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Great new 3D Engine for homebrew developers! For Free!

Posted Jul 21, 2006 at 08:48AM by Pranav T Listed in: Homebrew Development, News Tags: PSPGL, LTE Studios, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, SiberianSTAR
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LTE Studios


This just in! A small team called LTE studios, headed up by SiberianSTAR, have been working on a free 3D engine for the Sony PSP. And today's the big day! They've just released the first demo of their product, which they've been working very hard on.

So you might not be a developer, and you might be wondering what the big deal is... Well, for starters, this will encourage a lot of developers to venture into making games. Until now, if you wanted to make a proper homebrew game, you would need an engine to handle everything. In case of 2d beat 'em ups, it was pretty simple. But if you wanted to create a proper 3D game, you'd need to program everything to handle all the data/models/sounds using an engine. And trust me, making a game engine is one of the hardest programming challenges.

Apart from finding a way to load/handle all the stuff, you also need to program the physics and a lot of other really technical details, just so that the separate objects can interact just the way you want. If you want an example, how about I give you one about a racing game. Suppose you're one of the guys behind Need For Speed; apart from building the cars, tracks and other things, you'd need to build an engine to actually make it possible to implement all that art and beauty into a game. Another example would be the Source engine made by Valve, or the Doom3 engine made by iD Software.

By now, I'll assume that you know quite a bit about making games. Which brings us back to this great piece of news. These guys have been working for months, to bring us an engine which almost any C/C++ homebrew game developer can use to make a fully fledged game. The talk gets a little technical now...Don't worry if you don't understand all the mumbo jumbo. If I were you, I'd expect a lot of great homebrew games coming out in a few weeks.

For the programmers, here are a few technical details/features:
  • 3D Engine
  • Mixed 2D + 3D
  • Powerful and customizable 2D GUI
  • Character animation system
  • Particle effects
  • Billboards
  • Dynamic Lights
  • Powerful 2D with alpha, blend, etc..
  • Six image formats supported
  • Eight mesh formats supported
  • Fonts support
  • Collision and physics integrated
  • Powerful terrain system
  • and much more...
Read through the list and you'll notice a lot of pretty awesome stuff in there. There's features in there which are mirrored around in a lot of paid and pretty expensive engines. I'm sure everyone here is curious to see the engine working. You're in luck! The LTE studios guys have been kind enough to provide a demo of the engine; a kind of a proof of concept, if you will... The final version, or the SDK will be released soon.

SiberianSTAR would like to thank Ky@ for his work on the editor, Jeremy Fitzhardinge for PSPGL, and PSMonkey. Oh, and by the way, thanks to PSMonkey for the heads-up too!

Download Link: [LTE 3D Engine Demo]

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76 Comments


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   by jeffo (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » coolness
cool

   by kpaul_nyc (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » Better Homebrew games on the way?
Watch really cool homebrew games come out now...

   by Casio92 (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » good
wow, it is impressive!!
good work lte!

   by tpny (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » oooh
maybe someone can make ff7-clone for the psp with this :-D

   by matthew (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » ff7 clone?
why when you could play the emulator when it comes out

   by 1.5owner - 2006-07-21
 » great to see
our hb games will be as good or better than sony's crappy commercial game lineup

   by angry_monk (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » mad cool
fps are a little low, but other than that it is really cool. cant wait for some nice 3d homebrew games to start showing up.

   by Hockeytree (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » Just what ive been waiting for.
This is exactly what i was hoping is next for psp homebrew. You can all expect a halo clone from me. That is if it supports alot of things from the blender 3d modeler. God i hope so

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   by OiD - 2006-07-21
 » Wooo!
Now this is news :D I'm smiling!


P.S. I've been registered for ages, but I didnt know lolol1

   by fuc.k y.u.o. (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » :(
damn i never get 1st post! :(

   by Slow... (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » Slow...
Isn't it a vit slow? It only works at 19 fps when there's 3d... When it's 2d it works at 59 fps...

   by AnonymousTipster - 2006-07-21
 » -
Looks very nice, especially for the PSP.

   by fuc.k y.u.o. (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » :(
cool i want homebrew gun 3d games now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

   by kersplatty - 2006-07-21
 » woot
wow jus imagine CS:source psp version

   by WC - 2006-07-21
 » Screenshots
What, no screenshots? C'mon!

   by OiD - 2006-07-21
 » O.o
Oh, I fell thru the floor. 59fps tho xD

   by so? theres a download instead (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » @15
all ur screenshots are in the download lol

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   by Nutterbutter (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » Urm
This is port of Irilichit...

   by WC - 2006-07-21
 » Not screenshots.
Those aren't screenshots, those are textures.

And is it true this is an Irrlicht port? I seriously considering trying to use that on Windows. It's pretty full-featured.

   by COUNTER STRIKE!!! (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » BRING CS ON!
SOMEONE PLEASE MAKE COUNTER STRIKE!!!!!!!!!!111111111111111111111111111111111

   by Tristanm (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » .
All right. This means good things for the homebrew scene. I can;t wait to see some quality Homebrew games made with the full version of this engine.

   by SiberianSTAR (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » Reply to URM
Yes this code is based on Irrlicht but it's not a direct port, I had to rewrite lot of classes and hard work. :)

Anyway in the official site
http://www.ltestudios.com/credits.html

there is written that is based on irrlicht

   by age of empires (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » maybe its possible
hopefully with this, we will see age of empires and or starcraft be created. lets all hope ^_^

   by steviedee (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » cool
looks very promising, demo reminded me alot of unreal tournament lol, same graphics.... someone wana make UT for me on psp? :P

   by FLai - 2006-07-21
 » .
This is really gonna help me with my new game. I was gonna have to do a sort of Mode7 type thing whereby my 2d graphics would look like 3D but now I can go the whole nine yards. Thanks Guys!

   by Tristanm (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » .
The graphics looked good, though the FPS was kind of slow... but it did reach the uppser fifties once I fell out of the level through a glitch in the floor.

   by SiberianSTAR (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » Replies
FPS are slow because that map is not intended for PSP, it's a quake 3 map :P

With simpler map it can run at high fps.

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   by Me (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » Pretty nice.
Kind of low FPS when models on screen. I fell down beyond the view of everything and fps went up to 59 lol. Still very nice. Hope i can use this soon.

   by CarXCrashXHearts - 2006-07-21
 » I fell!
Everybody, go behind the portal that those black ninja ladies keep coming out of and keep walking forward to the wall! There's a crack in the floor there and you get stuck in an infinite fall.

   by CarXCrashXHearts - 2006-07-21
 » Ah..
And I can't go up the ladder.... ):
Very good 3D engine. But the FPS does get down at times. What can help that?



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