Why game developers love Turtle

With Turtle you can easily create stunning global illumination for your game levels and then bake the illumination into texture maps, vertex maps or point clouds. Other features include the baking of occlusion and normal maps from highly detailed models to low polygon models. All baked results can be visualized in Maya's viewport using the GPU. 

The combination of great global illumination and a comprehensive set of baking tools make Turtle the perfect fit for game developers using Autodesk Maya.

Real world production requirements have driven the research and development of new GI algorithms tuned for performance on some of the heaviest game content in use today.

Turtle has evolved into a generalized light baker capable of baking to textures, per vertex or at any chosen location in a given scene. You can collect static lighting or precomputed radiance transfer for dynamic lighting and store this information in virtually any function basis of your choice.

Turtle’s Surface Transfer takes normal mapping to the next level. This tool generates high quality maps from complex models in just a few clicks. Surface Transfer can generate normal, ambient occlusion, light, and most other maps required by next generation console development.

Titles using Turtle

Turtle has been used in some of the most exciting game titles such as Dragon Age: Origins, EVE Online, God of War III, Gran Turismo, and Tomb Raider Underworld. To see more titles and screen shots, please visit our Gallery.

Tutorials

There are several tutorials available for digging deeper and to get a more hands on learning, some of the topics for the Tutorials are Advanced Lighting, Advanced Baking, Surface Transfer and Ambient Occlusion. Check out the Tutorials page for more info.

Test drive Turtle

With Global Illumination algorithms tuned for baking, Turtle sets a new standard for pre-computed lighting.
But, don’t take our word for it for yourself. Try it out!

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