Holly - 3D engine for the Dreamcast

***wraggster*** · August 2nd, 2005, 22:53

Some great news for Dreamcast Homebrew Developers:

Holly is a 3D engine SDK for the Dreamcast and is build on top of KOS 1.3.x (KallistiOS). It is implemented in C++, with some amount of SH4 assembly. The main developer of Holly3D is Heinrich Tillack. You can get in contact with him via E-mail info(at)tillack.org.

History - from Iris3d to Holly: In 2002 I added Triangle Strips clipping and IMD animation with vertex interpolation to Iris3D V0.7 by Olivier Chatry. Olivier the author of Iris3D included the patches into Iris3D V0.9.1. Which is the last official version of Iris 3D. In 2003 I started to modifiy this C++ code just for fun! Since 2003 I replaced (rewrote) around 95% of the C++ code, so I called the SDK Holly and NOT Iris-3D V2 as I thought before. Too much has changed - compared to Iris3D. I used the modified 3d engine for my own game projects (like DCASTLE). So here it is. Stay tuned for the upcoming release....

More info here --> http://holly.ch9.de/

**Vorrtexx** · August 2nd, 2005, 23:41

Great!

I'd like to try this one when it gets released.

**Mental2k** · August 2nd, 2005, 23:53

hmm this will hopefully pave the way for more 3d homebrew, yeah!

**ron** · August 3rd, 2005, 09:27

great fot those that were waiting for a new 3D engine in DC. Looks nice !!!!

**Imerion** · August 4th, 2005, 19:12

I read about "Iris V2" a while ago and I though it was to good to be true. But it is true! Also, I downloaded the Iris tutorial, set on finally learning to use it. But now I might wait and use Holly instead! I can't wait to see some samples of it. Also, a gigantic thank to the author! Its this kind of things which lets the DC community evolve!

**Elven6** · October 4th, 2006, 01:08

Is their already a 3D version out? And is this project dead or is it still running?

**Christuserloeser** · October 6th, 2006, 16:13

Still running I guess, but I wouldn't expect a release until in a few months.

I emailed Heinrich Tillack a few times but I never got a reply. Maybe I got the wrong email adress ?