What you need for this book

A licensed installation of GROME 3.x or an evaluation (which has no export or saving facility but can be used for most of the presented tutorials). For download details, please see the official vendor’s website:

www.quadsoftware.com

Unity3D game engine is available free for non-commercial use from:

www.unity3d.com

Unreal Development Kit (UDK) is available for non-commercial use from:

www.udk.com

Ogre3D is a free open source rendering engine. Visual Studio 2005 to 2010 can be used to compile any of the GROME examples in addition to the Graphite library which is available to licensed GROME clients. Ogre3D can be downloaded from:

www.ogre3d.org

Please be sure to read the licensing terms when downloading and installing these engines. Your computer should also meet the following specifications:

  • Windows XP SP2 or higher
  • 4 MB of RAM, or more, if using a 64-bit OS (recommended)
  • Graphics card with 256 MB VRAM and at least four texture units