Informace o softwaru

Have you ever tried to develop a game, only to have the framerate get slower and slower as you add more content and features? This is especially problematic in virtual reality because low framerates cause motion sickness and can make your game or experience unplayable. Ultra Engine is designed to achieve ultimate scalability and deliver blazingly fast performance as your game grows, with a revolutionary new rendering architecture that unlocks the full power of your GPU to deliver up to 10x faster performance.

Code Games with C++

Ultra Engine Pro provides support for C++ programming with Microsoft Visual Studio, for the ultimate developer experience. Documentation is extensive, with hundreds of code examples demonstrating how to use graphics, physics, raycasting, pathfinding, and other systems to build games and VR applications.

Support for Lua development with Microsoft Visual Studio Code is also included.

No-Limits Royalty-Free License for Game Developers

Games you create are yours to play, sell, or give away, with no additional costs or hidden fees. And because we only rely on free open-source middleware libraries, you never have to worry about purchasing expensive licenses from third parties.

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)

Informace o obsahu vytvářeném AI

Jak využití obsahu vytvářeného AI v tomto produktu popisují jeho vývojáři:

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