Iron Engine

Iron Engine is a brand new, advanced graphics engine from developer Ironclad Games that was built specifically for Sins. Using the latest in DirectX 9 technology, Sins is able to deliver a massive, detailed galaxy for the player to explore, expand into, exploit and ultimately conquer in real-time, all while being able to perform well on a range of systems and hardware.

• Can support thousands of planets and solar systems, the only limitation is the player's system.
• Massive, detailed textures on ships, planets and orbital structures.
• Hundreds of ships on-screen at once, engaged in epic battle.
• Up to 10,000 particles (explosions, missiles, laser blasts etc.) on the screen at once in full-out combat.
• Seamless zoom-in and zoom-out from looking at a one-man space fighter, to viewing your entire empire spanning billions of kilometers of space.
• The Iron Engine is designed to perform well on systems ranging from middle-of-the-road hardware, to the biggest, most powerful machines on the market today. Effects, number of ships, planets etc. are only limited by how powerful your machine is. There are no hard-coded limits.

Under the Hood...

Beyond what you'll specifically be seeing in Sins of a Solar Empire, the Iron Engine packs a number of advanced features that take advantage of the most powerful graphics cards on the market. These features ensure that the engine, and games built with it, will easily scale with future hardware.

• Per-Pixel Specular Lighting
• Dynamic Fractal Generation
• Post Process Bloom Filtering
• High Resolution Compressed Textures
• Environment Mapping
• Custom Pixel and Vertex Shaders For All Meshes and Effects
• An Advanced Particle System