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- RenderWare Datasheet (Updated for RenderWare 1.4)
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- RenderWare - Real-time 3D graphics on PCs
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- * Software rendering engine for real-time 3D graphics.
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- * Rich easy to use API of 400+ functions.
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- * Advanced shading, including perspective texturing.
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- * Cross platform support.
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- Only RenderWare's breakthrough technology delivers real-time 3D graphics
- without 3D hardware acceleration.
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- Only RenderWare can deliver real-time 3D graphics where it counts, - on over
- 100 million desktops.
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- Only RenderWare gives 3D graphics software developers access to 100 million
- customers.
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- RenderWare Specification
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- Introduction
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- RenderWare is a high performance, device independent 3D graphics library with
- a simple and elegant API consisting of a small number of object types and a
- rich set of associated functions.
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- RenderWare is aimed at Independent Software Vendors and Corporate
- developers, as a tool to assist them with the development of interactive 3D
- graphics applications or to add interactive 3D graphics capability to existing
- applications.
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- Developers using RenderWare will be able to dramatically reduce the
- development time of their 3D graphics applications.
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- Performance
- -----------------
- The key to RenderWare's strength lies in the quality of the
- API and the very fast software implementation that
- provides truly real-time 3D performance on today's desktop PCs
- without requiring 3D hardware acceleration.
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- RenderWare performance Pentium P5/90 examples:
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- Flat shading pixel fill rate 27 million pixels/sec.
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- Perspective Correct Texture pixel fill rate 6.2 million pixels/sec.
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- Vertex Transformations 750,000/sec.
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- 3D Hardware acceleration support
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- RenderWare also provides transparent support for hardware
- 3D accelerators. The RenderWare DDK allows 3D
- accelerator chip and card manufacturers to develop dynamically
- loadable RenderWare device drivers that they can
- bundle with their cards. Support has already been
- announced for the Matrox MGA Impression Plus, ATI products,
- Yamaha graphics chips, 3D Lab's Glint and Cirrus chips.
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- Functionality
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- RenderWare provides extensive 3D functionality through over
- 400 API calls, and an object based approach that gives developers
- easy access to the underlying power of RenderWare.
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- RenderWare API Features
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- * Multiple directional, point, spot and colored light sources
- * Multiple orthographic and perspective cameras
- * Perspectively correct, foreshortened, tiled, masked and moving textures.
- * Lit 'optimized' and antialiased textures
- * Environment (reflection) mapping.
- * Object instancing and hierarchical models.
- * Picking (scene, object, polygon, vertex).
- * Materials support (Ka, Kd, Ks, color, opacity, texture).
- * Materials by reference
- * Geometry sampling (vertex, edge, facet; i.e., point cloud, wirefame, solid).
- * Shading, light source sampling (facet, vertex; i.e., flat or Gouraud).
- * User specified shading normals at vertices.
- * Native rendering at both 8 and 16 bit color. Host environment translation
- for 4 and 24 bit rendering.
- * Far clipping plane
- * Scrolled and tiled backdrop images.
- * 3D sprites.
- * Arbitrary palette support allows existing 2D graphics to be tightly
- integrated into the 3D scene.
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- In addition:
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- * RenderWare requires no pre-processing of objects. Full deformation,
- animation and intersection of objects is supported in real-time.
- * RenderWare provides pixel accurate hidden surface and true 3D
- clipping, for wireframe, flat shaded, smooth specular shaded, textured
- and perspective textured rendering.
- * RenderWare is also tightly integrated with the host's window system.
- This allows seamless mixing of native 2D rendering (i.e, with GDI,
- Quickdraw or Xlib), and 3D rendering.
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- Other New RenderWare 1.4 features
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- * Improved geometry range
- * Improved clipping robustness
- * Pentium optimizations
- * General performance improvements
- * Improved debugging library
- * Support for RenderWare DDK
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- Importing models and textures into RenderWare
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- Tools are available for importing DXF and 3DS models and animations,
- and various texture formats.
