Tropics; a new Unigine-powered demo/benchmarking tool

[mithrandir]

I came across a new UniGine demo called Tropics which can be used for benchmarking as well. Not used it yet myself (at work) but looks good.

Download HERE

A new Unigine-powered demo is available for download. It shows dynamic sky with light scattering, live water, real-time ambient occlusion and a lot of other modern technologies. The demo works with DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL. Read more in the official press-release.

Features:

Support of DirectX 9, DirectX 10 and OpenGL

Dynamic sky with light scattering

Live water with a surf zone and caustics

Special materials for vegetation

HDR rendering

Parallel split shadow map

Depth of field

Real-time ambient occlusion

Benchmark mode

Whoah! My first run and it was close to watching a slideshow

I managed around 6-7 fps oin average. Here's my screen:





I also ran the Santuary one and personally I think that one is much better, better use of lighting, texture, fogging, depth of field, HDR and viewing from stain glass windows - even runs at a decent rate.

 

[TonyG]

Downloading it now.

 

[TonyG]

Doesnt work

 

[mithrandir]

What comes up or at which stage does it stop working?

 

[TonyG]

Launcher error

 

[baker99]

Looks nice, only seems to like running in certain display modes though, it won't run in 1080p fullscreen on my tv, 1024x768 fullscreen seems best, I also think the OpenGL modes look better than DirectX, but that may just be my eyes playing tricks.