Features

Lighting isn’t just about visuals. You can make Enlighten’s real-time global illumination part of gameplay with day-night cycles, weather effects, player-controlled lights, and anything else you can imagine.

Enlighten supports the indirect lighting of an entire spectrum of worlds, from large, outdoor scenes to small, enclosed environments. It features advanced level of detail mechanisms for terrain, lightmaps and probes which guarantee rapid, high quality radiosity updates at runtime.
This ensures that dynamic effects, such as time of day, are possible even for massive worlds.

Enlighten allows new and intuitive ways of working with light and colour, including the ability to make any surface into a dynamic area light by modelling it as an emissive surface, dramatically expanding an artist’s toolbox.
Whatever the changes made, emissive surfaces will have almost zero performance cost.

The Enlighten 4 major update of Enlighten global illumination, enables the ability to reproduce the light reflected from moving objects and small objects, which was not previously possible. Additionally, the inclusion of indirect light rendering to ray traced reflections and the fallback to Enlighten cube maps greatly improved performance. Further, by efficiently updating Enlighten's light source shielding information in real time, far more accurate and realistic lighting results can be achieved.