Genesis3D

Genesis3D was a project by Eclipse Entertainment to create a 3D game engine for the Windows platform to render indoor scenes with moderate polygon count at high performance.

The first version released as source code in 1998 with a restricted license and that version supported hardware acceleration (with DirectX and Glide) and software renderer (optimized for AMD processors) support.

Features

• Area portals
• BSP
• RGB light maps
• Pre computed lighting
• Dynamic lights, shadows, fog, and water effects
• Planar mirrors
• Spherically mapped skybox
• Radiosity lighting
• Sprites
• Physics subsystem with fast collision detection and rigid body physics simulation
• Basic network transport support for multiplayer mode
• C API with Opaque data structures and reference counting mechanism
• Support for multiple graphics APIs is provided by using a DLL and common driver interface mechanism

Main Tools

• GEdit (Level editor with constructive solid geometry techniques)
• Actor Studio and Actor Builder (For exporting 3D mesh and animation data)
• Actor Viewer (Mesh and animation previewer)
• Texture Packer (Archives bitmaps)

Miscellaneous

Genesis3D allows the game creators to animate 3D models using now-standard [citation needed] "skeletal animation", allowing for complex smoothed movement (instead of interpolated vertex keyframes used in the Quake games).

An early game using the Genesis3D engine, G-Sector, was created by Freeform Interactive and released as a technology demo/free game in December 1998.

The free editor Reality Factory uses the Genesis3D engine.

Notable Genesis3D games

• Extreme Boards & Blades (1999), A 3D skateboarding and rollerblading simulation.

• Extreme Paintbrawl 2 (1999), a 3D first-person paintball FPS developed and published by Head Games.

• G-sector (2000)

• Kingsborn (2000)

• Barbie Generation Girl Gotta Groove (2001), the number-seven best-selling game for Christmas 1999 developed by Neurobatics Corporation

• Dragon's Lair 3D: Return to the Lair (2002) developed by Dragonstone Software

• Special Force, an anti-Israel game developed by Hezbollah.

• Ethnic Cleansing (2002), an openly racist computer game developed and distributed by Resistance Records.

• Neocron (2002)
• Catechumen (2000), a 3D Roman first-person shooter developed and published by Christian video game company N'Lightning Software Development.

• Ominous Horizons: A Paladin's Calling (2001), the second 3D Christian first-person shooter developed by N'Lightning Software Development as a spiritual successor to Catechumen.

External links

• Official Website
• Reality Factory - Gameshell for Genesis3D
• Genesis4Delphi - using the Genesis3D engine in Borland Delphi (German Website)
• Tutorials for Genesis3d and Reality Factory
• How to make a FREE video game
• World of Genesis WOG