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Horde3D - Next-Generation Graphics Engine</h1>
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Overview</h2>
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Horde3D is a small open source 3D rendering engine. It is written in an effort to
create a graphics engine that offers the stunning visual effects expected in next-generation
games while at the same time being as lightweight and conceptually clean as possible.
Horde3D has a simple and intuitive interface accessible from virtually any programming
language and is particularly suitable for rendering large crowds of animated characters
in next-generation quality.
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<h2>
Next professional Horde3D game soon available <i>[2013-09-18]</i>
<img src="images/news-pfeil.gif" alt="Mainnews" /></h2>
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<p>
After some impressive videos posted a year ago, it seems like <a href="http://horde3d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1465">"Sword of justice"</a> is going to
grow up and will be published as <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/app/234060/">"Timelines: Assault on America"</a>.
</p>
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<h3>Official github repository testing <i>[2013-09-17]</i></h3>
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<p>
Although development with git is still something new to us, we're started to use
an official <a href="https://github.com/horde3d/Horde3D">Horde3D development repository</a> at github.
</p>
<br />
<!-- News 27-->
<h3>New github repository with experimental D3D and OpenGL ES support <i>[2013-09-06]</i></h3>
<br />
<p>
After some first steps of OpenGL ES support in a community SVN branch, our talented community developer attila from
<a href="http://www.dogbytegames.com/">DogByte Games</a> has released his work on <a href="https://github.com/attilaz/horde3d-x/tree/gles2_d3d11">github</a>.
Feel free to contribute by testing the implementation on your own platform and maybe report bugs and improvements in the <a href="http://horde3d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1886">
forums</a>.
</p>
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<h3>New mobile app using Horde3D <i>[2013-07-29]</i></h3>
<br />
<p>
The guys from the Neuland Multimedia GmbH developed an augmented reality app using Horde3D.
If you looking for a fireside you may want to take a look on <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=neulandmm.kachelofen&hl=de">this app</a>.
</p>
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<h3>New commercial game using Horde3D <i>[2013-05-20]</i></h3>
<br />
<p>
After they brought us already the very entertaining Offroad Legends, the developers from DogByte Games just released their latest
game called <a href="http://www.dogbytegames.com/redline_rush.html">Redline rush</a>! Check it out on the <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id616027251">ios App store</a>.
</p>
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<h3>Horde3D SDK [1.0.0] Beta 5 released <i>[2011-05-31]</i></h3>
<br />
<p>
After a long period of SVN updates without any release packages, the <a href="download.html">Beta5 release</a> is
finally out and brings a plenty of bug fixes and performance improvements. On the core engine side, there are several
updates to the shader system which remove all fixed-function dependencies. Besides that, several smaller enhancements
to overlays, particle systems, animations and in-game profiling were done.<br/>
ColladaConv got an important update and supports batch processing of input files now, so that a whole asset repository
can be recompiled automatically. Moreover, the parsing speed was improved by using a faster XML parser and
applying various other optimizations.
</p>
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<h3>Horde3D SDK [1.0.0] Beta 4 available under Eclipse Public License <i>[2009-08-01]</i></h3>
<br />
<p>
The new <a href="download.html">Beta4 release</a> features an improved API which is clearer and less verbose.
Moreover, the enhanced API provides more powerful access to resource data and has better support for dynamic
content. Besides the API enhancements and many smaller fixes, Beta4 features updates to the animation system
and a more familiar CgFX-like shader effect syntax.<br /><br />
The new release is distributed under a different license now, namely the <a href="license.html">Eclipse Public License</a>.
This license is less restrictive than the LGPL and allows static linking as well as development of proprietary extensions.
</p>
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<h3>Horde3D SDK [1.0.0] Beta 3 released <i>[2009-03-16]</i></h3>
<br />
<p>
The latest Beta3 release is <a href="download.html">available for download</a>.
