Dunia Engine
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| developer | Ubisoft Montreal |
| Current version | 2 (11/29/2012) |
| operating system | Microsoft Windows , Xbox 360 , PlayStation 3 |
| programming language | C ++ |
| category | Game engine |
| License | EULA |
| German speaking | No |
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Dunia Engine is a game engine that was developed by Ubisoft Montreal specifically for the Far Cry series and is used exclusively by games in this series. The word "Dunia" comes from Arabic and means "world" or "earth". The latest game based on this engine is Far Cry New Dawn , an open-world first-person shooter from Ubisoft Montreal in collaboration with Ubisoft Kiev , Ubisoft Romania , Ubisoft Shanghai .
Use and development
In July 2007 the company Ubisoft officially announced that it would develop the Far Cry 2 computer game based on the new Dunia engine. According to an interview with Senior Product Manager Michiel Verheijdt, only two to three percent of the CryEngine 1 is reused in the Dunia engine. On January 4th, 2008, Ubisoft announced that it would also release an Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 version of the game. The game was released in Europe on October 24, 2008 for Windows, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. On November 5th, 2008 a patch with a partially improved engine was released.
Technical specifications
The Dunia Engine has numerous features, including:
- Support for game consoles such as Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's Playstation 3
- destructible environments
- dynamic weather
- dynamic fire propagation (influenced by weather system)
- dynamic vegetation [RealTree] (including growth and offspring of plants)
- Day and night cycles
- dynamic sound system
- "Non-scripted AI"
- Emission or separation of various lights
- amBX technology from Philips for special effects
Dunia Engine can run on DirectX 10 as well as DirectX 9 on Windows Vista. Dunia Engine is less hardware demanding than CryEngine 2, a similar game engine developed by Crytek.
Map editor
The program has a map editor with which the levels or missions are created.
Games based on the Dunia Engine
- Far Cry 2 (2008; Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)
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Far Cry 3 (2012; Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)
- Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (2013; Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)
- Far Cry 4 (2014; Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360)
- Far Cry Primal (2016; Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One)
- Far Cry 5 (2018; Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One)
- Far Cry New Dawn (2019; Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One)
Individual evidence
- ↑ System requirements for Far Cry New Dawn: Again SLI and Crossfire X for UHD in 60 fps. January 16, 2019, accessed July 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Wilbert de Vries: Feature: Ubisoft light tipje van de sluier over Far Cry 2 op ( Dutch ) December 14, 2007. Accessed on August 11, 2013: “ Voor de engine, the intern state onder de codenaam Dunia, is slechts 2 dead 3 percent van de Cry-engine produced. "
- ↑ Christian Nutt: In-Depth: Far Cry 2's Guay Talks Dunia Engine, State Of PC. In: Gamasutra . July 9, 2008, accessed September 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Marc Sauter: Far Cry 3 in the test: graphics cards and CPU benchmarks. In: PC Games Hardware . January 3, 2013, accessed September 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Thomas Morgan: Face-Off: Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. In: Eurogamer . May 1, 2013, accessed September 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Andreas Link: Far Cry 4 suffered from cross-platform development for old and new consoles. In: PC Games Hardware . March 12, 2015, accessed September 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Marc Sauter: Far Cry Primal in the technology test: There was no framework in the Stone Age. In: Golem.de . February 29, 2016, accessed September 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Andermahr, Max Doll: Far Cry 5 in the test: benchmarks and impressions from the beautiful sandbox. In: Computerbase . March 27, 2018, accessed September 10, 2018 .