Sith (game engine)

Sith engine
Developer(s)	LucasArts
Written in	C
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Type	Game engine
License	proprietary

The Sith engine is a game engine developed by LucasArts. The game Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II is based on this engine, and its expansion, Star Wars Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith, is based on a slightly updated version.

The engine was used in Grim Fandango as a basis for the GrimE engine,^[1] and in Star Wars: Droid Works.^[2] A modified third-person view version of the code with dramatically rewritten lighting, collision, rendering and tools was renamed to Jones engine and used in Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine.^[3]

Technical features

The Sith engine is an early example of a scripted game engine. Most object behaviors are implemented with the integrated COG scripting language or defined parametrically using a template system which allows simple inheritance.^[4]

The engine is also an example of a portal engine. Level geometry is rendered as a series of negative-space convex polyhedrons connected by adjoining polygons. Levels require no preprocessing and hidden surface determination is computed at run-time.

References

↑ Lua in Grim Fandango
↑ Postmortem: LucasLearning's Star Wars DroidWorks
↑ Chris Jensen (1999). "Indiana Jones Interview". CheckOut Games (via Internet Archive). Archived from the original on 27 January 2000. Retrieved 7 April 2010.
↑ Adding Languages to Game Engines

Game engines developed by LucasArts

SCUMM GrimE Jedi Sith

Game engines (list)

Free and
open-source

2D	Adventure Game Studio Beats of Rage Cocos2d Flixel Jogre KiriKiri libGDX Moai OHRRPGCE OpenFL ORX Pygame Ren'Py Stratagus Thousand Parsec VASSAL Xconq

2.5D	Aleph One Cube

3D	Away3D Blender Game Cafu Crystal Space Cube 2 Delta3D Dim3 GLScene Horde3D HPL 1 Irrlicht id Tech 3 id Tech 4 JMonkey OGRE Open Wonderland Panda3D Papervision3D Platinum Arts Sandbox Free 3D Game Maker PlayCanvas PLIB Quake Quake II RealmForge Retribution Torque 3D

Mix	Allegro Construct Classic Godot Lightweight Java Game Library Spring Wintermute Engine

Proprietary

2D	Construct 2 Corona Clickteam Fusion GameMaker: Studio GameSalad M.U.G.E.N NScripter RPG Maker Southpaw Stencyl UbiArt Framework Vicious Virtual Theatre V-Play Zillions of Games

3D	4A Amazon Lumberyard Anvil Bork3D C4 Chrome Clausewitz Engine Creation CryEngine Crystal Tools Decima Diesel Dunia EAGL EGO Elflight Enforce Enigma Essence Flare3D Fox Frostbite Geo-Mod GoldSrc HeroEngine HydroEngine HPL 2-3 id Tech 5 id Tech 6 Ignite IW Jade Kinetica LS3D LithTech Luminous Studio LyN Marmalade Mizuchi MT Framework Outerra Panta Rhei PhyreEngine Q Real Virtuality REDengine Refractor Riot RAGE SAGE Serious Shark 3D ShiVa Silent Storm Source Titan TOSHI Truevision3D Unigine Unity Unreal Vision Visual3D XnGine X-Ray YETI Zero

Mix	Gamebryo Hybrid Graphics Kaneva Game Platform Metismo

Historical interest

Proprietary
middleware
(list)

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