Human Head Studios, Inc. has decided to offer
the new technologies created for their upcoming game Rune for use by licensees
of the Unreal Engine. Under an agreement with Epic Games, Human Head
Studios, Inc. will become a preferred provider of additional Unreal
tech. This set of technologies is offered solely by Human Head Studios,
Inc., who will be responsible for the sale and support of these technologies
to licensed users of Unreal and Unreal Tournament.
The Rune enhancements will work with either the
base Unreal Engine, or the Unreal Tournament Engine.
Skeletal
Deformation and Dynamics
-Imports full hierarchical skeletons and meshes
from SoftImage
-Support for translation, rotation, and scale on
all joints
-Play separate animations on different joints of
a model
-Blend an animation with another one
-Apply effects (transparency, masking, etc.) to
individual model parts
-Rotational joint interpolation
-Arbitrary attachment of actors to joints
-Rigid body dynamics on joints
-Oriented collision boxes on joints for localized
damage
-Script access to joints for head turning, limb
severing, etc.
-Left-handed mode
-Additional animation compression
-Import tool for adding game data, calculating
LOD, compressing
Continuous
Level-of-Detail system
Real time vertex decimation
Projected
Shadows
Shadows that climb up walls
Particle
System
Visual
Performance Monitor
Extensive
Debugging HUD
Extensive
Enhancements to the Unreal Editor (check back here for a list coming
soon)
Misc.
Associated Tools
