Cafu

Cafu is an open-source game and graphics engine for multiplayer, cross-platform, real-time 3D Action. The engine can be used to create a variety of 3D applications, including games, simulations, and training and architectural software.

Cafu includes a graphical editor, CaWE, that contains all the tools required to create new levels: a Map Editor, GUI Editor, Font-Wizard, Material Browser and Model Editor.

The engine's source code is freely available under the GPL, but can also be obtained under a commercial license.

Cafu

License Cafu License Developer Carsten Fuchs Software Website www.cafu.de Requirements Optional: Boost C++ libraries Bullet Continuous Collision Detection and Physics library Nvidia "Cg - C for graphics" Collada DOM FMOD FreeType library libjpeg libnoise libogg libvorbis libpng libxml2 lightwave-8 Lua mpg123 openal-soft PCRE wxWidgets zlib Support: Documentation, Forums, FAQs, Mailing Lists Selected Reviews:

Features include:

• High-quality, real-time 3D graphics with a very powerful and flexible material system
• Cross-platform and cross-compiler portability
• Complete set of renderes including OpenGL 1.2, cg with fp20/vp20 profile, Cg with arbvp1/arbfp1 profile, OpenGL 1.4+, and a null renderer
• Very fast built-in network code for multi-player internet and LAN games
• Dynamic per-pixel lighting and shadows, combined with physically correct Radiosity
• Very large terrain rendering, skeleton based model rendering
• 3D sound effects with a powerful sound system
• Uses the powerful Lua language for map scripting, entity scripting and GUI scripting
• Game server that centrally manages the game state and events, as well as a client that is used by players
• Multi-player network solution with a client/server architecture that is optimized for minimum bandwifth requirements, with full client prediction and delta compression for network packets

Last Updated Saturday, May 19 2012 @ 10:31 AM EDT