Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Your questions on Star Citizen's Star Engine, and its predecessors (CryEngine, Lumberyard) are answered by PlasmaDev, who's worked with each in addition to Unreal Engine and others. Lets dig in!

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Grolo is a systems architect by trade and life-long gamer who leads Unhinged Gaming. Discuss this and more at discord.gg/unhinged

00:00 Hello!
01:18 How is work organized?
06:32 Would you like to work on SC?
08:13 Impact of complex backends?
11:56 Simple tool you had to make?
13:30 Why so many issues with collision physics?
17:36 When?
19:08 Advantages/Disadvantages of owning the engine?
20:35 CryEngine's coordinate system vs. StarEngine's
22:05 What problems did OCS solve?
24:51 How did OCS change memory management?
26:45 Single vs. Multiple Physics Scenes
27:21 How did CryEngine not support large-scale multiplayer?
29:37 Can this engine handle 1000s of people on the screen?
31:16 On insurmountable issues and optimizations
35:19 What makes PlanetTech v5 special?
38:06 Wrap-up