motion3d – 3d engine, Delphi (2000-2001)

Download:

•   motion3d.zip 1.7MB

Back in 2000, I decided to stop the hyper64 development for a while so I could learn more about hardware 3d rendering. My last experience with hardware at the time was when I recoded portions my first software 3d engine, the one used in hyper’s samples, to the 3dfx Glide API. It is a very simple API when compared with OpenGL which was more powerfull, so it seemed like a logical step.

This engine is very minimalist, reads and displays models and quake3 maps without any visibility processing. So it’s probably as simple as an engine can get.

Features:

•  Loading of ASC, MS3D (milkshape) models.
•  Loading of GEOM maps, generated by bspconv.
•  Loading of PNG images into Buffers.
•  Pilot and Target cameras.
•  Hyper32/64 style Buffer class, which takes advantage of hardware acceleration for advanced 2D operations. Usefull for head-up displays. Also used as texture map source.
•  Wire, flat, gouraud, textured and environment mapping.
•  Typical Alpha-Blending operations.
•  Primitives like pixels, lines and rects.
•  Dynamic meshes.
•  Dynamic vertex normal generation.

Third-party credits:

•  OpenGL12 Delphi interface by Mike Lischke.