CopperLicht Features Overview

Key Features

• 3D World editor: CopperLicht comes with a full 3D world editor named CopperCube.
• Many supported 3D file formats: 3ds, obj, x, lwo, b3d, csm, dae, dmf, oct, irrmesh, ms3d, my3D, mesh, lmts, bsp, md2, stl, ase, ply, dxf, cob, scn and more
• Incredibly fast: CopperLicht is highly optimized and able to render and animate even huge 3d scenes.
• Character/Skeletal animation: supports playing back animated meshes with an unlimited amount of joints and an unlimted amount of weights
• Simple to use: easily understandable SceneGraph API with lots of tutorials and examples in the documentation
• Binary compilation: Unlike other WebGL 3D Engines, CopperLicht compiles your 3D meshes into a small, binary file which downloads quickly, reducing bandwith usage for your users. Simply import your 3D files into the CopperCube editor and publish it as CopperLicht scene.
• Totally free: CopperLicht is free to use. Just download and go!

Including World Editor

CopperLicht comes with a full world editor: CopperCube.

3D Graphics features

• Lots of precreated materials and shaders
• Fast, precalculated lightmap support
• Dynamic light support
• Particle Systems
• Billboards
• Skyboxes
• Skeletal animation
• Extensible 3D rendering based on a hierarchical scene graph
• Transparent objects: Automatic correct item ordering when rendering transparent 3d objects.
• Paths and Splines
• Animation and Action system
• Texture animation
• Vertex color support
• Integrated 2D font and 2D primities rendering system
• System to create and use custom shaders and materials
• Automatic redraw reducing (optional): Instead of redrawing the whole 3d scene every frame which can be slow on old computers, CopperLicht is able only to redraw when it is absolutely necessary, for example when the 3d scene changed or the camera moved. This is very useful to reduce CPU load.

Collision Detection and simple built-in Physics

• Collision and Response system: Simply add a CollisionResponse animator to any 3d object and it is able to move realisticly in any polygon soup: Collide against walls, walk up stairs etc.
• Picking and simple click detection: Simply add a JavaScript callback function to any scene node which gets called when your scene node is being clicked. (See AnimatorOnClick for details)
• Optimized, reusable 3d math classes (vectors, matrices, plane, triangle etc), all with collision test functionality

Character Animation support

• Milkshape (.ms3d)
• Microsoft DirectX (.x)
• B3D files (.b3d)

Web/HTML/JavaScript specific features

• WebGL capability detection: CopperLicht will detect if the browser is able to render 3d graphics and is able to automatically show info texts if it does not. It is of course possible to show own messages.
• Input Management: Mouse and Keyboard input does not work the same across different browsers. CopperLicht has a simple abstraction layer making it very simple to work with mouse and keyboard input.
• Lightweight, compressed JavaScript library

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