The Unigine game engine just released Unigine 2.19. This is the first major release of the C++/C# game engine of 2024, with Unigine 2.18 being released in December of 2023. Unigine is packed with new features, many of which are under the hood changes including much better CPU utilization, improved editor start up times as well as decreased RAM and VRAM usage. Of course there are new developer features in this release as well.
Highlights of the Unigine 2.19 release include:
- Multi-threaded renderer that significantly enhances CPU-side performance
- Engine startup loading optimization
- Major optimizations to reduce RAM usage
- Improved streaming system, including async node loading
- Support for OpenXR
- Upgraded character animation system (experimental)
- Support for USD format export
- Integration with .NET 8
- SpiderVision plugin for multi-monitor/curved screen image output
- Video streaming via WebRTC (experimental)
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You can learn more about the Unigine 2.19 release in the video below.