It brings a few substantial improvements. Beta3 features a refactored shader system with a cleaner and
more powerful FX-like file format along with support for automatic shader permutation generation. The
performance of Beta3 has been optimized considerably, for example by the introduction of an enhanced LOD
system. Another new feature is support for loading textures from DDS files. Besides these major upgrades,
there are many smaller API improvements, optimizations and bug fixes. Finally, Beta3 features improvements
to the Collada Converter such that it supports a wider range of DCC tools.
</p>
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<h3>Horde3D SDK [1.0.0] Beta 2 released <i>[2008-09-16]</i></h3>
<br />
<p>
The new Beta2 release is <a href="download.html">available for download</a>. It contains many bugfixes
and smaller updates reported and contributed by the community. Besides these, it brings some noticeable
improvements like increased shadow quality and extended occlusion culling. A further important
enhancement is the expanded support for dynamic resource updates. On the Collada side, the compatibility
was improved by supporting non-baked animation data. Finally, the previous makefile system has been
replaced by CMake-based build scripts.
</p>
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<h3>Horde3D Scene Editor [0.7.0] released <i>[2008-04-24]</i></h3>
<br />
<p>
A new Horde3D Scene Editor is available for download. It links against the Horde3D SDK [1.0.0] Beta 1 and brings a
lot of <a href="http://www.horde3d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=188">new features</a> with it. You can download the new
version from the <a href="http://mm-werkstatt.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/Horde3DEditor">project's website </a>.
</p>
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<h3>Horde3D SDK [1.0.0] Beta 1 released <i>[2008-04-12]</i></h3>
<p>
Finally, Horde3D is getting stable. For the first 1.0 release which is still considered as Beta due to the
possibility of a few bugs, we have implemented a plenty of new features: Occlusion culling, API based render-to-texture,
software skinning, stereo rendering, sorting of nodes and support for orthographic projections. Besides these
new features, we did the usual smaller improvements and optimizations. The new version is hosted on sourceforge now
where it is also on the subversion. Go to the <a href="download.html">download site</a> for the links.
</p>
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<h3>Horde3D SDK [0.15.0] and Terrain Extension released <i>[2008-03-30]</i></h3>
<p>
Our next version of Horde3D is available for download. It brings a plenty of new features. The most
important among these are an extension mechanism with an exemplary advanced Terrain node implementation,
the realization of pipelines as resources and improved sample shaders (see <a href="screenshots.html">screenshots</a>).
A corresponding update of the Horde3D Editor is also available. Head to the <a href="download.html">download site</a>
to get the new files.
</p>
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<h3>New domain: www.horde3d.org <i>[2008-03-17]</i></h3>
<p>
The Horde3D website is available now via the new domain <a href="http://www.horde3d.org">www.horde3d.org</a>.
Please update your bookmarks. We hope you enjoy having a shorter and more memorable address for Horde3D!
</p>
<br />
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<h3>Horde3D SDK [0.14.0] released <i>[2008-01-26]</i></h3>
<p>
A new release of the Horde3D SDK is available for <a href="download.html">download</a>. It brings a
plenty of smaller improvements like support for Photoshop files, improved COLLADA support and many other
things (see ChangeLog). Since several people using ATI cards had problems starting the samples from 0.13
we have ported them from SDL to GLFW which will hopefully work better.
<br/><br/>
<b>Update:</b><br/>
The new Horde Editor 0.5 with many new features and the latest Mac SDK are also available now.
They are both linked on the <a href="download.html">download site</a>. Thanks to Volker Wiendl and
Tristam MacDonald for that!
</p>
<br />
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<h3>Horde3D SDK [0.13.0] with HDR lighting <i>[2007-11-07]</i></h3>
<p>
A new version of Horde is available now. Among the new features are support for HDR textures and
ray collision queries. Besides a plenty of smaller improvements at the engine core and Collada
converter the Knight sample was updated to show how HDR lighting can be implemented with the Horde3D
configurable rendering pipeline. Check out the new <a href="screenshots.html">screenshot</a> or head
directly to the <a href="download.html">download section</a> to get the complete SDK.
