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I was just curious if anyone was aware of any free or relatively cheap
3D engines which one could use to develop a new game with.  I saw
several posts earlier referring to the Quake engine and was curious
if there may be others like it available on the web.

Any feedback is appreicated,

--Jeff--

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Crystal Space is a 6DOF 3D portal based engine with colored static
lights, mipmapping, 3D triangle mesh sprites, mirrors, transparent
and reflective surfaces, alpha transparency, ...

It is portable (currently runs on DOS, Linux, Unix, Windows, Macintosh,
OS/2, and Amiga) and written in C++ with occasional and optional pieces
of assembler thrown in for efficiency.

The Windows version supports Direct3D. OpenGL and Glide support
are planned.

There is currently a large group of people directly supporting Crystal Space.
The developers mailing list contains about 160 people currently and many
are actively helping me right now.

More information, the source and some screenshots can be found on my URL
(see below).

Greetings,

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greg norz

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>I was just curious if anyone was aware of any free or relatively cheap
>3D engines which one could use to develop a new game with.  I saw
>several posts earlier referring to the Quake engine and was curious
>if there may be others like it available on the web.

>Any feedback is appreicated,

>--Jeff--

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>Views expressed here may not reflect
>those of my employer

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Some pointers for 3D and Quake engines.

Quake type:
    GENESSIS 3D Engine        (looks good)
        http://www.genesis3d.com/
    CLIFF: A 3D engine & A Quake viewer
        http://www.csi.forth.gr/~komod/cliff.html

3D:
    POWER RENDER
        http://www.egerter.com
    PANARD VISION
        http://www.inforoute.cgs.fr/brunet3/
    Team 47 GoMan Source Code
        http://www.47-tek.com/source.htm

Ciao.

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>I was just curious if anyone was aware of any free or relatively cheap
>3D engines which one could use to develop a new game with.  I saw
>several posts earlier referring to the Quake engine and was curious
>if there may be others like it available on the web.

No, just kidding. Crystal Space is free (LGPL).

Greetings,

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Project Manager of Crystal Space, a free and portable 3D 6DOF portal engine.
More info at: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/3856/
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Check http://www.visviva.com

The Visviva Aniamtion Engine is not only an 3D engine, but also
for vector graphics, hypertexts, as well as advanced interfaces.

VAE is free. The formal release on Windows95, 98, and NT
is scheduled in October. Both the D3D and the OpenGL versions
will be available at that time. Versions for UNIX/X and Mac are
planned in next year.

VAE has a powerful script language that supports multiple
programming models for game developments: object-oriented
model, state machine model, event-dirven model, and timing
schedule model.

David Shang

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> I was just curious if anyone was aware of any free or relatively cheap
> 3D engines which one could use to develop a new game with.  I saw
> several posts earlier referring to the Quake engine and was curious
> if there may be others like it available on the web.