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The folks at neoaxisgroup.com have updated their website and in the same time, have released a new version of NeoAxis game engine. NeoAxis Engine is a complete integrated development environment for creating interactive 3D graphics including 3D virtual worlds, AAA games, and realistic simulations.

SIO2 is an engine based on OpenGL ES 1.1 and most of the code is written in C. Other technologies like OpenAL (sound), LUA (scripting) or Bullet (physics) are also used. Want to see a SIO2 code snippet? Just ask to Geeks3D.

Horde3D is a small open source 3D rendering engine. It uses OpenGL for graphics acceleration and for cross-platform compatibility. You can download the new SDK here. Advanced skin rendering The new Beta2 release is available for download. It contains many bugfixes and smaller updates reported and contributed by the community.

If you are exporting from blender to actionscript directly so you can get your models into flash as script you can use the Blender to .as3 exporter which so kindly supports all flash 3d engines currently Away3D, Papervision3D and Sandy3D.  Dennis Ippel made the Blender exporter a while back but the update supports papervision 2.0.

Irrlicht Engine is a cross-platform high performance realtime 3D engine written in C++ and using Direct3D or OpenGL for hardware acceleration. Irrlicht is available for Windows95, 98, NT, 2000, XP, Linux and MacOS. Changelog: Unified handling of the zwrite enable flag for transparent materials for compatibilit with older Irrlicht versions.

I have been doing lots of Papervision 3D for a project recently and needed to debug some placement and camera issues.  I did a quick search and found PV3DDebug by Jason Bejot and it worked out great and is a pretty sweet utility I thought I would mention when you need to debug Papervision or even for inclusion as a debug console in all your papervision apps and games.

Ahhh cool, the developpers of Unigine engine have released a new tech demo that can also be used as a benchmark. The demo supports all modern graphical APIs: DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL. Both Windows and Linux version are available.

Flash technology has gone a long way from simple vector animations. Today it has support for video and audio, 3d rendering and interaction, all kinds of advanced data visualization libraries, great components of all shapes, sizes and purposes. What caught my eye lately is that there is a lot of 2D and 3D Physics engines being added to the list.

Elemental Engine II is a full open source game engine capable of editing and creating 3D video game worlds in real time. Elemental Engine II covers all video game development features, such as 3D rendering, 3D audio, and graphical user interface (GUI) design.

The Zupko show continues with reflections in Papervision 3D [demo]. Be sure to check out the shadow demo that this is based on: After posting my shadow experiment, Patrick Matte posed a question wondering if I would be able to do real-time reflections in a similar manner.