Unigine v0.4 | Unigine

Overview

Unigine v0.4 is a brand new version of a cross-platform middleware for real-time virtual worlds.

Unigine is a top-notch technology, which can be easily adapted to various projects because of its very clear code base and elaborated software design. A lot of our customers claim that before working with Unigine they've never seen such extremely-effective code, which is so easy to understand. It is already being used in the development of more than 10 projects (mostly games).

Technology Excellence

Efficient and well-architected framework makes Unigine highly scalable:

Triple API (DirectX 9 / DirectX 10.1 / OpenGL) render
Cross-platform: MS Windows (including Vista) / Linux
Multicore CPU support
Full support of 32bit and 64bit systems
Big endian support (ready for game consoles)
Powerful C++ API
Comprehensive performance profiling system
Flexible XML-based data structures

Photorealistic Graphics

Unigine provides the most advanced rendering features ever supported by the graphics hardware. Highly-optimized renderer ensures superior image quality with great performance.

A picture paints a thousand words. Unigine will make your scenes photorealistic:

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All modern features are supported by the Unigine renderer:

Per-pixel dynamic lighting
Normal & parallax occlusion mapping
Different models of shading: Phong, Oren-Nayar, anisotropic
64-bit color HDR rendering
Volumetric fog and light
Powerful particle systems: fire, smoke, explosions
Extensible set of shaders (GLSL / HLSL)
Postprocessing: depth of field, refraction, glow, blurring, color correction and much more

Plus there is a set of the hottest technologies provided by Unigine:

Support of pixel shader 4.0 model
Real-time ambient occlusion
Volumetric light scattering
Unique materials system with support of parameter's hierarchy
Special materials for vegetation
Dynamic irradiance environment maps
Live water with a surf zone and caustics
Native support of stereo 3D devices (iZ3D stereo 3D monitors, anaglyph glasses, dualscreen stereo systems)

Moreover, Unigine v0.4 supports 5 generations of GPUs: from NV30 / R300 to the newest ones, so it's extremely scalable. Being a registered developer of NVIDIA and AMD (formely ATI) we work closely with hardware vendors to obtain the best results.

Limitless Worlds

No more bounds! Unigine lets you create worlds as big as you like:

Dynamical data streaming in the background
Seamlessly interconnected indor and outdoor scenes
Flexible LOD system
Huge terrains, maximal size in cells is 65536 x 65536 (DirectX 9) or 262144 x 262144 (DirectX 10)

Full-scene serialization is another unique feature of Unigine, which lets you quickly save and restore state of every single object in the world.

Live Physics

Would you like to interact with a virtual world as with the real one? Here is a fast and robust physics module for this:

Rigid body physics
Rag doll physics
Particle system physics
Destroyable joints
Various vehicles
Fluid buoyancy

Physics core of Unigine is highly optimized and can work in parallel with other subsystems on multicore platforms. Per-object tuning capabilities allow fine control over performance.

Powerful Scripting

UnigineScript is a scripting language used by the Unigine engine, it provides the following key features:

Object-oriented programming
Multi-threading support
Transparent interconnection with external C++ objects
Built-in fast 3D math (vectors, matrices, and quaternions with all corresponding functions)
Well-documented standart library (more than 2000 functions out-of-the box)

UnigineScript is very powerful, for example, our visual editor is written completely by means of scripting. There is a virtual machine with full state saving and restoring under the hood, which is very fast owing to efficient byte-code compiler and optimizer.

Graphic User Interface

Unigine provides a fully capable GUI module:

Comprehensive set of widgets, containers and dialogs
3D effects, transparency, animation
Easy-to-use UI files in an XML format
Skins support
Support of Eastern languages
Localization packs support

That module is used to build all interfaces of Unigine tools, so their look and feel are platform-independent. Moreover, an interactive 3D GUI can be placed into a virtual world, even on curved surfaces.

3D Sound

Fill in your virtual environment with various sounds and music:

Volumetric sound system
Support of streaming playback
EAX support
Interconnection with physics events

Ready to Use Objects

There are a lot of base objects available in Unigine v0.4, including:

Animated meshes (both bone-based and key frame animation) with support of animation blending
Dynamic mesh (generated on-the-fly)
Billboards
Dynamic volumetric objects
Players (1st person camera, 3rd person camera, spectator)

UnigineEditor

UnigineEditor is a main tool for editing Unigine-based virtual worlds. It is a WYSIWYG editor, so you can instantly see changes in your scene.

Managing objects, effects and lights
Editing physics properties
Fine tuning of rendering settings
Material editor with hierarchy support
Different viewing modes for content optimization
Built-in performance profiler
No compile time

This fast to learn visual editor can be easily extended to meet project-specific needs.

Easy-to-Use Tools

Unigine toolset forms a compete content pipeline:

Robust export/import plugins for 3ds Max and Maya
Fast mesh/animation viewer
Normal map generator and combiner
Generator of ambient occlusion maps
Terrain editor
Batch image converter with high-quality algorithm of DXT compression
Data encryption tool

All of these tools can be easily integrated with the processes of a specific project due to their high flexibility.

Licensing

Two versions of Unigine are available for licensing: binary and full source ones. Please refer to the licensing page for prices and further instructions on ordering.

Discount prices are in effect only until February 29, 2008, so don't lose the moment! After that date the prices will be much higher.

Start with getting a free evaluation kit by contacting us via e-mail: sales@unigine.com.

We would love to provide you the power of Unigine technologies.