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INTRODUCTION

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MSDOS Engine (or past work)

• Software Perspective Correct Texture Mapper (16 pixel accuracy, modifiable at compile time).
• Gouraud shading, to help create the effect of lighting (It did not work too well).
• Dynamic objects (a pink donut and a floating head using 2D Affine Texture Mapping).
• BSP Trees (I did this after reading Quake used them).
• Sector based architecture (aka Duke Nukem, Doom etc).
• 6DOF which meant unlike Doom and Duke Nukem I could have sectors in 3Dimensions.
• Sound (Played a module, and also a sound effect was attached to each dynamic object such that the volume of the effect was based on the distance of the object from the viewer).
• Dodgy Keyboard read, you can only hold one key down at once ;-)
• Animated textures.
• Span Buffering to prevent overdraw.
• Collision Detection (although not between dynamic objects).

Just in case you do not feel like downloading the engine here are a couple of screen shots from it :
 
 

What could be down this corridor?

Ahh! Another slightly darker corridor!

MSDOS and DirectX Engine (or past work recode)

• Software Perspective Correct Texture Mapper (16 pixel accuracy, modifiable at compile time).
• Lightmaps with Surface Caching, however I never got round to generating the lightmaps so just a dodgy internal lightmap was used.
• BSP Trees (I did this after reading Quake used them).
• Brush based architecture (Quake style).
• 6DOF.
• Keyboard read works properly (ie. I bothered to set up an interrupt (DOS version)).
• Animated textures. This caused some nightmares with the surface cache so restrictions were placed.
• Span Buffering to prevent overdraw.
• Collision Detection (although not between dynamic objects).
• Gravity.
• Visibility information for nodes, however the information was never created.
• An editor existed for it, however I am unsure if it survives.

Just in case you do not feel like downloading the engine here are a couple of screen shots from it :
 

Hmm, a structure that sort of sits in a void!

Oh no its that damn water texture again!

GLIDE Engine (Current Project - Win95 and Voodoo (or Voodoo 2) 3dfx only)

• Perspective Correct Texturemapping + Mipmapping + Bilinear Filtering etc..  ie. Hardware Rasterisation.
• Currently uses Gouraud lighting (which looks really bad on large surfaces), this will change to lightmaps or maybe something a little different.
• Portal Based Rendering (I feel this is the way to go now), currently uses Rectangular approximation (ie.. very dirty code).
• Sector based architecture, full 3D environments are possible (at present I am using the Jedi Knight Level Editor to make them).
• 6DOF + multiple cameras.
• View Warping portals are possible (ie. mirrors).
• Animated textures.
• Z Buffer is used for rendering dynamic objects.
• Dynamic objects are supported + crude animation is possible.
• Dynamic lighting is supported.
• Collision Detection is a little dodgy due to support for portals on walls in the same sector, this is fixable though.
• Gravity.
• I have just started writing an editor (it will use CSG techniques, as I have just seen the Unreal Editor and I love it).
• Uses Direct Input for keyboard reads, after all in comparison to Windows API input functions its a god send.

Just in case you do not feel like downloading the engine here are a few screen shots from it  (sorry for the quality grabbing the images was a bit awkward) :
 
 

Our hero has the blues... <corny>	Can't stop to examine myself in the mirror......
This years entry for ugly bloke?	Very early shot of the editor to be....<very early>