Power Render SDK 4.0

Power Render SDK description:

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!

Power Render SDK 4.0 was released on Oct 17, 2001. The current version will run on Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP. Additional system requirements for Power Render SDK include DirectX 8, 3D card.

Power Render SDK is a shareware. You will be able to use the evaluation version available for download during a limited period, after what you will have to buy the full version to continue to use Power Render SDK.

Size of Power Render SDK 4.0 download is less than 35629 Kb. DSL users will only need 18 minutes to achieve the download, when 84 minutes may be required when using a 56k modem. (See below to download Power Render SDK 4.0).