Crystal Space is a portable Open Source 3D engine and framework. Crystal Space is written in mainly C++ with smaller pieces in assembly and currently supports Linux, Windows and OSX on x86 and PowerPC processors. Crystal Space is very powerful with good support for modern hardware features for 3d such as shaders (Cg and assembly), post processing effects and texture based effects. The graphics support is built mainly on OpenGL for portability. On top of this Crystal Space also has good support for hierarchical animation, particle systems, landscape rendering as well as 3D sound handling and scripting in popular languages such as Python and Java. Crystal Space is licensed under the LGPL.

Google Summer of Code - Student Application Template for Crystal Space:

Thanks for considering joining Crystal Space for your summer of code project! We are sure that Crystal Space can be a good project to help you get up to speed in the Open Source world. To help us in identifying you as a good candidate, we want to ask a few questions:

About Yourself

• Describe any plans you have over the summer in addition to GSoC, such as classes, a summer job, vacation plans, master's thesis, etc.
• What programming projects have you done so far?
• Have you worked on other open source projects before? If so, please list and describe what you did.
• Please list other projects you are applying to for GSoC.
• Do you have any experience with C++ or Python? Of so, clarify this experience.
• Do you have any experience with computer graphics, OpenGL, DirectX, other 3D engines?

Crystal Space Questions

• When did you first hear about Crystal Space?
• Have you worked with Crystal Space before? For what sorts of things?
• If you have participated in Crystal Space previously, please describe what you've done (e.g. bug reports, questions on mailing list or IRC, etc.)
• If you have contributed to Crystal Space before, please describe when and what you did (bug fixes, new features, testing, etc.)

Tasks

• Checkout the Crystal Space sourcecode through Subversion and review it.
• Introduce yourself on the Crystal Space developers mailing list, and post your project ideas for feedback, before submitting your application

Your Project

• Deliverables: What will the final output of your project be? Please note that documentation is important.
• Schedule: Include an estimated timeline of the project with mini-milestone.