Free innovative 3d software for linux

Invasion 3D is a fun and addictive 3D arcade game!
The idea for Invasion 3D came during the summer of 2004, when I was working in New Jersey. I had been playing a lot of old arcade games on the MAME arcade emulator.
I had fun playing the original Taito Space Invaders game, but I was frustrated with the inability to shoot more than a single bullet at once with this game. I decided it would be fun to play a modern, 3-D version of Space Invaders with some serious weapons which would allow for massive alien destruction, as it should be.
At first I thought of using my Jax3D engine to render this game, but in the end I decided to learn something new and use OpenGL. I got started by looking at NeHes OpenGL Tutorials and wrote this game in my spare time during April and May of 2005.
Main features:
- Realistic physics simulation
- Challenging and fun gameplay
- Stunning visual effects
- Multiple weapons
- Massive Destruction
- Hidden bonuses
- 20 Waves with over 2,000 invaders
- Both Windows and Linux versions
- Free to Distribute to Anyone!

libevent library provides a mechanism to execute a callback function when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout has been reached.
It is meant to replace the asynchronous event loop found in event-driven network servers.
libevent is meant to replace the event loop found in event driven network servers. An application just needs to call event_dispatch() and then add or remove events dynamically without having to change the event loop.
Currently, libevent supports /dev/poll, kqueue(2), select(2), poll(2) and epoll(4). It also has experimental support for real-time signals. The internal event mechanism is completely independent of the exposed event API, and a simple update of libevent can provide new functionality without having to redesign the applications. As a result, Libevent allows for portable application development and provides the most scalable event notification mechanism available on an operating system.
More information about event notification mechanisms for network servers can be found on Dan Kegels "The C10K problem" web page. Another library that abstracts asynchronous event notification is liboop.
Enhancements:
- Bugs in libevents HTTP layer were fixed.

Deathchase 3D project is a remake of the Spectrum arcade game of the same name.

Deathchase 3D is a remake of the Spectrum game of the same name, which is itself based on the sequence in "Return of the Jedi" chasing Stormtroopers through the forests of Endor on light-speeders.

Its a fake perspective 3D game: avoid the trees and shoot the bad guys ahead of you. It uses the SDL library.

It is written for Linux but should run on anything SDL supports.

Soya 3D is a high level 3D engine for Python. It relies on OpenGL, SDL and Cal3D. Soya 3D project is designed with games in mind, focusing both on performance and ease-of-use.
Soya 3D is available under the GPL and currently runs on GNU/Linux, though ports to other OS are planned (Mac OS X, windows,...) since it uses only portable libraries.
Main features:
- Multi-plateform : Linux / Unix, MacOSX, Windows
- Object model, including camera, light, world, volume,...
- Particle systems
- Fullscreen
- Tutorials and demos included
- Trees
- Raypicking
- Landscapes
- 3D character animation (with Cal3D)
- Exportation scripts for Blender, Obj/Mtl, Maya and 3DSmax
- Event management (keyboard, mouse,...)
- Cell-shading
- Shadows
- Environment mapping
Soya 0.6.1 and below were written in C and Python, but version 0.7 and higher are written in Pyrex and Python.

bengsaver is a screensaver for KDE. It shows bouncing balls or bee swarms, with collision detection.
Enhancements:
- added OpenGL frontend for drawing 3D balls

Avoid The Roid 3D project is a 3D asteroids-like multiplayer game.

The player flies around in a three dimensional space, shooting asteroids and other ships while trying to avoid running into any of them or being shot.

The game is written in c++ and uses unix sockets for networking, pthreads for the thread library, OpenGL for the graphics library, glut for windows and input, and OpenAL for audio.

Phoenix Live CD is a Physics with Homemade Equipment and Innovative Experiments Live Linux distribution. Booting from the Live CD, based on SLAX, starts a GNU/Linux operating system with several software development tools and scientific computation packages pre-installed.

Put the CD in the drive and reboot the machine. Follow the instructions displayed to start the graphics mode. Hard disk of your PC is not used by default but it can be enabled for saving experimental data.

If you have the Phoenix Interface hardware connected, you can run the phoenix programs from the main menu. You can also write and run your own programs. Compilers and graphics libraries required for developing programs are part of the CD. It is also possible to browse this CD by opening the file index.html.

Silver XCursors 3D provides the same animated cursors as in my Golden Xcursors 3D theme, but this time rendered in Silver.
Installation:
Copy the two folders Silver and default to your ~/.icons directory and
restart your X-Server.
If you want to have bigger cursors, you have to create an .Xdefaults file
in your home directory and insert the following two lines:
Xcursor.theme: Silver
Xcursor.size: 48
The default size is 32.
Thats it!
Note: If the animations are flickering on your nvidia card with the latest
driver, add the following line to your XF86Config file, into the nvidia
device section, to fix it:
Option "HWCursor" "off"
Enhancements:
- added pirate
- a little less animation (requested)