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Ultimate 3D Ultimate 3D is a free 3D engine that can be used with the free game creation software Game Maker. The basic idea behind it is offering a possibility to make advanced 3D graphics without much effort and knowledge. Ultimate 3D offers a wide range of features, which lead to impressive effects, but are easy to use anyway. It's vastly superior in comparsion to the built-in 3D functions of Game Maker. Here's a list of all of it's features:
- An easy to use and efficient system for creating primitive geometry
- An extemely easy to use model loading system for:
- Animated Anim8or model files, also with bone influences and skin weights (*.an8)
- Animated 3D Studio Max files (*.3ds)
- Animated Quake II model files (*.md2)
- Animated DirectX model files, also with vertex skinning (*.x)
- Animated Milkshape 3D model files, also with vertex skinning (*.ms3d)
- The Ultimate 3D model file format, which can export any data Ultimate 3D can handle and supports password encryption(*.u3d)
- Vertex tweening, a technique to make frame based animations (as used by *.md2 files) totally smooth
- Easy to use lighting and fog engine
- Support for sky spheres and sky cubes
- Functions for drawing 2D graphics and text
- Fully automatic level of detail generation for heavy performance increasement
- Functions to manipualte models in realtime
- Cel-shading for graphics in comic style
- Multi texturing for techniques such as light mapping
- Spherical and cubical environment mapping for perfect reflections
- A comfortable shader management system for endless effects supply
- Support for post screen shaders for even more cool effects
- The famous parallax mapping and bump mapping (also known as per pixel lighting)
- Support for realtime stencil shadows
- An extemely efficient terrain renderer for big, but still detailed terrains
- A complex particle effects system
- Support for split screens
- Render to texture and render to cube texture functions for reflections, security monitors and post-screen shaders
- Math functions for efficient matrix and vector calculations
- A portal engine for simple and higly efficient culling
- Support for fullscreen antialiasing
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