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Knife Edge Software, the leading Radio Controlled Simulators developer, has announced next generation of their flagship product, RealFlight— now powered by UNIGINE 2. A total refresh of concept, RF-X stands on the shoulders of two decades of RC flight sim experience.

The developer expects RF-X to begin reaching customers in October.

• Landscape tool optimizations (upto 4x faster, less RAM required)
• Renderer optimizations, including VR ones
• GPGPU (General-purpose GPU) computing via compute shaders
• High-quality DXT texture compression on GPU
• Structured buffers for CPU <-> GPU data transfer
• New Tank demo

• Round Earth
• Bow/stern ship wake waves, shoreline
• Underwater sun shafts, caustics
• Reworked DoF
• Global illumination effect
• Improved support for SSRR
• Implemented GGX mipmaps
• HTC Vive support
• Completely revamped Landscape tool
• Better API: C# mathlib, better callbacks, new helpers

Dual Universe, a sci-fi game being developed by French company Novaquark, has switched to UNIGINE 2 because it matches their requirements (performance, huge world, flexibility) better than any other technology.

This MMO game is a gigantic multi-planet world where players are free to invent their collective destiny in a persistent single-shard universe. First alpha version is scheduled for release in 2016.

During DIMDEX 2016 in Doha (Qatar), NAVANTIA presented a new ship simulator named NAVANTIS (Navantia Training Integrated System) powered by
UNIGINE 2 Sim.

First held in 2008, Doha International Maritime Defense Exhibition & Conference (DIMDEX) is a leading event in the international maritime defense and security industry calendar.

• New orbits demo
• Water improvements (bigger waves, better reflections, better underwater mode)
• Support for Oculus CV1 (consumer version)
• Introducing export to FBX
• Improved SimLights add-on
• Other improvements and minor bugfixes

• New simulation-friendly water with geometric waves (Beaufort scale 0-12)
• Unified C++/C#/UnigineScript API with full access to the engine features
• Improved lights and shadows
• Introduced tiled rendering optimizations
• Better Qt integration
• Support for Visual Studio 2015
• Improved geodetic system
• SimLights add-on for airfield lights
• New Oil Rig demo

• Added Port Angeles demo (2500 square kilometers based on real geospatial data)
• Improved UUSL consistency
• Extended C++/C# API
• Added Grass and Clutter samples
• Bug fixes

• Improved atmospheric light scattering: easy setup, more predictable visuals, better quality.
• Increased depth buffer precision.
• Rendering performance optimizations.
• Improved antialiasing quality.
• Introduced ObjectText.
• Support for OS X El Capitan.
• "Assemble project" feature in SDK Browser.
• Introduced new set of samples.

UNIGINE Corp. has released a major update of its interactive 3D platform, UNIGINE 2.0. The release incorporates more than 1.5 years of technology improvements:

• Improved visual qualty
• Optimized performance
• Improved tools usability
• Added many new features

UNIGINE 2 is already available for licensing in three editions.

UNIGINE 2 has been demonstrated during SIGGRAPH 2015 expo days in Los Angeles (August 11-13). The main demo at the booth was Space project showcasing support for extremely large scenes and new graphical features (including PBR, SSRR, TAA and a lot more). There were 14,800 attendees total from around the world at SIGGRAPH this year. A lot of visitors were surprised with the quality and performance of UNIGINE projects, especially with Oculus version of the Space / ISS demo.

Leonardo DiCaprio was so impressed with "Solar Reserve", a UNIGINE-powered art installation by John Gerrard, that he bought it and granted it to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The gift is "intended to raise public awareness of environmental issues".

"Solar Reserve (Tonopah, Nevada)" is a real-time 3D digital simulation of a solar thermal power tower that offers dynamic, changing views of the Nevada site.

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