Re: Renderware Studio 2 01 Cracked
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Released in 1993,[1] RenderWare was a 3D API and graphics rendering engine used in video games, Active Worlds, and some VRML browsers. RenderWare was developed by Criterion Software Limited, then a subsidiary of Canon. It originated in the era of software rendering on CPUs prior to the appearance of GPUs, competing with other libraries such as Argonaut Games's BRender and RenderMorphics' Reality Lab (the latter was acquired by Microsoft and became Direct3D). Renderware 4 was revealed at GDC 2004.[2]
It was licensed over 200 times. The scope went towards an integrated middleware with low level APIs for rendering, physics, audio, AI all of which are extensible through plug-ins which also serve the official high-level API. The aim was to reduce the learning curve by also including service and support for licensees. With RenderWare Studio an integrated development environment including a debugger was included.[3] RenderWare themselves claimed a 70% marketshare across studios that choose an external engine in 2003.[4]
RenderWare's principal commercial importance was in providing an off-the-shelf solution to the difficulties of PS2 graphics programming. As such, the engine was often described as "Sony's DirectX" during this era which was a reference to its surrounding framework and toolchain middleware.[clarification needed] Prior to version 2, an external programming or scripting language was required to take advantage of RenderWare. RenderWare 2, on the other hand, has its own internal scripting language: RWX (RenderWare script). However, in RenderWare 3 RWX support was removed. This next iteration focused on a binary model file format. As with the previous version increment, Criterion removed support for RenderWare 3's formats in RenderWare 4.
RenderWare is cross-platform: it runs on Windows as well as Apple Mac OS X-based applications and many video game consoles such as GameCube, Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Portable.[citation needed] RenderWare is no longer available for purchase, although Electronic Arts still honors old contracts, meaning that external developers who licensed the technology before the Criterion acquisition may still use the software. What was RenderWare 4 has dissolved into the rest of EA internal tech.[citation needed] During a 2007 Gamasutra interview, Bing Gordon, EA CCO, has stated that RenderWare did not perform well enough for next-gen hardware, graphics wise, and that RenderWare did not stand up to competition, such as Unreal Engine from Epic Games. He has also stated that the RenderWare team is "mostly a dev house".[5]
Financial terms of the deal were not announced, but it will see EA taking over the entirety of Criterion's operations from former parent company Canon Europe - including RenderWare, the company's game development studio, and key game properties Burnout and Black.
EA plans to use Renderware - and the forthcoming RenderWare 4 system for next generation consoles - as the basis for its game development in future, and while Criterion will be managed from the EA UK Studio in Chertsey, only a few miles away from Crtierion's Guildford headquarters, the RenderWare project will be managed separately from EA's local studios.
Crucially, EA has also confirmed that it will continue licensing the company's middleware technology to other developers. The RenderWare platform is used by a large number of other publishers and developers around the globe on key projects. The irony that they will now be licensing their core technology from their biggest rival will, however, almost certainly not be lost on many of them.
"This is a great fit," according to EA chairman and CEO Larry Probst. "Criterion offers us studio talent and a proven management team, globally recognised intellectual property and technology infrastructure that will accelerate our readiness on the next generation of consoles."
Earlier this year, Probst told GamesIndustry.biz in an [exclusive interview] that he was confident of EA's ability to navigate the coming hardware transition period. "Our technologists tell me that this is a more formidable technology transition than the last one, but I think that plays to our strengths," he said. "I'm sure that we will successfully navigate that transition."
The acquisition of Criterion will provide EA with a major boost in this regard, as the company is already believed to be well progressed in the development of its technology platform for next-generation development, RenderWare4. It could be argued that EA has eliminated most of the problems associated with next-generation R&D with one acquisition; while competitors now forced to rely on an EA-owned company for their middleware technology will find themselves in an even more difficult position than previously.
For his part, Criterion CEO David Lau-Kee also believes that the acquisition will benefit both companies. "Combining EA's tools and technology libraries with the existing RenderWare technologies will create a superior platform for game development," he said in a statement. "This system will provide the most powerful common technological framework for creating great games. Our work on RenderWare4, combined with EA's next generation efforts, will also boost development efforts on the next generation of consoles which are expected to debut over the next two years."
