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What is Sylphis3D

Fully featured cutting edge 3D game engine
State of the art realtime unified lighting and shadowing
Per pixel lighting with Bump mapping, parallax mapping and specular highlights
Pixel/Vertex Shaders 3.0
Motion blur, bloom and other post-process effects
Realistic physics, vehicles
3D Sound
Fully Python scripted with revolutionary design
High quality automatic reduction of high-polygon models

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Sylphis3D SDK for €99

Full Python source code
Exporters for MAX, Maya, Blender, etc
Forum and project management access
E-mail support
12 months free updates

Features

Showcase

Motion blur (View video)

Displacement mapping

Physics and dynamic lights

Bloom and breakable objects

Stable physics

Development environment

Rendering

Unified lighting and shadowing
A combination of BSP-Portal rendering system
Per-Pixel lighting (diffuse, specular, glossmaped bump mapping)
Beam-Tree optimized realtime shadows
Filtered lights
Object oriented scene management
Stackable post-process effects (Glare, motion blur, old film, etc)

Shaders

Vertex/Fragment programs
GLSL vertex/fragment shaders
Procedural texture-mapping
Multipass rendering
Load time image manipulation : contrast, brightness, mixing
Conversion from height maps to normal maps
Combination of any number of height maps and normal maps to one normal map.
Texture coordinate manipulation : scale, rotate, scroll
Vertex position manipulation
Color manipulation
All parameters can be assigned to functions of time (pulsing textures, etc)
PNG, TGA and JPEG images support

Collision detection - response

Per polygon collision detection and motion clipping
Various collision primitives : sphere, box, capsule, cylinder
Joints between bodies : hinge, ball-socket, double-hinge
Rigid body dynamics(Realistic physics simulation)

Sound

3D sound
Moving sound sources, and listeners with sound pitching(Doppler effect simulation)
Environment acoustics simulation
Support for EAX
Streaming and precached loading of audio data
WAV, OGG wave file support

Animation system

Skeletal based animation with vertex blending (Organic meshes are deformed correctly at elbows etc)
Skeletal animation blending
Bone animation override

Scripting

Fully Python scripted
Fully object oriented
Everything is script controlled
Scripts can be attached to almost everything.
Green-threads for clean game code. These are not system threads and have no overhead as system threads. Sylphis can run hundreds of threads in run state with no performance cost.
Action based game programming
Script console. While the engine is running you can actually implement a new game entity and spawn it in the world!
Intergraded development environment(SDE). While the engine is running you can start the SDE end debug the code on the fly (Inspect variables, set breakpoints, etc)

Miscellaneous

Collection files so that you don't have to store hundreds of files in the engine's directory
Automatic memory management and garbage collection on both C++ and Python objects. For C++ objects this is an option.
Easy user interface building.
Truetype font support
Cross platform and cross compiler

System requirements

Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
Pentium III 500, 128 MB RAM
OpenGL Compatible 3D Graphics Accelerator, DirectX compatible Soundcard

Support

Support is provided through private forums and project management system. All licensees of Sylphis3D are granted 12 month free mail support and updates on the engine.

Contact info

For any questions feel free to contact us at support@sylphis3d.com
More info can be found at the Sylphis3D Developer Network

Sylphis3D public development network | Harry Kalogirou blog