Project Lecherous Gnomes - OpenGL Network Gaming for X?
(C) 2001-2003 Ville Helin


Related documents:

My Master's Thesis
Developments of Modern Multiplayer Games (.ps, .pdf 2003)


Mugshots:




Features:

Skydome

ANSI C code

Trees and grass

House generator

Rigid body physics

Fractal landscapes

Quaternion rotations

Near-to-far rendering

OpenGL (tm) graphics

Level of Detail (LOD)

Simple frustum culling

Optional Depth-of-Field

Point and triangle particle emitters

Texture loading with S3TC-BOXEN

Multilayer realtime generated clouds

Texture assigned friction and collision

Script generated (dynamic) enviroments

Client(s) - Server - Terminal over TCP/IP

Collision detection algorithm based on Paul Nettle's work

Optional occlusion culling using GL_HP_occlusion_test and AABBs

Dynamic data streamer (loads everything on the fly, no loading screens ever)

Automatic generation of LOD objects using a polygon reduction algorithm by Stan Melax

Downloads:

The whole package (03-Dec-2003)
LG's particle system with mirroring demo (02-Oct-2003)


Note:

Please note that currently this software doesn't do much.
At the moment you can travel in the generated landscape and talk to
other players. I've placed the sources here for the curious people.


Related links:

NeHe Productions
Virtual Terrain Project
Paul Bourke's geometry biased home page