Icarus Scene Engine3.1 - Download

Icarus Scene Engine is a cross-platform, CLS-compliant 3D framework, integrating open source APIs into a cohesive all-open-source, all .NET solution. For Windows, MacOSX & Linux.

Uses OpenTK, OpenGL, OpenAL APIs for graphics and audio. Runs on Mono/.NET. Links to FFMpeg for streaming video, and FreeType as a temporary conversion mod to bring fonts into a native XML format.

Binary builds of Icarus will be infrequent, roughly every 18 months or so, the GIT code updates regularly on a weekly or twice-weekly basis (or faster if there are urgent issues).

• Dynamic shader generation based on materials, material layers, lighting, shadows, normal mapping and post effects
• Animatable Lighting, Cameras, Lenses, Scenes.
• Multi-threading. Background loading of all resources, inc. models, textures, audio
• Shared resource ".scenex" XML-based files for textures, models, materials, scene definition etc.. etc..
• Native .NET Physics simulations, based on ODE,converted and streamlined. Background-threaded, with built in synchronisation to 3D models and any other scene object.
• Native .NET OGG and WAV support, with background thread audio processing/streaming
• 3D Positional Audio based on OpenAL.
• 3D Models, importing from 3DS and OBJ files
• Terrain from Textures and raw heightfield data
• Themable User Interface controls, fully animatable, with nested parent/child as well as docking and/or anchoring to 9 points around the parent UI element with spacing and padding properties
• Binary-compatible across MacOSX, Windows, Linux.
• Scene Management. Scenes within Scenes, Parallel Scenes
• Full Animation Track, Time Dilation on any Track
• Double/Single floating point accuracy versions.
• Automatic selection of VBO, Display Lists, Immediate Mode, depending on underlying rendering platform capabilities and/or dynamic nature of rendering.
• Dynamic LOD geometric texturable shapes including: spheres, torus, cylinders, capsules, tubules
• Native in-engine Collision Rays, projection and unprojection, including ray projection into geometry triangles, triangle texture coordinates and onwards into the sub-scene that generated the texture.
• Easy Surface generation (Frame Buffers) for depth and/or color rendering of Scenes
• Cross-platform Font consistency.
• Decoding/Encoding Video Streams
• CLS-Compliant for VB and other .NET language use
• DXT texture compression support
• Custom XML loading for large (>10Mb) XML files containing high definition models & textures. e.g. 100Mb single model size
• 6 default coordinate primitives, vector, euler (vec+angles), matrix, trajectory, position /rotation (vector & matrix), and Composite coordinates (arrays of primitives), can be set on any object