</p>
<br />
<!-- News 14 -->
<h3>Horde3D SDK [0.12.0] brings cross-platform compatibility <i>[2007-10-01]</i></h2>
<p>
The next version of Horde3D which is <a href="download.html">available now</a> makes the complete engine
code platform independent and adds support for Linux builds. Furthermore a basic Parallel Split Shadow
Map implementation was integrated which can improve shadow quality in many situations. In addition to a plenty
of smaller changes and improvements the resource manager was updated to support reloading of resources.
<br/><br/>
Besides the new release there are some other great news: Two weeks ago Horde has won the IVA GALA award where
it was presented in the tools section. In case you don't know, IVA is an international conference on
intelligent virtual agents that was held in Paris this year.
<br/>
A remarkable project comes from some students of the elite study course in Software Engineering at the University
of Augsburg. They have used Horde3D for realizing a tangible interface based music instrument. Their framework
is open source now and is available along with some videos from their <a href="http://xenakis.3-n.de">project site</a>.
<br/>
Many thanks go to Volker Wiendl who has already done a physics integration and is currently working on
some sophisticated tools for Horde. A first preview version of a quite useful scene editing tool is available on
<a href="http://mm-werkstatt.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/project_details.php?id=44">this site</a>.
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<center>
<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QLIxAjudQng"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QLIxAjudQng" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
<h4>Xenakis tangible music table</h4>
</center>
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<h3>Horde3D SDK [0.11.1] with massive performance improvements <i>[2007-08-04]</i></h3>
<p>
This maintenance release brings some enormous performance improvements of up to 30 to 50 percent on
newer hardware. Furthermore it fixes some bugs and solves problems with the Knight sample on older
hardware.
</p>
<br />
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<h3>Horde3D SDK [0.11.0] with particle systems <i>[2007-07-04]</i></h3>
<p>
The new release features the Horde3D Integration Library which offers a simpler and more
efficient way to integrate Horde with other middleware like a physics engine. Another
important new feature are particle systems which are fully integrated into the pipeline making
it possible to let particles cast shadows or receive other effects like motion blur. The documentation
got a plenty of updates and has a usage guide now that should help you to get started. Finally the SDK
includes a new sample application which shows how to do animation blending, use the new particle
systems and apply a cool post processing effect <a href="screenshots.html">(see new screenshot)</a>.
<br/><br/>
In other news: Volker Wiendl has released a
<a href="http://mm-werkstatt.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/project_details.php?id=43">Physics Demo</a>
which shows how to use the new integration library to integrate the Bullet Physics Engine and Martin
Burkhard updated his <a href="http://www.pyropix.net">Horde3D .NET Wrapper</a>.
</p>
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<h3>Horde3D SDK [0.10.0] with flexible rendering pipeline <i>[2007-04-30]</i></h3>
<p>
The latest version of Horde3D features a completely rewritten renderer. Besides some heavy performance
optimizations to reduce call overhead, a flexible and configurable rendering pipeline
has been introduced. The engine offers the possibility to define render targets and fill them with
data using a simple XML syntax. These targets can be bound in subsequent rendering steps
making it possible to do a plenty of post processing effects. Thanks to the new rendering
architecture it is also possible now to use standard forward rendering instead of the
deferred shading which was default up to the previous version. Additionally the release
brings a plenty of bugfixes and smaller improvements. The camera is represented as a scene
node now and the animation system was extended with a very convenient additive blending mode. Head
to the <a href="download.html">download section</a> to grab the new release!
<br/><br/>
In other news: A new Horde <b>.NET</b> wrapper maintained by Martin Burkhard is available now. You can get
it from the <a href="http://www.pyropix.net">pyropix</a> homepage.
</p>
<br />
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<h3>Horde3D shown at CeBit <i>[2007-03-17]</i></h3>
<p>
The University of Augsburg is proud to be present at the German computer expo CeBit. We show
a virtual anatomy assistent which is an interactive augmented reality application with a character
commenting the user's actions. The project uses Horde for rendering and advanced animations. For more
information see the <a href="http://mm-werkstatt.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/3d/vaa/">official project site</a>.
