Community14 May 2026The S2ENGINE Cemetery Pack has officially become a CGTrader Top Seller. 🎉What originally started as a dark environment pack for horror projects gradually became one of the most appreciated asset collections in its category. To celebrate this milestone: The S2ENGINE Cemetery DLC is currently on sale on Steam The full Cemetery Pack with original FBX source files is also on sale on CGTrader These assets were created for real production workflows and were also used duri…
We’re thrilled to announce that the latest version of S2Engine (2024.2) is now available to everyone! This release brings a host of incredible new features, improvements, and fixes to enhance your game development experience with S2Engine. This version is the public release of the beta made available to our Patrons a few days ago. Here’s an overview of what’s new: 🔹 Highlights of S2Engine 2024…
RELEASE NOTES · BUGFIX : If you create a new scene without changing its name the scene isn't processed by the prefabRepository · BUGFIX : List visualization mode of the project browser and browser dialogs doesn't show items and folders icon · BUGFIX : When exporting a package gameMachines aren't exported · NEW : "Add..." option from project browser dropdown now allows to add also gameMachines (…
RELEASE NOTES · BUGFIX : If you create a terrain from scratch and then save the scene, when restarting the project a realoding the scene, the terrain is corrupted. Special Thanks to Oleg from Discord community for having submitted this bug. Enjoy and stay tuned, PROFENIX STUDIO
Hi guys, This is a truly big update with many cool improvements. POST-FX RESOURCE In this version I have finally introdiced a new resource type: the PostFX. It contains all post processing data and it can be used by triggers, switches and cameras to fast and easly cross from a post processing configuration to another. I've also added a new cutscene track that is capable to cross fade between 2…
RELEASE NOTES · BUGFIX : if a viewport is in focus and you click RMB on a free space upon or below the viewport the mouse cursor returns back inside the viewport · BUGFIX : if you try to create a project in a custom folder that is different from drive letter folder (C:\\ D:\\ etc..) the project isn't created.
RELEASE NOTES · NEW : Added "SelectObjectsInRange" GameMachine action. · NEW : Added "NormalClampHi" and "NormalClampLow" parameters into STX texture normal maps. · NEW : Added SceneParamFloat track type in cutscene editor. · NEW : Added "CutsceneGotoFrame" GameMachine action. · IMPROVEMENT : water caustics for lake objects now take into account the lake shape. · IMPROVEMENT : now in-editor nav…
RELEASE NOTES · NEW : Added "IsAnyInputPressed" GameMachine action · NEW : New parameter "PushTreshold" in Character object class · NEW : Added parameter "FadeDuration" in LoadSceneTrigger object class · NEW : Added parameter "FadeDuration" in LoadSceneSwitch object class · BUGFIX : some MessageBox crashes when clicking on OK button. · BUGFIX : if you try to attach an object to another without…
I've discovered a subtle bug that could potentially crash the engine after loading a level: animation job wasn't reset during level closing. Stay tuned, PROFENIX STUDIO
Hi to all, I'm proud to announce that the long-awaited new Cemetery Pack is now available as S2Engine DLC. This is the best quality DLC I've produced until now. You can find it here: Enjoy and Stay tuned! PROFENIX STUDIO
Release notes · BUGFIX : Zombies in zombie pack lock player forever. · NEW : Now spawner changes the random seed every time it is initialized, improving its randomness. · NEW : Spawner randomness now is also on spawning locations. · BUGFIX : ResetXform operation in model Editor doesn't reset tangent transforms causing wrong normalmap computations. · BUGFIX : Potential leak in the animations job…
Release notes · BUGFIX : Lights, StaticLights and FillLights do not fade smoothly in the distance · NEW : Lights on transparent surfaces are faded out when camera distance from them is greater or equal to their radius. · NEW : Inserted new parameter "ID" into Lights and StaticLights. This parameter is used to exclude lights from rendering on transparent surfaces when they are set to a negative…
Hi guys, I have finally released the new S2ENGINE HD 2024.0.0. There are a lot of news in this update. IMPROVED PERFORMANCES As anticipated in the previous post I have improved performances a lot expecially on NVIDIA cards. What I haven't said is that, thanks to the Discord community, we have discovered that also on Radeon cards the performances are much better, meaning that now the number of o…
