About This Software

Code Games with C++

No-Limits Royalty-Free License for Game Developers

Graphics

• Revolutionary new rendering architecture
  
• Clustered forward+ renderer with uniform lighting model and optional depth prepass
  
• Multi-display support
  
• PBR materials
  
• Load 3D models from glTF, OBJ, MDL, and FBX (using glTF converter)
  
• Image loading, saving, processing
  
• Vertex, pixel, geometry, and tessellation shaders
  
• Normal mapping with specular
  
• Post-processing stack
  
• Hardware tessellation
  
• Environment probes
  
• Instanced rendering
  
• Real-time mesh modification
  
• Imposters

VR

• SteamVR integration with support for a variety of headsets
  
• Fast stereoscopic rendering
  
• Controller input and display
  
• Attach objects to hand controllers and headset
  
• Translation and rotation view offset

Entity Component System

• Multiple components per entity are supported
  
• Save and load game states
  
• Visual flowgraph connects component actions to create event sequences

Terrain

• Dynamically sculpt and paint terrain
  
• Cut holes in terrain
  
• Up to 256 material layers
  
• Terrain foliage system

3D Models

• Load and save Khronos glTF files
  
• Load and save Wavefront OBJ files
  
• Convert FBX files to glTF and load
  
• Convert Collada files to glTF and load
  
• Load other formats with plugin system

Animation

• Animated skinned characters
  
• Share skeletons across multiple characters
  
• Attach objects to bones
  
• Built-in animation transition and update system
  
• Hardware skinning
  
• Blend and transition animations

Physics

• Fast and accurate asynchronous rigid body physics
  
• Constraints including hinge, ball, kinematic, plane, and sliding joints
  
• Motorized joints with limits
  
• Generate physics shapes
  
• Swept collision
  
• Raycasting with lines or spheres

Pathfinding

• Navmesh pathfinding
  
• Crowd avoidance and steering
  
• Navigation areas visible in editor
  
• Physics-based character controller
  
• Automatic AI following

Sound

• 3D sound spatialization
  
• Head-related transfer function (HRTF)
  
• Audio filters including distortion, flanging, echo, and EAX reverb effects
  
• Emit a sound from any entity
  
• Automatic channel management
  
• Skip to any time in sound

GUI

• Resolution-independent for any DPI
  
• Extensible widgets system
  
• Load SVG vector images
  
• Set widget and item image
  
• Change mouse cursor
  
• Custom color schemes stored in JSON files

Plugins

• Basis Universal supercompressed texture support
  
• FreeImage Texture Support for PNG, JPG, BMP, TGA, PSD, etc.
  
• Wavefront OBJ model saving
  
• ISPC Fast Texture Compression
  
• Quake package, model, and texture loading

System

• Thread management, with mutexes and semaphores
  
• File I/O
  
• File system watcher
  
• Memory allocation and management
  
• String manipulation (split, search, conversion, etc.)
  
• Message boxes and file / folder requester
  
• Plugin system

Steamworks Integration

• Authentication
  
• User info
  
• Leaderboards
  
• Stats and achievements
  
• Multiplayer lobbies
  
• Peer-to-peer networking
  
• Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP)

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Optional AI-powered features are included that handle image generation and processing.