regardless of how many lights are in the scene, if you've ever shot at a lightbulb that didn't break or it broke but the light around it remained then you have seen lightmaps in action. They are not suitable for dynamic lighting, though slight variations to the light mapping theme can be applied to produce fake dynamic lights such as either on/off or flickering lights (normally by using multiple lightmaps.) ... Author WebMaster    Last update 2003-01-28  English

FPSE - A 3D Game engine   A 3D Game engine in development Author Manuel Lucas Viñas Livschitz    Last update 2003-01-23  English A First Person Shooter (3D game engine) developed step by step towards a great game.

Alex Vlachos   ATI Art Gallery Author Alex@Vlachos.com    Last update 2003-01-06  English

Buzzsaw   Quake 1-3, Halflife and Unreal Tournament levels and textures Author WebMaster    Last update 2003-01-06  English

Inside3D Bookmarks   Links about Quake Author WebMaster    Last update 2003-01-06  English

xGameProject   The game will be a 3D team-strategy First Person Shooter (FPS), First Person is the name used to describe the visual perspective in the game, it feels like you are inside the character, you are this character inside the game. The controls and perspective will be similar to what is seen in Quake 3, Unreal Tournament, Half-Life. Author WebMaster    Last update 2003-01-05  English

BSP Related Resources   Links Author WebMaster    Last update 2002-12-22  English

Janus Engine   Combined BSP and Portal Rendering Author WebMaster    Last update 2002-12-22  English

Paul Heckbert   Useful links Author WebMaster    Last update 2002-12-22  English

Shark 3D   Renderer and shader architecture Author WebMaster    Last update 2002-12-22  English

CS 123 graphics links   water, smoke, fire, cloth,... Author WebMaster    Last update 2002-12-22  English

Peter Dalton's Home Page   BSP, PVS, Collision Author WebMaster    Last update 2002-12-22  English

Max Payne Home Page   A goooood page Author WebMaster    Last update 2002-12-22  English

ShaderX Programming   The Vertex and Pixel Shader Programming Book. (With ATI source code) Author WebMaster    Last update 2002-12-20  English, Spanish

Vertex and Pixel Shader Programming   OpenGL2.0, RenderMonkey (ATI), CG (NVIDIA) Author WebMaster    Last update 2002-12-20  English, Spanish

ATI RenderMonkey™ Toolsuite   RenderMonkey is a suite of open, extensible shader development tools for both current and future hardware that allows programmers and artists to collaborate on creating realtime shader effects. Author WebMaster    Last update 2002-12-20  English

Binary Space Partitioning   Author WebMaster    Last update 2002-12-18  English, Spanish

Fast Real-Time 2.5D Terrain Render   Search for a good algorithm Author Manuel Lucas Viñas Livschitz    Last update 2002-12-12  English     Version 3.0 (beta) Search for an algorithm that allows a changing 2.5D surface to be rendered in real time in most fastest way, with polygon count reduction only. To archive this, the input data is bidimensional matrix with height values and no additional data.

OpenGL commands for light-mapping, bump-mapping, texture-mapping and specular-mapping in Quake 3   This article will explain in plain language how to implement the multitexture effects of Quake 3 in the OpenGL graphics language Author Bryan McNett    Last update 2002-12-12  English

Multitexture and the Quake 3 graphics engine   This article will attempt to explain one of Quake 3’s most important graphics technologies Author Bryan McNett    Last update 2002-12-12  English

Maps   quake 3 arena maps, half-life maps, quake 2 maps, duke nuk'em 3d maps Author WebMaster    Last update 2002-12-12  English

Order-of-Operations and the "Quake 3: Arena" Graphics Engine   In July 1998, John Carmack announced further details regarding the Quake 3 : Arena (Q3A) graphics engine. This article attempts to explain recent changes to the Q3A graphics engine while exploring order-of-operations Author Bryan McNett    Last update 2002-12-12  English

The BSP Process and Visibility   This tutorial is written for Quake II and to some extent Quake 3 Arena. However, all Quake engine games work on a similar principle (though not all have hint brushes or detail brushes). Author WebMaster    Last update 2002-12-03  English

Portals and Mirrors   Simple, Fast Evaluation of Potentially Visible Sets Author WebMaster    Last update 2002-12-03  English

Optimizing OpenGL drivers for Quake3   Compiled arrays for Quake 3 Author WebMaster    Last update 2002-12-03  English, Spanish

