The following is a list containing the major features performed by S2ENGINE HD 1.4.0:
RENDERING
- High Dynamic Range (HDR)
- Deferred shading
- Threaded geometry occlusion system
- Terrain rendering
- Dynamic LOD
- Texture splatting
- Vegetation system
- Roads system
- Hardware instancing
- Impostors
- Cascade shadow mapping
- Omnidirectional shadow mapping
- Spot shadow mapping
- Projective textures
- Sea rendering with caustics
- Sky rendering with dynamic clouds
- Advanced material system
- Multilayered materials for micro and macro details
- Subsurface scattering and translucency
- Physically based BDRF shading
- Dynamic lights
- Atmosphere scattering
- Dynamic night and day cycle
- Image based lighting
- Local cube environment for both specular and diffuse reflections
- Dynamic specular cube reflections
- Dynamic weather system
- Rain
- Wind
- Post processing effects
- Depth of field
- Advanced ambient occlusion
- Screen space global illumination (SSGI)
- Lens effects
- Color correction
- Bloom
- Automatic exposure control
- Camera and objects motion blur
- Sun shafts a.k.a. "God rays"
- Realtime Local Reflections (RLR)
- Screen space antialiasing
ANIMATIONS
- Threaded animation system
- Animation blending
- Animation masking
PHYSICS
- NVIDIA Physx integration:
- Rigid bodies
- vehicles
- ragdolls
- joints
- sweep test
- buoyancy
3D AUDIO SYSTEM
- Music tracks blending
- Positional audio
- volume and pitch control
ADVANCED AI SYSTEM
- Modular
- Helpers
- Tactical and cover points
- Rich script library for controlling tactics
- Steering behaviours
- Path finding
- Proprietary script language
- Visual event handling integrated tool
- Events and actions are nodes of an event tree
- Integrated and advanced message system
- Messages can be delayed
- Messages can be processed and tested in-editor
ALL-IN-ONE DEVELOPMENT TOOL
- Editor built upon S2ENGINE integrated GUI system
- Objects inspector
- Realtime Message handling
- drag 'n drop object placing
- drag 'n drop model assigning
- drag 'n drop material assigning
- Integrated Terrain tool
- Integrated Vegetation tool
- Integrated roads tool
- Integrated material editor
- Integrated script viewer
- External editor is accessible from viewer
- Integrated night and day managing system
- Integrated post processing effects tool
- Integrated models and animations tool for managing/adjusting imported assets
- Integrated cutscene editor
- Integrated event handling tool
- Project managing
- Runtime Application "publishing"
- Resources and assets managing
- Resource synchronization
- Assets browsers
- Assets inspectors
- Multiple external 3d formats supported:
- COLLADA
- OBJ
- BLEND
- ASE
- 3DS
- Direct X
