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)