Enlighten - Real Time Global Illumination Solution | Silicon Studio

Features

Enlighten dynamically computes the impact of global illumination in real-time. This means that lights, materials, and objects can be seamlessly adjusted and updated during runtime, with the global illumination responding in a matter of milliseconds.
Enlighten employs a combination of lightmaps and light probes to facilitate efficient rendering. Light probes—in particular—enhance the lighting of intricate meshes featuring numerous small details, like foliage, ensuring a more effective and nuanced illumination.

Orange: Lightmaps  Green: Light Probes

Orange: Lightmaps Green: Light Probes

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Higher Quality: Green / Orange / Purple :Low Quality

Iterate Fast

Iterate Fast

Enlighten seamlessly maintains real-time updates for global illumination, both within the game environment and your editor. No more lightmap baking is necessary; tweak the lighting and witness instant results.

Light up Gameplay

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.

Light up Gameplay

Your Light, Your Look

Your Light, Your Look

Enlighten transcends the boundaries of photorealism. Whether you're building a science fiction universe, crafting a stylized noir thriller, or designing a vibrant cel-shaded cartoon world, Enlighten breathes life into your vision.

Dynamic Worlds

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.

Dynamic Worlds

Real-time Reflections

Real-time Reflections

Enlighten delivers real-time reflections which also includes objects outside of the camera’s view. This unlocks a new realm of realism through physically-based rendering, especially enhancing the visual fidelity of metals and wet surfaces.

Paint with Light

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.

Paint with Light

Any Game, Any Engine

Any Game, Any Engine

Enlighten is offered as a stand-alone SDK or seamlessly integrated into Unreal Engine 4 or 5. Our dedicated support team and comprehensive documentation provide everything necessary for a smooth integration into your project.

Combined with Real-Time Ray Tracing

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.

Combined with Real-Time Ray Tracing

Advanced Cross-Platform Technology

Thanks to Enlighten’s lightweight design, it seamlessly scales across mobile, console, desktop, and virtual reality (VR) platforms, ensuring a uniform visual experience across all devices.

Supported platforms

【Enlighten for Unreal Engine 4 & Unreal Engine 5】

Nintendo Switch™, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Microsoft Windows

【Enlighten SDK】

Nintendo Switch™, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Microsoft Windows, Android™, iOS *Supported for VR development

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