The Sith engine is a game engine developed by LucasArts. The game Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II is based on this engine, and its expansion, Star Wars Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith, is based on a slightly updated version.
The engine has also been used in Grim Fandango as a basis for the GrimE engine, and used in Star Wars: Droid Works and Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine.
The Sith engine is an early example of data-driven design...
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The Sith engine is a game engine developed by LucasArts. The game Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II is based on this engine, and its expansion, Star Wars Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith, is based on a slightly updated version.
The engine has also been used in Grim Fandango as a basis for the GrimE engine, and used in Star Wars: Droid Works and Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine.
The Sith engine is an early example of data-driven design in the games industry. Most object behaviors are implemented with the integrated COG scripting language or defined parametrically using a template system which allows simple inheritance.
The engine is also an example of a portal engine. Level geometry is rendered as a series of negative-space convex polyhedrons connected by adjoining polygons. Levels require no preprocessing and hidden surface determination is computed at run-time.
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