Using Beast with Gamebryo

The Gamebryo integration has been developed by Emergent with support from Illuminate Labs' engineers. Using the global illumination package available in Gamebryo allows you to use Beast directly without the need to write your own integration.

Using Beast with Gamebryo will allow you to:

• Get full global illumination light maps generated with Beast.
• Add light baking functionality to Scene Designer with GSA file support.
• Get tools and runtime support for light maps in Gamebryo applications (available in the global illumination package).

Full source code for the integration is available, allowing for customization to suit your particular needs.

Advantages of Beast light maps

• Full global illumination
• Materials interact with the lighting - emissive materials act as light sources, color bleeding from diffuse objects, transparency effects etcetera
• Soft shadows - realistic shadow edges from light sources
• Use HDR environments to create realistic lighting
• Highly customizable light map generation allows you to get the effect you want

Video tutorials

Check out these video tutorials on how to use global illumination together with Gamebryo:

Introduction

Using the Light Map Material in Your Art Tool

Placing the Light Map Lights in Scene Designer 

Generating Light Maps with Beast

Download the integration

The Beast integration is available for download from the support forums for Gamebryo (http://forum.emergent.net). Go to Downloads > Partner Integrations > Global Illumination, where you will find both the Gamebryo Global Illumination package and the Beast Integration. You will need to have an evaluation account for Gamebryo available from Emergent and a Beast evaluation account.