...Any 2D game (side-scroller/platformer/arcade/RPG). Any business application with complex UI controls/animations. Hobby/academic/commercial projects. Teaching/learning/improving game development skills.
G3D is a commercial-grade C++ 3D engine. It is used in commercial games, research papers, military simulators, and university courses. G3D supports real-time rendering, off-line rendering like ray tracing, and general purpose computation on GPUs.
As of January 16, 2018, SourceForge is again the home of the active repository for G3D.
now gnu-ized, gcc-4.7.4 or gcc-10.2.0
A raytracer does not require custom code for (shadows, mirrors) like GL: it uses physics to simulate light to make realistic images, leaving one to specify only what is in the scene. (at a cost of speed)
Rayshade is a 1990's raytracer, a great one back then (and still useful).
Rayshade has an excellent easy to read yet informative User's Guide that other's could not help but copy from. (html of guide is in...
Crystal Space is an Open Source 3D SDK for Unix, Windows, and MacOS/X. It renders with OpenGL and features GLSL shaders, CG shaders, deferred rendering, dynamic shadows, bullet based physics library, terrain engine, skeleton based animation meshes, exporter for Blender, portals, etc...
This tool takes single input image and settings, then it renders a skybox as single or multiple images. GUI or console usage.
It's almost complete but is was not properly tested, there may be bugs. If you find any bugs, please report them in discussion.
The screenshots are ugly, it can create much nicer skyboxes.
Java Interactive Virtual Enviroment System - A framework to create latest generation 3D Inventory Based Adventure Games and simulators, where user can combine items of an inventory and make them interact with the entites of a virtual world.
Test JIVES online:
1) Download basic demo script from http://sourceforge.net/projects/jives/files/1.0/basic-demo-jme.jives/download
2) Run the applet from http://simonesegalini.altervista.org/jives/test/test.html
several vaguely related projects worked on by me: a 3d engine with a javascript-like scripting language (pdsys); an older scheme dialect (vmsys); ... (2009-04-28: I have been gone for years, may try to put up some newer stuff...).
JVisual3D is a GUI library, 3D geometry viewer and a mathematical visualization software written in pure java. It is comparable with the well known javaview project. This is under GPL. Create, manipulate and display easiely meshes, 3d shapes, surfaces,..
The Jiggle project aims to provide a lightweight Java-centric OO framework for the development of high-performance OpenGL apps based on the JOGL API. The Jiggle projects encompasses production and experimental components to aid the JOGL developer.
BORG - BORG Open Rendering GUI - is a network rendering system developed by TAUTOLOGIX for RenderMan compliant renderer. BORG is platform independent and used to distribute rendering jobs. It can also be used as a GUI for the supported renderers.
Java Inventor is a Java interface to Open Inventor. Open Inventor (http://oss.sgi.com/projects/inventor/) is a popular API for developers of 3D applications. Java Inventor uses the Java Native Interface (JNI) to access the Open Inventor C++ libraries.
Raytrace is designed to be a completely platform independant Raytracer which includes a Gui interface. Designed and written in Sun Microsystem's Java language.