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Released in 1993, [1] 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. It originated in the era of software rendering on CPUs prior to the appearance of GPUs, competing with other libraries such as ...
One thing that RenderWare had going for it (and shown briefly in the video) was the detailed documentation. Other engines barely had any documentation (i think the most brutal was id Tech - if you bought an id Tech license all you'd get was a day with Carmack to ask him questions :-P) and the programmers were largely left alone to figure out things themselves or rely on whatever modders ...
Origin Systems, Inc. was an American video game developer based in Austin, Texas. It was founded on March 3, 1983, by Richard Garriott and his brother Robert . Origin is best known for their groundbreaking work in multiple genres of video games, such as the Ultima and Wing Commander series.
Released in 1993, [1] 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.
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).
Criterion Software's 3D texture mapping and rendering programme, RenderWare, was first released in 1993 as a software library for the C programming language and was adopted by 800 companies worldwide by October 1996. The firm also provided a demo game, CyberStreet, while fully-fledged games were developed by companies like 47Tek.
- January 1996; 27 years ago
- Guildford, England
- ≈90 (2017)
- Video games
