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Gamestudio/A7.8


The A7.8 Engine
The engine is the core of the development system - it determines the rendering of 3D objects or virtual worlds. Gamestudio's A7.8 engine was developed in 2010 and is one of the fastest and most robust engines available. Its Adaptive Binary Tree scene manager switches seamlessly from indoor to outdoor sceneries and supports up to 200,000 objects per scene. The light manager generates an unlimited number of static and dynamic shadow-throwing light sources. Programmers can add new engine functions with the included Source Development Kit. The simple and straigthforward C-style API allows painless access to the engine from external development systems under C++, C#, or Delphi.







The A7.8 engine is designed to support a wide range of hardware and software. Gamestudio applications run fast and stable even on old PCs, without requiring the end user to update the 3D hardware or DirectX version. Still, Gamestudio is regularly updated in order to support the newest 3D features. Free engine updates are released about every six weeks.

Rendering engine
Adaptive Binary Tree (ABT) scene manager, up to 200,000 entities per scene
Binary Space Partitioning (BSP) / Potential Visibility Set (PVS) / Render Portals (Pro Edition)
Indoor and outdoor support, seamless LOD terrain renderer
Light manager for unlimited point and spot light sources
Static and dynamic shadow mapping, decal, stencil, and PSSM shadows
Fog areas, Camera portals, reflections and mirrors
Geometric LOD, detail textures, texture compression
Softskin models with multiple shaders; bones, vertex, and morph animation
Animated sprites and decals
Material properties for static and dynamic objects
Multiple cameras and render views, multiple monitors, widescreen support

PARTICLE & EFFECT Engine
Programmable particle generators for multiple particle types
Beam generators for laser beams and tracer paths
Pre- and postprocessing shaders, supporting shader models 1.0, 2.0, 3.0
HLSL and FX file support; real time shader editing; multiple shader stages
Per pixel lighting, bump and environment mapping, multitexturing
Layered sky system with sky cubes, sky domes, clouds and backdrop bitmaps
Dynamic decal system for bullet holes, foot prints, tire marks etc.
Programmable effects like lens flares, distortion, fisheye, etc.
More than 40 included shaders: cartoon, environment, gooch, bump, lambert, blinn, phong, parallax, occlusion, wind animation, mirror, water, blur, bloom, dilate, displacement, erode, bleach, sepia, emboss, posterize, lens, PSSM, HDR, and many more
Source code for all effects; shader workshop and shader viewer

Physics & Collision Engine
Two polygonal collision detection systems with and without physics
Physics objects with gravity, damping, elasticity, friction
Highly realistic raycast vehicle simulation with easy-to-use template
Hinge, ball, wheel, and slider joints, configurable universal joint
Bezier path tracking for camera, actors or vehicles; path finding
Mouse picking and manipulating of 3D objects
Slow motion / quick motion effect

2D Engine
Multi-layer system
Animated 3D and 2D sprites, 2D particles, 2D shaders
Movie player for rendering videos fullscreen and on textures
GUI panels with button, slider, display and window types
Truetype and bitmap fonts
Screenshot generator

Sound Engine
Static and dynamic 3D sound sources with Doppler effect
Multichannel streaming sound player
WAV, OGG, MID, MP3, WMA, CD support

Network & Game Engine
Save / Load system for resuming games at arbitrary positions
Easy, tranparent client/server mode for LAN and Internet (UDP)
Multizone/multiserver support, MMOG capable (Pro Edition)
FTP and HTTP access to servers and databases (Pro Edition)
Input devices: Mouse, Keyboard, Joystick / Racewheel, SpaceNavigator®, WiiMote®
Control external I/O and relay modules over the network
Expandable through DLL plugins