Aether3D Game Engine

Aether3D is a cross-platform open source 3D game engine programmed in C++ by Timo Wirén. Its license is zlib License. The engine currently works on Windows, GNU/Linux, OS X and iOS (devices using OpenGL ES 2.0).

Features

• The engine is a DLL that can be dynamically loaded by your application offering clean separation of engine and application code.
• Renderers: OpenGL 3.2 Core Profile, OpenGL ES 2.0.
• Shadow Mapping.
• Texture Atlas support.
• C++11 features that work on Visual Studio 2012, Clang and GCC.
• Batching of 2D geometry.
• Render-to-Texture.
• Energy-conserving Blinn-Phong.
• Linear space lighting.
• Shaders support normal map, specular map and cube environment map.
• Point, Directional and Spot lights.
• Shader combinations kept simple by using #defines.
• View Frustum Culling.
• Anisotropic texture filtering.
• Audio support for .ogg and .wav.
• Supports compressed DXT and PVR textures.
• Free-look quaternion camera.
• Custom model format, but converters for Wavefront .obj and COLLADA .dae are included.
• Fonts.

Download

Development snapshot source code (2012-07-20).

Tested configurations:

• Compilers: GCC, Visual C++ 2012, Xcode LLVM (Clang).
• Operating systems: Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit, Windows 7 64-bit, OS X Lion.
• Graphics chips: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470, NVIDIA GeForce 320M.

Links

The following articles/blogs have been of great help/motivation when I have been coding this engine.

Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming Through OpenGL

The Danger Zone

Diary of a Graphics Programmer

Aras Pranckevičius