Supernova Grafix Engine

Supernova Grafix Engine

The Supernova Grafix Engine is a shareware 3D graphics library. It was designed with games in mind, and is very easy to use. I am using it in a flight sim which I am currently writing, and it does very well using Glide. I was finally able to get screenshots from the 3dfx card.The picture above is from that. Click here for other screenshots showing some of these features.

Simple to use
Fast
Provides a Quickdraw Wireframe renderer in 320x240 or 640x480.
Easily expandable to use other rendering APIs (Glide, RAVE, OpenGL, etc)
Easy or advanced object animation features
Easy or advanced camera animation features
Provides automatic backface culling
Provides advanced object management features
- submodeling and recursive modeling
- simple object linkage - link objects in space, or make them share rotation or scale values without redundant calculations.
- simple object modeling or advanced modeling features
- optimized object modeling and viewing features
Automatic flatshading with one light source.
Supports simple expansion for texture-mapping APIs.

To download the unlicensed beta version of Supernova Grafix 2.0, click here. You may use this version to begin coding with Supernova Grafix, but you may not publish any work using Supernova Grafix until you purchase the licensed SDK. You will recieve the following items when you license Supernova Grafix.

Source code with detailed documentation of how the system works.
Free and automatic updates and bug fixes
A modeler capable of writing optimised 3D object files for use in Supernova applications

Important note! Supernova 2.0 will be out shortly. Here is a beta version which has the following major improvements. Be sure to read the Read Me file for a list of known bugs with the beta. Click here to download the beta SDK.

polygons instead of just triangles
support for a Quickdraw flatshader
support for Glide 3dfx
OpenGL support coming soon
true hierarchical objects
a complete object I/O system
future support for Windows planned
better documentation (yay!)

These are images from the Supernova 2.0 default renderer. No more wireframe! Yay! As you can see, the lighting effect is a lot more visible with the flat shading. Supernova 2.0 is also capable of rendering polygons, but only triangles are used in these screenshots.