Have you ever wanted to play around with generating 3D still shots, movies, or games? Crystal Space is an incredible project that puts that type of technology into your hands. Let’s take a closer look.
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Here are some highlights of the Crystal Space 3D environment:
Foliage generator - Crystal Space includes a foliage generator that, if used with the outside terrain engine, can make outside terrain quickly and easily. The artist simply inputs density rates. It can generate rocks, tree, grasses, etc.
Shaders - It also includes fragment and vertex shaders that allow for great unique shape representations.
Skeletal animation and shading - Crystal Space includes a skeletal generator that allows you to create realistic people
Here is a complete list of features:
Generic
Highly platform independent with good platform abstraction. Officially supports Linux, OSX and Windows using a wide range of compilers.
Modularized using a lightweight component framework, SCF, based upon the COM model.
Self contained so that many modules requires no or few external dependencies.
Written in standard C++ using very few non*standard extensions. Source available under LGPL license.
Comprehensive and competent
Contains modules for 2d and 3d graphics, sound, collision detection and dynamics via ODE and bullet as well as support modules for filesystem abstraction, xml loading etc.
Graphics subsystem:
Generic renderer abstraction with main implementation being OpenGL based.
Supports hardware accelerated rendering on all supported platforms and cards from all well known vendors.
OpenGL renderer uses acceleration techniques such as vertex buffers in AGP or VRAM and asyncronious uploads.
Shader centric design with shaders defined in xml markup and shader programs implemented using Cg, assembly language or fixed function operations.
Complicated shaders can be constructed using a meta syntax as composed by simpler modules that gets combined on load.
Library of common shaders such as normal mapping, parallax (virtual displacement) mapping and hardware skinning.
Contains a software renderer with scaled down features for platforms without OpenGL and/or debugging.
Mesh objects:
Plugin based mesh object system
Generic triangle based mesh with support for frame and bone based animation.
Terrain mesh with fast block based LOD system.
Configurable and extensible particle system mesh.
General system for static LOD on all types of meshes.
Bone based animation mesh using the cal3d library.
Collision detection and dynamics:
Provides bindings for ODE and bullet dynamics systems.
Automatic setup of collision detection meshes and syncronization of position and orientation of meshes.
Simplified collision detection when you don’t need the full dynamics simulation
Sound system:
2D and 3D sound rendering via DirectSound, Alsa, OSS and CoreAudio.
Provides both one*time playing of effects and streaming playing in the background for music.
Other:
Filesystem abstraction layer, VFS, that handles both physical files on disk and files within ZIP files, giving virtual layout independent from platform and physical layout.
Abstracted configuration layer with support for settings in configuration file, system dependent storage such as the registry and command line.
Compatible
Custom model and scene file format with exporters for Blender and 3d studio max and model importers for common file formats such as 3ds and md2.
Supports all common texture file formats including dds, jpg, png as well as some more exotic ones such as mng (animated texture format).
Sound loaders for wav and ogg formats.
All subsystems easily extendable for new file formats.
Crystal Space also has some more goodies for you, if you want to play around. The CEL, or Crystal Entity Layer, provides a gaming engine for you to play with. If you’re not adept at C++, then you can also visit CELStart. This provides easy package creation via scripts. And Crystal Core is a demo of what it can do.
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This tool is worth trying it.Your blog has a good collection of 3d printing articles.Keep posting
how do i download it off its homepage its just way to confusing