Did You Know That : Apex Legends Uses A Graphics Engine That Is ...

I recently switched to the side of the dark force. All the hype around Apex Legends has gotten the better of me and not without being influenced by anyone, I started playing a few games in order to make my own opinion on the subject. Actually, I'm not a specialist in this new type of game that is the Battle Royale. More generally, my tastes in FPS remain confined around great classics, with a nervous and immediate gameplay. For once, I'm spraying Quake and these other tracks from another time, but still as exhilarating to play from time to time. In the end, the experience turned out to be a pleasant surprise despite a mobility a little more rigid than I expected. Probably because of my reflexes as an old player, more used to the fluid and ample movements of the Fast-FPS. But that's not the question, because after the time of discovery, the graphics proposed by this Respawn production reminded me vaguely of something...

The Middleware Economy

A game engine is a complex element for developers and sometimes a decisive component in its success. As time goes by, the hardware evolves and offers constantly increasing performance. As a result, programmers are evolving their tools, with the aim of offering turnkey solutions to studios wishing to offer a new title on the market. These software technologies, very practical within a development chain, acting in all areas of title creation (from simple texture, to lighting, to sound management), are the subject of precious economic resources for a company that thus distributes its expertise, in the form of a user license.

This system can be compared to a software purchase made by an individual who can then use it. The difference is that the creator of the graphics engine in question only provides the database. It is then up to the studio's devs to create their own assets from what is proposed. Some firms have specialized in the creation of these famous solutions, wonderful fertile ground for creativity and software optimization. We can mention ID Software with their different versions of id Tech, Unreal Engine, Unity, Source Engine and many others...

The power of code optimization