JangaFX teases IlluGen | CG Channel
Actual-time simulation instruments developer JangaFX has introduced IlluGen, a brand new software for creating “the vast majority of belongings” used to assemble the “illusions” for visible results in video games.
The software program, which had beforehand been teased on JangaFX’s Discord server, will get its personal part of JangaFX’s new public roadmap, together with a quick, enigmatic product description.
The roadmap additionally reveals the upcoming options in JangaFX’s different instruments, smoke and hearth simulator EmberGen, liquid simulator LiquiGen and terrain generator GeoGen.
A greater approach to create the belongings wanted for the ‘illusions’ in video games
The entry within the on-line roadmap is successfully the official announcement for IlluGen: it’s definitely the primary time that we will recall seeing a brand for the software program.
Nevertheless, the title of the entry is just, “IlluGen is an phantasm”, whereas the outline reads, not way more helpfully:
“Visible results in video games are [composed] of a bunch of smoke and mirrors. … If solely there have been a greater approach to create the vast majority of belongings used to assemble these illusions.”
That’s good. So what does IlluGen really do?
Nevertheless, JangaFX has talked about IlluGen earlier than on its Discord server, which prompted the next remark from one consumer:
“I hope it’s a procedural materials creation device. Having methods of producing 2D simulations can be actually attention-grabbing there [like] having frost constructions type procedurally in a 2D house.”
In response, JangaFX CEO Nick Seavert replied: “That’s roughly the concept for IlluGen”.
Seavert describes IlluGen as being like Adobe’s Substance 3D material-authoring instruments plus “distinctive sims and progress constructions” however extra for in-game FX than surroundings artwork.
Worth, system necessities and launch date
JangaFX hasn’t formally introduced what IlluGen is but, by no means thoughts its system necessities, launch date, or how a lot it is going to price.
Read the announcement of IlluGen on JangaFX’s public roadmap
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