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 (German [new], English, French and Spanish), and totally benefits from OpenGL (allowing rich multimedia environments).
Features:
- Aeliom is free for non profit use,
- compiler for the aeliom language (include a shader language),
- stand-alone high precision renderer,
- complex surfaces (high order, and Boolean ops),
- shadow generation,
- complex sky lighting,
- complex real time atmospheric volumetric effect (rays of light, fog, ),
- LOD for both the geometry and the materials,
- natural elements : water planes with ripples, volumetric clouds (with shadow projection), planar clouds, ...
- displacement mapping,
- view frustum culling (octree management), geometry coherency, portals, ...
- 3D sound environment,
- Ogg Vorbis codec support.
aeliom is free for non-profit use only.
Download is also available for Windows 95/98/NT/2K. (6.1MB)
3.25 M (file size)
Price: Free 
