CryEngine3
Proceeded by: CryEngine2, CryEngine1
Developer: Crytek
Release date: October 14, 2009
Games used: Crysis series, Nexuiz
Forget the archaic Unreal Engine, the CryEngine is
where is it’s at. While the Unreal Engine was the granddaddy of beautiful ultra-realistic
graphics, the CryEngine has been turning heads with its capabilities. The first
CryEngine supported Real-time Dynamic Global Illumination, Eye Adaptation &
High Dynamic Range (HDR) Lighting for some beautiful graphics. As seen below:
Because of the this engine is becoming more and more
wide spread, it is now used aside with the Unreal Engine as educational tools
for up incoming game developer like myself. In 2010, a new tech demo of the
engine was released for the i3D 2010 symposium, which demonstrates 'Cascaded
Light Propagation Volumes for Real Time Indirect Illumination.
Because it is such a good system that on June 11,
2011, the Australian Defence Force revealed that Navy personnel would train on
a virtual landing helicopter dock ship made using the CryEngine 3 software.
CryEngine tech demo
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