After six months of work, the CryEngine team released a new version of the engine — 5.6. It contains more than 1000 changes to optimize development.
Engine areas such as physics, rendering, audio, etc., as well as CryEngine Launcher have been improved.
Here are just some of the changes:
- Sandbox Editor — the editor has been upgraded to make the workflow in it faster and more flexible;
- improvement of metal textures (their creation and modeling of various surfaces);
- improved illumination of areas with different types of light sources;
- tessellation function in Render Ribbons for creating curved objects;
- CRUWARE ADX2 audio system support;
- Behavior Tree UI support — for creating more complex patterns of behavior of NPCs and opponents.
You can read the full list of features in this document.
And there was also a trailer with a demonstration of the capabilities of CryEngine 5.6.
Note that the release of the new version of the engine coincided with the full release of Hunt: Showdown.
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