1.  Platforms, prices, and company

• Intel/DOS, Intel/Windows9x/NT/2000, Intel/Linux
• Tested on Intel and Sparc architecture. Developed in full ANSI-C, Panard Vision could be ported on every 32bit architecture supporting IEEE floating point operations. And with little work on architectures not IEEE. It uses some heavily optimized assembly routines on Intel processors.
• Panard Vision is free for noncommercial use. Otherwise it's cheap.
• For licensing Panard Vision for a commercial or shareware program, you can contact the author:

  Website:     http://www.panardvision.com/

      Panard Vision it's an attempt to develop a fast generic high quality 3D renderer, with support for the most common used rendering methods.
      The engine is intended to be used in everything which needs a fast high quality rendering. Panard Vision is at the cutting edge in realtime 3D algorithms.

• Game Creation using Panard Vision 3D Engine
  • http://www.streetofshops.com/LizardFire
  • http://www.dobesland.com/engine.shtml

      Lizard Fire Studios:

•     Engine Performance
  • Terrain  Shots - http://www.streetofshops.com/LizardFire/terrainshots.html
  • Resolution - http://www.streetofshops.com/LizardFire/resolution.html
•     PVision Tutorial
  • http://www.streetofshops.com/LizardFire/tut_index.html

• Terrain Engine (Example of Volumetric Fog, Dynamic Coloured Lighting, Collision Detection) - http://stuff3d.tripod.com/engines/terrain.htm
• Indoor Engine (Dynamic Texture Coordinate Generation, Dynamic Coloured Lighting, Volumetric Effects,                                                                        Support for 3DS Meshes, Collision Detection) - http://stuff3d.tripod.com/engines/indoor.htm

     Panard Vision is a realtime 3D Engine (with SDK) available on Dos, Linux, Win32 platforms with support of cutting edge algorithms and most
     hardware API(d3d, gl, glide).  It supports both hardware and software rendering.

       Miscellaneous

      Support multiple non-recursive planar geometric mirrors
      On the fly texture coordinates generation
      Panard Primitives support (allows for GL like drawing of 2D and 3D primitives, supports for display lists )
      Picking
      Procedural textures (hardware and software)
      Multiple coloured dynamic light sources (infinite, spot, parallel, directionnal, point, user defined)
      Support for animated textures
      Fine tunable collision detection (OBB)
      Switchable Nodes (allows to dynamically select a branch in the world graph, this can be used for Mesh LODs)
      Environment Mapping
      Static and pseudo dynamic lightmaps (soft or hard)
      Unreal-like volumetric FX
      Fast-Precise calculus using floats
      Extendable OO particle system
      Multithreaded Realtime Adptative Landscape Library
      Full featured math library (including quaternions functions)
      Support for spline curves/surfaces
      Support for mesh instancing, allowing for efficient memory usage
      Support convex polygons not only triangles
      Simple/Extensible API
      Support for user coded Special FX
      Support for user file formats
      Heavily optimized assembly code for x86 architectures
      Little animation engine with hierarchy.
      PanardVision has a built in 3DStudio 4 mesh and animation reader, but other drivers may be implemented. Drivers for Quake I&II's bsp are also included.
      No black box effect - every PV structures functions is documented/available.

      Software Rasterizer

      Flat shading
      Gouraud Shading
      Fake phong shading (currently only in non RGB modes)
      Mapping
      Bump Mapping
      Perspective Corrected mapping
      Bilinear Filtering
      Fine tunable ZBuffering (enable/disable on a material basis)
      Full sub-pixel/texel accuracy (no flicker, no gap in textures)
      Consistent rasterization
      SBuffering to reduce overdraw
      Paletized and RGB output modes
      Automatic handling of colors in paletized modes
      Fake/Fast 16 bits rendering
      True RGB rendering (15, 16, 24, 32 bits)
      Virtually every resolution
      MipMapping
      Generic PRECISE rasterizer to develop custom filling routines
      Generic perspective span renderer to add perspective correction to custom fillers
      Blending

      Visibility Engine

      Frustum clipping
      User definable clip planes
      User definable visibility pipeline (allowing for BSP, Portals, etc.)
      Infinite number of cameras
      Big mesh classification using octrees, allowing for fast rejection of a whole mesh or big parts of a mesh
      Indoor/outdoor suitable, efficient culling of out of screen meshes and part of meshes
      Advanced hierarchical culling/transformations, allowing for very efficient world rendering
      Built in support for portals

      Hardware

      Fog support
      Open API to use 3D Hardware
      Support for user made hardware drivers
      Built in OpenGL, Direct3D (5,6 and 7 (with hardware transform and lighting)) & 3DFX drivers(Voodoo,Voodoo2,Rush,Banshee).
      Support for all common and advanced hardware features (ZBuffer, Stencil buffer, Alpha Blending, Multitexturing, etc.)
      Customizable multitexture pipeline
      Detail texturing
      Real-time stencil based shadows

5.   Web Resources

•     Discussion Forum
  •     http://www.croteam.com/Active/Forums/Croteam/SeriousEngine
•     3D Engine download
  •     http://www.programmersheaven.net/zone10/cat338
                (Panard Vision Realtime 3D Engine 0.98  Full Featured Free 3D Engine SDK. Requires DX5)
  •     http://www.filelibrary.com/Contents/Windows/133/23.html
                (Panard Vision 3D Engine SDK v0.99a WIN95/98+ High quality/speed full featured 3D engine free for
                non-commercial use Hardware acceleration support. - Glide - OpenGL - Direct3D)
•     The 3D Application Compatibility List
  •     http://home.t-online.de/home/ce-ge/appl.htm
•     Panard Vision as Game engine
  •     http://www.flipcode.com/week99.shtml
  •     http://www.flipcode.com/week70.shtml
  •     http://www.cfxweb.net/jrobots/jerks/jfTools.shtml