Vengeance Engine

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The Vengeance Engine is a game engine based on Unreal Engine 2/2.5. It was created by Irrational Games to make Tribes: Vengeance.

Versions

Version 1

The Vengeance Engine, also known as the Tribes: Vengeance engine had several new features:

Unreal Engine 2 Core System base
Integration into the Havok physics 2 engine
Support for DirectX 9 rendering capabilities (such as supporting the Shader model 2.0)
Normal mapping with per pixel lighting, as well as normal-mapped and bump-mapped animated models, objects and scenery.
High dynamic range rendering (HDR) using post-processing effects
Pixel shaded water effects
Improved terrain texturing and light-mapping
Highly optimized terrain detail mesh renderer (Allowing terrain artifacts like thick grass)

In addition, it was shipped with new and improved tools:

Mojo (a cutscene toolset) for the Unreal Engine
An enhanced version of UnrealEd with new features

Version 2

Vengeance Engine 2 was an enhanced version of the Vengeance Engine, based on the Unreal Engine 2.5. As this engine was developed for the game BioShock, the engine has become known as the "BioShock engine". This version also backports technology from Unreal Engine 3.

Supported features:

Integration into the Havok physics 3 engine
FMOD based audio system
GameSWF based Flash UI system
Taking full advantage of Direct3D 9 shader and lighting effects, using version 3 of the High Level Shader Language, and supporting Direct3D 10 (under Windows Vista) and Shader Model 4.0 effect such as soft particles
Enhanced HDR post-processing bloom effects
High quality soft shadows
BioShock specific water effects
multi-core processing
Xbox 360 support
PlayStation 3 support (developed by 2K Marin)

Toolsets:

An extended and enhanced UnrealEd
An enhanced of Mojo cutscene toolset for Unreal Engine

Games using Vengeance Engine

Tribes: Vengeance (Irrational Games Australian Studio): Unreal Engine 2.5 (build 2500)
SWAT 4 (Irrational Games Boston Studio): Unreal Engine 2.0 (build 2226)^[1]
SWAT 4: The Stetchkov Syndicate (Irrational Games Australian Studio): Unreal Engine 2.5 (build 2500)

References

↑ "SWAT 4 interview with Joe Faulstick (Associate Producer of Irrational Games)". 2005-02-14.

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