Feature List of Unigine

Render

General

Multiple API render (all features are supported for all APIs):
- Direct3D 9
- Direct3D 10.1
- OpenGL
Support of GLSL and HLSL shaders
Geometry shaders support
Performance profiler
Auto detection of GPU capabilities
Supported video cards:
- NVIDIA GeForce 9500 - 9800 (G9x)
- NVIDIA GeForce 8400 - 8800 (G8x)
- NVIDIA GeForce 7100 - 7950 (G7x)
- NVIDIA GeForce 6100 - 6800 (NV4x)
- ATI Radeon HD 3400 - HD 3870 (RV620-RV680)
- ATI Radeon HD 2400 - HD 2900 (R6xx)
- ATI Radeon X1300 - X1950 (R5xx)
- ATI Radeon X700 - X850 (R4xx)
Performance-critical optimizations for different video cards
Support of NVIDIA SLI and ATI CrossFire technologies
Stereo rendering, supported output devices are:
- iZ3D stereo monitors
- Anaglyph glasses
- Any dualscreen stereo system with independent input for each eye
Arbitrary resolution support (including widescreen)

Lighting

Per-pixel lighting
Screen-space ambient occlusion
Different types of shading:
- Phong
- Oren-Nayar
- Anisotropic
Ellipsoid lights with different attenuations
Optimizations: scissors, clip planes
Light maps support
Light scattering

Shadows

PSSM
Soft shadows
Translucence
Per-surface shadowing settings
Configurable shadow ambient

Materials

Hierarchy of materials with parameter's inheritance and overloading
Normal mapping
Parallax occlusion mapping
Translucence
Specular maps
Emission textures
Glow textures with blur
Two-sided polygons
Arbitrary polygon offset
Dynamic transformations of UV coordinates
Alpha testing
Different blending functions
Special foliage material
Material with double texture set (tile and detail)
Support of 16bit precision per channel for normal maps
Per-object lighting settings

Special Effects

Particle systems with different types of emitter, forces and animated textures support
Volume light
Volume fog
Dynamic reflections (2D and cubemap)
Fresnel refraction
Volumetric light scattering
Decals
Water with surf zone and caustics

64-bit Color HDR Rendering

Bloom
Adaptive exposure
Glow
Tone mapping
Cross flares
Lens flares

Postprocessing

Refraction
Depth of field
Radial blur
Sobel filter
Color transformations (brightness, contrast, saturation, gamma correction)
Low-cost HDR glow
Arbitrary LUT color transformations

Base Objects

Mesh (static geometry)
Dynamic mesh (generated on-the-fly)
Skinned mesh (bone-based animation) with support of animation blending
Morphing mesh (key frame animation) with support of animation blending
Dynamic volumetric object (box, ellipsoid, omni light, projected light)
Terrain (heightmap-based) with unique mapping
Water (global and local)
Particle system
Billboard
Light (world, omni, cubemap, projected)
Decal (omni, orthographic, projected)
3D GUI (plane, mesh-based)
Player (actor, persecutor and spectator

Scene Management

Data streaming (dynamic data loading in the background)
Object hierarchy
Seamlessly interconnected indor and outdoor scenes
Software occluders
Dynamic tree-based subdividing (outdoor)
Portal rendering (indoor)
Advanced LOD system
Clipmap textures support
Dynamic worlds merging
Terrain data streaming, maximal terrain size is 65536 x 65536 (DirectX 9) or 262144 x 262144 (DirectX 10) cells in size
9 LODs for the terrain with full geomorphing
Full-scene serialization

Physics

Serialization support
Collision detection
Rigid body physics
Comprehensive set of geometric primitives:
- Sphere
- Capsule
- Box
- Mesh
- Convex hull
- Cylinder
- Terrain
Particle system physics
Various joints:
- Fixed
- Hinge
- Ball
- Cylindrical
- Prismatic
- Suspension
- Wheel
Joints destruction
Linear and angular motors
Linear and angular springs
Rag doll physics
Automatic rag doll generation
Vehicle physics
Water flow
Fluid buoyancy
Physics callbacks
Multicore CPU support

Scripting System

Object-oriented programming
Multi-threading support
Transparent interconnection with external C++ functions and classes
Virtual machine with full state saving/restoring
Byte-code compiler (with caching support) and optimizer
Preprocessor
Built-in fast 3D mathematics (vectors, matrices and quaternions with all corresponding functions)
Arbitrary swizzling for vectors, matrices, and quaternions
Namespaces
User-defined classes with operator overloading
Function overloading
Yield and wait return operators
Dynamical calls of functions
Regular expressions support
Easy to learn (similar to C++ in syntax)
Built-in debugger
Well-documented library of built-in functions and classes (more than 2000 functions)