Ramblings in Realtime   Quake BSPs technology explained Author WebMaster    Last update 2002-12-03  English

Win32 Game Tutorials   Basic Win32, FullScreen mode, etc. Author WebMaster    Last update 2002-12-03  English

Let’s Write a Quake 3 Graphics Engine in OpenGL!   OpenGL commands for light-mapping, bump-mapping, texture-mapping and specular-mapping in Quake 3 Author Bryan McNett    Last update 2002-12-01  English

Cube   Landscape-style engine that pretends to be an indoor first person shooter engine. Combines very high precision dynamic occlusion culling with a form of geometric mipmapping on the whole world for dynamic LOD for configurable fps & graphic detail on most machines. Uses OpenGL & SDL. Includes source, demo and editor. Author WebMaster    Last update 2002-12-01  English

GeForce FX   Yes, ladies and gentlemen, GeForce FX is finally upon us and we are one step closer to rendering games and 3D scenes as you know them from animated movies like Toystory .. we heard and have seen many rumors regarding this new NVIDIA silicon Author WebMaster    Last update 2002-11-19  English

Symbolcraft Graphics Notes - BSP Trees   Java Applet and explanation Author Xavier Figueras Ausió    Last update 2002-11-03  English, Spanish

Isometric, Dimetric, Axonometric projections   Author WebMaster    Last update 2002-11-01  English

Geometry Formulas and Facts   Maths for 3D Author WebMaster    Last update 2002-11-01  English

Project FY   FY will be a 3D strategic/fps game Author WebMaster    Last update 2002-10-26  English, Spanish

Crystal Space   Crystal Space is a free (LGPL) and portable 3D Game Development Kit written in C++ Author WebMaster    Last update 2002-04-16  English Crystal Space is a free (LGPL) and portable 3D Game Development Kit written in C++. It supports: true six degree's of freedom, colored lighting, mipmapping, portals, mirrors, alpha transparency, reflective surfaces, 3D sprites (frame based or with skeletal animation), procedural textures, radiosity, particle systems, halos, volumetric fog, scripting (using Python or other languages), 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit display support, Direct3D, OpenGL, Glide, and software renderer, font support, hierarchical transformations, ... Crystal Space currently runs on GNU/Linux, general Unix, Windows, Windows NT, OS/2, BeOS, NextStep, OpenStep, MacOS/X Server, DOS, and Macintosh. It can optionally use OpenGL (Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac, OS/2, BeOS), Allegro (GNU/Linux, DOS), X11 (Unix or GNU/Linux) and SVGALIB (GNU/Linux). It can also optionally use assembler routines using NASM and MMX. A Direct3D8 driver is currently in development.

3D Engines List   The 3D Engines List tries to provide an overview of software 3D engines for realtime graphics and VR on various platforms Author WebMaster    Last update 2000-06-23  English Each engine is reviewed with list of features, contact information (email, link to homepage) and links to download a demo or the source. There are currenly 643 engines on the 3DEL. The 3DEL pages were last modified on 23.6.2000.

Dive   An internet-based multi-user VR system Author Swedish Institute of Computer Science    Last update 1999-07-01  English The Distributed Interactive Virtual Environment (DIVE) is an internet-based multi-user VR system where participants navigate in 3D space and see, meet and interact with other users and applications. The DIVE software is a research prototype covered by licenses. Binaries for non-commercial use, however, are freely available for a number of platforms. The first DIVE version appeared in 1991. DIVE supports the development of virtual environments, user interfaces and applications based on shared 3D synthetic environments. DIVE is especially tuned to multi-user applications, where several networked participants interact over a network. Dynamic behaviour of objects are described by interpretative Tcl scripts evaluated on any node where the object is replicated. Script are triggered by events in the system, such as user interaction signals, timers, collisions, etc. DIVE reads and exports VRML and several other 3D formats. It is integrated with the World-Wide-Web and is HTTP/FTP/HTML/MIME compliant. DIVE applications and activities include virtual battlefields, spatial models of interaction, virtual agents, real-world robot control and multi-modal interaction. Through its various versions, DIVE is currently available on the following platforms: SGI Irix 5.3 and above, HP HPUX 9.0X and 10.X, SUN Solaris 2.4 and above and SunOS 4, Linux 2.X, Windows NT.