Over the past eight months, Jagex Game Studios has been rebuilding the game engine. A mere six employees, with Andrew directing them; have tweaked and created over 40,000 new lines of code. Instead of two integrated engines, (RuneTek 3 and 4),RuneTek 5 allows RuneScape to run better with DirectX, OpenGL, etc.

When RuneTek 5 is released, you’ll see dramatic changes, especially in Standard Detail Mode.

Jagex has also added graphical feature s that you can toggle such as:

• Underwater visibility
• Distance fogging
• Sky colour
• Ground-/Path-blending and smoothing

RuneTek 5 in SD:

You will also notice an augmented minimap and over changes entering the game over the coming months, including:

• Bloom lighting effects (HD)
• Water reflections (HD)
• Sky boxes
• Particle effects

My rating for this innovation: 5/5

Thanks for reading,

Legend (Daggerdance on forums)