Hi guys, The new Cemetery pack 2.0 DLC for S2Engine is coming soon. You can just now access to its store page for more info: Enjoy and stay tuned, PROFENIX STUDIO
Hi to all, PREAMBLE When AMD published their new OpenGL drivers in 2021 the performance imrpovement of S2engine on Radeon cards was really impressive. AMD OpenGL drivers now are much much much more performant that NVIDIA ones (even if NVIDIA stability remained unsurpassed), that still keep a big overhead. From my point of view this is a shame: NVIDIA cards are the most performant and widespread…
RELEASE NOTES · BUGFIX: EasyGamePack Platforms do not work after latest updates · BUGFIX: Wrong Shapes scaling in Prefab viewport · BUGFIX: EasyGamePack Mission objects do not run GameMachines · Added persistentState parameter to GUI Object · Added ClampVec3 gameMachine action · Added "CheckPointFile" parameter to MissionTimer, MissionSwitch and MissionCounter class objects in EasyGamePack · No…
RELEASE NOTES · "More..." button in Learn section in S2Launcher now open the youtube channel directly in to the default browser · BUGFIX: some message boxes that haven't the "not show" checkbox make engine to crash · BUGFIX: Not all object gamemachines references are showed when click "ShowReferences" in the object dropdown menu · BUGFIX: Messages and Events are also sent to non-active/non-stat…
Hi, Today I've updated S2ENGINE HD 2023.2 to 2023.2.1 version (minor update). It fixes some bugs and introduce the "mouse displace normalization" that gives more stability to camera movements when using mouse. RELEASE NOTES: · Added checkbox "don't show again" into the message boxes · BUGFIX: when loading level in sequence sometimes texture streaming doesn't start · Improved physics ragdoll to…
Hi, After about a month on Patreon for beta testing we have finally released the new S2ENGINE HD 2023.2 version for all on Steam. NEW PLAYERSTART SYSTEM The biggest new thing in this version id the PlayerStart system. Now you can define prefabs for player and game GUI in the project configuration and then use them in every level of your game, without redefine player and gui every time you creat…
Hi Guys, I've enabled the access to the next S2ENGINE HD 2023.2 BETA to all Bronze Patrons: As usual the BETA will remain as a Patrons exclusive for about 2-3 weeks then I'll publish it on Steam for all. In other words it will be available to all about the end of this month. I remember you that if you want to be up to date with s2engine, if you want to know more about s2engine development progr…
RELEASE NOTES · Now 0.00 / 24.00 daytimes cannot be moved, to prevent wrong time of day interpolation. · Increased the speed of prefab placing about a factor of 30x · Improved Voxel lightmaps blending (introduced new parameter "FallofExp") · BUGFIXED: when updating a vegetation layer the terrain sometimes disappear. · BUGFIXED: timeBasedlod doesn't work with vegetation layers · NEW: Added IntTo…
Hi to all, Today is THE DAY! We have finally updated the engine after 2 years. We apologize for this situation, during these years we have been very busy with HELLSEED. Starting from March 2023 we have returned back on the engine and updated it (together with EasyGamePack). The changes are a lot, but we can list some of the most important ones: · Fixed AMD Radeon drivers incompatibility · Textu…
Hi guys, We have released the BETA of the next S2Engine update on Patreon: The engine will remain in BETA for the whole month. This will allow Patrons to test the changes from previous version and give me their feedback in order to fix bigger bugs and prepare changes for subsequent updates. This also mean that FINALLY the new update will be published, and available to all users, the next month.…
Hi guys, First I'm sorry for the long long long delay. I've worked mainly on HELLSEED in the last year and I haven't had time to release any update of the engine, even if the engine has been updated internally for the production of the HELLSEED game. Now, HELLSEED early access has been published and sufficiently fixed/improved to give me the time for returning back to the engine and making all…
Hi guys, Today we have finally opened the Patreon page of S2ENGINE . You can find it at: The page will finally lets you to give an additional help to us for the improvement of this fantastic engine. In addition we have inserted various benefits for supporters to be unlocked basing on reached goals: · Exclusive monthly "work in progress" BETA downloading, for touching with hands what we are work…
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