The Vengeance engine is a video game engine based on Unreal Engine 2/2.5. It was created by Irrational Games to make Vengeance

The Vengeance engine

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also known as: Vengeance engine

• integrating into the Havok physics 2 engine
• some newer DirectX® 9 rendering capabilities(support on shader model 2.0)
• adding new next generation graphics technologies(normal mapping with per pixel lighting, normal mapped(and bump mapped) animating models and objects and scenery and bump lighting mapping, HDR likely post processing full screen glow effect, pixel shaded water)
• improved terrain texturing and lightmapping
• highly optized terrain detail mesh renderer(lots of grass etc)
• Mojo(new cutscene toolset) for Unreal Engine
• enhancing and new features adding the UnrealEd

Games using Vengeance engine

• Vengeance (Irrational Games Australian Studio) : Unreal Engine 2.5 (build 2500)
• SWAT 4 (Irrational Games Boston Studio) : Unreal Engine 2.0 (build 2226)
• The Stetchkov Syndicate (Irrational Games Australian Studio) : Unreal Engine 2.5 (build 2500)
• The Lost (Irrational Games Australian Studio/FX Labs) Unreal Engine 2.5

Enhanced version of Vengeance engine

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also known as: BioShock engine or Vengeance engine 2

• integrating into the Havok physics 3 engine
• full advantage of Direct3D 9 shader and lighting effects using version 3 of the High Level Shader Language, and support for Direct3D 10 and shader model 4.0
• HLSL and Cg shader based rendering system
• 64-bit processing and multi-core processing support
• Windows Vista support
• next generation consoles(Xbox 360, PlayStation 3) support
• OpenGL 2.x support
• new effects(real HDR rendering, virtual displacement mapping, high quality soft shadows and more next generation graphics technologies) and that's effects toolsets for Unreal Engine
• enhancing and new features adding the UnrealEd
• upgrade to Unreal Engine 3.0, but, there's are not using all of it, rendering and a lot of modules using Unreal Engine 2.5 modification things. it's a using Unreal Engine 3.0 frameworks and toolsets.

Games using Vengeance engine 2

• BioShock (Irrational Games Boston Studio) : Unreal Engine 3.0

Next version of the Vengeance engine

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also known as: Vengeance engine 3

• major upgrade to Unreal Engine 3/3.5
• many features customized irrational games's visual and other extension
• integration into the Havok Physics 3 engine instead NovodeX Physics engine
• extension toolset and other modules

Games using Vengeance engine 3

• Irrational Games Australian Studios's next generation project

External links

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• Irrational Games
• Unreal Technology

Sources

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• IGN Interview SWAT 4 interview with Joe Faulstick (Associate Producer of Irrational Games)

Game engines