EA was already set to publish the studio's Burnout 3 title, which will launch this autumn on Xbox and PS2. First person shooter Black was well-received by the media at E3, but no release date for the title, which will now also join EA's roster, has yet been set.
Fun note, the renderware SDK If you find it, (LEGALLY which is impossible because EA now owns criterion) can actually build for gamecube, and nokia N Gauge can you imagine GTA on gamecube? or N Guage we could have had portable gta long before iphones.
I apologize beforehand for the topic does not relate to dgvoodoo directrly, but i just dont know whom to ask anymore. I am trying to modify ZanZarah: The Hidden Portal game, specifically the .scn files. I googled for editors and there are such stuff on GitHub(i.e. ), BUT it needs to be compiled - which i tried and failed. My PC is also slow so downloading full visual studio IS a problem. I googled that ZanZarah was written on rendeware engine, and it even has a studio - so i downloaded that but it doesnt load .scn files too. Seeing as zanzarah cant work on modern pc without DgVoodoo perhaps you know of some ways or tools to mod the game?
"Today we are excited to announce our new British games company -Three Fields Entertainment," Ward announced via Twitter today. An official website for the new independent studio was also unveiled today; however, only a logo and contact information is featured for now.
The industry veterans formed Criterion Games in 2000 out of Criterion Software, a technology company that developed RenderWare. In the years since, the studio created and nurtured the over-the-top Burnout racing games. Following the 2010 release of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit and 2011's Burnout Crash, Criterion was given stewardship of the Need for Speed franchise with Need for Speed: Most Wanted.
At the time of their exit from the studio, Ward's LinkedIn profile listed "unannounced project zero" as his primary work, while Sperry's LinkedIn profile showed her working on the "Team Zero" project, described as "the next thing from Criterion Games."
Established on July 21, 1993, Criterion Software Limited began within Canon's European Research Lab with the purpose of continuing their research into 3D rendering technology that could be commercialised. It was set up by David Lau-Kee and Adam Billyard as a subsidiary of Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd.
Criterion Software developed RenderWare, a proprietary 3D API graphics rendering engine, which was used for as a middleware for programs such as Active Worlds and file formats including Virtual Reality Modeling Language.
It wasn't until 1996, in which a game development studio under the same name was established, that Criterion Studios was able to gain traction in the marketplace with Renderware. Its first three games; TrickStyle in 1999, Suzuki Alstare Extreme Racing in 1999, and Deep Fighter in 2000, did not sell sufficiently enough to propel Criterion Studios from its beginnings.[4]
In 2000, Criterion Studios released RenderWare 3, a complete middleware that could function on various platforms, with the most notable being the recently released PlayStation 2. The availability and versatility of RenderWare 3 was apparent to developers, as it quickly filled a gap left for yet undeveloped technology to bridge developers from created for the PlayStation to the PlayStation 2.
With the support of Canon and the technical ability of RenderWare, Criterion was able to self-finance and manage the direction of development for their current racing game project; Burnout. The publishing rights for the game were sold to Acclaim Entertainment in 2001[5], and again with Burnout 2: Point of Impact in 2002.
Their Burnout series had proven to be a hit for Acclaim Entertainment, but the series' lackluster performance in the United States and Acclaim Entertainment's increasing financial instability in 2004, the rights to the Burnout series and RenderWare were announced to have been acquired by Electronic Arts on July 28, 2004.[6][7]
The Need for Speed series was handed over to Ghost Games in August 2013[10], and in September 2013, it was revealed through a series of tweets by Alex Ward - Criterion Game's Creative Director at the time - that Criterion Games had been reduced to 16 employees, splintering those working on Need for Speed: Rivals under Ghost Games as Ghost UK.
On February 12, 2020, it was announced that the Need for Speed series would be handed back to Criterion Games, with Ghost Games being returning to their original title as EA Gothenburg. The move meant that engineers would remain at the studio, and multiple employees were planned to move to Criterion Games in Guildford, but thirty roles were put at risk amidst the shuffle.[11]
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