Virtual Presence Engine

VPE is a post-Doom graphics engine. Most of its features are common to all Doom-clones but some are sort of new (like TRUE rooms above rooms).

I decided to release full source code for VPE and its utilities. The technology is outdated but I am sure someone will find the source code useful. Feel free to play with it as much as you want but if you decide to make any money using it or distribute a program made with VPE, please, contact me.

Some cool features:

Non-orthogonal walls
Floors/ceilings at any height
Rooms above rooms
Transparent and translucent walls/objects
Multiple views
Full object support (simplified physics model)
Works at any resolution (the demos below work in both VGA and SVGA)
WinG and DirectX ports
DJGPP port (Allegro game lib)
Download the demo and take a look yourself...

I wrote VPE at the time when I was learning 3D programming so please excuse my code writing. If I were making this engine now I would have coded everything much better... I guess ;-)

This is the last version and there will be no updates as I stopped working on the engine.

If you have any comments or just want to discuss some 3D stuff, please, mail me at alexey@ii.uib.no

BTW I would really appreciate it if you used -d switch when unzipping the archives as half of all the letters I received contained complains about VPE not being able to find a file ;-)