Lilith3D

2.0.0

• Terrain Morphing. Lilith3D is a geomorphing engine and can change the terrain in real time. See TerrainMesh.
• Tree Rendering.
• Culling.
• Terrain effects. Lilith has a generalized terrain morphing system, and currently has plugins for volcano effects (with terrain morphs, particles, and lights), craters, and land bridges. See TerrainMorph and VolcanoMorph.
• LOD Terrain. Terrain patches change resolution to reduce the polygons sent to the graphics card.
• GLSL shaders for both performance improvement and special effects.
• Support for Quake's MD2 animated characters. See MD2Mesh
• Particle system. Simple system in place to manage particles. See GravParticles
• Weather simulation. Rain, fog, sunny days come and go. See Weather
• AC3D Model import.
• Decals. Textures (decals) can be rendered anywhere on the terrain for footsteps, spell damage, and lava effects. See DecalMesh
• Mathematics package. Lilith has a full support for linear algebra, matrices, and geometry, as well as basic collision detection routines.
• Quaternion camera system.
• A* Pathing. A pather that chooses the most optimal path between any 2 points. A path that becomes invalid (due to terrain changing) will be re-computed. The pather is reasonably optimized.
• Day and night.

The goal of this document is to be a good overview of using the system, and a full document of the Lilith3D API. General docs, build instructions, and the latest notes can be found at:

http://www.grinninglizard.com/lilith/

Also, be sure to check out the 'Related Pages' on the top menu bar for specific documenation topics.

Supported tools and file formats

• AC3D models (.ac) are supported for static objects, both buildings and not pathable objects. .ac files can be generated by AC3D (http://ac3d.org/) or Blender (http://blender.org)
• Quake2 models (.MD2) are supported for animation. They can be found in many places on the web.
• .TGA, .BMP, .GIF, .JPG and other image formats are supperted for textures. Lilith3D uses SDL_image for its image loading.

Getting Started

The files 'creation.cpp' and 'creation.h' are a Lilith3D mini-game, and illustrate the basic usage. In general, the steps to use Lilith3D are:

• Initialize SDL to use OpenGL
• InitLilith3D()
• create a ResourcePool()
• load the required assets: LoadRequiredAssets()
• load your game assets
• new Lilith3D()
• Game loop:
  • do game stuff
  • BeginDraw()
  • Draw()
  • EndDraw()
  • SDL_GL_SwapBuffers()
• delete lilith
• delete the resourcePool
• Quit SDL

Thanks!

Thanks for using Lilith3D! Please submit feedback and ideas or sourceforge!

Thanks, lee

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