Chrome Engine

Not to be confused with Google Chrome, a freeware web browser. For the engine used in Google Chrome, see Blink.

Chrome Engine

Developer(s)	Techland
Initial release	2003, with Chrome Engine I
Stable release	6.x
Written in	C++
Platform	Microsoft Windows, Linux, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, OS X
License	Proprietary
Website	http://technology.techland.pl/

Chrome Engine is a proprietary 3D game engine developed by Techland. The current version, Chrome Engine 6, supports Mac OS X, Linux, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Windows.

Chrome Engine evolved through over nine years of development. According to its creators the engine allows substantial control over the process of creating game levels.

Features

Rendering

• Platform-independent multi-threaded rendering system architecture:
  • built-in DX10 / Xbox 360 / PlayStation 3 implementations
  • static and dynamic visible surface determination
  • resource management system
• Material system:
  • supports per-pixel lighting techniques: normal mapping, virtual displacement mapping, environment mapping or parametrized Phong lighting
  • Deferred shading
  • static and dynamic lighting
  • GPU shader level access
  • shader level-of-detail support
• Terrain:
  • heightmap-based geometry enhanced with geomipmapping and polygon reduction algorithms
  • flexible road system
• Procedural vegetation and meshes spreading
• Post-processing effects manager:
  • 64-bit High dynamic range (HDR) rendering
  • supports motion blur, bloom, glow, depth-of-field, ambient occlusion, tone-mapping, edge anti-aliasing, gamma correction
• Sun dynamic soft shadowing techniques:
  • up to four stable cascades in shadow mapping
  • accurate dynamic shadows
  • multiple shadow filtering techniques
• Skeletal animation system:
  • animation blending and morphing
  • built-in skeletal controllers
  • integrated with 3D Studio Max
  • utilizing morph targets for face mimics
• Particle system:
  • particle physics and environmental effects
  • procedural fire
• Volumetric natural phenomena atmospheric effects
• Graphical user interface (GUI) system

Physics

• Rigid body physics system:
  • basic physics type presets
  • interactions with physical objects and static environment
  • destroyable objects
  • breakable joints with constraints
  • ragdoll character animation
• Deformable objects: clothes, ropes
• Multithreading support
• Physical Level Of Detail
• Scripting physics

Sound

• support for major output formats and multichannel surround sound
• sound streaming
• 3D sound spatial positioning, sequencing, looping, filtering

Networking

• support for Internet and LAN play
• client - server architecture
• authorization server

Level editing

ChromEd is an expanded content creation and management tool. It enables real time level editing. The main features are:

• visual placement and editing of game objects with a real time view of their appearance
• a data-driven property editing framework
• real time terrain editing
• road system placing tool
• time of day function, setting sun position to an hour-accurate location
• real time performance analysis
• lightmap generation tool
• browser framework for finding and viewing game assets of all types.

Versions

Chrome Engine 1

First release of the engine used in Chrome.

Chrome Engine 2

Improved version of engine enhanced with support for DirectX 9.0.

Chrome Engine 3

This version of the engine underwent significant modifications. DirectX 9.0c and DirectX 10 support, HDR, shaders and bump mapping were implemented.

Chrome Engine 4

The fourth iteration of the Chrome Engine that was introduced with Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood. Supports DirectX 9 only.

Chrome Engine 5

This version debuted with Call of Juarez: The Cartel and Dead Island. This version was primarily used between 2011-2013.

Chrome Engine 6

Version used since 2013 to develop Dying Light and unreleased title Hellraid.

Games using Chrome Engine

Chrome Engine 1

• FIM Speedway Grand Prix (2003)
• Chrome (2003)
• Chrome: SpecForce (2005)
• Crazy Soccer Mundial (2006)

Chrome Engine 2

• Xpand Rally (2004)
• Xpand Rally Xtreme (2006)
• Terrorist Takedown: War in Colombia (2006)
• Terrorist Takedown: Covert Ops (2006)
• GTI Racing (2006)
• FIM Speedway Grand Prix 2 (2006)
• Expedition Trophy: Murmansk Vladivostok (2006)
• UAZ 4X4 Racing (2007)
• Full Drive: UAZ 4x4 – Ural Appeal (2007)
• Classic Car Racing (2007)
• Code of Honor: The French Foreign Legion (2007)
• Full Drive 2: UAZ 4x4 (2008)
• 4x4: Hummer (2008)
• Full Drive 2: Daurian Marathon (2008)
• Full Drive 2: Siberian Appeal (2008)
• Battlestrike: Force of Resistance (2008)
• Sniper: Art of Victory (2008)
• GM Rally (2009)
• KrAZ (2010)
• Full Drive 2: Trophy Murmansk - Vladivostok 2 (2010)
• Warhound (project suspended)

Chrome Engine 3

• Call of Juarez (2006)
• FIM Speedway Grand Prix 3 (2008)
• Speedway Liga (2009)
• FIM Speedway Grand Prix 4 (2011)

Chrome Engine 4

• Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood (2009)
• Sniper: Ghost Warrior (2010)
• Nail'd (2010)
• Mad Riders (2012)

Chrome Engine 5

• Call of Juarez: The Cartel (2011)
• Dead Island (2011)
• Dead Island: Riptide (2013)
• Call of Juarez: Gunslinger (2013)

Chrome Engine 6

• Dying Light (2015)
• Dead Island Definitive Edition (2016)
• Dead Island Riptide Definitive Edition (2016)
• Hellraid (unreleased)