Gamebryo engine heads to Wii

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http://gonintendo.com/?p=24861 

This is actually some very big news. Emergent has been hard at work bringing their Gamebryo engine to the Wii. This no doubt took a huge amount of effort seeing that the Gamebryo engine was calling the more powerful next-gen platforms home. Now developers will have the Gamebryo engine at their hands to help ease development. Just to put this in perspective, Oblivion ran on a modified version of the Gamebryo engine.

Platform-specific optimizations

Gamebryo has been carefully optimized for each platform and incorporates special features designed specifically to enhance the target platform development experience.

Wii

• Extensive rendering capabilities and integrations with key graphics tools, such as Max and Maya
• Scene Designer layout tool that allows drag and drop placement of objects, lights, and cameras
• An animation tool for mixing and matching animations and transitions
• Built-in libraries (collision detection, portal system and application framework)

Xbox 360

• VMX128 optimized matrix math routines.
• Multithreaded operations
• Memory management optimization
• Task manager framework for easily harnessing the power of the multiple processors on Xbox 360.
• Automatic generation of vertex and pixel shaders consistent with the Gamebryo multitexture pipeline.

PLAYSTATION 3

• Memory management optimization
• Cross-platform parallel task creation & issuing framework
• Automatic generation of vertex and pixel shaders
• In-console asset previews

PlayStation 2

• Geometry compression with fast VU1 decompression.
• VU1 hardware skinning.
• Support for 4-bit palettized textures to maximize VRAM usage.

Xbox

• Geometry compression.
• SSE optimized math routines.
• Pluggable memory framework for textures and vertex buffers.

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