Character Inverse Kinematics and Animation Blending: Allows a character model to have multiple animations while looking believable. The system is integrated with the game and tools. Physics System: supports character inverse kinematics, vehicles, rigid bodies, liquid, rag doll, cloth and soft body effects. CryEngine rates 3.7/5 stars with 16 reviews. Offers rendering support for OpenGL and DirectX 8/9, Xbox using latest hardware features, PS2 and GameCube.One-Click layout is an algorithm that automatically chooses and configures a layout style. Renderer: integrates indoor and outdoor technology seamlessly.

Includes EAX 2.0 audio support. Environmental Audio and SFS Engine: Ability to accurately reproduce sounds from nature with seamless blending between environments and interior/exterior locations in Dolby Digital 5.1 audio. Interactive Dynamic Music System: Tracks and responds to the player's actions and situations and offers CD Quality playback in full 5.1 surround sound. Ability to create custom enemies and behaviors without touching the C code.

Supports real time per-pixel lighting, bumpy reflections, refractions, volumetric glow effects, animated textures, transparent computer displays, windows, bullet holes, and shiny surfaces. Shaders: A script system used to combine textures in different ways to produce visual effects. It is a low-latency network system based on client/server architecture.

Supports advanced particles technology and any kind of volumetric lighting effects on particles. Includes high-resolution, correct perspective, and volumetric smooth-shadow implementations for dramatic and realistic indoor shadowing. Lighting and Shadows: A combination of precalculated, real time shadows, stencil shadows and lightmaps to produce a dynamic environment. The view distance can be up to 2 km when converted from game units.

Scripting system: Based on the popular Lua language. Polybump: Standalone or fully integrated with other tools including 3ds max. Tools Integration: Objects and buildings created using 3ds Max or Maya are integrated within the game and editor.

Modularity: Entirely written in modular C , with comments, documentation and subdivisions into multiple DLLs.

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