Playnet Inc. (www.playnet.com) today announced version 1.5 of its proprietary UNITY 3D game engine providing new features and integrating new technology for its MMO, WWII ONLINE: BATTLEGROUND EUROPE (www.battlegroundeurope.com).
The UNITY 3D game engine delivers a unique set of features for MMO design, allowing for play in huge, zoneless worlds with thousands of simultaneous players interacting in a variety of environments. The foundation of the engine includes advanced physics, component-based damage and military-grade ballistics. UNITY 3D has been utilized to produce a one-of-a-kind massively multiplayer experience in WWII ONLINE: BATTLEGROUND EUROPE, a combined-arms action/simulation game. It allows players to fight on the ground as infantry, command and crew vehicles such as tanks, fighters and bombers entirely in first-person featuring British, French and German forces.
Version 1.5 of the UNITY 3D game engine adds several key features including:
- New object instancing for improved efficiency in loading and display of huge game world and object libraries
- Shader 3.0 support for upgraded performance and effects
- Upgraded Normal and Specular Mapping for enhanced object visuals
- SpeedTree 4.2 Support
- ODE physics support for rag-doll style character animations
- Added support for OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL)
The UNITY 3D game engine powers the latest major upgrade to the massively multiplayer online game, WWII ONLINE: BATTLEGROUND EUROPE. Version 1.31, currently in Beta testing, will include updated graphics, effects, terrain objects and game play. Screenshots available at www.battlegroundeurope.com/131media .
- 1,000,000+ trees updated with new models, textures, normals and shadows
- Rag doll physics applied to infantry animations
- Many new special effects including muzzle flashes, hit effects and explosions
- Tree and object shadows
- Real-time water reflections
- New clutter system and objects adding thousands of grass fields and bushes
- New radial clutter system
- Dynamic Weather with new clouds/rain/sky/fog/lighting settings
- Thousands of new and updated terrain objects such as buildings, installations and cultural objects
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