Development Log | Unigine (3D engine for games and real-time virtual worlds)

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2009-04-15

Players refactoring, render speedup

Various render performance optimizations.
Improved rasterizing occluders.
Decals from particles.
ObjectMeshDynamic can be created from a mesh file.
New type of occluders: WorldOccluderMesh, which can have arbitrary geometry.
Added WorldTransform, WorldTransformBone and WorldTransformExpression node types for transformation of nodes by a spline, an animation and an expression.
Added set of functions for easy manipulations with node transformations.
Binary format of spline files.
Callbacks for physics, triggers and GUI are moved to the appropriate classes.
Inheritance of parent object's animation in skinned meshes (useful for attaching clothes to a character body).
Added field for arbitrary user data in each node.
Added reflection masks for lights.
Updated spline exporter for 3dsMax.
System profiler now accumulates values from counters with the same name.
Optimization of shadow rendering for LightWorld.
Fixed screenshot grabbing under Direct3D9.
Heavily refactored players, now they are full-featured world nodes.
NodeRef caching on load, it leads to faster world loading.
Additional sorting of equidistant from the camera transparent surfaces by blend function.
Improved camera for high-level Character system.
New high-level controls system in UnigineScript (see data/scripts/input).
Updated reference manual, added "Programming / High-Level Scripts / Character System" article.

Here is an animation tree scheme for new character sample, which is included in the SDK:

PS: We have updated Unigine development roadmap for this year, now you can see status of scheduled features.