Unigine

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Unigine Engine


Developer(s)	Unigine Corp
Development status	Active
Written in	C++, UnigineScript
Platform	Microsoft Windows, Linux, OS X, PlayStation 3, Android, iOS, Windows RT
Type	Game engine
License	Proprietary
Website	Unigine

Unigine is a proprietary cross-platform game engine, developed by Unigine Corp. Apart from its use as a game engine, it is used for virtual reality systems, serious games and visualization.

The strongest feature of Unigine is its advanced renderer which currently supports OpenGL 4.0 and DirectX 11.^[1] An updated Unigine SDK is released monthly.^[2]

Unigine tech demos are included as part of the Phoronix Test Suite for benchmarking purposes on Linux and other systems.^[3]

A trial version of the engine, called the "Evaluation Kit", is provided to companies working on commercial projects.

Features

Platforms

Rendering

DirectX 9
DirectX 10
DirectX 11
OpenGL
OpenGL ES
PlayStation 3

Serious game features

Double precision of coordinates (64 bit)
Multi-channel rendering
Stereoscopic 3D
- Anaglyph
- Oculus Rift
- Nvidia 3D Vision
- Separate images output
Support of multiple output devices with asymmetric projections (e.g. CAVE)
Support for multi-monitor output
Zone-based background data streaming

Other features

Support of Shader Model 5.0 with hardware tessellation and DirectCompute (as well as OpenCL)
Advanced visual effects: screen space ambient occlusion (SSAO), real-time global illumination
Physics module (collision detection, rigid body physics, dynamical destruction of objects, rag doll, cloth, fluid buoyancy, force fields, time reverse)
Terrain and vegetation engine
Scripting via UnigineScript programming language (object-oriented, C++ like syntax)
Built-in pathfinding module
Interactive 3D GUI
Video playback using Theora codec
Audio system based on OpenAL
Visual world editor

Development

The roots of Unigine are in the frustum.org open source project,^[4] which was initiated in 2002 by Alexander "Frustum" Zaprjagaev, who is currently a co-founder (along with Denis Shergin, CEO) and CTO of Unigine Corp, and is the lead developer of the Unigine engine. The name "Unigine" means "universal engine" or "unique engine".^{[citation needed]}

Linux game competition

On November 25, 2010, Unigine Corp announced a competition to support Linux game development. They agreed to give away a free license of the Unigine engine to anyone willing to develop and release a game with a Linux native client, and would also grant the team a Windows license.^[5] The competition ran until December 10, 2010, with a considerable amount of entries being submitted. Due to the unexpected response, Unigine decided to extend the offer to the three best applicants, with each getting full Unigine licenses.^[6] The winners were announced on December 13, 2010, with the developers selected being Kot-in-Action Creative Artel (who previously developed Steel Storm), Gamepulp (who intend to make a puzzle platformer), and MED-ART (who previously worked on Painkiller: Resurrection).^[7]

Unigine-based projects

There are currently 100+ licensees of Unigine. Since a lot of them are from VR and simulation industry (including military ones) they are mostly under NDAs, thus publicly unavailable.^[8] Unigine Corp itself has released several projects based on Unigine.

Games

Released

Oil Rush - released for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X in 2012
Syndicates of Arkon - released for Windows in 2010
Tryst - released for Windows in 2012
Petshop - released for Windows and Mac, featuring web-player in 2011
Demolicious - released for iOS in 2012

Upcoming

Relics of Annorath
Cradle
Dilogus: The Winds of War
MMT Online - playable demo available for Windows and Linux
The Dreamers
Kingdom of Kore - action RPG for PC (in future for PS3).

Simulation and visualization

ACTISKU (3D visualization solution for digital marketing and research applications)
The visualization component of the analytical software complex developed for JSC "ALMAZ-ANTEY" MSDB", an affiliate of JSC "Concern "Almaz-Antey"^[9]
Real-time interactive architectural visualization projects of AI3D^[10]
Magus ex Machina (3D animated movie)
Heaven benchmark (the first DirectX 11 benchmark)
Tropics benchmark
Sanctuary benchmark
Valley benchmark

References

External links

Official website

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