DarkBASIC Professional is an extremely powerful and versatile package. It is not easy to list all of the features, but here we have selected some of the key features:

All programs made with DarkBASIC Professional are License and Royalty Free Save your programs as stand-alone EXE files 6 2D Image Formats Supported 5 3D Object File Formats Supported Includes an electronic Manual Over 1000 game orientated commands Windows based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Brand new Compiler produces 100% Machine Code Encrypt and Compress your EXE files Expandable - write your own DLLs with the free SDK Binary Space Partioning (BSP) Support Potential Visibility Set (PVS) Nodetree Optimisation Bump Mapping Light Mapping Environment Mapping Sphere Mapping Cubic Mapping Multi-texturing Bone Based Animations Pixel and Vertex Shaders Cartoon Shading Rainbow Rendering Code your own Shaders Vector and Matrix Manipulation Real Time Shadows True Reflections Lights (Omni, Spot, Directional) Matrices and Terrains Particle System Extremely fast 2D Sprites Polygon Collision and Response Create Multi-player Games (Lan and Internet) Integrated Debugger Breakpoints, Step-Thru Mode and Variable Tracking 3D Studio and Direct X Object Support Sprite support including flipping, scaling and collision Set and control sounds in 3D space Load, Play and Loop Music files Load, Play and control Video Animations or DVD Streams Control 3D Fog depth, distance and colour Full Object Rotation control Control Object Limbs (direction, angle, rotation, size) Create and Delete Object Meshes Global or Object based automatic 3D Collision Detection Automatic Camera and Camera to Object Orientation Commands Create, Position and Colour Lights Build, Texture and Map Matrix Landscapes System Test Commands let you check for compatibility

DarkBASIC natively supports the following Media File Formats. Loaders/Savers for additional formats are available from 3rd party developers or can be written yourself.

* DVD Playback requires Windows codecs to be installed.
Due to the complexity of BSP some file formats may not load correctly.
Some hardware effects may not be compatible with your video card, please check before purchasing.
May conflict with currently installed drivers and/or background software and may contain system specific bugs correctable by freely available updates from this web site. We endevour to patch all reported bugs as quickly as possible.