Havok Vision Game Engine is a discontinued,
cross-platform
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,
3D game engine
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originally authored by
Trinigy
Trinigy was a German software development company.
In the second half of 2007, Trinigy expanded to the US and founded a fully owned subsidiary in Austin, TX. The US office is headed by Daniel J. Conradie, one of the original founders of Trinigy. ...
and later acquired by
Havok. It was first released in 2003, and saw its final release in 2014. As of its eighth version, available target platforms were
Microsoft Windows (
DX9,
DX10,
DX11),
Xbox 360
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,
PlayStation 3
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,
Nintendo Wii and
Wii U
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Th ...
,
iOS,
Android,
Sony
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's
PlayStation Vita
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, and most major browsers (
IE6
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and up,
Firefox
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2.0 and up,
Google Chrome
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,
Opera 9 and up).
Trinigy and its Vision Engine were acquired by Havok in 2011. Vision Engine has since been discontinued with no support being provided.
Games using Vision Engine
Licensing
Havok licensed the Vision engine on a royalty-free, per-title/per-platform basis. All licenses included full support and regular technology updates. WebVision was free for any studio licensing Vision Engine 8.
References
External links
Havok Official website
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2003 software
Microsoft
Video game engines