Vision Engine 8
Encyclopedia
Vision is a multi-platform 3D
game engine
that was first launched in 2003 by the Germany-based middleware developer, Trinigy
. Now in its eighth version, the Vision Engine is currently available for Microsoft Windows
(DX9
, DX10
, DX11
), Xbox 360
, PlayStation 3
, Nintendo
Wii
, iOS
(in development), Sony
's PlayStation Vita, and most major browsers (IE6
and up, Firefox
2.0 and up, Google Chrome
, Opera 9 and up).
The Vision Game Engine has been used on a wide variety of titles, including massive multiplayer online games (MMOs), first- and third-person shooters, role-playing games, adventure games, racing games and casual games. It has also been used in the development of simulations for industry and military purposes. Some notable customers include Ubisoft
, Neowiz
, TimeGate Studios
, Spellbound
, Nitro Games, and Robot Entertainment
.
. Among its notable features are:
, WebVision allows game developers to use all the features built into Vision Engine 8 for the development of browser-based games.
licenses the Vision Engine on a royalty-free, per-title/ per-platform basis. All licenses include full support and regular technology updates. WebVision is free for any studio licensing Vision Engine 8.
3D computer graphics
3D computer graphics are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data that is stored in the computer for the purposes of performing calculations and rendering 2D images...
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...
that was first launched in 2003 by the Germany-based middleware developer, Trinigy
Trinigy
Trinigy is an independent company focusing on the development of advanced 3D graphics technology with its headquarters based in Southern Germany, with offices in Austin, TX and Seoul, South Korea....
. Now in its eighth version, the Vision Engine is currently available for Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
(DX9
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,...
, DX10
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,...
, DX11
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,...
), Xbox 360
Xbox 360
The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...
, PlayStation 3
PlayStation 3
The is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series. The PlayStation 3 competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...
, Nintendo
Nintendo
is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel....
Wii
Wii
The Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 19, 2006. As a seventh-generation console, the Wii primarily competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of the two others...
, iOS
IOS
iOS is an operating system for iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, and Apple TV.IOS may also refer to:-Companies and organisations:* Illinois Ornithological Society, American state-based bird club...
(in development), Sony
Sony
, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....
's PlayStation Vita, and most major browsers (IE6
Internet Explorer 6
Internet Explorer 6 is the sixth major revision of Internet Explorer, a web browser developed by Microsoft for Windows operating systems...
and up, Firefox
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. , Firefox is the second most widely used browser, with approximately 25% of worldwide usage share of web browsers...
2.0 and up, Google Chrome
Google Chrome
Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and the public stable release was on December 11, 2008. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or...
, Opera 9 and up).
The Vision Game Engine has been used on a wide variety of titles, including massive multiplayer online games (MMOs), first- and third-person shooters, role-playing games, adventure games, racing games and casual games. It has also been used in the development of simulations for industry and military purposes. Some notable customers include Ubisoft
Ubisoft
Ubisoft Entertainment S.A. is a major French video game publisher and developer, with headquarters in Montreuil, France. The company has a worldwide presence with 25 studios in 17 countries and subsidiaries in 26 countries....
, Neowiz
Neowiz
- Company history :NEOWIZ is an internet and online game service company in South Korea founded in 1997. In 1998, NEOWIZ released the world’s first automatic internet access software, One Click, which helped users skip different settings for internet access through dial-ups...
, TimeGate Studios
TimeGate Studios
TimeGate Studios is an American video game developer based in Sugar Land, Texas . The company, which was founded in 1998, has released eight titles to this date.-Company history:...
, Spellbound
Spellbound Entertainment
Spellbound is a German developer of computer games based in Kehl, Germany. The company was founded in 1994 by Armin Gessert. The company is best known for the Desperados Series....
, Nitro Games, and Robot Entertainment
Robot Entertainment
Robot Entertainment is a video game publishing company created by the founders of the defunct Ensemble Studios, after being shut down by Microsoft. Other members of the company founded Bonfire Studios. Robot Entertainment was responsible for maintaining and updating Halo Wars until February 28,...
.
Vision Engine 8
Vision Engine 8 was launched just prior to the 2010 Game Developers ConferenceGame Developers Conference
The Game Developers Conference is the largest annual gathering of professional video game developers, focusing on learning, inspiration, and networking...
. Among its notable features are:
- A customizable rendering pipeline that ships with source code and includes normal maps, dynamic illumination, shadow maps, multi-threaded particle engine, HDR, post-processing and more.
- A WYSIWYG scene editor (vForge) with integrated tools for adding and/or editing shape instances, special effects, scripts, terrains, particle effects and more.
