Demoniak3D

What is Demoniak3D ?

Demoniak3D is a tool designed to help developers and technical artists quickly create and prototype realtime 3D solutions: demos, benchmarks, little applications or games. It's also a fantastic tool to start and learn real time 3D programming.

Demoniak3D works a little bit as FireFox or IE: it takes a 3D scene description code, located in a XML file, and executes it. Really simple!

Demoniak3D aims to put realtime 3D graphics in everybody's hands by using a new and very understandable scripting language that will ensure an efficient understanding of the latest 3D technologies. Demoniak3D uses a clever mixture of XML, LUA scripting and GLSL (OpenGL Shading Language). Demoniak3D's 3D engine uses OpenGL for hardware graphics acceleration.

Demoniak3D is totally free for a non-commercial use (private use).

[Old Building Demo]

Target Audience

The target audience for Demoniak3D is software developers, technical artists, hobbyists and all graphics enthusiasts who have the basic programming knowledge. If you are one of those persons, you will learn how to use Demoniak3D in a couple of minutes.

The only thing you need to start with Demoniak3D is a computer with a good OpenGL graphics accelerator (nVidia GeForce 5200 and up or ATI radeon 9500 and up) and a text editor (like Windows Notepad). Now you are ready to code, modify and execute your own realtime 3D demos!

Demoniak3D will bring to you a thorough knowledge of 3D by using a real 3D engine in an easy way while keeping all fundamental aspects of realtime 3D. All concepts, common to OpenGL or Direct3D and to other 3D engines are present in Demoniak3D.

[Desert Island Demo]

How does Demoniak3D Work ?

Demoniak3D's input is a 3D scene description file. This file can contain XML code, LUA scripting and GLSL for shaders programming. This mixture provides immediate visual feedback for the 3D scene under development.

• XML is used for 3D scene description code (textures and models loading, lighting setup, sound, and so forth). With XML code only, you can already achieve very impressive scenes.

• LUA is the powerful scripting language for game programming. This language is easy to learn, fast and allows you to add your own logic management to act on scene entities.

• GLSL is the OpenGL Shading Language. This high-end language allows you to re-program some parts of the graphics controller 3D pipeline in order to create realistic and incredible rendering.

Once your 3D scene file is coded, just load it into Demoniak3D and get immediately the result.

[GLSL Fog Tutorial]

Code Sample

Here is a very simple Demoniak3D scene:

The corresponding XML source code is the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="yes"?>

<demoniak3d>

	<scene name="myScene" />

	<camera name="Main_Camera" navigation_mode="FLY" >
		<position x="0.0" y="50.0" z="130.0" />
	</camera>

	<model name="myModel" filename="baked_sphere.3ds" 
	       texturing="TRUE" lighting="FALSE" />
	       
</demoniak3d>

We must confess, this source code is really simple, isn't it?

Application Fields

• 3D Technological Demos: due to a very efficient and full exploitation of the latest graphics' controllers features, Demoniak3D lets you build high performance, fully immersive, interactive 3D applications with the best available rendering quality.

• 3D Benchmarks: with Demoniak3D you can now build your own benchmark tools that suit at best your needs. See this page for an example.

• Demoscene Production: Demoniak3D is perfectly adapted to create Demoscene Prods. With its sound capabilities, Demoniak3D offers you all the functionalities you need to build your first music-synchronized realtime demoscene production. See this page for an example.

• GPGPU Programming: with the support of programmable shaders and floating point textures, Demoniak3D allows you to experiment the most complex simulations using GPGPU techniques. See this page for an example.

• Fast prototypes design: as a very high level layer of a realtime 3D engine (oZone3D), Demoniak3D provides foundations for building most of the actions and adjustments built in oZone3D (HUDs, blending, alpha test, lighting and materials, textures, bump mapping, vertex and pixel shaders, ... ) with no need of complex programming. This makes Demoniak3D the ideal 3D design tool to build a prototype of any future application.

• 2D/3D Presentation: Demoniak3D provides 2D/3D file format viewing (3D objects, images, video files) and sound mixing as well for authoring solutions.

• Game Development: with the support of all usual medias such as 3D models, 2D textures, sound, the use of the powerful LUA scripting language and the integration of NovodeX Physics Engine, Demoniak3D is ready for the development of all your little games.

[GPGPU - Mandelbrot Demo]

[Ageia PhysX - Pendulum Demo]

[Spiral Galaxy Simulation]

Highlight Features

System Requirements

Demos

For Demoniak3D demos, please visit the following page: Demoniak3D -> Demos

Licensing

Demoniak3D is totally free and unlimited for a non-commercial use. For a commercial use, please visit the following page: Purchase Demoniak3D.

Acknowledgements

Special thanks to thank Stéphane 'Steph3D' Laux (www.steph3d.net) for the current design of Demoniak3D logo. Nice work Steph, you're the best!