In the fast-paced world
of software development, getting products completed
on time is the
name of the game. Now, using SciTech MGL, you can create
interactive graphics applications in the shortest amount
of time. This Multi-platform Graphics Library has been
used in the development of many leading titles like WinQuake™,
Hexen II™ and many others.Product
included withSciTech SNAP SDK
SciTech MGL handles all of the mundane
housekeeping chores of creating graphics applications and
allows you to focus on writing the code that will make your
application stand out from the pack. It provides fast, low
level rasterization of 2D and 3D primitives that can be used
for creating computer games, user interface software and
other real-time graphics applications. SciTech MGL currently
supports development under Windows 95/NT or DOS and can be
ported to other platforms and operating systems in as few
as 1000 lines of code.
SCALEABLE
3D SUPPORT
SciTech MGL's full screen OpenGL
API support provides programmers with a 3D API that
can scale from software-only (using low-resolution
graphics modes), all the way up to full 3D hardware
geometry acceleration. SciTech MGL allows developers
to create applications using the OpenGL API in either
a window or full screen mode (rendering to VGA, VESA
VBE or DirectDraw surfaces) in the Windows or DOS environments.
DUAL
PROPRIETRY AND OPEN SOURCE LICENSE
SciTech MGL is developed and distributed
under the terms of the GNU
General Public License (GPL) or a proprietary
license for commercial developers. The spirit of
the SciTech MGL licensing is to keep the SciTech MGL
code open and free, yet allow commercial developers
to develop using the SciTech MGL without being burdened
by following the rules of the GPL license. For more information
please see the SciTech
GPL license FAQ.
FLEXIBLE
ARCHITECTURE
The SciTech Game Framework can be
used for development of both regular 2D/3D games as
well as OpenGL games. It includes full support for
on-the-fly switching between windowed modes, full-screen
modes, and available color depths.
PERFORMANCE
OpenGL API hardware and software support
(Microsoft OpenGL, SGI OpenGL, and Mesa
Support for Mesa with full source code
SciTech Game Framework (with source) for creating
commercial-quality games
Sprite Library for hardware and software sprite management
Support for hardware triple buffering
Support for stereo LC shutter glasses (requires hardware
stereo support)
Improved performance for many low level rasterization
functions
Highly optimized 32 bit assembler rasterization for
maximum speed
Full hardware and software double/multi-buffering
support
Hardware scrolling/panning surfaces
Rendering direct to video memory, off-screen video
memory and to system memory buffers
Full linear surface virtualization under DOS and
Windows
Real-time 8 bit dithering
PORTBILITY
Borland Delphi
2.0 support
Created C only version for
portability
DJGPP 2.01 support with new
OBJ20BFD conversion utility
Write code once for painless,
multi-platform releases
Support for DOS or Windows
3.1/95/NT
Supports standard C/C++ and
Borland Delphi compilers
FLEXIBILITY
Support for DirectDraw
acceleration functions
Support for VBE/Core 3.0 and
VBE/AF 2.0 draft standards
Resolutions from 320x200 to
1600x1200
Color depths from 4 bits to
32 bits per pixel
Automatic detection and utilization
of VGA, ModeX, VESA VBE 1.2/2.0/3.0, VESA VBE/AF
(Accelerator Functions),
WinG and DirectX
Supports hardware acceleration
with VESA VBE/AF or DirectX
Direct surface access to bypass
SciTech MGL functions
C++ wrapper class API
2D
AND 3D GRAPHICS OUTPUT
Lines, rectangles,
ellipses, elliptical arcs and text
Monochrome bitmaps
Complex regions (including
union, difference, intersection, etc.)
BitBlt, TransBlt (source and
destination transparency), StretchBlt
Unified event queue handling
mechanism for DOS and Windows
Keyboard and mouse events
User specified timer events
FONT & RESOURCE
LOADING
JPEG bitmap file
loading
Bitmap Fonts
Scalable Vector Fonts
Loading of Windows bitmaps,
fonts, cursors and icons
PCX bitmap loading
WINDOWED
SUPPORT
CreateDIBSection
under Windows 95/NT
WinG under Windows 3.1
FULL
SCREEN GRAPHICS
Full screen MGL
port of GLUT OpenGL Utility Library
Support for drawing to full
screen WinDirect surfaces with GDI
Low-resolution graphics modes
for fast software 3D and digital video
Full screen graphics under
Windows 3.1/95 using WinDirect
Full screen graphics under
Windows 95/NT using DirectX
CONNECTING
TO PERFORCE
SciTech Software uses the commercial
Perforce version management software to maintain it's
public Open Source software repository. Perforce Software
has graciously allowed Open Source software projects
to be able to use a free server license for that source
code (SciTech has a commercial license for it's internal,
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