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2008-10-06

More render optimizations and "1% per day" campaign

First of all, here is an another screenshot from our unannounced Unigine-based project, which is the main concern of our art department these days (by the way, it contains 64 square kilometers of terrain):

What's new:

Terrain optimizations.
No performance drop if there is an invisible water in the scene.
Occlusion queries for smart culling.
Fixed overlighting of impostors and reflections.
Alpha-testing + anti-aliasing now works correctly on DirectX 10.1 capable hardware.
Added anti-aliasing support for scattering pass for DirectX 10 hardware.
Removed Oren-Nayar shaders due to increased compexity of material system.
Support of mouse scroll in EditLine and SpinBox widgets.
LODs for particles (particle count reduces with the distance).
Optimized light scattering.
A special "destroy" method of containers in UnigineScript for memory cleanup without direct call of a destructor.
Fixed Image crashes on float and half images in rare cases.
Grass performance optimizations.
Fixed crash of ResourceEditor if config file missing.
UnigineEditor now works more intelligent with textures, there is no need in ImageDDS tool for ordinary cases.
Scene validator in UnigineEditor.
Added "How to..." section in the manual, which will be useful for artists.

You can see antialiasing improvement by yourself: No AA, 4xAA on DX 10.0, and 4xAA on DX 10.1.

We have launched a "1% per day" discount campaign: every single day before November, 30 gives you 1% discount on licensing Unigine (or you lose 1%, if you are waiting), so you can get a fully-capable license with 60% discount, if you are on time!