Svengine
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Svengine is a third-party, modified version of 
GoldSrc using licensed code, introduced with version 5.0 of 
Sven Co-op. It has enhancements such as increased engine limits (allowing for larger and more complex levels), Hor+ FOV support, and improved audio via FMOD.
Features
Added
Feature list from the Sven Co-op official website
- Engine
- New game and server launchers for improved functionality.
- Increased limits for various engine core parameters, such as base decals, beams, dynamic lights, edicts, frame rate, heap memory size, models, sounds, and more.
- Increased limits for map-related parameters, such as brushes, leafs, models, nodes, planes, textures, world size, and more.
- Enhanced networking changes, including IPv6 support, increased network rate, datagram length, entities per packet, user message size, and more.
- Various engine settings and log improvements.
- AngelScript scripting engine
- Audio
- Uses FMODEx for audio, which also restores missing EAX effects, restores surround sound support and makes certain DSP effects sound correctly. It also adds full support for high quality 44100KHz audio.
- Tools
- Custom fork of ZHLT 3.4 map compiler tools designed specifically for this particular branch. Based on Vluzacn's fork (build 34) and compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms.
Removed
- Software renderer support
Specifications
| Limits | GoldSrc Pre-25th | GoldSrc Post-25th |  Xash3D |
Svengine
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maximum number of dynamic sound channels | 8 | 32 | 64 | N/A |
| Default max number of server entities (MAX_EDICTS) | 900 | 1200 | 600 - 8192 | 8192 |
| Absolute max number of server entities (via liblist.gam edits) | 2048 | 2048 | 8192 | N/A |
| Maximum number of temporary entities (MAX_TEMPENTS) | 500 | N/A | 300 - 2048 | N/A |
| Maximum number of particles (MAX_PARTICLES) | 4096 | N/A | 1024 - 131072 | N/A |
| Maximum number of beams (MAX_BEAMS) | 64 | N/A | 64 - 512 | 256 |
| Maximum number of visible entities in the package (MAX_VISIBLE_PACKET) | 256 | 1024 | 2048 | N/A |
| Maximum number of pre-cacheable models and sprites (MAX_MODELS) | 512 | N/A | 1024 (4096 in FWGS) | 8192 |
| Maximum number of pre-cached sounds (MAX_SOUNDS) | 512 | N/A | 2048 | 4096 |
| Maximum number of entries to read sentences made up of sentences (MAX_SENTENCES) | 1536 | 2048 | 4096 | N/A |
| Maximum number of user messages (MAX_USER_MESSAGES) | 128 | N/A | 191 | N/A |
| Max number of loaded textures (MAX_TEXTURES) | 2048 | N/A | 4096 (8192 in FWGS) | N/A |
| Max number of GL textures (MAX_GLTEXTURES) | 4800 | 10000 | 4096 (8192 in FWGS) | N/A |
| Number of messages titles.txt (MAX_MESSAGES) | 1024 | N/A | 2048 | N/A |
| Maximum size of indexed textures | 512х512 | 512x512 | 8192х8192 | N/A |
| Maximum size of full color textures | 512х512 | 512x512 | 8192х8192 | N/A |
| Maximum number of models on the map (MAX_MAP_MODELS) | 256 | N/A | 768 (1024 in FWGS) | 4096 |
| Maximum number of map leafs (MAX_MAP_LEAFS) | 8192 | N/A | 32767 | 65536 |
| Maximum number of entities per packet (MAX_PACKET_ENTITIES) | 256 | 1024 | 256 | 512 |
| Maximum number of spans (software renderer geometry limit) | 3000 | 6000 | N/A | Removed |
| Maximum number of surfaces (software renderer geometry limit) | 2000 | 4000 | N/A | Removed |
| Maximum number of edges (software renderer geometry limit) | 7200 | 14400 | N/A | Removed |
Availability
Todo: Download link
Tip:The SDK for this branch has been released and is available under the "Tools" category on 
Steam, if Sven Co-op is downloaded.External links
- Svengine in the Sven Co-op Wiki
- Sven Co-op - the official website
