We are planning a public release of the CPAL3D engine. Get in touch with us and we will let you know as soon as possible.

Added lots of postprocess shaders: depth of field, soft shadows, ambient occlusion, glow etc.

Added Steamworks and 3D vision support.

Added Lipsync system.

CPAL3D technology web page has been established.

CPAL3D is a highly optimized solution designed primarily for developers on the PC and XBOX platform. The list of features implemented in the engine core follows.

It is always possible to talk to us about your specific needs, if we don't find an existing solution for you, we can always implement it.

Visuals + 3D objects with instancing alpha objects with multiple render types and sorting skinning and bone hierarchy tween (morph) targets LOD based on distance from camera + Advanced lights and shadows shadows using dynamic shadow volumes highly optimised, using stencil buffer soft shadows using postprocessing rendering per light - shadow is light occluder visibility detection quality reduction based on visibility of object point, spot and directional lights, part of hierarchy textured light projection + Advanced material system fully shader driven pipeline, custom shaders, legacy fixed pipeline also supported various material lighting properties detail textures static and dynamic cube maps normal/specular maps dynamic reflections and mirrors animated textures (with inbetween frames blending) video textures quality reduction based on visibility of material library of per pixel shaders flexible user shaders support clothes (textures) changing media loader - jpg, bmp, tga, png, dds (as compressed textures - DXT1, DXT3, DXT5), tiff, wmv + Animation system supported animation types:   - skeletal (bone) hierarchical animation   - tween and facial animation   - transformation animation lipsync support using tween animations animation layers with interpolations between any number of animations and animation types programatic bone manipulation (i.e. head observing objects) quality of animation based on distance from camera + Advanced particle animation system applicable on billboard or 3d object types alpha and color effects scaling and rotation spread, chaos, gravity, magnet various movement functions LOD part of hierarchy (i.e. person can carry burning torch) various predefined geometric source objects or custom 3D mesh + Eye candy lens flares decals (planar or reproducing target's geometry) decals as light occluders fog animation system for changing weather and time of day + Fullscreen postprocess effects flexible shader system library of fullscreen shaders:   - depth of field   - glow   - ambient occlusion   - blur   - color corrections   - MLAA   + more + 2D graphics system scale, rotation, crop and alpha effects virtual screen space, independent of actual screen resolution automatic UI rearrangement based on screen aspect ratio connected with lighting system for 2.5D games, casting shadows using prerendered light masks video playback truetype text rendering subsystem   - based on FreeType2 library   - text outlines generation   - text can have alpha or keycolor screen capturing Scene + Scenegraph optimized object hierarchy + Physics rigidbody (can constist of base primitives, polyhedrons, height fields and triangle meshes) vehicles (any number of wheels, axis, clutches etc.) ragdoll (with variable animation strength application on each bone) various raycast optimizations + Camera system freely follows object (ability for 1st/3rd person) various interpolations part of object hierarchy multiple cameras using render targets used as materials for 3d or 2d objects, or rendering directly to defined viewport in back buffer highly customizable using editor or scripting + Characters full featured actors using all game systems available (animations, pathfinding, physics...) various forms of controlling actors (from input controller, script AI, point and click etc.) highly customizable using editor or scripting + Advanced track system define tracks to create spline animation of object movement using hierarchy connections apply on any object (lights, 3d objects, cameras…) additional connected object property animation + Visibility multi stage system:   - Portal system   - Occluder system   - Octree frustum culling + Moving object system for game dynamics controlled from script General systems + Scripting language microthread based highly documented and reliable connected with engine using robust API everything can be done in script - from particular UI to RPG system to controls of any kind of game remote script debugging using TCP/IP - breakpoints, threads, stacks, variable watches etc. + User data user defined data types connected to any game object sort of information database approach editable from game editor - for totally data driven scripts + Pathfinding path finding on pregenerated 2D map with dynamic actors and obstacles actors dynamically steering avoiding each other and other dynamic obstacles + DitectInput controllers controllers abstraction force feedback + Statistics resources usage profiler object counters system states snapshot, complete rendered frame log + Savegame system proprietary, very small format, compressed active screen thumbnails save compatibility across versions + Text database server based every text is in database ingame multi language support server based localisation with governance of recency supports concurrent localisations, even still during development supports opendocument export/import + Resource memory system automatically managing memory - reducing disk access leaving data in memory until it is full, then releasing least used resources can be reloaded any time during gameplay/editing + Resource file system big file containers individual file compression based on its type and content + Timing using multiple customizable timers any game object can be connected to any timer can be used to pause entire game except ingame menu, change speed of physics, slow down objects in particular area and so on Sound system + Sound system 2D and 3D sounds (cones and spheres) directional sounds streaming sounds/music doppler, pitch, pan, volume... Media loader - wav, ogg + Reverb based environment effects I3DL2 definition of environment areas, fluent transitions Tools + Editor tons of features scene and materials editing all game data comes through scene editor and outputs to ready to use scene/level all settings and scene descriptions are output to easy to read text format template/instance separation include scenes and scripts for assets customizable viewports tool for object scattering across terrain undo/redo system + IDE for script editing, compiling and debugging full featured editor with syntax highlight & undo thread, stack, breakpoints, watches texts browser with text validation tools + Line compiler compiler - data and script compiler, creating big resource file(s), automatic patch generation text system tool - export, import, local texts update resource file packer plugin for total commander + Publisher automatic creation of game builds with installation, autorun and eventually localisation kit + Exporters 3D Studio MAX exporter MAYA exporter + Documentation WIKI media used for all documentations and tutorials, offline version in CHM available Doxygen and CHM used for engine source code documentation