Welcome to ZootFly

Technology

ZootFly's core effort is the continuing development of its proprietary engine, called Zen.
Zen' internal architecture is based on an abstract engine designed as a Maya plug-in. With such open architecture, anyone can create and add a new component such as renderer, input system, sound system, effects, image file format, visibility, codecs or any other abstract engine component.
Seamless integration with Alias Maya makes Zen a tool that slashes production time considerably. Designing levels is extremely easy: everything can be done in Maya; from modeling, mapping and animating, to positioning of sound sources, particles, events, triggers, scripting and NPCs. Events can later be visually scripted with the innovative Visual Script feature.
Soon, Zen will be freely downloadable for non-commercial use. In conjunction with Maya Personal Learning Edition, Zen will be the mod community's dream come true.

Zen is a complete state-of-the-art game engine, designed for the first and third person action adventures. The features and performance are equal or better to those of upcoming high-end engines. Zen supports such features as HDR, PRT, parallax mapping, steep

parallax mapping, normal mapping, dynamic portals, occluders, volumetric fog, extreme poly count, full dynamics including vehicle and rag doll physics, complex animations, procedural particle system, powerful sound support, superb AI and much more.

Zen is a three-level design. The majority of Zen comprises of the abstract, platform independent engine, based on plug-ins. About 1/6 is platform dependent engine, while a small fraction is platform core level, which includes both dependent and independent interfaces.

Unlike other engines, Zen is tightly integrated with Alias Maya. Migration time and consequent expenses that burden game development are becoming progressively significant with the ascent of the nex-gen techology.

Platform independence, complex architecture, PRT, HDR, parallax and steep parallax mapping, dynamic real-time soft shadows, single and multiplayer, Xbox and PC, artificial intelligence, indoors and outdoors, hsr, portals, embedded game testing and editing.

Coming soon.