S2 Engine HD 1.0 Basic Edition from Profenix Studio

By on March 22, 2011

Profenix Studio released their new game engine called S2 Engine HD. Although the engine seems unable to compete with both Epic’s and Crytek’s games engines, However, it looks good overall. Profenix might get a few indie and small games studios to license this engine, provided the price of the license is quite low. S2 ENGINE HD is a complete general-purpose software kit for developing and running videogames or other virtual-reality applications such as architectural walkthrough, physical simulations, etc…

The editor of  S2 ENGINE HD has been specifically designed so you can immediately see the changes you make to the virtual scene: no more waiting for pre-processing operations (such as lightmaps or BSP), in S2 ENGINE HD every change takes effect  immediately: the shadows will move if you move the light, day will become night if you will bring forward the time, the rigid bodies will fall to the ground while respecting the physics laws if they are placed in the scene.

You can create mountains, fill them with trees and plants, create clouds, changing weather conditions in your virtual world or put vehicles and rigid bodies and see them interacting realistically with the environment, and then more …

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I am a critical guy, and love to review and give my professional opinion on just about anything. Though have a love for tech/gaming and music alongside the cinema. You can catch me consulting and developing the net any day of the week.