NemoX 3D Engine
Website:
http://perso.numericable....
Developer:
Polaris
Launched:
Not specified
Status:
Active
Supported Platforms:
Windows
Languages Written In:
Visual Basic 6
Languages Supported:
Visual Basic 6
Graphics APIs:
DirectX
Rating:
(1 review)
- Overview
- User Reviews
NemoX is a 3D engine written in Visual Basic and C++ . It provides fast methods to manage 3D geometry throught DirectX 8.1. This engine makes really possible to create fast 3D or 2D game, in Visual Basic or in any COM-capable programming language like Delphi and .Net (VB.net, C#).
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Supported Features
General
- Object-Oriented Design The engine core is a COM based DLL that provides acces to numerous useful interfaces (Sound, Input, Rendering, 3D Effect, Mesh, Terrain, Skybox, ...)
- Fixed-function
- Render-to-Texture
- Fonts Cartoon style rendering
- Environment Mapping
- Lens Flares
- Billboarding
- Particle System
- Sky
- Water
- Decals
- Fog
Lighting
- Per-vertex
- Lightmapping
- Anisotropic Diffuse and specular vertex lighting
Shadows
- Shadow Volume Simple shadow volume
Texturing
- Basic
- Multi-texturing
- Bumpmapping
- Mipmapping
- Multi-texturing with prebuilt effect parameters
- Dot 3 Bumpmapping
- Cube texturing
- Bilinear, trilinear, anisotropic texture filtering
Shaders
- Vertex
- Pixel
Meshes
- Mesh Loading
- Support for various mesh from .3DS, .X, ASE, OBJ, MS3D
- Quake2 MD2 and Half-Life MDL models are supported with animations
- Quake3 Map with lighmaps
Scene Management
- General
- PVS
Animation
- Keyframe Animation
Terrain
- Rendering Fast Terrain Rendering
Physics
- Collision Detection
- Rigid Body
- Vehicle Physics
- Collision detection with accurate response (ray, sphere, plane, triangle,ellipsoid, point)
- Simple 2D Rigid Body
- Simple 3D Vehicle Physics system
Artificial Intelligence
- Pathfinding
Sound
- 2D Sound
- 3D Sound Unlimited sound buffer.
Licensing
| License Name | Price in $US | Source Code Included? | Additional information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Proprietary | Free | Yes | View Details |
| Source code of some portion and old version | |||
Great and easy to use (I have used VB6 version)
With 50+ commented tutorials to look at and 17 of them documented on the website this engine is very easy to learn and work with but it seems to be no longer developed.
Pros:
-Free
-Easy to learn
-Easy install
-Well documented tutorials included with the SDK Install
-Many modern model formats supported
-Particles and lens flare support built in
-Two types of camera built in (FPS and Normal)
-The engine handles DirectX internally saving you the troubles of writing intializing and shutdown code for DirectX
-Cool cell rendering
-Simple Collision support included
-Great "Video Settings" panel that shows up when you run a compiled .Exe so you don't have to make one
Cons:
-Last website update on 21/08/2004
-Best used with a pentium 4 or faster
-Not all 50+ tutorials are documented on the website
-Only some of the tutorials are also in C# and VB.Net format
I think that this engine is worth a try, especially for beginners.
*I have only tested this in VB6 so I do not know if there is any differences in other languages.*
Last edited Dec 06, 2011 at 10:42
