Features

Lighting transcends mere visuals with Enlighten. Integrate real-time global illumination into your gameplay through dynamic day-night cycles, immersive weather effects, player-controlled lights, and any other elements you can imagine.

Enlighten excels in supporting indirect lighting across a diverse spectrum of worlds—ranging from expansive outdoor landscapes to intimate, enclosed environments. With advanced mechanisms for terrain, lightmaps, and probes, it guarantees swift, high-quality radiosity updates in real-time. This capability ensures the feasibility of dynamic effects, like changing time of day, even in vast worlds.

Enlighten introduces fresh and intuitive approaches to manipulating light and color. With the capability to transform any surface into a dynamic area light through emissive surface modeling, it significantly broadens an artist’s creative toolkit. Moreover, regardless of the alterations made, emissive surfaces incur nearly zero performance costs.

The Enlighten 4 update revolutionizes global illumination, introducing the capability to replicate light reflections from moving and small objects—an achievement previously unattainable. Furthermore, the update enhances performance significantly through the incorporation of indirect light rendering in ray-traced reflections and the utilization of Enlighten cube maps as fallbacks. Real-time updates to Enlighten's light source shielding information further enhance accuracy, allowing for more precise and realistic lighting outcomes.