aeliom (el-yom) is a real-time virtual scenery generation, rendering, and exploration software. It is the fruit of 2 yearsТ‘ 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)