Aeliom

Aeliom (el-yom) is a real-time virtual scenery generation, rendering, and exploration software. It is the fruit of 2 years' research on landscape and architecture rendering. Thanks to its innovative engine, Aeliom is the place where true per-pixel rendering quality meets 3D real time exploration!

Aeliom is not only a viewer. It is also a compiler, and allows user, via its language, to generate complete worlds. Finally, Aeliom is a stand-alone renderer, that generates superb materials for each pixel.

Its graphic user interface supports 4 languages (English, French, Spanish and German [new]) and totally benefits from OpenGL (allowing rich multimedia environments).

Here are some key features of "Aeliom":

￭ Aeliom is free for non profit use, ￭ compiler for the aeliom language (include a shader language), ￭ stand-alone high precision renderer, ￭ complex surfaces (high order, and Boolean ops), ￭ shadow generation, ￭ complex sky lighting, ￭ complex real time atmospheric volumetric effect (rays of light, fog, �), ￭ LOD for both the geometry and the materials, ￭ natural elements : water planes with ripples, volumetric clouds (with shadow projection), planar clouds, ... ￭ displacement mapping, ￭ view frustum culling (octree management), geometry coherency, portals, ... ￭ 3D sound environment, ￭ Ogg Vorbis codec support.