Genesis3D

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Genesis3D was a project by Eclipse Entertainment to create a real-time 3D engine for Microsoft Windows. It was released as source code in 1998. The first released version supported hardware acceleration and a software renderer. Genesis3D had RGB lightmaps, fogging, Binary Space Partitioning (the same visibility algorithm used in Quake 1 and 2), a sprite system, alpha masking and blending, and a map and model editor.

Genesis3D allows the game creators to animate 3D models using now-standard "skeletal animation", allowing for complex smoothed movement (instead of interpolated vertex keyframes used in the Quake games).

An early game using the Genesis3D Engine was G-Sector by Freeform Interactive and was released as a free game/technology demo in December 1998.

[edit] Notable Genesis3D games

• Barbie Generation Girl Gotta Groove, the number-seven best-selling game for Christmas 1999 developed by Neurobatics Corporation^[1]
• Dragon's Lair 3D: Return to the Lair developed by Dragonstone Software
• Special Force, an anti-Israel game developed by Hezbollah
• Ethnic Cleansing, an openly racist computer game developed and distributed by Resistance Records

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official Website
• Reality Factory - Gameshell for Genesis3D
• Tutorials for Genesis3d and Reality Factory

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