Simul Software

Simul is a software company specializing in innovative, lightweight solutions inspired by physics. We're based in Manchester, England.

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Spellbound chooses Simul Weather for ArcaniA – A Gothic Tale

Real-Time Volumetric Weather Effects

Simul Software Ltd has announced that Spellbound Entertainment AG, a leading independent studio based in Kehl, Germany, has chosen the Simul Weather SDK to generate real-time weather effects for the forthcoming multi-platform  fantasy action RPG ArcaniA – A Gothic Tale, to be published by JoWooD Productions Software AG.
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Our Products

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 Simul Weather: realtime skies for games and simulations: Simul Weather is available for trial evaluation and licensing. Features:

  • Physically-based light scattering
  • Live weather effects
  • Realtime time-of-day changes
  • Low memory footprint
  • Lightning-fast rendering
  • Compatible with major game platforms
  • Clear, well-documented API
  • Code samples for DirectX, OpenGL, OGRE, OpenSceneGraph
  • Drop-in code implementations
  • Multi-core calculation with Intel® Threading Building Blocks (TBB)

Simul Weather won the 2008 Research and Development IT Award by the British Computer Society.

BCS IT Awards Winner

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DarkCLOUDS: Live, real-time clouds and skies for DarkBASIC Pro, the ultimate 3D games creator.

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 Features:

  • Physically-based light scattering
  • Realtime time-of-day changes
  • Live weather effects
  • Low memory footprint
  • Lightning-fast rendering
  • Simple, powerful commands

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CloudWright: an interactive tool to generate realistic static sky images for game backgrounds and visual image-generation, CloudWright 1.8 is now available.

Just released – the CloudWright XSI plugin open alpha – download it here.

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 Features:

  • Physically-based light scattering
  • Output to hdr or jpg
  • Cubemaps
  • Screenshots
  • Live on-screen update
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