• Object-Oriented Design
• Plug-in Architecture
• Save/Load System
• Advanced Resource Management (Resource Dependency Information, GPU/System Memory, etc.)
• Multithreading (N-Core, Physics, Particles, Cloth, Character Skinning, Animation System, etc.)
• Streaming (Resource Caching, Resource Dependency Graphs, Scene Subdivision, etc.)
• Platform Specific Optimizations (DX9, DX10, DX11, Mutli-Core on PC and Xbox360, SPUs on PS3, etc.)
• Geometry Handling (Static Meshes, Animated Models, Terrain, Customizable Geometry Types, etc.)
• UI (2D Overlay Rendering, Font Rendering, High Level GUI components, etc.)
• Customizable Simulation Loop, Render Loop, Visibility System, Memory Management, File System
• Full Object Serialization (Savegame, Scene Export)
• Performance / Resource Profiling, Debug Console, ResourceViewer
• Input Handling (Keyboard, Mouse, Gamepads, Wiimote)
• Many Application Samples with Source Code for various Engine Features
• 3rd Party Middleware Integration: Autodesk Kynapse AI, IDV SpeedTree, Quazal Net-Z, NVIDIA PhysX, Bullet, Havok Physics, Scaleform GFx, FmodEx, XAUDIO, OpenAL, Allegorithmic Substance Air, CriWare, NetDog, Xaitment AI, Pixellux DMM
• Fixed-function
• Deferred Shading
• Render-to-Texture
• Fonts
• GUI
• Customizable Render Loop
• Customizable Visibility System
• Deferred Shading
• HDR and Custom Post-Processing Effects
• UI (2D Overlay Rendering, Font Rendering, High Level GUI Components)
• Environment Mapping
• Lens Flares
• Billboarding
• Particle System
• Depth of Field
• Motion Blur
• Water
• Explosion
• Weather
• Volumetric Effects
• Light Coronas & Lens Flares
• Sky & Cloud Rendering
• Dynamic Time-of-Day Lighting
• Mirror Effects
• Dynamic Cubemaps
• Projected and Particle Decals
• HDR Bloom and Tone Mapping
• Motion Blur Sample
• Heat Haze Sample
• Weather Sample
• Render-to-Texture, Render Video into Textures
• Splines
• Curves for Path Camera Animations
• Line Follower Entities and Components

• Per-vertex
• Per-pixel
• Volumetric
• Lightmapping
• Radiosity
• Gloss maps
• Anisotropic
• BRDF
• Static Lighting:
• Dot3 Lightmaps
• Static Lightgrid for dynamic scene elements
• Global Illumination/Radiosity for Lightmaps/Lightgrids
• Lighting Tool

Dynamic lighting:
* Arbitrary number of Dynamic Lights
* Custom attenuation curves
* Projected Spotlights
* Projected Cubemaps
* Dynamic Lighting combinable with Static Lighting
* Deferred Shading
* TimeOfDay-Lighting
* Rim-Lighting

• Shadow Mapping
• Projected planar
• Shadow Volume
• Shadow Maps
• Cascaded Shadow Maps
• Optimized Stencil Shadows for Static Meshes and Dynamic Models
• Dynamic Illumination with Advanced Dynamic Shadowing Techniques

• Basic
• Multi-texturing
• Bumpmapping
• Mipmapping
• Volumetric
• Projected
• Procedural
• Normalmaps, Parallax Maps, Specular Maps
• Swappable Custom Texturing Sample
• Procedural Texturing Sample
• 3rd Party Integration: Allegorithmic Substance Air

• Vertex
• Pixel
• High Level
• Advanced Shader System
• Shader Editor: Integrated HLSL, Sampler Setup, Show Disassembly, Multi-Platform Shader Creation
• Material Editor: Shader Assignment to Materials, Effect Parameter Tweaking
• Visual Shader Editor: Artist-Driven Shader Creation

• Mesh Loading
• Skinning
• Progressive
• Tessellation
• Deformation
• Static Instanceable Meshes
• Animated Models (vertex and skeletal animations)
• Terrain with Paging Support
• Customizable Geometry Types
• Separation Render/Collision/Trace Geometry
• Exporter for 3dsmax & Maya
• Exporter for Blender by ByteRockers

• General
• Portals
• Octrees
• Occlusion Culling
• LOD
• Spatial Scene Subdivision into Zones
• Prefab System
• Visual linking
• Visibility Calculation
• Hardware Occlusion Query, Portals, Octrees
• Editing with Layers
• Resource Pre-Caching in the background
• Resource Dependency Graphs

• Forward Kinematics
• Keyframe Animation
• Skeletal Animation
• Morphing
• Facial Animation
• Animation Blending
• Arbitrary Animation Graph
• VS skinning, CPU Skinning with Caching
• Animation Sharing (Mass Scenes)
• Skeletal Remapping
• 3rd Party Animation Integration: HumanIK, Morpheme
• Animation Transition Tool
• Object Attaching

• Rendering
• Splatting
• Built-in Terrain Editor
• Terrain Paging/Streaming Support
• Automatic LOD and Interactive Terrains
• Terrain/Vegetation Editing and Painting
• Importing Terrain Data from external files
• Seamless Integration with complex indoor scenes
• Terrain Filters
• Tablet Support for Terrain Painting

• Basic Physics
• Collision Detection
• Rigid Body
• Vehicle Physics
• Basic Physics for Collision Detection, Raycasts, etc.
• 3rd party Integration: Bullet, NVIDIA PhysX, Havok, Pixelux DMM

• Client-Server
• Peer-to-Peer 3rd party integration: Quazal Net-Z, Netdog

• Pathfinding
• Decision Making
• Scripted
• Basic Framework for custom AI-Extensions
• 3rd party Integration: Autodesk Kynapse AI, Xaitment AI, Spirops

• 2D Sound
• 3D Sound
• XAUDIO Integration
• 3rd party integration: FmodEx, OpenAL

• vForge Scene Editor: WYSIWYG-Editor
• vForge Material Editor: Effect Paramter Tweaking
• vForge Shader Editor: Integrated HLSL Shader Editor
• vForge Visual Shader Editor: Creating shader visually
• vForge Terrain Editor: Terrain/Vegetation Editing
• vForge Particle Editor: Particle Effects
• vForge LUA Script Editor: Script Editing
• vForge Component Editor: Components Editing
• vForge Resource Monitor: Statistics / Profiling
• vModelViewer: Analyze Model and Animation Data
• vSceneViewer: Analyze Scene Data
• vVisViewer: Visibility Analysis
• vResourceViewer: Profiling/Resource Analysis
• vLux: Static Lighting Tool
• vAnimTool: Animation Blending Generation
• vFontGenerator: Generating TrueType Bitmap Fonts
• vRemoteScriptDebugger: LUA Script Debugging
• vMax & vMaya: Exporters for 3dsmax and Maya
• vForge Editor Features: WYSIWYG, Play-the-Game Mode, Multi-User Editing, Spatial Scene Subdivision into Zones, Prefab system, Visual Linking, Visibility Calculation, Plugin-driven & Easily Extendable, Remote Client Clients for Consoles, etc.

integration

• Integrated LUA Binding
• LUA Script Editor and Remote Debugger