Gamebryo Technical Details
At its core, the Gamebryo game engine is a suite of modular, foundational C++ libraries. Game developers can extend these libraries to create custom functionality specific to their title. With a full system license, game programmers can have access to the source code to enable customization and expansion of the standard libraries.
Gamebryo is immensely flexible. Game developers can customize the shading algorithms of the renderer to a high degree, supporting a range of options that enable artists to work easily without impacting the work of engineers.
Advanced Game Development Tools
The Gamebryo core game engine ships with a plug-in tools framework containing modules that include Scene Designer (a layout and level editor) and the Animation Tool. The recently released Emergent Terrain System extends your artists' capabilities, and console viewers let everyone preview and test seamlessly. This framework easily accepts both existing third-party and in-house tools and tech, making it incredibly extensible.
Gamebryo: The Complete Framework You Need to Build Great Games
Gamebryo middleware helps your team create superb titles right out of the box. Features include:
- High-end texturing and rendering effects
- Flexible rendering, sorting and culling methods
- Floodgatestream processing engine for cross-platform multi-core development
- Integration with major 3D modeling tools including 3ds Max® and Maya® and Softimage|XSI®
- Powerful art tool chain integration
- Support for industry-leading tools from Emergent Partners, including SpeedTree, Scaleform and NVIDIA PhysX, among others
- Hierarchical scene graph representation
- Efficient visible object culling
- Support for advanced 3D hardware acceleration on all platforms
- Dynamic collision detection
- Alternate Bounding Volumes
- Particle systems
- Customizable shaders for vertex colors, material, alpha transparency, textures and more
- Support for 3D audio
- Level-of-detail representations
Gamebryo Evaluation for Developers
If you are a developer interested in experiencing Gamebryo for yourself, fill out an Evaluation Request Form today. If you are a Sony-registered developer, you can download a full-featured evaluation version of Gamebryo for the PS3 from Sony's PS3 Devnet.