GSC World is hard at work and have finished/updated the following features

• NEW Physics engine (still in progress)
• NEW Enemy AI (still in progress)
• NEW Advanced AI aural perception
• NEW Realistic AI vision model
• NEW Dynamic shadows from arbitrary light sources
• NEW Correct shadowing for dynamic models
• NEW Improved dynamic lighting
• NEW Extended dynamic range for specular lighting and over brightening
• NEW Translucency
• NEW Reworked occlusion culling, allowing occluders be an arbitrary geometry
• NEW Screen post-processing for special effects
• NEW Motion Capture animation for characters integrated
• OPTIMIZATION Faster sound-clipping and wave tracing
• OPTIMIZATION Almost twice as fast rendering of skinned geometry
• OPTIMIZATION Almost twice as fast rendering of detail geometry
• OPTIMIZATION Improved sorting/batching for Geforce3 class HW
• OPTIMIZATION Rewritten collision queries for huge (1M+) polygonal models
• OPTIMIZATION 30 fps with 300 000 polygons on screen and ~800 hi-res textures used on Geforce 2MX 64mb