“Litos” Engine © 2004
“Litos” Engine© is a directx7 3D game engine that is evolving to be a complete and reliable game development environment for the PC win32(windows) platform.
“Litos” Engine© brings developers, advertising companies, passionates the most exciting and important directx7 layer capabilities features and performs great on nVidia Geforce® and ATI Radeon® videocards on both AMD® and Intel® processors.
The project started in November 2001, and since that time, the engine evolved rapidly, and the new features were implemented time by time.
The engine is currently on a revision-stage. Our objective is to take advantage of a wrapper library major update, which will bring in new features like weighted skeletal vertex animations and Dot3 bumpmapping.
Litos Engine was thought and designed to furnish budget game developers a solid but not expensive game development environment.
“Litos” Engine© key features
- Animation: Rigid bones animation. Hierarchy animations.
- Textures: Multitexturing as well as multiple UV sets, allowing perfect environment lightmapping, animated textures and shaders.
- Shadows: Blob Shadows as well as rendered shadows(non stencil)
- Particle System: Single Surface particle system
- AI/Entity system: AI use a custom path node system, each map can have different enemy tracks/loops and customizable entities / zones.
- Gameplaye: Any kind of gameplay, AI, or camera views are supported, whenever your target game would be an FPS shooter, a 3rd person adventure, or a platform arcade, Litos engine can fit your needs.
A scripting language is on design stage, allowing an optimal engine customization.
- Sound: 16 channels, Hardware 3D sound support
- Music: Standard .OGG Vorbis compressed format (Optional due to license fee, mp3 intelligent music finder/player)
- International/Localization: The Engine is multilanguage. You can have up to 8 language supported in the same game package and you can even play the game in different languages with a simple mouse click.
As much languages are needed as much can be supported/added.
check out the russian version of Dragan's Quest
“Litos” Engine© Game development environment key features
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“Litos” Engine© partnerships
Game Engine is interally being created thanks to Blitz3D, the best / faster DirectX basic wrapper under windows, compiled with BCC(Blitz Commandline Compiler) v.185 and written with UltraEdit 10.
Thanks to Mark Sibly at BlitzResearch for his effort in getting the 3D wrapper better and better.
Thanks to the Blitz3D community, who has helped so much in the development so far and in particular to:
Gianluca Sclano, Elias Tsiantas, Dieter Manfurt, Chris Fuller and all the others.
Third party tools to be used with Litos©
Ultimate Unwrap 3D is a UVmapping and general model editing tool, it can convert a huge list of 3D models format, and is suitable for Game Modding and of course, for Litos©.
The GIMP is a program for image manipulation. It is a freely distributed great piece of software, suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
It is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Phosphore, a state of the art map and game editor
A Great world builder/map editor, lightmap and vis compiler, game editor.
Features: lightmaps and rich .b3d format compiler, world builder, path nodes editor, scene editor.
Many thanks for providing always updates and new features and a lot of support for this project goes to Elias Tsiantas.
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“Litos” Engine© evolution
What are the new features we are currently working on ?
Scripting system. Allowing full customization and modification of the engine.
Dialogues Editor.
Model Editor.
Tokamak-Physic Editor.
External Libs support (eg: a custom encryption/packing library to protect your own media).
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