Modules Matali Render

Advanced Rendering

	Unified renderer for mobile devices, desktops, TV platforms and game consoles using next-generation low-level graphics APIs and introducing one easy-to-use high-level API built on top of them
	Physically-based rendering (PBR)
	Advanced management of multiple textures, buffers and render states
	Procedural sky with atmospheric scattering and smooth day/night transition, or skybox
	Underwater rendering with water surface split
	Fluid volume rendering
	Two-sided transparent surfaces
	Transparency and textures with alpha channel
	Billboarding (2D objects in a 3D environment)
	Advanced billboarding
	Instancing (triangle meshes and shadows)
	Support for physics-based GUI controls
	Object contouring/outlining
	Animating UV coordinates
	Gamma correction

	Unified, dynamic lighting, shading and fogging system
	Screen space ambient occlusion (SSAO)
	Unlimited number of directional light sources
	Unlimited number of point light sources
	Unlimited number of spot light sources
	Unlimited number of spot and rectangular projectors
	The ability to merge multiple projectors in a separate, breakable entities
	The ability to limit the influence of light sources to selected objects
	Lights with variable intensity
	Soft-edged shadows
	Shadows from directional light sources
	Shadows from point light sources
	Shadows from spot light sources
	Shadows from spot and rectangular projectors
	Shadows for textures with alpha channel
	Precise calculation of shadows (shadows do not require the time-consuming matching bias)
	Smooth transitions between shadow cascades
	Adjustable number of shadow cascades
	Long range shadows
	Fog (linear, exponential, planar with bounds, point volume, spot volume)
	Variants for planar fog
	Fog (point volume, spot volume) with volumetric shadows
	Unlimited number of fog sources
	Controlled interaction of light and fog with transparent surfaces

Fonts And Text
- Scaled bitmap fonts
  Adjustable kerning
  Smoothing
  Font kits

	Cubemaps and cube mapping
	Normal maps and normal mapping in the tangent space
	Height maps and height mapping (parallax mapping)
	Normal mapping and parallax mapping based on the distance from the observer

Supported platforms
	Android 10 (API level 29) and higher
	Android TV 10 (API level 29) and higher
	*BSD (mainly FreeBSD 12.2 and higher)
	iOS 15 and higher
	iPadOS 15 and higher
	Linux (distributions)
	macOS 12 Monterey and higher
	Steam Deck
	tvOS 15 and higher
	UWP Desktop
	UWP Xbox Series X/S
	Windows 11
	Windows 10

Platforms		Available as
	Steam Deck, UWP, Windows	Compiled static library (.lib)
	Android, Android TV, *BSD, iOS, iPadOS, Linux, macOS, Steam Deck, tvOS	Compiled static library (.a)

Supported types of activity
	Android Native Activity

I know that you mainly use the low-level graphics APIs. How is Matali Render engine used in practice? Do I have to write thousands of code lines to display a single texture, for example?
- Matali Render engine offers an advanced and unified code infrastructure for all supported low-level graphics APIs: DirectX 12, Vulkan, Metal, etc. In most of the cases, it doesn't matter which API you use. All the required operations are performed similarly to the high-level graphics API in a small number of code lines, while maintaining the flexibility and performance of the low-level graphics APIs.

What do you mean by the statement "Unlimited number of ..."?
- The statement means that the number of objects of a specific type is not limited by the engine, but is regulated by the programmer and depends on the size of available resources, the performance of the target platform, etc.

Do you use wrappers or emulators when using Metal API?
- No. Metal API is called directly.

Do you use external solutions or other external libraries or source codes that simplify the use of low-level graphics APIs? If so, what is the license for these solutions/libs/codes?
- No, we don't use. We rely entirely on own solutions.