• Object-Oriented Design
• Plug-in Architecture
• Save/Load System
• Other Platform specific code and optimizations
• Fixed-function
• Stereo Rendering
• Render-to-Texture
• Fonts
• GUI
• All advanced rendering effects included in the engine SDK are implemented in separate, independent shader modules.
• Optimizing bandwidth by taking advantage of console specific data pathes.
• Optimizing bandwidth by storing vertex and index data in GPU memory or GPU accessable memory optimized for the particular platform.
• Environment Mapping
• Billboarding
• Particle System
• Sky
• Water
• Mirror Support for various mirroring effeects: reflections and refractions, static and mobile mirrors, transparent and opaque mirrors, including distortion effects in water.

• Per-vertex
• Per-pixel
• Lightmapping
• Anisotropic
• A realtime light source may be a point light source or an extended light source generating soft shadows
• HDR (high dynamic range) rendering

• Shadow Mapping
• Projected planar
• Shadow Volume
• Shader components for real-time full-scene shadowing
• All objects in the world can cast shadows on all objects, including self-shadowing

• Basic
• Multi-texturing
• Bumpmapping
• Mipmapping
• Volumetric
• Projected
• Procedural Video files on textures

• Vertex
• Pixel
• High Level
• Provides a re-entrant modular shader system. This means that all rendering functionalities are completely moved into independent, decoupled shader component.
• Shader linking: depending on the available hardware, the shader components are linked together for optimal execution performance at runtime.
• Shader animation: Execution of specific shaders can be controlled dynamically.

• Mesh Loading
• Skinning
• Platform specific mesh optimization. Optimize triangle and vertex ordering to take best advantage of vertex caching features of the particular hardware.
• The mesh preparation tool can import or precalculate LOD stages of a mesh
• Normal maps from highly detailed meshes

• General
• PVS
• LOD Shark is designed for both indoor and outdoor scenes.

• Forward Kinematics
• Keyframe Animation
• Skeletal Animation
• Morphing
• Facial Animation
• Animation Blending
• Fading and blending of bone-animations
• Manual joint control
• Allows a non-linear combination of several animations in real-time.
• Skeletons can have any number of attachment points, e.g. for weapons.
• The same bone-animation can be shared between different skeletons
• The universal object hierarchy system internally is optimized to automatically minimize calculations using several optimization techniques

• Rendering

• Basic Physics
• Collision Detection
• Rigid Body
• Vehicle Physics
• Offers integrated and third-party physics solutions.
• Including constraints such as ball-and-socket, hinge and hinge-two, and "keep-vertical".
• Rigid body skeletons can drive mesh skinning for rendering
• Generic motors
• Computation time does not depend on number of objects in the level, but only on the number of active objects in the level.
• Efficient collision object pair detection in large levels
• Compact collision geometry storage
• A standard module automatically generates physics collision sound and friction sound

• Client-Server
• Peer-to-Peer
• Master Server
• Offers integrated and third-party networking solutions.
• Lag suppression by client controlled components
• Multiple 3d states can be synchronized via network
• Loading or creating many objects with minimized network traffic
• Easy high-level networking management (connection, player, level, etc.)
• Full control on byte-level
• Platform independent

• Scripted

• 2D Sound
• 3D Sound
• Streaming Sound
• Standard sound file formats include the WAV and ogg file formats
• Standard backends include: Console hardware, DirectSound3D, OpenAL.
• Sound sources are managed in a object space database

The Shark 3D editor is a flexible and open environment for configurating and manipulating engine components and properties. The integration and interaction with the engine and other tools provides optimal workflow for designers, artists and programmers.

• Perch (proprietary scripting language)
• Perch is compiled into efficient bytecode
• Support for Java
• Full unicode support
• Supports Dynamic Resource Updates: scripts can be modified while the game is running.