Key Changes

• GPU Lightmapper tool
• Introducing SRAA (Subpixel Reconstruction Anti-Aliasing)
• Upgraded 3D volumetric clouds
• Performance optimizations for vast forest rendering
• New iteration of the terrain generation tool with online GIS sources support (experimental)
• Adaptive hardware tessellation for the mesh_base material
• Project Build tool: extended functionality and a standalone console-based version
• New samples (LiDAR sensor, night city lights, helicopter winch)
• Introducing 3D scans library

Key Changes

• Improved particles simulation with advanced control
• 2x physics performance optimization
• Better clouds and atmosphere improvements
• Advanced control over Landscape Terrain details
• New Earthworks demo
• .NET Core 3.1 integration and C# API improvements
• Multiple IG and Syncker improvements, dead reckoning for DIS protocol
• New content add-ons: Airport and Industrial assets
• UnigineEditor product in the Sim edition

Key Changes

• Community Edition, free for non-commercial/academic projects, as well as for commercial projects with revenue or funding less than $100K in the last 12 months.
• Optimized performance: async node update, optimized bounds calculation.
• Better input handling and window management via SDL.
• Improved particles shading.
• C# Component System updates: renaming, simple inheritances, parameter conditions.
• Significantly improved multi-channel rendering, revamped Syncker system.
• Usability improvements and performance optimizations of UnigineEditor.
• Fox Hole archviz demo with both desktop and VR modes.

Key Changes

• New terrain system: more detailed, faster, non-destructive collaborative edits, binoculars support, runtime modification API.
• Improved C++ and C# API: simplified object management, improved thread safety and stability, better code readability.
• UnigineEditor extensions: public API, plugin system.
• High-Level Car Physics System: wheeled vehicle simulation.
• Improved clouds: more types, better visuals.
• IG updates: adaptive quality management, better synchronization, easier configuration, API improvements.
• New Build tool for assembling standalone project builds.
• Texture Profiler tool for assets optimization.

Key Changes

• C# Component System: simplified workflow, Editor integration, working sample.
• Better Shadows: realistic penumbra, smooth edges.
• Revamped Subsurface Scattering: increased realism and flexibility.
• Improved materials and shaders customization.
• Spline Tool Updates: increased stability, smoother editing, improved rendering.
• Integration of Varjo VR-1 headset with bionic display and eye-tracking.
• Geodetics plugin for geo-coordinates conversion.

UNIGINE 2.9 introduces a new workflow for implementing application logic in projects using C# API (as a pilot version for verification), along with new rendering features such as improved soft shadows, more realistic subsurface scattering, smoother and more stable screen-space effects for better image quality, dome-screen supporting AppProjection plugin, performance optimizations (multithreaded clutters and clusters management, faster materials loading, etc.), a huge pack of quality of life enhancements for both Engine and Editor, and much more.