Vengeance engine

The Vengeance engine is a video game engine based on Unreal Engine 2/2.5. It was created by Irrational Games to make ""

The Vengeance engine

The Vengeance engine, also known as the engine had several new features:
* Unreal Engine 2 Core System base
* Integration into the Havok physics 2 engine
* Support for DirectX 9 rendering capabilities (such as supporting the Shader model 2.0)
* Normal mapping with per pixel lighting, as well as normal-mapped and bump-mapped animated models, objects and scenery.
* High dynamic range rendering (HDR) using post-processing effects
* Pixel shaded water
* Improved terrain texturing and light-mapping
* Highly optmized terrain detail mesh renderer (Allowing terrain artifacts like thick grass)

In addition, it was shipped with new and improved tools:
* Mojo (a cutscene toolset) for the Unreal Engine
* An enhanced version of UnrealEd with new features

Games using the Vengeance engine

* "" (Irrational Games Australian Studio): Unreal Engine 2.5 (build 2500)
* "SWAT 4" (Irrational Games Boston Studio): Unreal Engine 2.0 (build 2226) [cite web | url=http://rpgvault.ign.com/articles/587/587441p1.html | title=SWAT 4 interview with Joe Faulstick (Associate Producer of Irrational Games) | date=2005-02-14]
* "" (Irrational Games Australian Studio): Unreal Engine 2.5 (build 2500)

Enhanced version of Vengeance engine

Known at first as the Vengeance engine 2, this was an enhanced version of the Vengeance engine, based on the Unreal Engine 2.5. As this engine was developed for the game BioShock, the engine has become known as the "BioShock engine". BioShock development has since moved to Unreal Engine 3.

Supported features:
* Integration into the Havok physics 3 engine.
* Taking full advantage of Direct3D 9 shader and lighting effects, using version 3 of the High Level Shader Language, and supporting Direct3D 10 (under Windows Vista) and shader model 4.0
* Enhanced HDR post-processing bloom effects.
* Virtual displacement mapping.
* High quality soft shadows.
* High quality water effects.
* multi-core processing.
* Xbox 360 support.

Toolsets:
* An enhanced version of UnrealEd with new features.
* Other utilities for the Unreal Engine

External links

* [http://www.irrationalgames.com/ Irrational Games]
* [http://www.unrealtechnology.com/ Unreal Technology]

References