Six degrees of freedom, multiple cameras and render views
	Supports DirectX 9, DirectPlay, DirectShow, DirectSound
	Binary Space Partitioning (BSP) culling
	Potential Visibility Set (PVS) culling
	Seamless indoor and outdoor support, chunked multitexture terrain system
	Static and dynamic point, spot, and directional light sources
	Static and dynamic shadows
	Fog areas, Camera portals, reflections and mirrors
	Geometric LOD, detail textures, texture compression
	Softskin models with multiple shaders, bones and vertex animation, animation blending
	Animated sprites and decals
	Material properties for static and dynamic objects

PARTICLE & EFFECT Engine

	Programmable particle generators for multiple particle types
	Beam generators for laser beams and tracer paths
	Vertex and pixel shaders, Shader model 3.0
	HLSL/Cg and asm shader languages, FX file import
	Bump and environment mapping, light mapping, Multitexturing (up to 8 textures)
	Layered sky system with sky boxes, sky domes, clouds and backdrop bitmaps
	Weather generators for rain, snow and tornadoes
	Programmable effects like lens flares, bullet holes, distortion, fisheye, cartoon etc.

Physics & Collision Engine

	Polygon level collision detection
	Physics objects with gravity, damping, elasticity, friction
	Hinge, ball, wheel, and slider joints
	Water physics with dynamic wave generation
	Arbitrary axis rotations for space and flight simulators
	Path tracking for camera, actors or vehicles
	Mouse picking and manipulating of 3D objects
	Slow motion / quick motion effect

2D Engine

	Multi-layer system
	Animated 3D and 2D sprites
	Movie player for fullscreen and sprite-projected movies
	GUI panels with various button, slider, display and window types
	Truetype and bitmap fonts
	Screenshot generator

Sound Engine

	Static and dynamic 3D sound sources with Doppler effect
	Multichannel streaming sound player
	WAV, OGG, MID, MP3, WMA, CD support

Network & Game Engine

	Save / Load system for resuming games at arbitrary positions
	Multi-player client/server mode for LAN and Internet (TCP/IP, UDP)
	Multizone/multiserver support for massive online multiplayer games
	Expandable through DLL plugins

On our website you'll find tons of free plugins and extensions that were written by users and add new features to the engine, like Flash animation, database integration, or force feedback.

The C-Script Programming Language
We can create a complete game by designing a level, placing items and monsters, attaching behaviors to them, and adding a game menu. So why do we need a programming language at all?

After having 'clicked together' your first games, you'll probably want to do something more ambitious - like programming your own gameplay, player behavior, effects, artificial intelligence, and user interface, instead of using the predefined scripts. Gamestudio's C-Script language allows game programming from a beginner's to a professional level.

C-Script is a simplified version of C++, the language used for professional programming. If you've ever programmed a web page in Javascript, you know C-script already! Otherwise you'll pick it up very fast by working through the tutorial on our website. C-Script is the best way to learn 'real' programming, and it's fun: while entering your code, you can observe the results immediately in the virtual world!

Despite it's easy to learn, it's in no way limited - it's a real programming language with arrays, structs, pointers, global and local variables, string and vector functions. Unlike Basic interpreters, C-Script is compiled - a C-Script program runs almost as fast as if it were 'directly programmed' into the engine. And speed is of the essence for most games.

C-Script FEATURES

	File and string manipulation
	Control of external devices through port I/O functions
	Easy, transparent multitasking
	Console mode for variable manipulation at runtime
	Syntax-highlighting editor, single-step debugger
	Expandable through DLL plugins

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