Unigine v0.4 development roadmap | Unigine (3D engine for games and real-time virtual worlds)

Next major milestone for Unigine is v0.4, which is planned for Q4 2005.
Our aim is to make Unigine a complete middleware solution for game development and virtual reality systems.

Roadmap

Full features table

This table outlines some of changes we expect to see in future release of Unigine.

release date	April 2004	May 2004	May 2005	June 2005	Q4 2005
version	Engine v0.1	Engine v0.2	Unigine v0.3	Unigine v0.32	Unigine v0.4
Lighting:
per-pixel lighting	+	+	+	+	+
light maps			+	+	+
sky skattering			+	+	+
fullscene light scattering					+
vertex clipping			+	+	+
omni light, omni with cubemap modulation			+	+	+
directional light with 2D texture modulation			+	+	+
gloss maps		+	+	+	+
ellipsoid lights					+
optimizations for static lights					+
various attenuations for lights					+
PRT (Precomputed Radiance Transfer, spherical harmonics)					+
Shading:
per-pixel shading	+	+	+	+	+
stencil shadows	+	+	+	+	+
depth shadows			+	+
soft stencil shadows			+	+	+
GPU shadow volume extrusion			+	+	+
static shadow volumes					+
advanced shading					+
Texturing:
normal mapping	+	+	+	+	+
parallax mapping					+
texture coordinate transformations			via shader editing	via shader editing	+
Special effects:
particles with different types of emitter			+	+	+
explosions			+	+	+
volume directional light			+	+	+
decals			+	+	+
flares			+	+	+
volumetric fog	+		+	+	+
billboards					+
mirrors (2D/cubemap)	+		+	+	+
Fresnel refraction			+	+	+
water			+	+	+
64-bit color HDR (High Dynamic Range rendering):
bloom			+	+	+
glow			+	+	+
flare chromatic aberration			+	+	+
adaptive exposure			+	+	+
Postprocessing:
refraction			+	+	+
motion blur			+	+	+
depth of field					+
volumetric lighting			+	+	+
underwater mode					+
camera shaking					+
Scene management:
portal rendering (indoor)			+	+	+
quad-tree subdividing (outdoor)			+	+	+
seamlessly interconnected indor and outdoor			+	+	+
occlusion culling			+	+	+
LOD			+	+	+
Base objects:
mesh	+	+	+	+	+
skinned mesh (for animation)	+	+	+	+	+
terrain (with 4 HW LODs)		+	+	+	+
player (including spectators)			+	+	+
procedural trees					+
procedural grass					+
GUI object (monitors, cameras, user interfaces)			+	+	+
Physics:
physics type	impulse responser	impulse responser	impulse responser	impulse responser	advanced physics math
collision detection	+	+	+	+	+
rigid body	+	+	+	+	+
rag doll		+	+	+	+
vehicle physics			+	+	+
ray car			+	+	+
joints		+	+	+	+
joints destruction			+	+	+
particle physics			+	+	+
fluid buoyancy			+	+	+
water flow				+	+
dynamical objects destruction					+
water interaction					+
inverse kinematics					+
modular structure (could be replaced by other physics system)					+
Sound:
3D sound			+	+	+
streamed sounds			+	+	+
fully loadable sounds			+	+	+
binding sounds to objects			+	+	+
impact sounds			+	+	+
Doppler effect			+	+	+
Scripting system:
scripting system type	simple interpreter	interpreter	interpreter	bytecode compiler	advanced bytecode compiler
threads with fixed FPS			+	+	+
engine API repetition			+	+	+
object-oriented programming					+
performance profiling			+	+	+
GUI:
widgets			+	+	+
containers			+	+	+
dialogs				+	+
viewports			+	+	+
activation animation			+	+	+
3D effects				+	+
UI files			+	+	+
Network:
client-server					+
modular structure (could be replaced by other networking system)					+
Artificial intellect:
pathfinding					+
modular structure (could be replaced by other AI system)					+
Supported file formats:
3D objects	mesh, 3ds	mesh, 3ds	mesh, 3ds	mesh, 3ds, lwo	mesh, 3ds, lwo
images	tga, jpg, png	tga, jpg, png	tga, jpg, png, dds, xpm	tga, jpg, png, dds, xpm	tga, jpg, png, dds, xpm
sounds		wav, ogg	wav, ogg	wav, ogg	wav, ogg
System:
data compression			+	+	+
data encryption				+	+
map files					+
Unicode support					+
save/restore system					+
CPU optimizations			SSE2, SSE3, 3DNow!	SSE2, SSE3, 3DNow!	SSE2, SSE3, 3DNow!
Supported platforms:
MS Windows	+	+	+	+	+
Linux	+	+	+	+	+
Tools:
MeshViewer			+	+	+
NormalMapper				+	+
Ungpack				+	+
Quake 3 map converter into mesh				+	+
Doom 3 map converter into mesh				+	+
Mesh import/export plugin for 3D Studio	+	+	+	+	+
Mesh import/export plugin for Maya			+	+	+
Skinned mesh export plugin for 3D Studio	+	+	+	+	+
Skinned mesh export plugin for Maya					+
Multimaterial export plugin for 3D Studio			+	+	+
PRTMapper (distributed PRT calculation tool)					+
Visual scene editor (WYSIWYG)					+