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- Cross Platform Support
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- RenderWare software development kits are available for
- Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, DOS 5 or later,
- on 386/SX and upwards. Windows NT on Power PC.
- Also for Mac and PowerMac (System 7) and SUN UNIX workstation (X11).
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- Compiler Support
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- DOS - Watcom 10
- Windows 3.1 - Watcom 10, Visual C 1.5, Borland C 4.5
- Windows NT/95 - Visual C 2.0
- Mac/PowerMac - Code Warrior 4.5
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- RenderWare SDK Contents
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- The RenderWare SDK and Utilities pack includes the following:
- * 600 page API guide.
- * Delivery and debugging kernels to accelerate development.
- * Fixed point and floating point libraries to provide access to the
- broadest installed base.
- * Demos with sample source code.
- * Over 700 models and textures
- * Format converters for geometry and textures.
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- How to obtain more information about RenderWare
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- Call, email or fax as detailed below. You can
- also download demos from our FTP or WWW site.
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- US and Canada
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- CRITERION SOFTWARE
- 790 Lucerne Drive Suite 56
- Sunnyvale CA 94086
- Voice 408 749 0493
- Fax 408 732 3057
- email: rw-info@csl.com
- ftp: ftp.csl.com
- http://www.csl.com/csl/cslhome.html
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- Europe, ROW
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- CRITERION SOFTWARE Ltd.
- 20, Alan Turing Road,
- Guildford, GU2 5YF, UK.
- Sales Hot-line +44-1483-448833
- Voice: +44-1483-448800
- Fax: +44-1483-448811
- email: rw-info@criterion.canon.co.uk
- ftp: ftp.canon.co.uk
- http://www.canon.co.uk/csl/cslhome.html
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- Japan
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- CANON SALES CO, INC.
- Software Division
- Product Planning Dept.
- 7-2, Nakase 1-Chome, Mihama-ku,
- Chiba City, Chiba 261, Japan
- Voice:+81-43-211-9151
- Fax:+81-43-211-9178
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- About Criterion Software.
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- Criterion Software Ltd., a subsidiary of Canon Inc. (Tokyo, Japan), is
- the leader in interactive 3D graphics software tools for personal
- computers. Criterion develops, markets and supports computer
- software products and technologies that expand the interactive
- 3D graphics frontiers on the desktop. The company licenses its
- products and technology to major developers world-wide through
- its offices in Sunnyvale Calif., Guildford England and Tokyo Japan.
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- Copyright 1995 Criterion Software Limited, a Canon Company.
- All rights reserved. While every care has been taken in the
- preparation of this document, Criterion Software Ltd, accepts no
- responsibility for any consequences of its use. We reserve the right
- to change specifications without notice.
-
- RenderWare is a registered trademark of Canon Inc.,
- 3D for Windows and the Criterion logo are trademarks of
- Criterion Software Ltd. All other trademarks are those of their
- respective companies
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- RenderWare Price List US$ (confidential)
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- Description Price Order No.
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- 1) RenderWare SDK Personal Licence $995 RWSDKPL
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- RenderWare single user, single platform personal licence.
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- Options
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- a) Email support $199 per year. SF001
- b) Utilities pack (format converters etc.) $(250) UT001
- c) Upgrades $495 (each) UG001
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- 2) RenderWare SDK Commercial Licence $10,000 RWSDKCL
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- RenderWare single platform site licence. Includes utilities pack.
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- Options
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- a) Support contract, per year $5,000 SC001
- includes access directly to Criterion technical
- team, free upgrades and access to beta programs.
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- b) 10,000 run-time licences $10,000 RL10K
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- c) Unlimited run-time licences per product $25,000. PP001
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- To order RenderWare please call Criterion Sales Hotline +44 (0) 483 448833
- fax +44 (0) 483 44 88 11 or email: order@csl.com
- Mastercard and Visa welcomed. 30 day money back guarantee on personal licence.
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- All prices, terms and conditions subject to change without notice.
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