gile[s] - Key Features

Key Features

gile[s] contains the following 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

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

File Formats Supported

gile[s] natively supports the following File Formats.

File Format	Type	Import / Export	Information
gile[s]	GLS	Import + Export	gile[s] own file format
DirectX Mesh	X	Import + Export	Full support for static geometry and hierachy
3D Studio	3DS	Import + Export	Supports smoothing groups*, material settings, lights, and more
3DS Max	ASE	Import + Export	ASCII scene export. Supports smoothing groups*, vertex colors, material settings, lights, and more
Blitz3D	B3D	Import + Export	Full support for static geometry and hierachy, and all material settings
DarkBASIC	DBO	Export Only	Experimental exporter, support for most settings
Lightwave	LWO	Import Only	Supports static meshes, material settings, textures, and more
Alias	OBJ	Import Only	Supports static geometry, smoothing and material settings
AC3D	AC	Import Only	Supports all major aspects

All formats can be merged into already loaded scenes

Bitmap formats supported: BMP, JPG, PNG, and TGA

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

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