Advanced Genesis3D

What is it ?

Advanced Genesis3D is the engine used by the Tsudashi project, from Crossing Studios. This is a rebuild of The Premiere Open Source 3D Real-Time Rendering Engine: Genesis3D. The aim is to fix bugs and to add new features.

This is *not* a full rewritting of G3D. It is about fixing bugs and adding new features only. The point is to keep it fully compatible with existing games/progies.

New features will be optional and will have default values so that existing projets will not have to be modified/recompiled.

As a first step, there will be a release of a repackaging of G3D that will include all of the mods published on the Crossing Studios site, with compiled executables and libs.

Mods published elsewhere will be evalued, reworked and eventually merged if they are good enough.

If you have mods or requests, please send them to me or go to our SourceForge project.

What is done ?

• Alpha Level for actor
• Environment Mapping for actor
• Better Bounding Box for actor
• Optimizations in actor rendering
• Sun Entity
• Full Actor Dynamic Lighting
• Fixed Actor Lighting with Ambient from floor
• Fixed Shadow Under Actor
• Fixed Bone Attachment function

What is to do ?

• Java wrapper for Genesis3d
• Environment Mapping for the world
• Multi-texturing
• Bone-level Collision Detection
• Bug free Collision Module
• Shadow Casting for actor
• Basic LOD for the world
• LOD for actor
• Transparent texture texels from the world that don't block static light
• OpenGL driver
• DirectX8 driver
• Vertex buffers in OpenGL and DirectX