Power Render 4 is a general purpose SDK for creating 3D multimedia applications and games.
It features a high level engine/editor capable of mixing outdoor terrain and indoor BSP levels seamlessly. The trial version comes complete with tools, editor, 3DS MAX 3/4, Character Studio, and LW 6.5 support, lots of examples and sample content.
Other features:
* Full DirectX 8 support, 3D hardware (HAL) or reference driver
* C or C++, using static libraries
* Requires Microsoft Visual C/C++ version 5 or 6
* AMD 3D Now Optimized!
* Extremely easy API developed over 5 years of actual usage with commercial applications
* Not limited to first person indoor type games, use it for anything... games, virtual reality, screensavers, 3D on the web
* Both indoor and outdoor rendering, go underground, fully deformable terrain
* Online HTML help for all tools and main documentation
* 16 or 32 bit color, full screen and windowed rendering
* DX8 support : Modify Pixel and Vertex shaders without changing a line of source code.
* Z buffering, Stencil Buffering with shadow volumes
* Supports full custom software 3D pipeline as well as D3D hardware transformation and
lighting pipeline
* Use both pipelines in a single frame if needed
* Single pass and multipass multitexturing
* Dynamic lighting with directional, omni, spot, and lightmaps.
* Automatic mipmap generation
* Vertex fogging
* Environment mapping
* Environmental and DOT3 Bump Mapping
* Render to textures
* Cube mapping
* Procedural textures
* Compressed textures
* Realtime dynamic shadows using projection, shadow volume
* Progressive meshes
* Quake 3 BSP support with lightmaps, shaders, curves, PVS, and collisions
* True Type Font support
* And more!
This software is a shareware. You will be able to download and test Power Render SDK during a certain period of time, then, if it does what you need, you will have to acquire the full version from Power Render SDK publisher. The Power Render SDK 4.0 free trial version contains an installer and an uninstaller, and has a size of 35629 Kilobytes.
For additional information and support request, please contact directly Power Render SDK publisher.
Power Render SDK Screenshot
