The Pharos Engine

The Pharos Engine is a compact 3D engine originally intended for the space-based RPG The Alexandria Project. It supports vertex and fragment shaders, a full physics library, .mdl model loading, many built in primitives, and full texture and GUI support.

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Notice the pretty shader on the little spheres.

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GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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Intended Audience

Developers

User Interface

GLUT, OpenGL, Other toolkit, Project is a 3D engine

Programming Language

C++

Related Categories

C++ Games, C++ 3D Rendering Software

Registered

2006-06-13

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