Aeliom

Aeliom (el-yom) is a real-time virtual scenery generation, rendering, and exploration software. It is the fruit of 2 years research on landscape and architecture rendering. Thanks to its innovative engine, Aeliom is the place where true per-pixel rendering quality meets 3D real time exploration!
Aeliom is not only a viewer. It is also a compiler, and allows user, via its language, to generate complete worlds. Finally, Aeliom is a stand-alone renderer, that generates superb materials for each pixel.
Its graphic user interface supports 4 languages (English, French, Spanish and German [new]) and totally benefits from OpenGL (allowing rich multimedia environments).
Here are some key features of "Aeliom":
ï¿­ Aeliom is free for non profit use,
ï¿­ compiler for the aeliom language (include a shader language),
ï¿­ stand-alone high precision renderer,
ï¿­ complex surfaces (high order, and Boolean ops),
ï¿­ shadow generation,
ï¿­ complex sky lighting,
ï¿­ complex real time atmospheric volumetric effect (rays of light, fog, …),
ï¿­ LOD for both the geometry and the materials,
ï¿­ natural elements : water planes with ripples, volumetric clouds (with shadow projection), planar clouds, ...
ï¿­ displacement mapping,
ï¿­ view frustum culling (octree management), geometry coherency, portals, ...
ï¿­ 3D sound environment,
ï¿­ Ogg Vorbis codec support.