Tools

One of Cipher's primary goals is to offer more power to artists and level designers. Cipher includes a range of visual tools that allow artists to interactively design the shader effects and particle systems used in the game via an easy to use interface. Additionally, its batch processing tools make light work of converting and building all your art assets on demand or as part of overnight daily builds.

• Visual tools for creating and editing shaders and particle systems.
• Model and Animation viewer.
• Model conversion tools to convert from 3ds max to Cipher model format.
• Support for Character Studio and Biped animations, rigid attachments and  multiple LODs.
• Powerful optimisation features mean more polygons in your models.
• BSP generation.
• Font tool to generate UNICODE compatible fonts.
• Numerous plug-ins for 3ds max to assist with level layouts, animation sequencing, texturing and animation event tracking.
• Custom version of lcc C compiler to generate byte code version of game code for execution of Cipher Virtual Machine.