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Unleash Your Creativity with Leadwerks Game Engine 5

Leadwerks Game Engine 5 empowers you to bring your game development ideas to life faster and easier than ever before. Dive into our comprehensive video tutorials and master the tools needed to create stunning 3D games. Using our intuitive visual editor and the power of Lua scripting you will be able to easily create many types of games like action games and adventure games.

Optimized Performance for AAA Game Development

Experience unparalleled performance with our new multithreaded architecture, eliminating CPU bottlenecks and delivering significantly faster rendering, even under heavy loads. Build your dream games with confidence, knowing that Leadwerks is optimized to scale with your project.

Breathtaking Visuals

Achieve AAA-quality visuals with our advanced graphics features. Leadwerks offers Physically Based Rendering (PBR) materials, customizable post-processing effects, hardware tessellation, and a clustered forward+ renderer with support for up to 32x MSAA, allowing you to create truly immersive and visually stunning game worlds.

Integrated Level Design Tools

Design your game levels directly within the editor using our built-in level design tools. Enjoy fine control over subdivision, bevels, and displacement. Build and playtest your levels quickly, eliminating the need to switch between different applications. Everything you need for level creation is seamlessly integrated.

Vertex Material Painting

Add intricate details and visual richness to your game environments by painting materials directly onto level geometry. This allows you to seamlessly blend different surfaces, transforming individual elements into a cohesive and believable world.

Mesh Reduction for Optimized Assets

Optimize your game assets with our integrated mesh reduction tool. Decimate complex geometry effortlessly, making model optimization and LOD (Level of Detail) creation a breeze. Allowing you to reduce polygon count and optimise frame-rates.

Stochastic Vegetation System

Populate your outdoor environments with lush and realistic foliage using our innovative stochastic vegetation system. This system dynamically calculates instances each frame, enabling massive, detailed forests with fast performance and minimal memory usage. A unique feature that you need for creating simulation games!

Dynamic Pathfinding for Intelligent AI

Create intelligent and responsive AI with our fully dynamic pathfinding system. Supporting one or multiple navigation meshes that automatically rebuild when objects move, this system allows your AI agents to dynamically adjust their routes in response to environmental changes, leading to smarter enemies and more engaging gameplay.

Integrated Script Editor and C++ Support

Leadwerks' integrated Lua script editor offers rapid prototyping with an easy-to-learn language and a wealth of code examples. Our built-in debugger allows you to pause your game, step through code, and inspect variables in real-time. For advanced users, C++ programming is also available with the Leadwerks Pro DLC. The flexibility of a programming game engine made for you.

Visual Flowgraph Editor

Use the visual flowgraph editor to create complex game mechanics without writing code. This intuitive tool provides high-level control over sequences of events, allowing level designers to easily set up in-game scenarios.

Integrated Asset Downloads

Access thousands of ready-to-use PBR materials, 3D models, skyboxes, and more directly from within the editor using the integrated downloads manager. Use this content in your game projects, or simply kitbash new scenes for fun.

Learn Game Development from the Best

Break free from "tutorial hell" with our expertly designed lessons. Our video tutorials provide in-depth foundational knowledge, guiding you from beginner to proficient game developer, one step at a time.

Royalty-Free Licensing

With Leadwerks, you can create and publish an unlimited number of commercial games, enjoying a developer-friendly, royalty-free license. Keep 100% of your profits, with no hidden fees or third-party licensing constraints.

Graphics Features

• Multi-threaded rendering architecture

• Clustered forward+ renderer with uniform lighting model and optional depth prepass

• Multi-display support

• PBR materials

• Load 3D models from glTF, OBJ, MDL, and FBX (using glTF converter)

• Image loading, saving, processing

• Vertex, pixel, geometry, and tessellation shaders

• Normal mapping with specular

• Customizable post-processing effects stack

• Crack-free hardware tessellation

• Environment probes

• Instanced rendering

• Real-time mesh modification

• Imposters

Editor Features

• Build-in level design tools using constructive solid geometry

• Edit level geometry in 2D and 3D viewports

• Carve and hollow boolean operations

• Build-in mesh reduction tools to optimize models or generate LODs

Programming Features

• Integrated script editor

• Easy-to-code Lua API with over 800 commands

• Auto-completion

• Hover mouse to show command syntax

• Visual flowgraph connects script functions to set up sequences of events

• Advanced programmers can use C++ (requires Leadwerks Pro DLC)

Terrain Features

• Dynamically sculpt and paint terrain

• Cut holes in terrain

• Up to 256 material layers

• Terrain foliage system

3D Model Features

• Load and save Khronos glTF files

• Load and save Wavefront OBJ files

• Convert FBX files to glTF and load

• Convert Collada files to glTF and load

• Build-in mesh reduction tools for optimizing models or generating LODs

Animation Features

• Animated skinned characters

• Share skeletons across multiple characters

• Attach objects to bones

• Built-in animation transition and update system

• Hardware skinning

• Blend and transition animations

Physics Features

• Fast and accurate asynchronous rigid body physics

• Constraints including hinge, ball, kinematic, plane, and sliding joints

• Motorized joints with limits

• Generate physics shapes

• Swept collision

• Raycasting with lines or spheres

Pathfinding Features

• Navmesh pathfinding

• Crowd avoidance and steering

• Navigation areas visible in editor

• Physics-based character controller

• Automatic AI following

Sound Features

• 3D sound spatialization

• Head-related transfer function (HRTF)

• Audio filters including distortion, flanging, echo, and EAX reverb effects

• Emit a sound from any entity

• Automatic channel management

• Skip to any time in sound

GUI Features

• Resolution-independent for any DPI

• Extensible widgets system

• Load SVG vector images

• Set widget and item image

• Change mouse cursor

• Custom color schemes stored in JSON files

Supported File Formats

• Model files can be loaded from and saved to glTF and OBJ format, or converted from FBX format.

• Textures can be loaded from DDS, PNG, JPG, BMP, TGA, PSD, and other image formats.

• Audio can be loaded from WAV, MP3, and OGG formats.

• ISPC Fast Texture Compression, including BC7 and BC6h pixel formats 

• Zip package loading and saving

System Features

• Thread management, with mutexes and semaphores

• File I/O

• File system watcher

• Memory allocation and management

• String manipulation (split, search, conversion, etc.)

• Message boxes and file / folder requester

Virtual Reality Features

• SteamVR integration with support for a variety of headsets

• Fast stereoscopic rendering

• Controller input and display

• Attach objects to hand controllers and headset

• Translation and rotation view offset

Steamworks Integration

• Authenticate application ownership

• Get user info

• Leaderboards

• Stats and achievements

• Multiplayer lobbies

• Peer-to-peer networking