ActionRealm publie une nouvelle interview de STALKER : Oblivion, le FPS qui se déroule aux alentours de Tchernobyl. Un article classique ne présentant pas beaucoup d’intérêt si ce n’est pour ses screenshots et la tirade décrivant les possibilités du moteur 3D utilisé :
The game is powered by our in-house engine X-Ray, which is a brand new high-tech engine supporting an array of cutting-edge technologies. X-Ray allows combining both indoor and immense outdoor areas with high geometry detailing (about 100.000 polygons per frame). Owing to hardware T&L optimizing, continuous progressive detailing technology for entire geometry, powerful system of visibility defining, which uses not only sector-portal ideology, but also antiportals for occlusion culling – 60 fps are easily attained even on average computer configuration. The system of skeleton animation allows using motion-capture hardware to create smooth and realistic character movements. Along with use of detailed textures, geometry detailing objects are utilized too for level surfaces (grass, rocks, etc). The engine uses as direct model of lighting, so as « radiosity », along with colored dynamic lighting and dynamic « soft » shadows.
D’après Alexei Sytyanov (Game Designer du projet), STALKER aurait une durée de vie de 30 à 50 heures pour un joueur ne cherchant pas trop à explorer les 20Km² de carte.
