The X-ray Engine is a DirectX 8.1/9 Shader Model 3.0 graphics engine. Up to a million polygons can be on-screen at any one time. The engine features HDR rendering, parallax and normal mapping, soft shadows, motion blur, widescreen support, weather effects and day/night cycles. As with other engines that utilise deferred shading, the X-ray Engine does not support anti-aliasing with dynamic lighting enabled. However, a "fake" form of anti-aliasing can be enabled with the static lighting option; this format utilizes a technique to blur the image to give the false impression of anti-aliasing. The game takes place in a thirty square kilometer area, and both the outside and inside of this area is rendered to the same amount of detail. Some textures in the game were simply photographs of the walls in the developers' studio.
Creating AI map and graph
Here is a step by step tutorial how to generate AI map, how to manipulate AI map nodes, how to successfully create your own AI map for a single player level, and finally the role and creation of graph/graph...
May 26, 2013 S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl Tutorial
Working on all.spawn with SOC level editor
This tutorial will cover an alternative method to work on all.spawn, with the using of level editor. It works mostly with vanilla or vanilla-like (ZRP) all.spawns, but doesn't work with complex mod gamedata...
Dec 8, 2012 S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl Tutorial
X-Ray Engine SDK 0.7
The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. project team releases the Software Development Kit for X-Ray 1.6 engine (S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat version)
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stalker is the best game series ever :) i even like it more then Half Life series.
Sadly though it is hard on the proccesor and RAM.
This mod/addon/whatever will bring updated engine with multicore support and fixed freezes: Desura.com
The developers got X-RAY source code...
A: Lost Alpha is based on a beta patch, called 1.0007. This was never released to the public, but we had the opportunity to get it, and fix it up. The engine is now totally upgraded, runs better than ever. This means, you don't need any SoC patches for LA, since now it became a standalone (but still free) game.
Desura.com
Best game engine on the PC.
This is great game engine.
You sir, are a major douche. Judging from all the bad ratings you give to top notch games and engines, I'd say it's safe to say that you are not capable of modding anything but Id tech.
Yeah brolee!?... get a better machine, ***!
your word just mean your PC is ****
I bought the game "Shadow of Chernobyl" and "Call of pripyat" bundle on steam, and gues what.
No more lag, stuttering, freezing.
x-ray is a great engine and probably the most capable engine I have ever seen.
Sadly though it is hard on the proccesor and RAM.
If you're not Stalker modder then you can't understand all awesomeness of X-RAY...