Ultra Software has been on a mission to up its game with a real-time engine that is fast, easy to use, and inexpensive, but also offers capabilities and features for delivering high-end graphics in games and VR applications. To this end, the company has developed the Ultra Engine, which was just release in Version 0.9.6. The engine contains a new foliage system and uses a compute shader, which is more powerful than the geometry shader in the Leadwerks engine, which it still offers. The new engine also contains several new animation tools and a host of other additions and improvements over the previous version, 0.9.3, which was released in January 2024.

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