key features

In the following sections you can check out some of gile[s] 1.x many advanced features.

• Full Global Illumination (GI), including color bleeding, geometry lights, transparency, masking, double sided materials and much much more
• Switch between direct light only and full GI
• Adjustable number of GI Iterations
• Fast Sky Light, to simulate outdoor scenery
• Toggle shadows, for quick previews
• Soft Shadows, with adjustable sampling rate
• Toon Shading, for stylized cartoon style environments
• Automatic post processing (can be disabled)
• Mix and match lightmaps and vertex lighting as you please

• Unlimited number of lightmaps
• Share lightmaps between as many or few materials as you like
• Intelligent geometry analysis resulting in least cut/dissection lightmaps
• Effecient packing, maximizes the efficiency of each lightmap
• Paint directly to lightmaps (and vertex lighting) to add fine details
• Automatic adjustment of lumel size, so no need to tweak any obscure parameters
• Pack Once technology, so you don't have to wait if you tweak simple things between rendering
• Resize lightmaps after rendering

• Omni, with adjustable attenuation
• Spot, with adjustable attenuation and cone
• Directional, with adjustable attenuation and radial falloff
• Ambient, with adjustable attenuation
• Sky Light, simulating atmospheric light (only available when rendering full GI)
• Change lights between modes easily

• Switch between lightmaps, vertex lighting, or no lighting methods
• Adjust how the material affects the lighting, including receive light from back, cast shadows, receive shadows, affect global illumination, receive global illumination
• Alpha, Additive and Multiply blending
• Shininess, Alpha, and Self Illumination
• Up to 7 texture layers
• Load, swap, and apply textures easily, a wealth of texture options are available

• Intuitive and clean interface
• Easy access to all models, lights and materials
• Custom properties, allows you to write scripts from within gile[s]
• Smart Manipulation, takes advantage of all mouse buttons when moving, rotating, scaling models and view.
• 7 different views (Perspective, Front, Back, Bottom, Top, Left, Right)
• Lighting Method browser
• Texture browser and viewer
• 100 levels of undo

• GLS | gile[s] scene file
  import+export, full support
• X | DirectX Mesh
  import+export, full support for static geometry and hierachy
• 3DS | 3d studio
  import+export, supports smoothing groups*, material settings, lights, and more
• ASE | 3ds max ascii scene export
  import+export, supports smoothing groups*, vertex colors, material settings, lights, and more
• B3D | Blitz3D
  import+export, full support for static geometry and hierachy, and all material settings
• DBO | Dark Basic Object
  export only, full support for static geometry and hierachy, and all material settings
• LWO | lightwave object
  import only, supports static meshes, material settings, textures, and more
• OBJ | Alias Object File
  import only, supports static geometry, smoothing and material settings
• AC | AC3D, import only
  supports all major aspects
• MA | Maya Ascii File
  export only, supports static meshes, material settings, textures, and more

* Smoothing groups are only supported when importing, and cannot be preserved on export.

• BMP, JPG, PNG, and TGA