This directory contains Release 5 of Dave Stampe and Bernie Roehl's fast 3D
screen rendering package, REND386.

The package runs only on 386 or 486 based systems (it WILL NOT WORK on 286s
and below!) with VGA displays.

There are actually two versions online right now:

    demo4.zip has the demo executable and sample data for version 4
    devel4.zip has the source code for version 4
    devel5.zip has the source code for version 5

Note that the demo executable for version 5 is included with the book
"Virtual Reality Creations", written by Bernie Roehl, Dave Stampe and
John Eagan and published by the Waite Group Press; the book also includes
a number of sample worlds.

Even if you don't have the book, you can compile the code in devel5.zip
using Turbo C++ 2.00 or above, or Borland C.  For some modules you'll also
need TASM.

The applications directory contains programs written using the REND386
library.

The converters directory contains several different types of conversion
programs that deal with .PLG files.

The floatsrc directory contains source code for a much older, all-C floating-
point version of the code.  You should probably download and read the
read.me file in that directory before bothering to retrieve anything else from
there.

The irit directory contains a fairly recent version of Gershon Elber's
IRIT solid modelling environment.  There's a converter to take the output
of that package and convert it to .PLG format for use with the rend386 demo.

The plgfiles directory contains objects that people have built.

The polyblit directory contains the source code for an older version of Dave
Stampe's polygon blitter routines as used in REND386.

The utils directory contains utilities that people have written to work
with REND386.

The versions directory contains other versions of rend386 that people have
put together, with various nifty features.

For more information about rend386, send mail to broehl@sunee.uwaterloo.ca
or dstampe@sunee.uwaterloo.ca (there's also a mailing list... send mail to
rend386-request@sunee.uwaterloo.ca to be added to it).

