Iron Engine is a game engine

Game engine

A game engine is a system designed for the creation and development of video games. There are many game engines that are designed to work on video game consoles and personal computers...

 developed by Ironclad Games

Ironclad Games

Ironclad Games is a Canadian PC game developer. The company was founded in 2003 by former employees of Barking Dog Studios/Rockstar Games. Ironclad is located in Burnaby, British Columbia.-Titles:...

 and is used in the PC game Sins of a Solar Empire

Sins of a Solar Empire

Sins of a Solar Empire is a science fiction real-time strategy computer game developed by Ironclad Games and published by Stardock Entertainment for Microsoft Windows operating systems...

. At the moment, the engine only supports DirectX

DirectX

Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms. Originally, the names of these APIs all began with Direct, such as Direct3D, DirectDraw, DirectMusic, DirectPlay,...

 9.0c effects, not DirectX 10 or 11.

Features

Iron Engine supports a number of advanced features including per-pixel specular lighting, dynamic fractal generation, post-process bloom

Bloom (shader effect)

Bloom is a computer graphics effect used in computer games, demos and high dynamic range rendering to reproduce an imaging artifact of real-world cameras. The effect produces fringes of light around very bright objects in an image, obscuring fine details...

 filtering, environment mapping, custom pixel and vertex shaders for all meshes

Polygon mesh

A polygon mesh or unstructured grid is a collection of vertices, edges and faces that defines the shape of a polyhedral object in 3D computer graphics and solid modeling...

and effects and an advanced particle system.

External links

• Iron Engine features.
• IronClad games talks about Iron Engine