The C++ and C# powered 3D game engine Unigine just released Unigine 2.20. This release added several new features and improvements including:
- Multithreaded Shadow Rendering is now supported on DirectX 12, significantly reducing CPU overhead and making real-time lighting more scalable.
- DLSS (NVIDIA) support has been extended to Vulkan, in addition to DX12, enabling high-performance upscaling across a wider range of applications.
- AMD FSR 3.1.3 is integrated, offering another high-quality upscaling option, especially on non-NVIDIA hardware.
- The upscaling system now features:
- LOD-aware rendering to improve detail balance across distances.
- Enhanced motion vector calculation and depth stabilization, reducing visual artifacts during movement.
- Octahedral Impostors have been introduced, offering better-looking and more efficient distant geometry representation than traditional billboards — useful for massive scenes like open-world simulations.
- Numerous improvements to volumetric cloud rendering, enhancing visual quality, and realism.
- A new Global Illumination control allows fine-tuning of indirect reflection color and intensity to better match diffuse lighting. It improves the consistency of both matte and glossy surface reflections.
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You can learn more about the Unigine 2.20 release and see the update in action in the video below.