Tech Update News

So, we’ve been in hard-core crunch mode on the final GameCore 2.0 release that will be hit­ting the streets in the very near future and wanted to post a quick update about a few of the cool new toys that us developer-types have in our tool palette.

Full 64 bit Rendering

At high detail mode, the engine now uses a full 64 bit ren­der buffer.  This means true HDR / proper bloom effects among other fun stuff ;}

Con­fig­urable Post Pro­cess­ing Layers

Pre­vi­ously we had a cou­ple of hard-coded post effects that you could use in your lev­els, namely HDR, Bloom & Blur.  This sys­tem has now been expanded to allow com­pletely user-configurable fil­ter lay­ers for your scenes, allow­ing you to mix & match your post effects.

Here are a few quick shots that I cap­tured using pretty much the default set­tings.  Some things that are being demon­strated:  HDR / Bloom / Sat­u­ra­tion (or de-saturation in this case) / Film Grain / mono­chrome (for the night-vision over­lays) and this is just the tip of the iceberg

Related posts:

1. Orga­niz­ing your Game, part 1