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Crystal Space is a mature, full-featured software development kit (SDK) providing real-time 3D graphics for applications such as games and virtual reality. It is free (LGPL) and cross-platform (Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X).
The project encompasses two main components:
 | Crystal Space — A modular, configurable, and extensible rendering engine supporting OpenGL and advanced features such as shaders and lighting systems, physics, 3D sounds, animation blending, foliage, terrain, virtual file system, physical peripherals, and more. |
 | CEL — Entity system supporting higher-level functionality, such as runtime package environment (CELstart), generic event system, avatar and camera management, artificial intelligence (path finding, steering behaviors, neural networks and genetic algorithms), vehicles, and more. |
Related projects: YoFrankie!, PlaneShift, Blender (blender2crystal), CrystalArchitect, Peragro Tempus.
Recent News
- 11:19, 7 May 2010: GSoC 2010 Projects
The Google Summer of Code 2010 students for Crystal Space have been chosen.
We are happy to have got six slots this year which is the most we've ever got so far. Here is the list of accepted projects:- Claudiu Mihail with new improved hardware augmented culler
- Joseph Forte with deferred shading plugin
- Mohit Taneja with advanced lighting for lighter2
- Alexandru-Teodor Voicu with real time hair simulation and rendering
- Eduardo Poyart with automated progressive LOD generation and management
- Leonardo Domingues with integration of Recast & Detour into CEL and hierarchical pathfinding
Congratulations to all those students! - 07:29, 19 March 2010: GSoC 2010
For the fifth time in a row Crystal Space was accepted for Google Summer of Code 2010! We are very happy with this and we hope to give a number of students an enjoyable experience with Crystal Space and also give Crystal Space a nice feature boost.
If you are a student and interested in working on Crystal Space for Google Summer of Code then make sure to visit our SoC page and especially the list of ideas. On Monday, March 29 at 19:00 UTC Google will start accepting student applications but in the mean time feel free to join us in the #CrystalSpace irc room (irc.freenode.net) or at our development mailing list and discuss your project ideas in advance. It is also worthwhile to make yourselves comfortable with Crystal Space code (version 1.9).
- 11:59, 25 January 2010: Crystal Space 1.4.0 Released
Crystal Space and Crystal Entity Layer 1.4.0 have been released.
Check out the Download page for the download location and check the 1.4 Release page to see what is new. - 07:33, 19 March 2009: GSoC 2009
We did it again this year! For the fourth time Crystal Space got accepted for Google Summer of Code. So if you want you can submit a student application for Crystal Space then you can do that starting at March 23. You can already prepare applications now. If you want to read more about Google Summer of Code read the following link:
Google Summer of Code 2009 Blog
You can read about Crystal Space and Google Summer of Code (including a list of possible ideas) here:
One important thing: talk to us about your proposal BEFORE submitting it. You can either do that on the crystal-develop mailing list or else on the irc.freenode.net #CrystalSpace channel.
- 04:51, 28 October 2008: Google Mentor Summit 2008
Marten (thebolt) and Scott (jwir3) just returned from the 2008 Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit, in Mountain View, California. For those of you not familiar with the Mentor Summit, it's an annual event bringing together hundreds of mentors from different open source projects (and walks of life) to discuss the Google Summer of Code, general open source software development, Google's role as an open source support organization, and numerous specific topics related to different areas of open source development.
The proceedings of the conference have not yet been made public, but as soon as they are, we'll post them here. In the meantime, check out Jwir3's Blog for some interesting pictures and comments.
- 06:19, 9 July 2008: SourceForge Nominations Finalist
Thanks to your support Crystal Space has been nominated as a finalist in the category 'Best Project for Gamers'. You can now vote for Crystal Space at this location. Thanks a lot for your support.
- 12:20, 28 May 2008: SourceForge Nominations
You can nominate Crystal Space for the Community Choice Awards on SourceForge. I would recommend voting it as the 'Best Project for Gamers' category. At least if you think that Crystal Space qualifies for that of course! Thanks for your support.
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