The presentation is describing all major graphic techniques that are available in the CryEngine2. Here we describe the properties and why they are in the engine in that form. All techniques work well together and provide a good solution for current and near future generation of graphics hardware.

The presentation delivers an insight into the challenges of creating levels in a variety of unique open environments

Shortly after the release of the critically acclaimed CRYSIS Christian, Tomas, and Inon presented their deep insight to sound design, technical features, and dynamic music at a full hour session during GDC San Francisco.

A virtual texture is a mip-mapped texture used as cache to allow a much higher resolution texture to be emulated for real-time rendering, while only partly residing in texture memory. In this Siggraph 2008 presentation we will be discussing technical implications on engine design due to virtual textures use, content creation issues, results, performance and image quality.

Synopsis: This presentation is one of the case studies shown during the "Porting Game Engines to Direct3D 10" course. In the context of CryEngine2 it illustrates initial porting steps, faced integration issues and optimizations done to get from an existing DX9 to a DX10 renderer.