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Released in 1993, RenderWare is a 3D API and graphics rendering engine used in video games, Active Worlds, and some VRML browsers. RenderWare was developed by Criterion Software Limited, then a subsidiary of Canon.
But AFAIK RenderWare wasn't exactly a full game engine like Unity, Unreal, etc as much as, like Gamebryo (another highly popular engine at its time with apparently 400+ titles using it), it was a "game engine engine" - ie. a toolkit to make your own engine and game-specific tools.
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RenderWare is a 3D API and graphics rendering engine used in computer games, Active Worlds, and some VRML browsers. RW is developed by Criterion Software Limited (which used to be a wholly owned subsidiary of Canon but is now owned by Electronic Arts).
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RenderWare is a 3D API (Application Programming Interface) and graphics rendering engine used in computer and console games such as Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, in MUVRS's such as Active Worlds, and some VRML (Virtual Reality Markup Language) browsers. RenderWare is developed by Criterion Software Ltd. (which used to be a...
RenderWare is used throughout the video game industry. Some of the games using RW include: Grand Theft Auto III (PlayStation 2, PC and Xbox); Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC); Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC); Black (PlayStation 2, Xbox); Bratz: Rock Angelz (PlayStation 2 and PC); Burnout series; Ca...
The engine Rockstar Leeds used for Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories is derived from RenderWare. Most of the functions have the same name except that Rw/Rp/... are replaced by Rsl. Furthermore, RslGeometry contains no platform independent data like RwGeometrydoes but only PSP or PS2 specific data. Also s...
White Papers and User Guide from the RenderWare game engine release for PC. This documentation was requested for publication by Denilson das Mercês Amorim as a reference to help the community who use RenderWare to make demos etc.
Mar 15, 2021 · Criterion Games’ late nineties to two-thousands game engine RenderWare has made its way online. Used in a large number of games from 1996 to 2013, Criterion’s engine is a piece of video game history.
It originated in the era of software rendering on PCs prior to the appearance of GPUs, competing with other libraries such as Argonaut's BRender and RenderMorphics' Reality Lab (the latter was acquired by Microsoft and became Direct3D).
