Building a video game can take many forms. In some cases, games are built from scratch using in-house tools. In many cases, developers use a game engine to provide a re-usable framework for developing a computer game.
The game engine acts as the functional and technical infrastructure that a game or series of games is built on, leaving the game developers free to focus on gameplay, characters, and the overall look and storyline of the game. It is designed to simplify the highly complex game development workflow, and to save developers time and money throughout the development process.
Trinigy is one of the industry leaders in game engine development. Their Vision Engine is currently in use in more than 100 commercial game productions by well-known companies such as Ubisoft, Take 2, Dreamcatcher, Neowiz, Spellbound, Robot Entertainment, Nitro Games and more.
With their newly announced Vision Engine 7.6, Trinigy will be one of the first middleware providers to have built-in support for Microsoft DirectX® 11 (in addition to the engines’ ongoing support for Microsoft DirectX 9 and Microsoft DirectX 10). That support will enable game developers and artists to create more lifelike characters and environments in games.
“Trinigy remains committed to supporting the game development industry with top-notch game engine technology that combines efficiency, creative freedom and performance," said Dag Frommhold, managing director at Trinigy. "We're extremely excited to be working with AMD to support their DirectX 11 graphics processors. AMD's quality drivers and hardware complement our commitment to game developers perfectly by empowering them to produce higher-level in-game graphics than ever before."
In its latest Vision Engine, Trinigy has adopted contact-hardening shadows inside the new deferred rendering system, which will generate dynamic photorealistic soft shadows at superior frame rates. Trinigy will further expand its DirectX 11 support by features such as Tessellation and Compute Shaders in their engine to enable developers to deliver smoother, less blocky and more organic-looking game graphics at higher frame rates, and with greater power efficiencies.
By incorporating DirectX 11 into their game engine, Trinigy will help game developers get their games to market faster, and with the most advanced graphics features currently possible. For more information about the Vision Engine, visit Trinigy’s website.