Dunia engine

In July 2007, Ubisoft officially announced Far Cry 2, a computer game, and announced that the game would be based on a new engine called Dunia Engine. The developer of the game and the engine was Ubisoft Montreal , and the publisher was Ubisoft. At the same time, it was stated that Far Cry 2 is an exclusive PC . ^[one]

According to an official interview with Louis-Pierre Pharand, chief producer of Far Cry 2, only 2-3 percent of the CryEngine engine code developed by the German company Crytek for FarCry 1 was used in the Dunia Engine, since the code is only CryEngine has been completely rewritten. Nevertheless, it is obvious that CryEngine is the basis of the Dunia Engine. ^[2] The engine also incorporates the developments of improved versions of CryEngine, made by Ubisoft for certain parts of FarCry ( spin-offs ), such as Far Cry Instincts .

On January 4, 2008, an official statement was made that Far Cry 2 is also being developed for the Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3 game consoles . ^[3]

On October 15, 2008, Far Cry 2 went on a replication game (“for gold”), becoming the first game to use the Dunia Engine. ^{[4] [5]} Later, several patches were released for Far Cry 2, which improved the game and the engine. On November 5, 2008, patch 1.01 was released, ^[6] and December 17, 2008 - patch 1.02. ^{[7] [8] [9] [10]}

On December 1, 2009, James Cameron's Avatar: The Game , the second game using the Dunia Engine, was launched around the world. The game was released for the PlayStation 3 , Xbox 360 , PlayStation Portable , Wii and DS consoles , as well as for the PC . James Cameron's Avatar: The Game was the first game to support stereoscopic graphics. ^[eleven]

This improved version of the engine is quite resource-intensive and requires relatively large computational performance for normal operation. ^[12]

At the end of November 2012, the release of Far Cry 3 , created on the updated engine - Dunia Engine 2 , took place. The technology received a number of improvements, including an improved graphics engine . ^[13]

General Features

Dunia Engine has the following features:

• Support for Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3 game consoles (as well as the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One - in Dunia Engine 2);
• API support DirectX 9, DirectX 10 and DirectX 10.1 (11 - in Dunia Engine 2); ^[14]
• Destructible environments ;
• Dynamic spread of fire, which is also subject to weather conditions;
• Dynamic vegetation ( eng. RealTree ), including growth and regeneration of vegetation;
• Full day and night cycles, and realistic weather (improved in Dunia version 2);
• Support for huge open game spaces, not divided into separate levels;
• Indirect lighting and technology Radiosity (in the second version of Dunia also added global illumination (Global Illumination) ;
• Facial animation (improved in Dunia second version);
• Support for amBX technology from Philips , which is designed to create additional special effects and requires special hardware and hardware;
• Non-scripted ( non-scripted ) game artificial intelligence ;
• Dynamic music system.

Level Editor

Included with the game Far Cry 2 (later, in a newer version, Far Cry 5) comes a game level editor . ^{[15] [16] [17] [18]}

Stereoscopic mode

The second game on Dunia Engine - James Cameron's Avatar: The Game - has support for stereoscopic display mode. At the end of July 2009, Luc Dyuchain ( Eng. Luc Duchaine ), senior international manager of the game, said that in order to be able to use the stereoscopic display mode, you need to connect via HDMI and a display that supports 120 Hz update frequency. ^[19] However, in the official stereo FAQ FAQ , stereo mode requires a special display labeled “3D-enabled”. The game supports most stereoscopic output formats for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, including RealD, Sensio, side-by-side, line-interlaced and full checkerboard. On the PC, stereo mode is also available, and, besides the above-mentioned formats, Nvidia 3D Vision and iZ3D are additionally supported. ^[20]

• 2008 Far Cry 2 (first version of the engine)
• 2009 James Cameron's Avatar: The Game (improved Dunia Engine)
• 2012 Far Cry 3 (Dunia Engine 2)
• 2013 Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (Dunia Engine 2)
• 2014 Far Cry 4 (improved Dunia Engine 2)
• 2016 Far Cry Primal (improved Dunia Engine 2)
• 2018 Far Cry 5 (improved Dunia Engine 2)
• 2018 Far Cry New Dawn (Dunia Engine 2)