Just want to update users as to the progress of FreeVector 2.0.

FreeVector now has advanced rendering capabilities such as Screen Space Ambient Occlusion, true bump mapped terrain. Crisp shadow mapping for views up to a kilometer, terrain without slope stretching textures, a much more robust foliage system, advanced per pixel material shading for pawns, true foliage shadows and phong lighting for world objects just to name a few enhancements. It also now configures itself depending on the system capabilities and is still only pixel shader 2.0 necesary. Loading and runtime speeds are now much faster and a more robust physics system has also been implemented. A dedicated world editor along with other tools and plugins for the engine will also be included. Bug fixes include no more hardcrashes on incompatable systems and backup software shaders for non compatable systems. It will still be totally FREE and screenshots should be available in a few weeks.

Thanks to all who have tried and supported FreeVector. You will be much happier with version 2.0!

Thank you very much for the good words! Right now I'm just finishing off the foliage system which is similar to the SpeedTree 2.0 commercial system. I'm just making sure that it has a smooth LOD transition. THe world editor is almost done, but I'm thinking of adding the ability to modify the terrain from within the editor as well. I can tell you that the new system only requires text editing for writing custom scripts and even then, there is also a visual script editor that can eliminate that. I'm also sitill collecting some nice looking models for the screenshots. Once again thank you for the good words, they are always an inspiration to produce a quality engine.