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'''[[KlayGE]]''' is a cross-platform open source game engine with plugin-based architecture. It's started since 2003. The explicit goal of KlayGE is: to arm your engine with cutting-edge technology. It provides a framework to make game development, testing, porting as simple as possible.  
 
'''[[KlayGE]]''' is a cross-platform open source game engine with plugin-based architecture. It's started since 2003. The explicit goal of KlayGE is: to arm your engine with cutting-edge technology. It provides a framework to make game development, testing, porting as simple as possible.  
 
== Licensing ==
 
KlayGE is released under the GPL 2.0 [[licensing|license]]. In other words, anyone can use it and access to its source code.
 
  
 
== Features ==
 
== Features ==
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* Build [[terrains]] by height map technology.
 
* Build [[terrains]] by height map technology.
 
* Support skinned animation.
 
* Support skinned animation.
* Hardware occlusion culling
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* Hardware occlusion culling.
* [[Particle system]]
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* [[Particle system]].
* [[Post processing]] technology
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* [[Post processing]] technology.
 
* Self-adaptive hardware states cache and deferred update mechanism.
 
* Self-adaptive hardware states cache and deferred update mechanism.
* Support per-pixel lighting and rendering
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* Support per-pixel lighting and rendering.
 
* Distance-based font system, takes advantages from both vector fonts and bitmap fonts.
 
* Distance-based font system, takes advantages from both vector fonts and bitmap fonts.
* Support [[procedural texture]]
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* Support [[procedural texture]].
 
* Support [[Sub Surface Scattering]], which can be used to render translucency materials such as leaf, skin, jade-ware.
 
* Support [[Sub Surface Scattering]], which can be used to render translucency materials such as leaf, skin, jade-ware.
* Support [[PN Triangles]] to smooth low polygon mesh at run-time
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* Support [[Phong Tessellation]] to smooth low polygon mesh at run-time.
 
* Shading
 
* Shading
 
:* A shader library includes common operations
 
:* A shader library includes common operations
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:* Dynamic lighting
 
:* Dynamic lighting
 
:* Omni-directional shadow mapping
 
:* Omni-directional shadow mapping
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:* Realtime indirect lighting
  
 
=== Audio ===
 
=== Audio ===

Revision as of 11:41, 8 February 2012

KlayGE is a cross-platform open source game engine with plugin-based architecture. It's started since 2003. The explicit goal of KlayGE is: to arm your engine with cutting-edge technology. It provides a framework to make game development, testing, porting as simple as possible.

Features

Graphics

  • Deferred Rendering-based
  • Support DirectX 11, OpenGL 2.0-4.2 and OpenGL ES 2.0.
  • Use fxml as the effect script for any renderable object. It can be exported directly from artist created content.
  • Python script can be dynamic interpreted at run-time. So scripts don’t need to be recompiled after modification.
  • Build terrains by height map technology.
  • Support skinned animation.
  • Hardware occlusion culling.
  • Particle system.
  • Post processing technology.
  • Self-adaptive hardware states cache and deferred update mechanism.
  • Support per-pixel lighting and rendering.
  • Distance-based font system, takes advantages from both vector fonts and bitmap fonts.
  • Support procedural texture.
  • Support Sub Surface Scattering, which can be used to render translucency materials such as leaf, skin, jade-ware.
  • Support Phong Tessellation to smooth low polygon mesh at run-time.
  • Shading
  • A shader library includes common operations
  • A complete interface abstracted from many low level graphics API
  • Multi-pass rendering.
  • Fully support of programmable shading
  • Multiple input vertex streams is supported
  • Lighting
  • Dynamic lighting
  • Omni-directional shadow mapping
  • Realtime indirect lighting

Audio

  • Audio output on many platforms.
  • 3D audio source and Doppler effect.
  • Ogg Vorbis as input format.
  • Streaming playing

Tools

  • Normal map generator, converts height map to normal map.
  • Distance map generator, generates distance map from height map or 3D volume.
  • MeshML export plug in, export models from 3DS Max.
  • OpenGL compatibility checking tool.
  • HDR compressor, compresses both cubemap and 2D HDR textures.
  • Normal map compressor, provides 2:1 or 4:1 compression ratio.
  • Distance-based font generator, converts a vector font to the format that engine uses.
  • FXML2Shader tool, converts a FXML effect script to HLSL or Cg shader.
  • Color Grading texture generator.
  • Normals Fitting generator.

Programming

  • KlayGE is open sourced. Includes all the source code of engine and tools.
  • An extendable, object-oriented engine written in C++. This architecture can loading commands and resources both statically and dynamically. Easy for porting and debugging.
  • Takes Python as scripting language. Automatically provides support for dynamic data type. Easy for development and cooperating with C++ host.

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