• Object-Oriented Design
• Plug-in Architecture
• Save/Load System
• Other
• Data-driven architecture designed for real-world game development practices
• The Alchemy Insight™ core engine with a plug-in architecture for the easy addition of new features
• The Alchemy Finalizer™ application with Optimizer integration, data debugging and scene analysis, and feature extensibility
• The Alchemy Optimizer™ library with a complete set of deafult optimizations
• A game pipeline set up for current and next-generation consoles
• Ability to replace Alchemy object implementations with your own
• Fast IGB binary data format with external references and syncronous streaming for all Alchemy-derived classes
• New tools, such as the Alchemy Event tracker for memory analysis, logging and debugging
• Hand-tuned microcode for PlayStation®2
• Implementation optimized for each hardware device
• Fixed-function
• Render-to-Texture

• Fonts

• Environment Mapping

• Per-vertex
• Per-pixel
• Gloss maps

• Projected planar
• Shadow Volume Projective Shadows, Self-Shadows, Planar Shadows

• Basic
• Multi-texturing
• Bumpmapping
• Procedural Cartoon Shader

• High Level
• Cross-platform shading support
• Environment Maps, Multi-texture, Gloss Maps, Bump Maps, and Cartoon Shader
• Ability to build your own per-platform shader the uses the same Alchemy pipeline

• Mesh Loading
• Max and Maya ArtistPack™
• Intrinsic Alchemy Viewer™ and Intrinsic Alchemy Optimizer™ integrated with 3ds max™ and Maya®

• General Flexible Scene Graph enables shader support for complete integration from modeling tool to hardware

• Inverse Kinematics
• Skeletal Animation
• Animation Blending
• Skin, Skeleton, and Animation Definitions
• Animation: Transitions, Overrides, Multiple Active, Partial
• Sking: Multiple, Segmented, Run-time Switchable
• Simple IK Support with capabilities to add custom complex IK
• Hand-tuned on PS2, GAMECUBE, Xbox, and PC for 1st party performance

Supported.

Supported.