BRender-3DMM

The version of the Argonaut Blazing Render (BRender) library used in 3D Movie Maker.

When BRender was open sourced, it was assumed one of the versions released would match the one in 3D Movie Maker, or that 3D Movie Maker contained a with-source copy of the BRender SDK in the repo. This turned out not to be true, and so this is a release of the BRender library as originally used by 3D Movie Maker.

This version dates to approximately May 1995.

Files

Only the fixed point z-buffer version is included, compiled for Microsoft Visual C++ 2.1.

Approval to open source this software

Approval to open source this was given in an email from Jez San, former CEO of Argonaut.

Credits

Role	Name
Programming	Sam Littlewood Dan Piponi Simon Everett Philip Pratt
Ports	Simon Everett Philip Pratt Patrick Buckland Zareh Johannes Anthony Savva Stainless Software Ltd
Testing	Philip Pratt
Project Management	Stefano Zammattio
Technical Reference Manual	Crosbie Fitch Philip Pratt
Tutorial & Installation Guides	Robbie McQuaid
Marketing	Paul Ayscough Mitra Faulkner
Sales	Edwin Masterson
Artwork	Michel Bowes
Technical Support	Neela Dass Tony Roberts John Gay Jon Wolff
With Thanks to	Pete Warnes Mike Day Tim Gummer Vinay Gupta Marcia Petterson Jez San

(From the 1996 Technical Reference Manual. More names will be added if they are uncovered)

The open sourcing of this version was done by Scott Hanselman and Foone Turing, with help from an anonymous contributor.

License

This is released under the MIT license.

Copyright (c) 1998 Argonaut Software Limited

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