We are happy to inform you about the general availability of the new UNIGINE Engine 2.13 release.

• 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

See the full release notes with technical details here.

Introducing a new GPU-accelerated lightmapping tool for baking global illumination providing unprecedented quality results out of the box.

• Robust baking tool
• Fast adaptive sampling, partial re-baking
• Automatic UV unwrapping
• No light leaking artifacts, predictable results

• Improved shading (including Sun Attenuation parameter, In-scatter probability implementation, Sun Saturation parameter)
• Noise reduction
• Accurate layers sorting
• Better quality at lower cost
• Other clouds improvements

Introducing Subpixel Reconstruction Anti-Aliasing (SRAA), an additional anti-aliasing technique that restores small image details providing a net speedup and minimal overhead compared to supersampling.

Impostors, that are used instead of real geometry to gain performance (trees in forests, buildings in towns, etc.), have got their own performance faster along with a better look. Optimized depth calculation for impostors has brought up to 10x performance boost.

Tessellation for static meshes is back again (as it was in UNIGINE 1), in addition to the water and terrain systems using adaptive hardware tessellation. The mesh_base material now supports Adaptive Hardware-accelerated Tessellation that subdivides low-poly surfaces into finer meshes, to achieve higher visual quality (add more details) for a lower rendering cost.

Emission feature is now available for decals enabling you to simulate huge amounts of lights at far distances, like cities in the night viewed from an aircraft, without affecting performance much.

• Significantly improved synchronization accuracy (image, timing, network interaction, and overall perception).
• Improved support for NVIDIA Quadro G-Sync
• Added visual debug mode
• Introduced experimental CIGI host

• Support for online GIS data sources
• Performance-optimized core rewritten from scratch
• Improved usability
• Better vector attribute filters
• Combination of different projections

Rope physics can be extremely difficult. That's why we created a demo that features a simple and elegant way of creating a winch or hoist. This type of winch is suitable for simulation of helicopter operations or heavy-duty equipment towing.

This demo contains the LiDAR emulation that can be used for training autopilots and AI. LiDAR is a method used in self-driving cars, drones, robot vacuum cleaners, etc. for optical scanning of surroundings.

New Scans content add-on has been added to SDK. It contains a set of ready-to-use assets created on the basis of real-world photogrammetry (scans of stones, wooden debris, etc. to add more diversity to your outdoor environments. We plan to keep updating it with new objects in further releases. This library is available for free for all SDK editions.

• IES profiles for light sources
• Adjustable fisheye projections
• Export scenes into FBX
• SSGI intensity boost
• Scriptable Materials integration into the editor
• Advanced color correction
• New manipulators for physical shapes
• Multiple console improvements
• Earthworks demo updates (digging resistance, grading operations)
• Standalone runtime files generator
• Various C# Component System improvements
• CIGI host (experimental)
• Localized documentation (added Russian and Chinese languages)

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Check the full text of release notes on the developer portal.