Power and Flexibility
Don't let its extreme ease of use fool you. Underneath the hood, Leadwerks sports a beast of an engine, refined over years and tested with hundreds of games to deliver maximum performance and the flexibility to create any type of game.
Massive Performance
Leadwerks Game Engine uses an OpenGL 4 deferred renderer to display detailed scenes with real-time lighting at maximum speeds. The scalable engine architecture accomodates a wide variety
of game types at optimal framerates with breathtaking visuals.
OpenGL 4.0 Renderer
OpenGL 4.0 Renderer
One graphics API runs predictably on all supported platforms and hardware, with no surprises and no excuses.
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Entity System
Entity System
Object management, hierarchies, and space transformations are a breeze with our entity system.
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Environment Probes
Environment Probes
Place environment probes in your scene for precise control of ambient lighting and reflections.
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Deferred Decals
Deferred Decals
Deferred decals let you paint a scene with cracks, details, and splatters.
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Realistic Characters
Realistic Characters
Hardware skinning with up to 256 bones and an advanced animation management system make your characters stand out.
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Hardware Occlusion Culling
Hardware Occlusion Culling
Occlusion culling in Leadwerks is fast and automatic, with no need for hand-placed portals.
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Groundbreaking Terrain and Vegetation System
Leadwerks features a unique terrain system that uses virtual textures to render the area around the player with details conventional
texture splatting can't match. A revolutionary vegetation system allows you to populate landscapes with millions of trees, plants, and rocks, using
almost no memory.
Customizable Post-Effects System
You can add any number of post-processing effects including bloom, volumetric light scattering, screen-space ambient occlusion, screen-space reflections, and more.
Choose from a variety of stock effects, download new shaders from the Workshop Store, or create your own effects in GLSL the built-in shader IDE.
Fast and Accurate Physics
Leadwerks uses Newton Game Dynamics for physics, providing the most stable real-time physics. Joints with limits and actuators can be used
to simulate realistic movements without the spastic behavior typical of other physics engines.
Graphics
- Deferred renderer with uniform lighting model
- Up to 32x hardware MSAA
- Vertex, pixel, geometry, and tessellation shaders
- Normal mapping with specular
- Clipmap terrain
- Post-processing stack
- Hardware tessellation
- Cubemap reflections
- Instanced rendering
- Hardware skinning
- Real-time mesh modification
- Trilinear and 16x anisotropic filtering
- Blend and transition animations
- Extract animation sequences
Physics
- Fast and accurate rigid body physics
- Constraints including hinge, ball, and sliding joints
- Motorized joints with limits
- Generate physics shapes
- Swept collision
- Raycasting with lines or spheres
AI
- Navmesh pathfinding
- Crowd avoidance and steering
- Navigation areas visible in editor
- Physics-based character controller
- Automatic AI following
Particles
- Real-time particle editor
- Emission volume shapes
- Adjustable curve graph
- Particle animation sheets
- Velocity-based directional particles
Sound
- 3D sound spatialization
- Emit a sound from any entity
- Automatic channel management
- Skip to any time in sound
Networking
- Peer-to-peer networking with Steamworks
- Voice and text chat
- NAT traversal
- Public lobby system
- Easily synchronize physics and animation
