Gorilla 3D Framework Alpha Release

Hoy se ha anunciado la versión Alpha de Gorilla 3D Engine para Delphi Firemonkey. Poco a poco se van despejando las dudas sobre su potencial y especificaciones.

Según la web oficial se podrán desarrollar aplicaciones y juegos para Windows, Android, iOS, MacOS y Linux.

Especificaciones:

• Skin-, Skeleton- und Vertexanimations for 3D Meshes (Key-Animations)
•   Integrated and fast Q3 Physics Engine (with collision detection)
•   Materials: textures, bump-mapping, vertex-color, phong-, blinn-, lambert-materials, water and reflection
•   Loading complex multi-mesh models with UV-textures
•   Logical model management (independent from FireMonkey tree), to manage a large amount of meshes and to instanciate separatly
•   Optimized mesh generation in multi-mesh models: number of vertices reduced to the necessary vertices
•   Flexible particle-system with influencer-classes (up to 100K particle at runtime)
•   Shadow-Volume rendering
•   Multipass-Rendering
•   Depth-Of-Field
•   Skybox-support
•   Terrain rendering: from height-maps and procedural algorithms (Diamond-Square, Perlin-Noise, ...)
•   New Point3D-, Quaternion-, Transformationsmatrix- und VertexKey-Animationen
•   Multitrack AudioManager (threadsafe)
•   AssetsManager with packaging system
•   Flexible dialogue-system: load, save and edit at runtime
•   Fast 3D model loading
•   Compatible with existing FireMonkey components
•   Platform-independent: WIN32, WIN64, ANDROID, iOS, MACOS, LINUX-x86 (by third-party product usage
•   Formate: G3D , X3D, X3DZ, OBJ, STL , DAE, FBX

Models

•   Dynamic or static meshes supported
•   Skin-Animation (Keyframes)
•   Skeleton-Animation (Keyframes)
•   Vertex-Animation (Keyframes)
•   Vector-Animation
•   AnimationManager for handling multiple animations per model
•   Animation-Caching 
• Compressed Caching - information is stored as zip or lz4 (win32) stream in memory
• Uncompressed Caching - more memory usage, but unbelievably fast!

Materials

•   Normal- and BumpMapping
•   Gaussian, Lambert, Phong, Blinn-Phong (textured)
•   VertexColor
•   Water-Material
•   LayeredMaterial
•   NodeMaterial (experimental) with FlowChart-Editor
•   Runtime-Shader: Design, load & save shader material at runtime

Shadowing

•   Variance-Shadow-Mapping (experimental)
•   Shadow-Volume Rendering with multiple light sources

Multipass-Rendering

•   Simple create a MultiPass component and attach to viewer
•   Reusage of MultiPasses possible to reduce rendering
•   Already in use for water and depth-of-field rendering

Particle-System

•   High performance particle-system with shader integration
•   Manipulate every particle very easy by influencer classes
•   Randomization parameters configurable
•   Extendable material shader for individual particle handling
•   User interactive particle emittance, f.e. at mouse position
•   Included influencers: gravity, wind, path, traktor, obstacles...
•   Physics on obstacles (spherical, cubic and meshes)
•   Template particle-systems for fire, smoke, rain, snow, waterfall, eruption, explosion, ...

Terrain-Rendering

•   Generating from height-map image
•   Randomization possible
•   Procedural generation by: diamond square, mandelbrot, perlin-noise (linear, cosine and cubic), plateau algorithms
•   Resolution configurable

Misc

•   SkyBox
•   Water-Surface

Q3 Physics Engine

•   Box and sphere colliders
•   Accuracy configurable (lower accuracy means faster calculation)
•   Up to 1024 colliders without great performance loss
•   Easy binding to Firemonkey 3D controls
•   Interactive physics world manipulation
•   Much faster than compareable physics engines
•   Mesh-Collider (experimental)
•   Terrain-Collider (experimental)
•   Particle-Collider (experimental)
•   Separate thread usage (experimental)

Multitrack AudioManager

•   Audio-Precaching for realtime playback without loading latency
•   Thread-Safe implementation: play audio from any thread
•   Simultaneously audio playback possible
•   Looped playback, f.e. for music tracks

DialogueSystem

•   Complex & flexible design in tree structure
•   (Un)lockable items
•   Crosslinking of items possible
•   Set question, answer or floating item display time - for fast-reaction games
•   Design of dialogues & monologues with colloquist information
•   Multilingual system easily definable
•   Auto-language selection
•   Set variables to implement gaming elements
•   Set parameters to interact back with your game/application
•   Events for: showing text and images, playing audio, video and animations, executing method calls, property settings, redirection & more
•   Events with different scopes: dialogue item, UI-element, gaming element
•   Pause, stop and skip dialogues and items
•   Storable as single or multiple dialogue files/streams (dynamic loading possible)
•   Storeable in xml format
•   Loadable from xml file/stream
•   Readable and understandable xml format, to outsource design & management of dialogues.
•   Fully customizable in Delphi
•   Free DialogueDesigner inside the Gorilla3D engine
•   Create dialogues, items and events simply by drag & drop
•   Move, rearrange and delete items & events
•   Configure every dialogue, item and event in detail
•   Treeview for easy dialogue navigation
•   Preview dialogues in sandbox viewer

Inventory (experimental)

•   Complex & flexible inventory management
•   Create item templates, groups and manufacturers
•   Items with thumbnail and preview models
•   Groups with thumbnails
•   Multilingual system easily definable (f.e.: for group/item names)
•   Item groups to categorize your elements, f.e.: weapons, notes, keys, ...
•   Items can up- and downgrade
•   Manufacturers to setup crafting and item combinations
•   Multiple items manufacturable and quantity manageable
•   Craft items in editable time in asynchrone backend thread
•   Items and groups with max quantity management
•   Items and groups with weight management
•   Collect items pooled or each as single instance
•   Collect items in dependencies, f.e. only if you have collected an ax, you can collect wood
•   Set variables to implement gaming elements
•   Set parameters to interact back with your game/application
•   Preview inventory in sandbox with test-UI

AssetsManager

•   Handle easily models, textures, audio files & more
•   Reuse assets for faster loading and less memory usage
•   Packages for modularizing your application
•   Group assets for handling your media even in large packages
•   Just-in-time loading of packages possible (load assets when they are needed)
•   Stored as zip-archive for transparent content management
•   AssetsManager Tool with media preview: manage your packages easily!

Formats

•   G3D (Gorilla3D-Format): full support incl. skin-, skeleton- and vertex-animation
•   DAE (Collada): full support incl. skin-, skeleton- and vertex-animation
•   X3D: full support incl. skin-, skeleton- and vertex-animation
•   X3DZ: full support incl. skin-, skeleton- and vertex-animation
•   OBJ (Wavefront): triangle and face import
•   STL (Stereolithography): triangle and face import
•   FBX (Autodesk): triangle, face and polygon import