Some info about the X-ray engine. -1 reply

I got this off of http://www.stalker-game.com/index_eng.html This is some amazing technology X-Ray is a powerful game engine implementing modern technologies. The engine does not support software rendering and requires a DirectX® 8 or higher compatible accelerator.

• General:
  • Levels combining closed spaces as well as enormous open areas
  • On demand loading makes it possible to create a single huge level
  • Game time flow, change of time of the day
  • Powerful skeleton-based animation allows usage of motion-capture hardware and produces smooth and realistic motion of characters
  • VR-Simulation engine optimized for massive load

Graphics:

• Support for all second generation D3D compatible accelerators (TNT/Voodo2/etc), optimized for Geforce2 and up
• Visualization optimized for hardware TnL (both FF and shading capable parts)
• Continuous level of detail technology for all the geometry
• ~300 000 polygons per frame at 60 fps on average hardware
• Detailed character models (500-10 000 polys)
• High-speed blended animation system capable of an infinite number of bone interpolation & modulation operations
• SSE/3Dnow! Technologies used for skinning and forward kinematics
• Visibility determination
  • Portal-style, non-linear subdivision based visibility detection system
  • Optimized for T&L hardware by batching primitives in optimally sized groups
  • Dynamic occlusion culling, contribution culling
• Adaptive hardware state caching technology
• Lighting
  • Colored dynamic lights and dynamic "soft" shadows
  • Breakable light sources
  • Animated lights
  • Character shadowing
  • Intelligent light source selection, clipping, and merging
• Detail mapping
• Water, flares, coronas, etc.
• Particle system with real physics
• Screen post-processing
• Shading
  • The Shader library is central to every part of the rendering pipeline
  • Completely abstracts the graphics API.
  • Multi-pass Rendering
  • Fallback Shaders
  • Facilitates cross-platform development
  • Separates shader writing from engine development
  • Pixel and Vertex shaders are automatically used (on shader capable hardware.)

Detail objects:

• Grass, small stones, etc.
• Enviromental effects, such as wind, turbulence, and tracks

Physics:

• Based on ODE engine
• Simulation speed outperforms commercial engines such as MathEngine, Havok, etc.
• Real-time IK, vehicle physics, etc.
• Collision database with low memory usage
• Collision detection optimized for a large number of queries in a high concentration polygonal environment
• Realistic simulation of ballistics, movement, and fluids

Audio:

• High quality HRTF 3D-sound with clipping and partial wave tracing
• Location-based environmental audio affected by surrounding obstructions
• Context-relative multiple-mixed music streams in MP3/MP2/WMA/ADPCM formats

Network:

• Distributed computing
• Client-Server based system

Tools

• In-house tools ( Level, Shader, Particle, and Actor Editors )
• Plug-ins for popular modeling packages

AI:

• Simulation Level-Of-Detail and Culling (2 AI models - high and low detail)
• Fiber based time distribution allows scalable AI without any slowdown
• Virtual senses; sight, hearing and touch
• Terrain-aware tactical assessment system
• FSM with random factor
• Data driven design (pattern based evaluation functions are automatically generated and optimized on training examples - supervised learning)

This will make stalker as good or better then Hl2:). I bet some of those vodoo fans out there can dig out there older cardsto play this game:lol:. Too bad it is "nvida perfered":(.

there is NO WAY a TNT card is gonna run this.....my old TNT2 card couldnt run Call of Duty....

I wouldn't say that. It's an efficient engine that probably is a processor and RAM hog.

It would still need a descent Video Card.

Jedi87130there is NO WAY a TNT card is gonna run this.....my old TNT2 card couldnt run Call of Duty....

I don't know if anyone remembers this, but when Half Life 2 was originally schedualed to come out back in Sept. 2003, the minimum specs were a P3 700MHZ processor and a TNT video card. Good luck running it on those specs now.

does it really support all Geforce cards from Geforce3 to .. to .. erm.. ok? cuz i have a Geforce4 440MMX 64mb does it really support mine? .. finally a good game for my PC

Maybe on lowest settings. That seems like it would be cutting it pretty close...

cutting it pretty close atleast it's cutting it...:p

Thats true. :p

hey, new to these forums, but not new to stalker, been following it since early 2003, this my one true love heh. Anywhoo, you are right, the support for the TNT/Voodo2/gForce 2 etc has been mostly droped, its been increased now, cant remember what too exactly, but i think its gForce3 upwards. As much as i love the game, they need to update the site much more often, some information is no longer valid such as the XM-134 Heavy Machine gun, which is no longer in the game besides on mouted stands in military controlled areas.