Rendering

Cipher's uses one of the most advanced graphics engines around, with exceptional performance, incredible image quality and a range of features that will ensure your game stays ahead of the competition. By using a high level shader language to describe surfaces and materials, Cipher is able to create incredible visual effects with no custom programming, with all the effects created by artists using our range of visual tools, such as Shader Designer.

• High level shader driven graphics.
• Real time dynamic volume shadows.
• Static and dynamic lighting.
• Segment Renderer provides efficient geometry culling.
• Skeletal and Vertex based character animation.
• Models support multiple LODs.
• Fast particle systems, with interactive visual editor.
• Fully customisable lens flare and glare effects.
• Dynamic Scene Graph allows simple scene manipulation.
• Multiple viewports and cameras.
• Support for the latest effects, like reflection mapping and per pixel lighting effects (using dot3 bump mapping).
• Programmatic control over shader effects.
• Landscape rendering with support for large terrains, continuous level of detail, on-the-fly quality adjustments, multiple blended texture layers and detail maps