Ardor3D, a Java OpenGL 3D engine, goes public

Jan 05, 2009

The first public release of Ardor3D is now out. Ardor3D is a clean slate rewrite of the popular jMonkeyEngine, with the goal of making a more professional engine with a truer open source community. Check it out today at Ardor3d.com

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Rivatuner 2.22 Released - driver level OpenGL system tuning

Jan 05, 2009

Rivatuner has been updated to version 2.22. This release includes a number of new features to keep you busy. GeForce 9x00 / GTX 200 series support has been added as well as ForceWare GeForce drivers up-to 181.xx and AMD ATI Catalyst 8.12 support. RivaTuner is a complete powerful tweaking environment, providing you everything you may need to tune NVIDIA GPU based display adapters. The widest driver-level Direct3D / OpenGL and system tuning options, flexible profiling system allowing to make custom settings on per-application basis, both driver-level and low-level hardware access modes, unique diagnostic and real-time hardware monitoring features and exclusive power user oriented tools like built-in registry editor and patch script engine make RivaTuner’s feature set absolutely unmatched.

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G3D Engine 7.01 Released

Jan 05, 2009

G3D is a 3D graphics engine that wraps OpenGL in a GPU and OS independent C++ layer to provide portable high performance and ease of use. Version 7.01. You can download it for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and OS X from http://g3d-cpp.sf.net. Major highlights of this release include:

• Video input and output—direct to OpenGL textures
• Extended developer tools and GUI
• Parallax bump mapping for SuperShader using pixel shaders
• Minor feature extensions and documentation on all classes

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PDFCube 0.0.3 improves its rendering routines based on OpenGL

Dec 23, 2008

PDFCube improved it’s rendering effectiveness in the 0.0.3 release using multitexturing and call lists. PDFCube is an OpenGL and Open Source application to smoothly view PDF documents with an added spinning cube trasition effect.

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NeoAxis OpenGL accelerated Game Engine 0.59 released

Dec 23, 2008

The new version of NeoAxis engine is out. NeoAxis Engine is an all-purpose, modern 3D graphics engine for 3D simulations, visualizations and games. Actually NeoAxis is a game engine: a set of different technologies that brings all you need to build your games: 3D rendering engine (based on OGRE), physics engine (based on PhysX and ODE), sound system (based on FMOD and DirectSound) and all other common components.

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Ogre Technologies releases Glux 0.3.3

Dec 22, 2008

Today Ogre Technologies released version 0.3.3 of their new Glut-like library, Glux. This new release includes several bug fixes as well as new features, such as dynamic event filters, OpenGL 3 context support, and more. Ogre Technologies, the lead company behind Glux, says that even though Glux is growing quickly, more developers are certainly welcome. Therefor they welcome the help of any Linux-or Mac-guru that wishes to offer his/her services to port Glux to their own OS.

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How To Create an OpenGL 3.0 Context with ForceWare 181.00

Dec 22, 2008

Here is a short tutorial about how to create an OpenGL 3.0 rendering context with the latest ForceWare 181.00 graphics drivers. This article also lists the five new OpenGL extensions exposed by ForceWare 181.00.

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SensAble releases new OpenGL based OpenHaptics SDK

Dec 19, 2008

Today’s newly announced OpenHaptics v 3.0 application developers toolkit vastly simplifies touch-enabling for Windows (and Linux, in Jan 09) computing applications. Based on OpenGL, today’s new toolkit makes it even easier for anyone with C++ familiarity to mash-up code, try out new touch-enabled ideas and create exceptionally realistic virtual environments. OpenHaptics v 3.0 includes the industry’s first haptics microAPI that encapsulates the necessary steps for haptic programming - so developers need to write far fewer lines of code, and can try out new ideas faster.

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Sun releases new version of VirtualBox with OpenGL 3D support

Dec 19, 2008

Sun released VirtualBox 2.1.0, a major update with a slew of major new features. Among the top new features in VirtualBox 2.1.0 you will find better 64-bit support, hardware virtualization on the Mac, OpenGL 3D acceleration, easier networking on Windows and Linux plus full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots.

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EMotion FX 3.7 OpenGL accelerated character system adds mirroring, jiggle control and more

Dec 17, 2008

MysticGD announces EMotion FX 3.7, a realtime character animation system designed to be plugged into any 3D engine, game or any other product. EMotion FX supports next generation multi-core, multithreaded consoles and PC as well as single threaded environments. New in this version is Realtime Motion Mirroring, Footplant IK Solver, Jiggle Controller, 64 bit support, iPhone support and much more.

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