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Lilith3D Version 2.0 Released

Lilith3D is a simple geomorphing 3D engine for outdoor games. Version 2 supports shaders, shadows, many new features, and a simpler API.

Posted by Lee Thomason 2007-03-24

Lilith3D 1.5 Released

v1.5 of Lilith3D adds new features for game development. Lilith3D now supports MD2 animation, pathing in and through buildings, and GLSL shaders for improved rendering quality and performance. The APIs have been simplified and startup resources are better managed.

About Lilith3D:
Lilith3D is a 3D geo-morphing engine for creating games. It features dynamic terrain, weather effects, A* pathing, and day/night cycles. Lilith3D is written in C++ and built on OpenGL and SDL for cross-platform use. Lilith3D is licensed under the GPL.

Posted by Lee Thomason 2006-02-27

Lilith3D 1.3 Released

Lilith3D is a geo-morphing game engine. Version 1.3 adds full tutorials! A sequence of 7 tutorials walk the developer through the engine and the steps in creating a simple game.

Also in v1.3 in an improved API, better memory management, performance optimizations, and visual rendering improvements.

About Lilith3D:
Lilith3D is a simple but powerful 3D geo-morphing engine for creating games. It features dynamic terrain, weather effects, A* pathing, and day/night cycles. Lilith3D is written in C++ and built on OpenGL and SDL for cross-platform use. Lilith3D is licensed under the GPL.

Posted by Lee Thomason 2004-08-16

Lilith3D 1.2.0 Released

Trees...whole forests of trees can be rendered in Version 1.2 of the Lilith3D engine. In the foreground, trees are full 3D models. As they move to the background, they are stippled to billboards to reduce the number of polygons being streamed to the card. The billboards are automatically created by the engine at initialization time.

Version 1.2.0 also adds decals for spell and bomb damage, footprints, lava, and similar terrain effects.... read more

Posted by Lee Thomason 2004-05-05

Lilith3D 1.1.0 Released

Version 1.1 adds 3D textures to the terrain renderer, which gives the terrain more color and a more realistic look. It also increases the rendering speed significantly - as much as 50% depending on the card.

Also new is this version is a flexible, powerful quaternion based camera.

About Lilith3D:
Lilith3D is a simple but powerful 3D engine for outdoor games. It features dynamic terrain, weather effects, A* pathing, and day/night cycles. Lilith3D is written in C++ and built on OpenGL and SDL for cross-platform use.

Posted by Lee Thomason 2004-03-20

Lilith 3D 1.0 Released

Lilith, after many betas and revisions and rewrites, has a first stable release!

Lilith3D is a simple but powerful 3D engine for outdoor games. It features dynamic terrain, weather effects, A* pathing, and day/night cycles. Lilith3D is written in C++ and built on OpenGL and SDL for cross-platform use.

Posted by Lee Thomason 2004-02-25