Aquatica engine

Aquatica Engine 1.0 helps in the generation of photo realistic water surfaces in graphics applications. This graphics engine comes in a particularly light package compared to other engines available in the market with comparable features. It helps in rendering a very close approximation of the real world water surfaces in a virtual environment that finds uses in a variety of multimedia applications. It is widely used in the gaming industry for the generation of simulated environments having water surfaces as part of the virtual landscape.

The graphics engine is very lightweight & compatible with most of the standard PC configurations. It renders complex graphics effects such as reflections, refractions, depth effects & sunlight reflection with great perfection. At fairly high resolutions such as 1024x768, it becomes really difficult to differentiate between a natural water surface & the one created using the Aquatica Engine 1.0. The rendered effects are very natural indeed conforming to all the physical laws of the real world. The edges are barely noticeable & this gives a natural feel to the generated landscape.

Aquatica Engine is specifically designed to render real life water surfaces. Water surfaces exhibit very dynamic movements & therefore require considerable expertise in the graphical rendering. Keeping this in mind, Aquatica Engine has been written in C++ using 22 different classes & is completely object oriented. Moreover, the minimum hardware requirements for this graphics engine are surprisingly low. It only requires a 500 MHz CPU & a video card supporting DirectX 7.0 or higher.

All these features make Aquatica Engine 1.0 a truly indispensable tool for generation of real life water surfaces in a simulated virtual environment. Be it for gaming, simulation, multimedia or any other application, the results are truly astounding. At high resolutions, it is very hard to separate a natural water surface from a water surface rendered using Aquatica Engine 1.0. It is truly a powerful graphics engine in a surprisingly small package.

Aquatica engine can be used to simplify the implementation of water surfaces in application with DirectX9 graphics. Key features of the engine:
- Water surface approximation using heightmaps.
- Heightmaps can be generated in realtime using FFT or Perlin noise.
- Generation of normalmaps
- Generation of geometry: simple grid, geomipmap grid, radial grid
- Water rendering options include: reflections, refractions, CPU/GPU vertex displacement, foam rendering, sunlight reflection rendering, depth effects.
- 4 DirectX9 based rendering engines are available for different types of hardware, starting with DirectX7 and up to Shader Model 3.0
- Distributive free editor which allows to create and customize water surfaces, export them to files. After that you can import the exported water surfaces in your graphics application using the Aquatica engine source code.