G3D Features

Core Features

• pure software rendering engine, 100% portable code
• abstract and easy-to-use API
• rendering modes:
  • wire frame
  • unshaded
  • flat shading
  • Gouraud shading
  • Phong shading
• pixel exact scan conversion makes beautiful perspective-correct textures
• bilinear filtering
• antialiasing using supersampling
• support for vertex textures
• render lines, triangles, strips and fans using OpenGL-like begin() and end() methods
• render triangle meshes (vertex arrays)
• reflections using environment mapping (cube mapping)
• pixel exact (linear) fogging
• specular highlights
• materials with diffuse, ambient, specular and emissive colors
• blend materials with vertex colors
• directional, point and spot lights
• alpha blending (source over)
• z-buffering
• frustum culling of axis aligned bounding boxes
• volume clipping and 2D clipping
• picking
• offscreen rendering: create your own custom render targets
• draw background images
• Java2D support: use Graphics2D to draw over the 3D scene
• active and passive rendering policies
• AWT and Swing integration
• implementation of AWT fullscreen mode
• TGA texture import and export facility

Scenegraph API

• set up your scene with an easy-to-use scene graph
• the scenegraph manager is taking responsibility for the right order in your scene using a default and an alpha queue
• 3D rendering thread
• sky cube
• OBJ import (including materials)
• basic primitives including plane, sphere and the teapot