You can find us in Hall 9, B20.
</p>
<br />
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<h3>Horde3D SDK [0.9.0] with advanced animation system <i>[2007-03-04]</i></h3>
<p>
The latest version of Horde brings a completely new animation system. It is possible now
to use layered blending and mixing with masks in order to apply several animations to a model.
Smoother animations for joints and rigid mehses can be achieved using inter-frame interpolation.
Furthermore the engine now offers access to the joint data which makes it possible to
apply dynamic animations or ragdoll physics. All scene nodes are fully hierarchical and thus
it is possible to attach objects to joints. Besides these changes the engine received some
improvements to the API which make the interface more flexible and intuitive to use. For more details
have a look at the updated <a href="features.html">feature list</a>.
</p>
<br />
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<h3>Horde3D SDK [0.8.0] released <i>[2007-01-08]</i></h3>
<p>
The next version of Horde is out now. It features an improved shadow implementation which is more than twice
as fast as the previous one while quality is better when viewing shadows from near distance. Additionally
some modifications have been made to the scene management. Joints are part of the scene graph now and
new functions were introduced which give access to the vertex data for collision detection or integration
of a physics engine. Furthermore many functions were added to retrieve object states and Horde3D can now be
used for AR applications thanks to a dynamic texture update function. Finally the compatibility of the
Collada tool was greatly improved. See the <a href="docs/_changeLog.html" target="_blank">Change Log</a>
for a complete list of improvements.
</p>
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<h3>Horde3D SDK [0.7.0] with facial animation support <i>[2006-11-30]</i></h3>
<p>
A new release of the engine SDK is available for download. It adds morph target support which makes
it possible to use facial animation and specifically lip synchronization.
</p>
<br />
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<h3>Horde3D SDK [0.6.1] released <i>[2006-11-07]</i></h3>
<p>
A service release for the latest Horde3D SDK is now available. It fixes problems with shadows on ATI cards
and adds support for cube reflection mapping.
</p>
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<h3>Horde3D [0.6.0] with soft shadows <i>[2006-11-01]</i></h3>
<p>
A new version of the Horde3D SDK is now available for download. It features a basic shadow mapping
implementation with softening of shadow edges <a href="screenshots.html">(see screenshot)</a>.
In upcoming releases the quality of the shadows will be increased by using some sort of perspective
adaptation.
</p>
<br />
<!-- News 4 -->
<h3>Interview on 3d-test <i>[2006-10-28]</i></h3>
<p>
I have answered some question about Horde3D in an interview on <a href="http://www.3d-test.com">3d-test</a>.
You can find the interview <a href="http://www.3d-test.com/interviews/horde3D_1.htm">here</a>. In other
news, I'm currently working on a basic shadow implementation for the engine which will soon be ready
for release.
</p>
<br />
<!-- News 3 -->
<h3>Horde3D [0.5.1] now open-source <i>[2006-10-06]</i></h3>
<p>
The source code of the complete Horde3D SDK including engine and tools is now available for
<a href="download.html">download</a>. The package includes project files for Visual Studio
2005 and is compatible with the VC++ Express Edition which is available free of charge from Microsoft.
</p>
<!-- News 2 -->
<h3>Horde3D SDK [0.5.0] released <i>[2006-09-25]</i></h3>
<p>
The first version of the Horde3D SDK is now available for download. It includes the
compiled binaries, the complete documentation and a sample application with source code
that shows how to use Horde3D with a simple crowd simulation <a href="screenshots.html">(Screenshot)</a>.
The source code for the complete SDK will be released later when it is finally cleaned up.
</p>
<!-- News 1 -->
<h3>Horde3D web site launches <i>[2006-09-10]</i></h3>
<p>
The website for the soon to be released open source graphics engine Horde3D is now
online. You can already have a look at the features and documentation of the engine
to get a comprehensive impression of what Horde3D will offer. We hope you enjoy
this ambitious project.
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