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What is VortexGE ?

• It is a pure-software 3D renderer for the X Window environment.
• It is intended for creating 3D multimedia applications under Linux without 3D accelerator card (note that 2D acceleration support from the driver of the video card will still be an advantage).

Features :

1. Full-software 3D renderer with :
   • Fullscreen display capability.
   • Flat and gouroud shading, with and without texture.
   • 2D sprite in 3D scene.
   • Camera control for 1st and 3rd person view.
   • Simple fog and transparancy.
   • Simple skybox.
   • Simple object hierarchy.
2. Simple 2D image manipulations.
3. Simple dialog capability with UTF-8 support.
4. Audio output supporting :
   • PCM playback using :
     • ALSA.
     • OSS.
     • Dummy (NULL) audio system.
   • MIDI playback using :
     • ALSA.
     • Embedded libTiMidity.
     • Dummy (NULL) MIDI system.
5. Multithreading and simple IPC support.
6. Console message displayer.

Major future and near future plans :

• Easier usage of dialog controls (currently in progress).
• Game entity objects and simple scripting for easier game board management (currently in progress).
• More C++ conformant API.

Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Aloysius Indrayanto
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