Drome Engine 0.3.3
(Last Updated: April 23, 2005)

ABOUT

Drome Engine is a 3D game engine developed by 3Ddrome. It's written in C++ and uses OpenGL for graphics rendering. It's currently under constant development; see the 3Ddrome website at http://www.3ddrome.com/ for the latest info on the engine, or to get the latest version.

There is NO WARRANTY for this software. See the 'COPYING' file included with Drome Engine for more information.

FEATURES

Some of the currently implemented features of Drome Engine:

Dynamic lightmaps
Stenciled shadow volumes
Sky domes
Particle effects
md2 (Quake II) model loading
PCX and PNG image loading
- TrueType font loading and rendering
Simple physics
Resource management with reference counting, so that unused resources (such as textures) are deleted from memory
Quake-style console for entering commands

PLATFORMS

Drome Engine has been successfully tested and used on the following operating systems / hardware architectures:

Windows 2000 / x86
- Slackware Linux / x86
- FreeBSD / x86

REQUIREMENTS

To compile Drome Engine, you'll need the following libraries:

OpenGL - http://www.opengl.org/
SDL - http://www.libsdl.org/
libpng - http://www.libpng.org/
- FreeType2 - http://www.freetype.org/

The following libraries are optional:

libogg, libvorbis, vorbisfile - http://www.xiph.org/

Drome Engine is built as a set of static libraries by default, so any program that statically links the engine should also link (dynamically or statically) with the libraries listed above.

DEMO

This distribution comes with a demo built on the engine. To compile the engine and the demo, run `./configure' and `make' from the DromeEngine-<version> directory; then change the current directory to DromeEngine-<version>/demos/drome_demo and run `./drome_demo' to run the demo. (NOTE: You MUST run the demo from the DromeEngine-<version>/demos/drome_demo directory; otherwise, the demo won't be able to find its data files.)