RuneTek

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A screenshot of the RT5 Standard Detail engine.

RuneTek is the game engine used for RuneScape. RuneTek 5 replaced RuneTek 4 on 2 September 2009. RuneTek 5 combines Standard Detail (SD) and High Detail (HD) modes. The updated SD in RuneTek 5 includes fullscreen and resizeable window modes, distance fogging and sky colour, ground/path blending and smoothing, and underwater visibility. The updated HD also includes further shadowing, sky boxes and particle effects.

Development

Andrew Gower, Mod Chris E and four other Jagex staff have recently finished RuneTek 5. It is unknown what they are working on at the moment.

In a developers' blog, Mod Chris E says that these improvements have been inspired from another Jagex product called MechScape, which has been renamed and reworked into an entirely new game titled Stellar Dawn.

“	The impetus for some of these improvements has come from the development of "Mechscape", and RuneScape is now able to benefit from these too. Development is still continuing; another member of the Game Engine team has just commenced work on the DirectX RT5 implementation, and we have several awesome features in the pipeline. For a variety of reasons, this RT5 update also finally allows us to fix the long-standing mis-click bug in the Grand Exchange (unwanted walking/friend adding, etc), along with any number of smaller long-standing issues.	”
	— Mod Chris E Game Engine: RuneTek 5

It has been stated in a Q&A with Andrew Gower on 3 September 2009 that this update has made RuneScape that much closer to becoming a console game.

“	Darkdeeje asks: In the last Q&A I think you confirmed that RuneScape will be ported to consoles in the near future. Any news on that? Andrew: We are currently focusing on making the 3D engine more platform independent, so it is easier to port in the future. Our new 3D engine, RuneTek 5 (RT5), has been heavily rewritten to make this possible.	”
	— Q&A: Andrew Gower's Answers

On the 22 December 2010, Jagex released a new trailer for RuneScape, showing a whole new level of graphics. Later, on RuneScape's Swedish Facebook, Mod Valkyrie posted about the new trailer and it was confirmed that the trailer was made using a new game engine that is currently being worked on.

“	RuneScape Svenska Ny trailer för RuneScape. Allt är "filmat" i spelet, en ny update är på gång. :) Translation: New trailer for RuneScape. Everything is "shot" in the game, a new update is on the way. :)	”
	— RuneScape Svenska@Facebook

Later, in the comments, in the same post, Mod Valkyrie answered a question stating this:

“	RuneScape Svenska Trailern visar ett smakprov på den nya spelmotorn som vi arbetar på just nu. :) Det kommer ta ganska länge innan den är klar, men den som väntar på något gott...! Translation: The trailer shows a sample of the new game engine that we are working on right now. :) It is going to take pretty long time before it's finished, but he who waits for something good...!	”
	— RuneScape Svenska@Facebook

History

RuneTek version	Date	Revision no.	Major milestone
RuneTek 1	1998–2000	N/A	DeviousMUD
RuneTek 2	2000–2003	1-194	RuneScape Classic
RuneTek 3	2003–2007	194-502	RuneScape 2
RuneTek 4	2007–2009	503-554	RuneScape HD
RuneTek 5	2009–2013	555+	Massive engine re-write.
RuneTek 6	2011-2013		Transformers Universe
RuneTek 7	2013-present		Runescape HTML5

Gallery

A screenshot of RT1.

A screenshot of RT2.

A screenshot of RT3.

Trivia

• On the RuneTek 5 images, one can see a blurred out spot which is the Objective system arrow. This image was released before the Objective system update. The text in the chatbox reads: "A starting arrow has been added to your world map", indicative of the existence of the Objective system during the release of this blog.
• The updated log out button was also visible in these screenshots before Runetek 5's release.