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April 17, 2007

MagicIndie Acquatica

MagicIndie is releasing a water engine for a scant $15 licensing fee. Features include:

- Water surface approximation using heightmaps.

- Heightmaps can be generated in realtime using FFT or Perlin noise.

- Generation of normalmaps

- Generation of geometry: simple grid, geomipmap grid, radial grid

- Water rendering options include: reflections, refractions, CPU/GPU vertex displacement, foam rendering, sunlight reflection rendering, depth effects.

- 4 DirectX9 based rendering engines are available for different types of hardware, starting with DirectX7 and up to Shader Model 3.0.

Posted by JayK at April 17, 2007 12:12 PM

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