Key Changes

• 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)

Key Changes

• Upscaling support: NVIDIA DLSS 3 and AMD FSR 2.2 (experimental)
• CUDA integration for Vulkan and DirectX 12
• Optimized quality presets with up to 80-90% performance boost
• Updated MATLAB integration via ROS bridge
• In-app video streams playback
• Improved Surface Profiler tool
• Dependency tracking for runtime-nodes
• Multi-language UI in Editor and SDK Browser
• Simplified scene import from Unity projects
• Free learning course updated

Key Changes

• DirectX 12 and Vulkan as primary graphic APIs
• VR in-the-core: no plugins, unified API, wider range of VR devices
• Numerous performance optimizations
• Optimized RAM consumption
• New event system instead of callbacks
• Asynchronous shader compilation
• Improved morph target support
• (Experimental) animation system improvements (new API, basic IK, retargeting, frame masks)
• Improved exposure and white balance correction
• Local tonemapper
• Multiple visual improvements: sharpen and blur for mipmaps, faster subsurface scattering, improved translucence, much more
• OpenSSL support
• Editor: batch rename, more visualizers, better world nodes hierarchy, updated cleaner, a lot of QoL improvements
• New Drone demo-project
• Free learning course

Introducing our free Learning Course on UNIGINE, the real-time 3D engine (requires authorization): https://learn.unigine.com/

The introductory course is tailor-made for individuals with basic C# programming skills and a foundational understanding of 3D applications.

Key Changes

• DirectX 12 and Vulkan API support (production)
• Multiple performance optimizations
• Panorama space dynamic global illumination
• Spatial temporal denoiser
• Streaming improvements
• Improved spacers and deflectors for particles
• Multiple tools improvements in the editor
• IG updates (VR, weather radar, CIGI symbols)
• Photon engine integration (network)
• A set of new C++ samples
• Add-On Store update