

Shell Shock - Readme
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Shell Shock is a demo game to showcase a new method of visualising explosions in real-time. The user aims and fires an artillery turret that upon impact creates a massive explosion. The explosions are physically simulated using smoothed particle hydrodynamics, and are visualised using a new technique, semi-screen space iso-surface rendering. Other effecs such as volumetric glow and a shockwave that refracts light also add to the realism.

Shell shock requires a shader model 3 graphics card such as a Geforce 6, however a Geforce 7800 is recommended (ATI cards are not currently fully supported but an ATI X1800 should be sufficient to run the game). A 3Ghz CPU is recommended for the physically-based particle simulation driving the explosions.

