Unigine v0.33 features

Render

• Lighting
  • PRT (Precomputed Radiance Transfer, spherical harmonics)
  • per-pixel lighting
  • light maps
  • gloss maps
  • omni light, omni with cubemap modulation
  • directional light with 2D texture modulation
  • sky skattering
• Shading
  • per-pixel shading
  • stencil shadow
  • depth shadows
  • soft stencil shadows
  • GPU shadow volume extrusion
• Texturing
  • normal mapping
  • DXT compression
• Special effects
  • particles with different types of emitter
  • explosions
  • water
  • volume directional lights
  • decals
  • flares
  • per-pixel radial linear fog for the whole scene
  • volumetric fog
  • mirrors (2D/cubemap, with customizable refresh interval)
  • Fresnel refraction
  • customizable set of shaders (lava shader, detail normalmaps)
• 64-bit color HDR (High Dynamic Range rendering)
  • bloom
  • glow
  • flare chromatic aberration
  • adaptive exposure
• Postprocessing
  • refraction
  • motion blur
• Scene management
  • portal rendering (indoor)
  • quad-tree subdividing (outdoor)
  • seamlessly interconnected indor and outdoor
  • occlusion culling
  • LOD (Levels of Detail)
• Base objects
  • mesh
  • skinned mesh (for animation)
  • terrain - regular mesh of heights with 4 LODs and hardware morphing
  • GUI object (monitor, camera, user interface)
  • player (including spectators)
• Optimizations
  • different codepath for different card generations (nv30, nv40, glsl)
  • work at nv10 and nv20 with full deactivation of the effects in singlepass mode
  • matrix palette skinning
  • GPU calculation of shadow volumes
  • SSE/3DNow! optimizations
  • performance profiling

Physics

• collision detection
• comprehensive set of geometric primitives:
  • sphere
  • capsule
  • cylinder
  • box
  • mesh (AABB tree for per-triangle culling)
  • terrain (regular height map)
  • compound collider
• rigid body
• rag doll
• vehicle physics
• ray car
• various joints:
  • fixed
  • ball
  • hinge
  • wheel
  • slider
  • universal
  • spring
• joints destruction
• particle physics
• fluid buoyancy
• water flow
• performance profiling

Sound

• 3D sound
• streamed sounds
• entirely loadable sounds
• binding sounds to objects
• impact sounds
• Doppler effect

Scripting system

• fast bytecode compiler
• C/C++ like scripts syntax
• threads with fixed FPS
• engine API repetition
• object-oriented programming
• performance profiling

Graphic User Interface

• various widgets:
  • sprite
  • viewport
  • drop-down menu
  • button
  • check box
  • radio button
  • slider
  • label
  • edit line
• containers:
  • window
  • group box
  • tab box
  • scroll box
  • vertical/horizontal box
• dialogs:
  • message box
  • file selector
  • color selector
• activation animation
• 3D effects
• easy-to-use UI files format
• True Type fonts support
• Unicode support

System

• supported platforms:
  • MS Windows
  • Linux
• supported file formats:
  • 3D objects - mesh, 3ds, lwo
  • images - tga, jpg, png, dds, xpm
  • sounds - wav, ogg
• data compression
• data encryption
• Unicode support
• CPU optimizations (SSE2, SSE3, 3DNow!)
• flexible C++ API of the engine

Tools

• material editor with support of mesh, 3ds, lwo files
• tool for normal map generation for low-poly models
• data archiver
• distributed PRT calculation tool
• 3DStudio mesh export/import plugin
• Maya mesh export/import plugin
• 3DStudio skinned mesh export plugin