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State of the Art Renderer

The GameStart renderer is one of the most advanced in its class. The renderer supports both Forward and Deferred shading.

Both the forward and deferred paths support an unlimited number of lights and a very large common base of post-processing effects. The forward renderer is the ideal option for lower-end hardware while the deferred renderer can take advantage of the higher-end hardware increased memory bandwith to reduce the number of primitive to process.

As a developer you do not need to choose between the performance cost of deferred shading and the hardware features of forward rendering such as MSAA and alpha-to-coverage. GameStart provides reliable output in both modes.

Multiple Everything

GameStart supports opening and working on multiple documents at once, for every supported resources. And full multiple-selection properties edition.

When working on several parts of a project it is very handy to be able to quickly lookup another part of the project, another detail or object and if needed copy it from one scene to another. The same goes for properties edition, you cannot always plan everything right the first time, by allowing multiple-selection properties edition GameStart encourages iterative development.

Be Productive!

Instantiate scenes into scenes.

Take a fully configured scene with a complex skinning setup and several scripted components, and drag'n'drop it right over another scene viewport. Presto, you get an instance of your scene in another scene! From this point on, any change applied to the source scene will be passed onto all instances. All scene attributes are supported, from scripts to physics setup.

Build blocks of items with or without interaction capabilities and build complex levels in a matter of minutes!

Complex Shaders made Easy!

With GameStart, creating a state of the art shader is not a matter of coding! Thanks to an extremely advanced and easy-to-use nodal editor, GameStart empowers any artist with the opportunity to assemble rich, complex and animated shaders.

Without a single line of code, the nodal editor brings you a comprehensive toolbox of instructions blocks to design any material with subtle reflections, layers or crisp bumpiness in fully portable way.

What was a privilege of the feature film industry is now available in a realtime 3d engine, without the need of a 3rd party plugin.

Revision Control Friendly

From the early beginning, GameStart's core filesystem and storage scheme were designed to be compatible with any of the existing Revision Control systems.

Every production-level scene, geometry, material or script files are text-based, thus making them human-readable and fully compliant with SVN, GIT or CVS. This production format is then cooked and converted to a platform efficient representation at publishing time.

GameStart intermediate development file format combines the benefits of a text-based, endian-independent and extremely compact scene and geometry files.