A 3D Engine is a software program used for rendering three dimensional graphics based on models.
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Effort Required to make 3D Game Engine?
For the sake of theory (and general understanding),
I would like to understand in a moderately exhaustive list of all the things that must be done in order to create a "modern" 3D Game Engine (from a coder's perspective)
I seem to have a hard time…

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What open source software can I use to develop interior design software?
I need to develop an interior designing software :)
Much like a virtual room designing software.
There will be pre-designed 3D objects and they can dragged on to the room. You can change the room size etc... Much like a conventional home designing…

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3d engine with telnet access
Does anyone know of a open source 3d engine which can be operated via telnet?
What I'm looking for is scripting via a socket connection. To allow for world creation and/or camera movement.
Does anybody know of any that has this built in or very,…

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Many or few textures (performance 3D engine)
I have two modes to continue programming a hexagonal map in this moment, and I don't know what way is better. Maybe you can help me :)
I used a texture to represent the "grid", so the squad with this texture is static and don't move or edit in…

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Is there some JavaScript 3d-physycs engine with integration with STL?
I want to make emulation of models for 3d printing on JavaScript. Is there any engines in which possible to load STL models? Or convert STL to other format (3d Max, Inventor, etc.) and then load to JavaScript?

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Creating web based football simulation game
I am creating an online football/soccer management game. I want to implement some simple 2d (in future maybe even 3d) graphics engine. For 2d I mean, that every player would be like a circle, view from top. But I am unsure, what technology should i…

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Any high-level, hardware-accelerated 3D engine?
I am programming in Flash for a long-time. It is interesting that most of the things, including open source libraries, are very high-level in the Flash world. It is great because we can build things up quickly. But Flash is too slow (I want to do CV…

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Fluxus - undefined identifier gl and gh keeps returning 0.0
I'm trying to get the scripts running of the hackpact of mndl.hu but I keep running in to the error.
undefined identifier gl
I googled and came across the follow
(define (gl n)
(log (+ 1 (gh n))))
But gh keeps returning 0.0 so simply…

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"Virtual screens" in 3D engines (displaying on a wall another portion of the 3D world)
To clarify the technical problem i have, i want to describe the scene i have in mind:
In a 3D computer simulation, I want to build a kind of cabin (cube form) that stands isolated in a large plane. There's 1 door to enter the cabin. Next to this…

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Performing Boolean Transformations in XNA
I am currently trying to develop a small simulation program in xna that takes a model and breaks it up into several smaller pieces.
The only way I was thinking would be to take the original object, copy it, then remove a chunk from one (using a…

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Any alternative to the Alternativa3D engine?
I'm familiar with the Alternativa3D engine
To me it's quite good, but I just wondered about another 3d engine which is able to compete with it.
An engine must correspond to the following requirements:
must have a good Stage3D support
be open-source…

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How to Cull a Polygon in WindowSpace?
I'm writing a Software Renderer.
I need to cull a Polygon in Window Space.
For a Triangle the algorithm is:
function v3dPolyBackface(p: v3dPoly): boolean;
var
ax, ay, bx, by, cz : longint;
begin
ax:= p.v[0].prjX - p.v[1].prjX;
ay:=…

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Z Buffer Not Working Correctly (Not Displaying Anything)
Here is the code for my Z Buffer, it returns a black screen when I draw it.
sf::VertexArray ZOrder(sf::VertexArray verticies, std::vector z_buffer) {
std::vector order;
for (int i = 0; i < verticies.getVertexCount(); i++) {
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c++ triangle rasterizer z buffer issue
I'm quite new to c++ and coding in general, so excuse what may be strange looking c++. I've been making my own 3d engine for the past while and have run into an issue with the z buffer. All the pixels work out great usually, but there are certain…

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How to move a node in cocos2d and cocos3d
I have a node. In this particular case, it's a CCLayer, but I'm looking for a general solution. My node is centered at point1 (let's say { 100, 100 }). I'd like it to move to point1 (say { 200, 200 }) over the course of 0.5 seconds.
Really simple…

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