Doc:2.6/Manual/Game Engine/Features

Features

A comprehensive list of features available in the Blender Game Engine:

Editor

• Platforms: GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac
• Logic brick workflow.
• Python scripting.
• Shadow map Baking
• Light map Baking
• Embedded player (WYSIWYG)
• Profiling at runtime
• Physics visualisation (debugging)

Engine

• Multiple shading modes
  • GLSL shading
  • Multitexture
  • Singletexture

• GLSL shaders (2.0, vertex and fragments - Python or built-in).
  • Normal map
  • Parallax map
  • Specular map
  • Color map
  • Detail map
  • Environment reflect (cube, sphere)
  • Vertex color
  • Phong shader
  • Dynamic shadow (Soft shadows and Stencil shadows; harmony branch)
• Physics: Bullet
  • Culling system: sphere, box, frustum (through Python)
  • Collision system: capsule, box, sphere, cylinder, cone, convex hull, triangle mesh
• Sound: WAV, MP3, Ogg
• Textures: tga(+alpha), png(+alpha), jpg, VideoTexture support
• Text: Bitmap font and Font objects
• Pathfinding: Navigation mesh with Obstacle Avoidance; Recast and Detour
• Animation: Mesh deformation with bones (armatures)
• Mip-mapping
• Anti-Aliaising (MSAA)

Incomplete / future features

• GL particle system (See xEmitter)
• Terrain engine
• GUI (see BGUI)
• LOD (level of detail - via Python).
• Portals (not yet).
• Network (via Python).
• Multi uv coordinate (via Python).