Volatile3D II engine

Volatile3D II engine is designed for singleplayer or multiplayer first-person action games with mostly indoor encounters. It is cross-platform and supports modern graphic features, interactive physics including ragdolls, up to 64 players in local network or internet. The most important features grouped into sections are listed herein.

GRAPHICS

• Real-time dynamic lighting with bump-mapping and parallax mapping
• Soft stencil shadow volumes
• Support of background lightmap lighting
• Screen-space ambient occlusion
• Dynamic reflections and refractions
• Multipass rendering: mirrors, screens, portals, 3D sky
• Cubemap light filters
• Soft particles with cubemap filtering
• Postfilters, including bloom, depth of field and motion blur
• Heat haze effects
• Beam effects
• Bezier curves
• LODs for models
• Underwater caustics
• Volumetric fog
• Sun shafts
• Shader script system
• Video textures
• Decals on static and dynamic objects
• Smooth terrain with automatic texture blending
• Multithreading optimization based on SMP acceleration
• Automatic detail model and grass placement

PHYSICS

• Rigid body simulation
• Constraints, including ragdolls
• Model-specific collision hulls
• Customizeable gravity vector
• Climbable ropes and wires

SOUND

• Mono, stereo and quad speaker configuration support
• Doppler effect, explosion concussion effect
• DSP processing effects
• Support for WAV and OGG files
• Background music track

NETWORK

• Up to 64 players in multiplayer games
• Local area network and internet games
• Master server for internet game monitoring
• Delta compression of packets
• Customizeable packet encoding rules
• Round restart support
• Bots (based on Parabot source code)
• Dedicated server

MISC

• Advanced conversation system (like in Deus Ex)
• Embedded Lua script language for game logic
• VolatileRadiant: level editor based on Q3Radiant
• GUI system for menus
• Automatic update system