Stingray : the new engine Stingray is organised into a Channel strips. Each has a list of RenderChannels, and each of these have a list of DrawCommands. The strips and channels are created and arranged in an order specified by the game programmer. This design means that a Stingray game is not bound to forward-rendering, or deferred-rendering, single or multi-pass materials etc. It is completely flexible from this standpoint. Channel Strips are purely for convenience, they are repeatable blocks of Render Channels, for example implementing shadow-mapped light requires light-map-write and light-map-read channels. These two make up a LightMapChannelStrip; each light-mapped light thus creates its own LightMapChannelStrip. The fundamental drawing unit in Stingray, the DrawCommand, exists so that all draw commands can be sorted with respect to one another. This allow s each render channel to sort its draw commands to draw in the most optimal order. For example the depth-pass channel req...