Hedgehog Engine
Hedgehog Engine is a game engine developed by Sonic Team.
Overview
Sonic Team began development of the core of a new engine in 2005. With the announcement of Sonic Unleashed in 2008, Sonic Team revealed the name as the "Hedgehog Engine", which was intended for current generation consoles, and was capable of modern graphical features.
Later on, Sonic Team stated that Sonic Generations would make use of Hedgehog Engine, and that the game would be making its way to the Microsoft Windows platform, as well as the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, marking the debut of the engine on PCs.
During the development of Phantasy Star Online 2 for the PC, Sega stated that the game would make use of Hedgehog Engine. In 2013 the game was ported to PlayStation Vita, running the engine, as well as to PlayStation 4 in 2016. Hedgehog Engine is capable of rendering high quality graphics with low performance costs. It makes use of modern illumination methods like Global Illumination and Dynamic Shadows.[1]
- Pre-Baked Global Illumination (GI)
- GI Generated Texture
- High Speed Data Streaming
- Post Processed HDR Bloom
- Eye adaptation & HDR lighting
- SSAO
- Irradiance Volume
- Deferred lighting
- Color grading & Tone mapping
- Light Field Character Illumination
- Dynamic Shadows
- Motion blur & depth of field
- Interactive & destructible environment (Havok Physics)
- Multi-core support
- Multi Geometry LOD
Games using Hedgehog Engine
| Title | Year | Developer | Publisher | Platform |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sonic Unleashed | 2008 | Sonic Team | Sega | Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 |
| Sonic Generations | 2011 | Sonic Team | Sega | Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 |
| Phantasy Star Online 2 | 2012 | Sonic Team | Sega | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, iOS, Android |
| Sonic Lost World | 2013 | Sonic Team | Sega | Wii U, Microsoft Windows |
References
- ↑ "Course "Sonic World Adventure" graphics for 3D game fans Zenji Nishikawa. Trend of 3D game graphics to real-time global illumination". game.watch.impress.co.jp. 2009-04-10. Retrieved 2012-09-08.
See also
- List of game engines
- List of Sonic the Hedgehog video games
- Games developed by Sonic Team (AM8) and affiliates
- List of Sega Games