Features

From Linderdaum Engine

Core

• Simple OO engine’s design provides easy way to develop complex 3D worlds
• High-performant shader-based renderer architecture
• Supported operating systems
  • Windows XP
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7
• Supported platforms
  • x86 32-bit
  • x86 64-bit
• Supported compilers
  • Visual C++ 2005/2008/2010
  • Intel C++ Compiler 11+
  • GCC 4.4.1+

Renderer

• API
  • OpenGL 3.0 support
  • OpenGL 3.2 Core profile support
  • GLSL 1.40 with vertex, fragment and geometry programs

• Shadows
  • Perspective shadow maps
  • Percentage closer filtering (PCF) shadow maps

• Texturing
  • Procedural textures
  • 1D, 2D, 3D and cube map textures support
  • Compressed textures support
  • Non-power of two textures support
  • Floating point textures support
  • Video textures support

• Lighting
  • Per-pixel lighting and shading
  • Full screen post processing effects

• High dynamic range rendering
  • HDR rendering with 64-bit and 128-bit floating point render targets
  • Bloom
  • Adaptive exposure
  • Tone mapping (Reinhard's operator)

• Materials
  • Data-driven materials declaration system
  • Multipass materials

• Terrain rendering
  • Height-map based landscapes

• 4:3, 5:4, 16:9, 16:10 or any custom screen aspect ratio support

Industrial and scientific volume rendering

• GPU accelerated raycasting for direct volume rendering of voxel datasets
• Datasets
  • 3D computed tomography datasets
  • Animated 4D datasets
  • 2 Gb dataset size on 32-bit platforms
• Hardware support
  • nVidia GeForce 9x00 and higher
  • AMD Radeon 3x00+ and higher
• Rendering modes
  • Isosurface rendering
  • Opacity accumulation
  • Maximal intensity projection
  • Procedural materials: plastic, wood, marble, ivory
• Cut planes
  • High quality cut planes rendering
  • Segments of arbitrary thickness rendering
• Transfer functions
  • 1D density
  • 1D preintegrated
  • 2D density, gradient magnitude
• Advanced features
  • Automatic UV coordinates generation for 2D texture mapping of CT model
  • Rendering the volume from inside for virtual endoscopy
  • Subsurface scattering simulation
  • Texture mapping of isosurfaces
• Optimizations
  • Automatic generation of impostors

Scene management

• Automatic multipass rendering support
• Frustum culling
• Hierarchical animation support
• Skeletal animation support
• Render states sorting and optimization

GUI

• Overlay and GUI rendering
• Data-driven GUI controls
• Common controls library
• TrueType fonts support
• High DPI aware rendering for 2560×1600 and higher resolutions

Audio

• API
  • OpenAL 1.1
  • Optional FMOD integration (base classes are provided)
• 3D positional sounds
• Ambient sounds
• Streaming playback

Resources manager

• Transparent caching of all shared resources
• Supported file formats
  • Textures: BMP, TGA, JPG, DDS, HDR RGBE (FreeImage library is used)
  • Audio: WAV, OGG and MP3 (via FMOD library)
  • Meshes: ASE, MD5, LCM

File system

• Memory-mapped files
• Hierarchical directory structure with mountable folders
• Uncompressed RAR archives as pack files

Scripting

• Fully integrated object-oriented LinderScript scripting language with a C++ like syntax
• Transparent interaction of scripted and native code
• Fast byte-code virtual machine
• Integrated optimizing compiler

.NET

• C# autogenerated bindings are provided (since version 0.6.00)