Code Games with C++
Ultra Engine Pro provides support for C++ programming with Microsoft Visual Studio, for the ultimate developer experience. Documentation is extensive, with hundreds of code examples demonstrating how to use graphics, physics, raycasting, pathfinding, and other systems to build games and VR applications.
Support for Lua development with Microsoft Visual Studio Code is also included.
Ultra Engine Pro requires some programming to harness its full potential, and is best suited for intermediate and advanced developers.
Royalty-Free License
What you create is yours to play, sell, or give away. You will never be charged royalties or install fees for any application you make. And because we only rely on free open-source middleware libraries, you never have to worry about purchasing expensive licenses from third parties.
Graphics
- Revolutionary new rendering architecture
- Forward+ renderer with uniform lighting model and optional depth prepass
- Multi-display support
- PBR materials
- Load 3D models from glTF, OBJ, MDL, and FBX (using glTF converter)
- Image loading, saving, processing
- Vertex, pixel, geometry, and tessellation shaders
- Normal mapping with specular
- Post-processing stack
- Hardware tessellation
- Environment probes
- Instanced rendering
- Real-time mesh modification
VR
- SteamVR integration with support for a variety of headsets
- Fast stereoscopic rendering
- Controller input and display
- Attach objects to hand controllers and headset
- Translation and rotation view offset
Entity Component System
- Multiple components per entity are supported
- Save and load game states
- Visual flowgraph connects component actions to create event sequences
Terrain
- Dynamically sculpt and paint terrain
- Cut holes in terrain
- Up to 256 material layers
- Hardware tessellation
3D Models
- Load and save Khronos glTF files
- Load and save Wavefront OBJ files
- Convert FBX files to glTF and load
- Convert Collada files to glTF and load
- Load other formats with plugin system
Animation
- Animated skinned characters
- Share skeletons across multiple characters
- Attach objects to bones
- Built-in animation transition and update system
- Hardware skinning
- Blend and transition animations
Physics
- Fast and accurate asynchronous rigid body physics
- Constraints including hinge, ball, kinematic, plane, and sliding joints
- Motorized joints with limits
- Generate physics shapes
- Swept collision
- Raycasting with lines or spheres
Pathfinding
- Navmesh pathfinding
- Crowd avoidance and steering
- Navigation areas visible in editor
- Physics-based character controller
- Automatic AI following
Sound
- 3D sound spatialization
- Head-related transfer function (HRTF)
- Audio filters including distortion, flanging, echo, and EAX reverb effects
- Emit a sound from any entity
- Automatic channel management
- Skip to any time in sound
GUI
- Resolution-independent for any DPI
- Extensible widgets system
- Load SVG vector images
- Set widget and item image
- Change mouse cursor
- Custom color schemes stored in JSON files
Plugins
- Basis Universal supercompressed texture support
- FreeImage Texture Support for PNG, JPG, BMP, TGA, PSD, etc.
- Wavefront OBJ model saving
- ISPC Fast Texture Compression
- Quake package, model, and texture loading
System
- Thread management, with mutexes and semaphores
- File I/O
- File system watcher
- Memory allocation and management
- String manipulation (split, search, conversion, etc.)
- Message boxes and file / folder requester
- Plugin system
Steamworks Integration
- Authentication
- User info
- Leaderboards
- Stats and achievements
- Multiplayer lobbies
- Peer-to-peer networking
- Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP)