Umbra Occlusion Booster

Cross-Platform Rendering Optimization Middleware for 3D Video Games

Umbra Occlusion Booster is the first component to be released from the Umbra Engine Booster middleware system - a cross-platform scene management system that optimizes game engine performance and makes game development easier, faster, and more economical.

With Umbra Occlusion Booster, the functionality of Engine Booster is extended to optimize rendering performance by informing the game engine which objects are visible – and which are not – from the camera’s point of view. Rendering performance is gained when invisible objects are not rendered, which speeds up game development by cutting down content creation time. And Umbra Occlusion Booster does all visibility optimization automatically at runtime, so there is no need for manual tweaking of game levels by fitting portals or splitting game levels to cut polygon count.

Multi-core programming is here to stay. The Intel® Processors and Tools have been crucial for us in the development of new algorithms and programming models for the next generation of our middleware.

— Otso Mäkinen
CTO, Umbra Software Ltd.

Release Date: June 19, 2009