Tremor 3d Graphics Engine Homepage

Exciting new features!

• Support for animated, true-3D dynamic objects--things to shoot at!
  
• Support for several types of cool looking shading, including Quake-like surface caching of pre-lit textures
  
• MipMapping now supported
  
• PVS (Potential Visibility Set) Pre-computation
  
• New physics and effects: stairs, elevators, doors, bouncing . . .
  
• Start of support for multi-player network play
  
• Start of support for Texture Map animation
  
• Start of support for 3D shape editor "EditBoy" for creating and editing 3D objects
  

Exciting old features!

• True 3D, 6 degree of freedom graphics engine (like Qauke; not like Doom or Duke Nuke'em 3D)
  
• BSP based backgrounds with z buffered dynamic objects
• Real-time texture mapped polygons
  
• Sophisticated collision detection
  
• Sound support
  

Features That May be Coming Real Soon Now!

• Support for the legacy operating system "Windows 95"
  
• Support for 16 bit displays
  
• Support for hardware accelerators or MMX
  
• Real game-like features like plot and objectives
  

The new Quake-like surface cache technique . . .

What lies down the hall?

Here is a wireframe view of an algorithmically generated world:

Upstairs, an enemy attacks . . . (older)

What you see above is a real time free-direction texture mapped 3d game engine prototype that is written in C for Linux/X but will port fairly easily to Win95/DOS. It is currently capable of frame rates up to 30fps on reasonably interesting images. With assembly optimization that figure should stay about the same even when it is doing fun game-like things.

The engine has improved significantly since the demo version 1 release of several months ago. A MUD or game is the likely next step.

FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

Q: 'Tremor' . . . is that some kind of a play on 'Quake'?
A: Yes, you're so clever.

Q: Is there anything to shoot at yet?
A: Yes!

Q: Can I get my very own demo copy of Tremor to play with?
A: Yes! Right here.

Q: Is source code available?
A: Not at this time.

Q: Can I get involved and work on Tremor in some capacity?
A: Maybe. Drop me a line here.

Did You Say Something About a 3d Object Editor And Animator?

Yes, it's called, lamely, EditBoy. Warning! This is a large GIF image that will take a while to download.

Demo Version 1 Homepage

Here's the more primitive demo1 version of Tremor. Historical interest only.

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