Enlighten features
Workflow & authoring
- Real-time lighting means instant feedback, allowing artists to iterate rapidly towards their vision.
- Powerful bake-free art tools give artists total control over mood and atmosphere.
- Advanced graphics technology brings consistency to all aspects of lighting.
- Enlighten guarantees high quality lighting, matching the quality of high-end offline tools.
Gameplay
- Real-time global illumination for fully dynamic in-game lighting.
- New light types and dynamic surface properties provide new creative opportunities.
- Fully dynamic lighting opens up new game-play possibilities.
Performance
- Highly-optimised cross-platform technology scales to entire cities lit in real time.
- Range of optimisation strategies ensure Enlighten can be configured for any computing or memory budget.
- Enlighten ships with a high-level API for ease of integration and a flexible low-level API for further customisation.
Tools & integration
- Easy to integrate into an existing tool-chain and run-time.
- A range of visualisation tools and sample assets are shipped as standard.
- Available for Playstation®3, Xbox 360™ and PC.
- Optimised for CUDA.
- Available stand-alone or pre-integrated into UE3.
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