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CSP Game Engine – Main Features

Main Features

• DirectX7 compilant, fully reentrant FPS game engine binary.
• A fly-trough-and-drop-things editor that allows rapid level design.
• Automaticly positions dropped things on the ground.
• Ctrl-C and V to quickly multiply typical prefab objects in the editor.
• A waypoint recorder allows to easily add enemies and neutral NPCs to the game.
• Additional content creation tools
• A detailed documentation.
• High compatibility even on older graphicscards (No shaders required).
• Compiled with the rockstabile Blitz3D 1.98 compiler.
• No programming or recompiling required.
• For this engines art path are many free or cheap third party tools available. (eg: Pacemaker, Gile[s], UU3D, Maplet, Decorator)

Supported File Formats

• Animated NPC meshes may be 3DS, X (dx7 compilant “rotation/move/scale”) or B3D (bones, multitexturing).
• Loads 3DS,X (dx7 compilant), B3D (blitz) static or animated meshes as level objects.
• Supports multitexturing using the B3D format (eg. lightmapped building).
• Allows scaling, positioning, rotation, fx, textureflags, blendmode, collision, alpha, shootability etc. of level objects.
• Large main building meshes may be broken up in pieces at runtime to allow the engine to perform simple yet effective VIS occlusion.
• Loads WAV, MP3 and OGG as 3D sound objects that can be positioned.
• Loads CPE particle effects that can be positioned.
• Supported textures: BMP,JPG,PNG,TGA,PCX,DDS (DXT1/3/5).
• Various texture mapping modes: diffuse, alpha, masked, spherical and more.
• Highly configurable HUD, GUI, inventory, intro etc.
• Supports directShow played movies for game intro, level intro, level end, players death cutscenes.
• Optional dynamic movie codec installer execution on startup.

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