Nova Engine Project
mdahlbom@cc.hut.fi
| What is the Nova Engine? | |||
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Nova engine is an experimental polygon/voxel -engine developed for the EPOC
(originally R5) platform for testing the Symbian devices' performance and
suitability as a gaming/entertainment platform. The development
started sometime around the beginning of 2001 using Nokia 9210 SDK
Beta. Currently Nokia Series 60 SDK is used. The program is an
EPOC animation client-server system with a gui component.
At least for now, I am not releasing this software as a GPL product as I usually do, since there has been some tension making it a commercial product. If you are interested in the project somehow, feel free to email me. If you must know, the project is named after the building our company keeps an office in. | |||
| News | |||
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4.3.2003 - added new screenshots and polygon demo download.
Nova development has finally reached the point where both engines
work "perfectly", and their integration is almost done. I am also
currently working on texture mapping, inspired by something I saw
at the Nokia's Symbian Developer Hub event last week.
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| Screen shots | |||
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Here are some screenshots of the technology demo version running
under the Series 60 Emulator on a Windows 2000 machine:
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| Voxel engine shots: | |||
| Somewhat a small mountain. |
| View from the top of that mountain displaying the horizon handling. |
| View to a mountain. |
| Travelling the bottom of a valley. |
| Polygon engine shots: | |||
| Frontal view of a simple spaceship model. |
| Rear view of a simple spaceship model. |
| Downloads | |||
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Downloadable installation package of the currently released technology
demo:
Voxel engine demo:
nova-voxel.SIS The camera movement is controlled by the phone'sjoystick (camera front, camera back, rotate left/right) and the phone keys '1' (world up) and '7' (world down). The demo applications run smoothly at 15fps on 7650 and 3650 which are the devices they have been tested on currently. | |||