Well here it is, the long awaited LTE Studios Game Engine SDK v2.0. For most of you who are new to the site and just browsing, this is a software development kit (SDK) which aids in the creation of your own first person shooters for the Sony PSP. The resulting game is only compatible with firmware 1.50… here are the updates since 1.0 -

– Changed name from LTE 3D Engine to LTE Game Engine

- Added support for Mipmapped textures. Mipmapping gives an high speed improvement. By default all textures are mipmapped, you can disable this feature with: driver->setTextureCreationFlag
(video::ETCF_CREATE_MIP_MAPS, false);

- Clipping comes necessary when your meshes has big triangles, but for model and object meshes (like the character) this is not necessary. By default now clipping is not enabled by default: if you need the engine to clip your mesh type node->setMaterialFlag(video::EMF_CLIPPING, true);

- Mesh triangle subdivision: Now it’s possible to subidive the triangles of your meshes which sides are greater than a value. You can do this using the Mesh Manipulator:
SceneManager->getMeshManipulator()->
subdivideTriangles(YourMesh, MaxSideSize)

- Added support for rendering into textures. This feature is very common, and the engine now can do it. Look at the RenderToTexture example for further information.

- Multitexturing is now supported. This feature is limited because it doesn’t support multi texture coordinates, and it takes one more rendering pass (PSP GPU doesn’t support one-pass multi texturing). Look at the SpecialFX example for further information.

- Added Sphere mapping: this effect is now supported. To enable sphere mapping for your scene node type node->setMaterialType(video::EMT_SPHERE_MAP).

- Added B3D Mesh support with full bone animator.

- Added celshading effect for your IAnimatedMeshSceneNode. To enable this feature for your scene node simply do: node->addCelshadingSceneNode(). Look at the documentation for further information.

- Added support for Dynamic Shadows. Look at the Dynamic Shadow example for further information.

- Added ATRAC3 Audio support. Note that you can set position, get position, get duration, only for mp3 audio files.

- Now the File Browser sort the list pushing the folder on the top of the list.

- The speed of the mouse cursor is proportional to the current frame rate, this allows to use the cursor also at lower framerate.

- General speed improvement

- A Lot of Bug fixes

- Changed the intro logo screen and music effect

Download LTE Game Engine 2.0 SDK

- source: LTE Studios