Crystal Space is a free, cross-platform software development kit for realtime 3D graphics.
It supports Windows, Linux, MaxOS/X and more. Though written in C++, other languages like Python can also be used to write programs.
Based on a plugin system it's very modular and extended easily.
3D rendering is done with OpenGL. Features of the latest as well as older hardware are supported seamlessly.

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    GSoC 2009

    Google Summer of Code 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 ... [More] 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:

    Crystal Space GSoC 2009 Page

    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 rc.freenode.net #CrystalSpace channel. [Less]

    Google Mentor Summit 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 ... [More] 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. [Less]

    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.

    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.

    Google Summer of Code 2008 Accepted

    The Google Summer of Code 2008 students for Crystal Space have been selected. Since we have five mentors we decided for five slots and thanks to Google we also got those slots.

    The following students were accepted:

    Greg Hoffman ... [More] with improvements to lighter2.
    Pavel Krajcevski with Real-Time Rendering of Water Meshes.
    Daniel Duarte Mendes with NavMesh generation and editing tools, Pathfinder& Steering improvements.
    Julian Mautner with Realtime cloud simulation and rendering system.
    Michael Gist with Cross thread communication and multi-threaded loading.

    Congratulations to those students. We hope their contributions will be a success and perhaps they can even remain long-time Crystal Space contributors in the future.

    Of course, selecting those five students means a lot of other students didn't get selected. It is always unfortunate to have to decline very good proposals but that's the nature of the game. We do hope that some of you still decide to work with and for Crystal Space. If you do so then you are warmly invited to work as a volunteer. [Less]

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