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    CAPCOM's Street Fighter 4 character models C++ viewer. Uses DirectX9 and pure Win32 API. Animation code courtesy of revelation @ Xentax board. Original mxtk win32 layer by chUmbaLum sOft
    Downloads: 34 This Week
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    DirectX OpenGL Wrapper

    DirectX OpenGL Wrapper

    DirectX 8 to OpenGL wrapper for legacy apps and portability

    DirectX OpenGL Wrapper is a lightweight compatibility layer that translates DirectX 8 API calls into OpenGL and platform-specific rendering commands. It enables legacy DirectX applications and games to run on systems where native DirectX support is limited or unavailable, including alternative platforms and compatibility environments. This project is intended for developers, retro-computing enthusiasts, and compatibility research. It provides a foundation for running legacy graphics software, experimenting with API translation, or extending support for older DirectX-based applications on modern systems. See article: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/02/02/12/1824215/an-open-source-direct3d-80-wrapper-for-open-gl
    Downloads: 20 This Week
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    Thatcher Ulrich's game engine testbed. A motley collection of experimental and not-so-experimental game- and graphics-oriented code. Public domain!
    Downloads: 14 This Week
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    QuteMol is a real time, high quality molecular visualizer that offers an array of innovative visual effects. QuteMol aims at improving the clarity of rendered images and at offering a better understanding of the molecular 3D shape and spatial structure.
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    Downloads: 48 This Week
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    OpenVRML is a cross-platform VRML and X3D browser and C++ runtime library.
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    Space Invaders OpenGL is a 2D/3D clone of Space Invaders developed with the OpenGL API. The host language is C/C++, and the OS platform Windows. For Windows Vista/Seven, the program must be "Run as administrator". I'll do a fix if I have time. Thanks.
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    OpenArena is a 3d game creation engine. It is a rendering system that can be used for more than just games but it is targeted at games. The basic use being create some game media textures models maps and config files for physics and rules.
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    OpenSim - Open Simulator. Primarily a 3D simulator for multiple indoor and outdoor mobile robots. Includes 3D real-time rendering (via OSG) and a physics engine (via ODE). Current emphasis is on manipulators.
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    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    DISCONTINUED SimSimSim offers help for writing simulation-like programs, by taking care of mundane issues such as managing the display window, 3D rendering (X, OpenGL, etc), simulation control (start/stop), random number generation, settings, message l
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    AllegroGL is a small library intended to allow Allegro applications to use OpenGL in Unix, Windows, Mac OS X and DOS.
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    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    CrackArt is an open source 3D modeling and texturing application. CrackArt is object oriented and features a flexible plug-in architecture. CrackArt is part of The SceneEngine Project, a 3D Production Solution.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    A C++ OpenGL GUI Toolkit. Visual output is customizable via CSS and style classes. Forms can be created via XUL (XML UI Language). There are builtin video drivers for GLX, WGL and SDL. Using dummy drivers, it is known to work with SDL, Glut, QT and GLFW.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    Open5:Open Source Framework for Interactive Virtual Environment. Open5 proposes a modular architecture and a flexible event loop to fit any VR/MR/AR setup and to support multi-input configurations using Open Technologies such as OpenSG and OpenTracker.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Milk Engine is a flexible engine suitable for almost any game. Milk Engine will contain everything needed to develop a game, even for the newbie. Yet it’s very useful for advanced users. It’s based on OpenGL and SDL, therefore it’s also cross-platform.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    VRML2.0/97 and VRML1 viewer for the UNIX/Linux plattform
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Cross platform 3D midi and audio visualization system. Features an advanced graphics rendering engine, with ogre3d, and a data driven plug-in architecture which allows for programmers and artist to modify and create new "visualization instruments".
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    A library of algorithms for general purpose use to alter representations of 3D meshes. Currently tested in the GNU/Linux and Win32 environments. C++ STL, OpenGL, GLUT, VRML97.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Caelum is an add-on for the 3D graphics rendering engine OGRE, aimed to render atmospheric effects.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Freestyle is a software for Non-Photorealistic Line Drawing rendering from 3D scenes. Inspired by Pixar's Renderman, it is designed as a programmable interface to allow maximum control over the style of the output image.
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    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Iris is a free 3D Client for the popular Massive Multiplayer Role Playing Game Ultima Online. The current Iris version works with the Ultima Online expansions Age of Shadows, Samurai Empire and Mondain's Legacy!
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    K.L.'s Tanx
    This is a 3D puzzle game with fantastic design. The prototype idea is from Family Computer game 'Tank', so Tanx means Tank's extended version.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Rearview is not meant to be a very sharp-shaped engine. Its strength are grown things, dirty things, bumpy things. Natural stuff like smooth hills, old walls.
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    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    A 3D game (and engine/level editor) written using C++, OpenGL/GLUT, OpenAL, for windows and linux, featuring single player and a frantic oldskool multiplayer mode. Experience the mighty weapons, The Boxgun and The Surprise Launcher!
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    The WaterWorks - a realtime compositing system
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Virtuelium is an open-source multi-spectral physically based ray-tracer developed to render the visual appearance of material and to be able to do multi-scaled simulations of light interactions.