Development Log

First of all, here is an another screenshot from our unannounced Unigine-based project, which is the main concern of our art department these days (by the way, it contains 64 square kilometers of terrain):

What's new:

• Terrain optimizations.
• No performance drop if there is an invisible water in the scene.
• Occlusion queries for smart culling.
• Fixed overlighting of impostors and reflections.
• Alpha-testing + anti-aliasing now works correctly on DirectX 10.1 capable hardware.
• Added anti-aliasing support for scattering pass for DirectX 10 hardware.
• Removed Oren-Nayar shaders due to increased compexity of material system.
• Support of mouse scroll in EditLine and SpinBox widgets.
• LODs for particles (particle count reduces with the distance).
• Optimized light scattering.
• A special "destroy" method of containers in UnigineScript for memory cleanup without direct call of a destructor.
• Fixed Image crashes on float and half images in rare cases.
• Grass performance optimizations.
• Fixed crash of ResourceEditor if config file missing.
• UnigineEditor now works more intelligent with textures, there is no need in ImageDDS tool for ordinary cases.
• Scene validator in UnigineEditor.
• Added "How to..." section in the manual, which will be useful for artists.

You can see antialiasing improvement by yourself: No AA, 4xAA on DX 10.0, and 4xAA on DX 10.1.

We have launched a "1% per day" discount campaign: every single day before November, 30 gives you 1% discount on licensing Unigine (or you lose 1%, if you are waiting), so you can get a fully-capable license with 60% discount, if you are on time!