Dear Developer, Thank you for your interest in RenderWare. Please find the RenderWare datasheet and price list below. Demos and API manual (Windows help file) are available from our ftp site ftp.canon.co.uk You can try RenderWare with the Personal Licence covered by our 30 day money back guarantee. We welcome Mastercard and Visa. Regards, Mike King Criterion Software Ltd., 20, Alan Turing Road, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 5YF, UK. Phone +44-483-448802, Fax: +44-483-448811. Email: mking@criterion.canon.co.uk (Mike King) ************************************************************************* RenderWare Datasheet ================== RenderWare - Real-time 3D graphics on PCs * Software rendering engine for real-time 3D graphics. * Rich easy to use API of 400+ functions. * Advanced shading, including perspective texturing. * Cross platform support. Only RenderWare's breakthrough technology delivers real-time 3D graphics without 3D hardware acceleration. Only RenderWare can deliver real-time 3D graphics where it counts, - on over 100 million desktops. Only RenderWare gives 3D graphics software developers access to 100 million customers. RenderWare Specification +++++++++++++++++++ Introduction ----------------- RenderWare is a high performance, device independent 3D graphics library with a simple and elegant API consisting of a small number of object types and a rich set of associated functions. RenderWare is aimed at Independent Software Vendors and Corporate developers, as a tool to assist them with the development of interactive 3D graphics applications or to add interactive 3D graphics capability to existing applications. Developers using RenderWare will be able to dramatically reduce the development time of their 3D graphics applications. Performance ----------------- The key to RenderWare's strength lies in the quality of the API and the very fast software implementation that provides truly interactive 3D performance on today's desktop PCs without requiring 3D hardware acceleration. RenderWare performance, polygons/sec. (under Windows 3.1) Shading Mode 486/66 Pentium/60 ________________________________________ Flat 70,000 116,000 Gouraud 62,000 103,000 Lit Textured 55,000 92,000 Perspective 35,000 58,000 (light sourced, hidden surface removed, based on a 4000 polygon teapot benchmark in 320 x 200 full screen including transformation, clipping, projection and rendering). Hardware acceleration support ----------------------------------------- RenderWare also provides support for hardware 3D accelerators. Support has already been announced for Matrox and ATI products under Windows and DOS. (3D graphics card manufacturers should enquire about the RenderWare IHV program). Functionality ------------------ RenderWare provides extensive 3D functionality through over 400 API calls, and an object based approach that gives developers easy access to the underlying power of RenderWare. RenderWare API Features * Multiple directional, point and spot light sources * Multiple orthographic and perspective cameras * Perspectively correct, foreshortened, masked and moving textures. * Environment (reflection) mapping. * Object instancing and hierarchical models. * Picking (scene, object, polygon, vertex). * Materials support (Ka, Kd, Ks, colour, opacity, texture). * Geometry sampling (vertex, edge, facet; i.e., point cloud, wirefame, solid). * Shading, light source sampling (facet, vertex; i.e., flat or Gouraud). User specified shading normals at vertices. * Native rendering at both 8 and 16 bit color. Host environment translation for 4 and 24 bit rendering. * Scrolled and tiled backdrop images. * 3D sprites. * Palette control to allow existing 2D graphics to be tightly integrated into the 3D scene. In addition: * RenderWare requires no pre-processing of objects. Full deformation, animation and intersection of objects is supported in real-time. * RenderWare provides pixel accurate hidden surface and true 3D clipping, for wireframe, flat shaded, smooth specular shaded, textured and perspective textured rendering. * RenderWare is also tightly integrated with the host's window system. This allows seamless mixing of native 2D rendering (i.e, with GDI, Quickdraw or Xlib), and 3D rendering. Typical RenderWare Applications --------------------------------------------- * Entertainment/games development and delivery * Virtual Reality * CAD, Model previewing and walk throughs * Presentation graphics * Multi-media delivery and authoring systems * Visualization * Simulation What the Industry is saying about RenderWare -------------------------------------------------------------- "RenderWare is truly an impressive product, one that takes 3D graphics to new performance levels," said Paul Allen, Chairman and CEO of Asymetrix