About Engine Nine

Engine Nine is a 3D game engine based on Microsoft Xna Framework that allows you to create games for Windows, Xbox 360, Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight.

Engine Nine is free to modify and use with your commercial or non-commercial applications, but don't forget to put a Logo  on your splash or credit screen and show us your creations!.

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Updates

• [2011.08.27] Added level of detail to terrain.
• [2011.07.15] The animation system now supports Xbox Live Avatar.
• [2011.04.29] Now with high dynamic range lighting.
• [2011.04.03] Engine Nine 1.0.0 Released.
• [2011.03.25] Gooo available on Windows Phone 7 Marketplace!
• [2010.12.08] StitchUp has been integrated. Shader fragments can be linked at build time through LinkedEffect.

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Features

• Platforms
  • Runs natively on Windows, Zune, Xbox 360, and Windows Phone 7.
  • Runs natively on web browser using Silverlight 5 (Work in Progress).
  • Can be ported to iOS, android though Mono (Future).
• Graphics
  • Support both forward & deferred lighting
  • Support directional light, point light and spot light.
  • Shadow mapping.
  • Terrain splatting and level of details.
  • Flexible particle system effects.
  • Soft particles.
  • Point sprites, textured line strips.
  • Basic primitives: box, sphere, teapot, axis, arrow, point, line, grid.
  • Skybox.
• Materials
  • Basic Xna materials
  • Normal mapping
  • Environment mapping.
  • Build-time material linking from fragments.
  • Transparency.
  • Material level of detail.
• Post Processing
  • Extensible post processing framework.
  • High dynamic range and bloom effect.
  • Depth of field, blur, radical blur effect.
• Scene Management
  • Octree scene management.
  • Terrain ray-casting and picking.
  • Model picking.
• Animations
  • Skeleton animation
  • Automatic animation blending
  • Custom animation controllers (E.g. Looking at a target).
  • Full support for Xbox Live Avatar.
  • Support both rigid model animation and skinned model animation.
  • Transition system for creating smoothed tweening
  • 2D Sprite animation. 
• Authoring
  • Scenes and content can be are represented using Xml.
  • Content xml are compiled into binary format during content build.
  • Fast load speed and smaller to distribute.

Games

Roadmap & Visions

See our Roadmap & Visions for a detailed description on how the future of Engine Nine will be shaped.

Contribute

Help us shape the future of Engine Nine by:

• Donate
• Submit a patch to fix a bug or propose a feature.
• Join us Now!

Donate

Engine Nine is free to download, use and modify. If you find it useful, you can donate via PayPal.