- An animation tool that supports Autodesk Maya and Max, and allows for quaternion-based skeletal animations, morphing deformers, and vertex animations.
- A lighting editor (vLux) for computational lighting
- Exporters for Max and Maya
- A Remote Lua debugger
- Customizable streaming for large, highly detailed landscapes and indoor/outdoor environments
- A stream processing engine and support for multi-threading
WebVision
Also announced at the 2010 Game Developers ConferenceGame Developers Conference
The Game Developers Conference is the largest annual gathering of professional video game developers, focusing on learning, inspiration, and networking...
, WebVision allows game developers to use all the features built into Vision Engine 8 for the development of browser-based games.
Middleware partners
- SpeedTreeSpeedTreeSpeedTree is a group of vegetation programming and modeling software products developed and sold by Interactive Data Visualization, Inc. that generates virtual foliage for animations and in real time for video games and simulations...
- NvidiaNVIDIANvidia is an American global technology company based in Santa Clara, California. Nvidia is best known for its graphics processors . Nvidia and chief rival AMD Graphics Techonologies have dominated the high performance GPU market, pushing other manufacturers to smaller, niche roles...
PhysXPhysXPhysX is a proprietary realtime physics engine middleware SDK developed by Ageia with the purchase of ETH Zurich spin-off NovodeX in 2004... - AutodeskAutodeskAutodesk, Inc. is an American multinational corporation that focuses on 3D design software for use in the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media and entertainment industries. The company was founded in 1982 by John Walker, a coauthor of the first versions of the company's...
KynapseKynapseKynapse is the artificial intelligence middleware product developed by Kynogon, which was bought by Autodesk in 2008, and is since called Autodesk Kynapse.-Kynapse main functionalities:Kynapse includes:*An automatic AI data generation tool... - AutodeskAutodeskAutodesk, Inc. is an American multinational corporation that focuses on 3D design software for use in the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media and entertainment industries. The company was founded in 1982 by John Walker, a coauthor of the first versions of the company's...
HumanIK - ScaleformScaleformScaleform Corporation is a developer providing middleware for use in the video game industry. Their most recent software, Scaleform GFx, is a vector graphics rendering engine used to display Adobe Flash-based user interfaces, HUDs, and animated textures for games for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X,...
- QuazalQuazalQuazal Technologies is a private company founded in 1998. Once backed by institutional investors, it is now fully owned by its management team following a management buyout in July 2008....
- FMODFMODFMOD is a proprietary audio library made by Firelight Technologies that plays music files of diverse formats on many different operating system platforms, used in games and software applications to provide audio functionality....
- ProFX 2
- OpenALOpenALOpenAL is a cross-platform audio API. It is designed for efficient rendering of multichannel three dimensional positional audio. Its API style and conventions deliberately resemble those of OpenGL.- History :...
- BulletBullet (software)Bullet is an open source physics engine featuring 3D collision detection, soft body dynamics, and rigid body dynamics. It is used in games, and in visual effects in movies. The Bullet physics library is published under the zlib license. Erwin Coumans, its main author, worked for Sony Computer...
- NaturalMotionNaturalMotionNaturalMotion is a software company with offices in Oxford and San Francisco. Founded in November 2001 as a spin-off of Oxford University, the company specialises in creating animation technology for the game and film industries.-Technology:...
Morpheme - XaitmentXaitmentxaitment is a German-based company that develops and sells artificial intelligence software to video game developers and simulation developers. The company was founded in 2004 by Dr. Andreas Gerber, and is a spin-off of the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, or DFKI...
- Pixellux Digital Molecular MatterDigital Molecular MatterDigital Molecular Matter, better known as simply DMM, is a proprietary middleware physics engine developed by Pixelux. It is designed for computer, video games, and other simulation needs by attempting to simulate physical real-world systems...
- NetDog
- Allegorithmic
- Havok PhysicsHavok (software)Havok Physics is a physics engine developed by Irish company Havok. It is designed primarily for video games, and allows for real-time collision and dynamics of rigid bodies in three dimensions. It provides multiple types of dynamic constraints between rigid bodies , and has a highly optimized...
Licensing
TrinigyTrinigy
Trinigy is an independent company focusing on the development of advanced 3D graphics technology with its headquarters based in Southern Germany, with offices in Austin, TX and Seoul, South Korea....
licenses the Vision Engine on a royalty-free, per-title/ per-platform basis. All licenses include full support and regular technology updates. WebVision is free for any studio licensing Vision Engine 8.