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3DGameStudio

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With hundreds of published titles, 3D GameStudio is the leading authoring system for all sorts of 2D and 3D realtime applications. It combines the C-Script programming language with a high-end 3D engine, a 2D engine (for HUD and menus), a physics engine, a level, terrain and model editor, and huge libraries of 3D objects, artwork, scripts, and pre-made games.

Author

Conitec Datasystems

Graphics API

DirectX

Operating Systems

Windows

Programming Language

C/C++, Delphi

Status

Productive/Stable

Documentation

Yes

Features

General Features

Object-Oriented Design, Plug-in Architecture, Save/Load System:

•	Automatic selection of own or hardware based T&L for maximum performance on old and new 3D hardware
•	DLL plugin interface
•	Arbitrary axis rotations for space and flight simulators
•	Path tracking for camera, actors or vehicles

Scripting

•	Starting users can use the large library of pre-made scripts. Can create an entire game without writing any code!
•	More advanced users can use the built in script language to have full control over the everything in the game.
•	Expert users can interface to the engine using C/C++ or Delphi.

Built-in Editors

Level, Model, and Script editors included.

Physics

Basic Physics, Collision Detection, Rigid Body, Vehicle Physics:

•	Physics engine supports gravity, mass, damping, elasticity, friction, and hinge, ball, wheel, and slider joints
•	Polygon level collision detection for terrain and 3D objects

Lighting

Per-vertex, Per-pixel, Lightmapping:

•	Static and dynamic point, spot, and directional light sources
•	Light Manager for an unlimited number of dynamic light sources

Shadows

Projected planar, Shadow Volume:

•	Stencil shadows and 24-bit level surfaces

Texturing

Basic, Multi-texturing, Bumpmapping, Mipmapping:

•	Trilinear mip mapping
•	Multitexturing (up to 8 textures), light maps, detail textures
•	Material properties for static and dynamic objects

Shaders

Vertex, Pixel:

•	Object and postprocessing shaders
•	Shader viewer and editor
•	40 shader templates

Scene Management

General, BSP, PVS, LOD:

•	Seamless indoor and outdoor support
•	BSP Tree for indoor, Adaptive Binary Tree for outdoor levels

Animation

Keyframe Animation, Skeletal Animation, Morphing, Animation Blending:

Meshes

Mesh Loading, Skinning, Deformation:

Special Effects

Environment Mapping, Lens Flares, Billboarding, Particle System, Sky, Water, Fog, Mirror:

•	Programmable particle and beam generators
•	Sky system with animated layers and backdrop bitmaps
•	3D views and movies can be rendered to curved surfaces, for distortion or fisheye effects
•	Colored fog areas
•	Programmable 2D and 3D effects like lens flares, bullet holes, cartoon rendering etc
•	Slow motion / quick motion effect
•	Dynamic decal system for bullet holes, foot prints, tire marks etc.

Terrain

Rendering:

•	Deformable heightmap terrain
•	Continuous LOD mesh generation and mip-mapping
•	Multiple tiled textures and shadow mapping
•	Seamless integration with the indoor engine

Networking System

Client-Server, Master Server:

•	Multizone/multiserver support for massive online multiplayer games

Sound & Video

3D Sound:

•	Supports wav,mid,ogg,CD, mp3,avi, and mpg
•	3D sound sources with Doppler effect

Artificial Intelligence

Pathfinding, Decision Making, Finite State Machines, Scripted:

•	Full scripting language and DLL interface plus a large library of pre-built AI.

Rendering

Fixed-function, Render-to-Texture:

•	3D views and movies can be rendered to curved surfaces
•	Six degrees of freedom, multiple cameras and render views
•	Material properties for static and dynamic objects
•	Animated 3D sprites and decals
•	2D renderer for still images, 2D sprites, panels, buttons, sliders, overlays, Truetype and bitmap fonts, screenshots and movies
•	Mouse picking and manipulating of 3D objects

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Date Added

Fri, 6 Aug 2004

Last Updated

Fri, 1 May 2009

There are currently 78 reviews for this engine

License Name	Price	Source Code	Comments
Other/Custom	Free	No	Lite-C. Unlimited free version with A7 engine, physics engine, debugger and model editor.
Other/Custom	$99.00	No	Extra. Adds shadow mapping, level editor and game templates.
Other/Custom	$199.00	No	Commercial. Adds network and shader support.