Graphic User Interface

Various widgets:
- Button
- Icon
- Label
- CheckBox
- ComboBox
- ListBox
- TreeBox
- HSlider/VSlider
- HSpacer/VSpacer
- EditLine
- EditText
- Sprite
- HScroll/VScroll
Containers:
- Window
- GridBox
- GroupBox
- ScrollBox
- TabBox
- HBox/VBox
Dialog windows:
- Message dialog
- File dialog
- Color dialog
- Image dialog
Resizable windows with overlapping support
Transparency
3D effects
Activation animation
Tooltips
Rich text support
Video playback
UI files in XML format
Easy callbacks via UI file
Easy skin changing
TTF support
Unicode (UTF8) support
Microsoft IME support for Eastern languages
Localization packs support

Sound

Streamed sounds
Entirely loadable sounds
3D sound
EAX support
Binding sounds to objects
Doppler effect
Different sound API support:
- OpenAL
- FMOD^*

Framework

Supported hardware platforms:
- IBM PC x86
- IBM PC x86 64 bit
Multicore CPU support
Big endian support (ready for game consoles)
SSE/SSE3 optimizations
Supported input devices:
- Standard PC keyboards and mice
- Standart PC joysticks
- Xbox 360 gamepads
Supported operating systems:
- MS Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
- Linux 2.4/2.6
Supported compilers:
- MS Visual C++ 2005 / 2008
- GCC 3.4.x/4.x.x
- Intel Compiler 10.1
Performance profiling
Data compression
Data encryption
XML-based data structures
Save/restore system (full serialization support)
Supported 3D object formats:
- Unigine Mesh (MESH)
- Unigine Skinned Mesh (SMESH)
- Unigine Morphing Mesh (MMESH)
Supported image formats:
- Targa (TGA)
- JPEG (JPG)
- Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
- X PixMap (XPM)
- PhotoShop Document (PSD)
- DDS (DXT1, DXT3, DXT5, ATI1N ATI2N, 3D cube textures, 2D textures)
Supported sound formats:
- RIFF WAVE (WAV)
- Ogg Vorbis (OGG)
Supported video formats:
- Ogg Theora (OGG)

Editor

WYSIWYG world editor
Managing objects, lights and effects
Prefab export/import
Adjusting of rendering settings
Editing physics properties
Material editor with hierarchy support
Particle system editor
Built-in performance profiler
Different viewing modes for content optimization
Per-pass debug of rendering
On-the-fly content update support
No compile time, instant preview with final quality

Tools

ResourceEditor

Viewer:
- Fast preview of assets (mesh, smesh, mmesh, 3ds, lwo, obj, ase, dae, bsp, map, md2, md5)
- Conversion between 3D data formats
- Prefab export
- Animation playback
- Mesh smoothing
- Per-channel view of UV mapping
- UV seams visualization
- UV overlaps visualization
- Tangent space visualization
- Bones visualization
TerrainEditor:
- Editing of height map, diffuse texture and normal map
- Different brushes (normal, addition, subtract, smooth, dilate, erode)
- Maximal terrain size is 262145 x 262145 cells
- Support of unique textures up to 262145 x 262145 pixels
- Import from/export to any 2D editor any patch of a texture
NormalMapper:
- Generation of normal maps for a low-poly model from a high-poly donor
- Height map generation
- HAL support
- Support of 16 bit per channel accuracy
NormalCombiner:
- Combining of normal maps by correct vector summation
- Tile support
AmbientMapper:
- Generation of ambient occlusion maps
- Support of high-poly donor meshes
- Arbitrary number of lights

Archiver

Content packs generation
Data compression
Data encryption

ImageDDS

Conversion of images into DDS format
High-quality DXT compression algorithm
Cubemap support
3D textures support
Scaling support
Mipmaps generation
Support of 16 bit precision per channel
Batch images processing

Plugins

3ds Max 8/9/2009 Mesh import
3ds Max 8/9/2009 Mesh export
3ds Max 8/9/2009 Skinned Mesh export
3ds Max 8/9/2009 Morphing Mesh export
3ds Max 8/9/2009 export scripts (prefab, spline, camera, batch export)
Maya 7.0/8.5 Mesh import
Maya 7.0/8.5 Mesh export
Maya 7.0/8.5 Skinned Mesh export
Maya 7.0/8.5 Morphing Mesh export

Notes:

Incompleted features are denoted by italic.

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*: This requires a license for FMOD.