Development Log | Unigine (3D engine for games and real-time virtual worlds)

2010-07-26

We are hiring

Our company is growing so we would be happy to see new team members: developers, PM, sales manager and system administrator. Moreover, the good news is our convenient office in Tomsk is now doubled in size!

2010-05-25

Heaven 2.1, Tropics 1.3, Sanctuary 2.3

Released updated versions of Unigine benchmarks with support of OpenGL 4.0 (including hardware tessellation) and stereo 3D technology (including 3D Vision): Heaven 2.1, Tropics 1.3 and Sanctuary 2.3.

2010-05-04

5 years since the first commercial release of Unigine

The first commercial version of Unigine engine was released five years ago, on May 4, 2005. With the release number 0.3, it had codebase size of approximately 10% relative to the current one. At that time, there used to be 5 people on board.

2010-03-23

Unigine Heaven Benchmark 2.0

Updated version of Unigine Heaven DirectX 11 benchmark is now publicly available. Main changes are: added more content, improved engine, introduced "moderate" and "extreme" tessellation modes, added Linux version (32/64 bit).

2010-02-22

Unigine booth at GDC SF 2010

We gladly invite you to come visit our booth #1344 at Game Developers Conference, San Francisco, 2010. There you will be presented the recent version of Unigine Engine and the Heaven Benchmark 2.0 along with a lot of featured Unigine-based content. Feel free to contact us for an appointment.

Joysticks support and some networking improvements

Recent changes:

New Phong-rim material is now a default one for meshes.
Full support of Xbox 360 gamepad.
Support of standart PC joysticks and wheels (no force feedback is available yet).
Fixed clip planes for all APIs (no more problems with 2D reflections).
Optimization of shadow map memory usage.
GUI refactoring, all widget classes now have "Widget" prefix, like WidgetVBox (use deprecate.h for backward compatibility).
Visual limits of suspension travel in JointWheel.
New WidgetMenuBox and WidgetMenuBar widgets.
Mask buffers for GUI rendering (WidgetSprite).
Fixed reading of empty string arrays from XML.
Dedicated thread for networking in the engine.
New Packet class for parallel data transfer in the thread.
Added a lot of articles in "Content Creation / Materials" section of the documentation.

Here is a screenshot from the small racing demo, which will be included into Unigine SDK soon (there are both types of gear box available, physics interaction of objects, and some GUI elements, including minimap and speedometer):