Corporation. "For the entertainment software industry, RenderWare is the most important new breakthrough of 1994. RenderWare provides a truly interactive performance with no compromise on 3D functionality," said Moses Ma, Velocity's Chairman. "This is the most amazing thing I've seen all year, Doom included" said Eric Haines, Editor RT News. "For speed, this seemed to beat the pants off of OpenGL on Daytona". "RenderWare is an excellent choice of 3D API for developers," says Dan Wood, Matrox's Third Party Development Manager. "The ease of the programming interface and the performance of the graphics are just amazing," said Alan Milosevic, True-D's Engineering Director. "From start to finish, our application development with RenderWare took only two man months of effort." "We want to ensure that the products we have in design will work well with RenderWare and the emerging market for interactive 3D graphics." said Henry Quan, ATI's Vice President of Marketing. People ask me what can you do with RenderWare said Kim Bauckham, Media Magic's Managing Director, my reply is "everything you've ever wanted to do with interactive 3D on a PC". Importing models and textures into RenderWare ----------------------------------------------------------------- Tools are available for importing DXF and 3DS models and animations, and various texture formats. Cross Platform Support ------------------------------- RenderWare software development kits are available for Windows 3.1, Chicago (beta) DOS 5 or later, on 386/SX and upwards. Also for Mac System 7 and UNIX workstation (X11). RenderWare SDK Contents ------------------------------------ The RenderWare SDK and Utilities pack includes the following: * 600 page API guide. * Delivery and debugging kernels to accelerate development. * Fixed point and floating point libraries to provide access to the broadest installed base. * Demos with sample source code. * Format converters for geometry and textures. How to obtain more information about RenderWare --------------------------------------------------------------------- Call, email or fax as detailed below. You can also download demos from our FTP site ftp.canon.co.uk North America, Europe, ROW ---------------------------------------- CRITERION SOFTWARE Ltd. 20, Alan Turing Road, Guildford, GU2 5YF, UK. Sales Hot-line +44-483-448833 Voice: +44-483-448800 Fax: +44-483-448811 email: rw-info@criterion.canon.co.uk ftp: ftp.canon.co.uk Japan -------- CANON SALES CO, INC. Software Division Product Planning Dept. 7-2, Nakase 1-Chome, Mihama-ku, Chiba City, Chiba 261, Japan Voice:+81-43-211-9151 Fax:+81-43-211-9178 About Criterion Software. ----------------------------------- Criterion Software Ltd., a subsidiary of Canon Inc. (Tokyo, Japan), is the leader in interactive 3D graphics software tools for personal computers. Criterion develops, markets and supports computer software products and technologies that expand the interactive 3D graphics frontiers on the desktop. The company licenses its products and technology to ma jor developers. Criterion Software is headquartered in the United Kingdom, and markets its products world-wide. Copyright 1994 Criterion Software Limited, a Canon Company. All rights reserved. While every care has been taken in the preparation of this document, Criterion Software Ltd, accepts no responsibility fo any consequences of its use. We reserve the right to change specifications without notice. RenderWare is a registered trademark of Canon Inc., 3D for Windows and the Criterion logo are trademarks of Criterion Software Ltd. Patents pending. ****************************************************************** RenderWare Price List US$ (confidential) Description Price Order No. 1) RenderWare SDK Personal Licence $ 995 RWSDKPL RenderWare single user, single platform personal licence. Options a) Email support $199 per year. SF001 b) Utilities pack $250 (format converters etc.) UT001 c) Upgrades $ 495 (each) UG001 2) RenderWare SDK Commercial Licence $10,000 RWSDKCL RenderWare single platform site licence. Includes utilities pack. Options a) Support contract, per year $ 5,000 SC001 includes access directly to Criterion technical team, free upgrades and access to beta programs. b) 10,000 run-time licences $10,000 RL10K c) Unlimited run-time licences per product $25,000. PP001 d) Unlimited run-time licences per annum $25,000. DL001 To order RenderWare please call Criterion Sales Hotline +44 (0) 483 448833 or email: order@criterion.canon.co.uk Mastercard and Visa welcomed. 30 day money back guarantee on personal licence. Criterion Software Ltd., 20, Alan Turing Road, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 5YF, UK. Voice: +44 (0)483 448833. Fax: +44 (0)483 448811. All prices, terms and conditions subject to change without notice.