ProFX is the one and only middleware solution based on patented technology for the professional authoring and on-the-fly generation of procedural textures.

MaP Zone is the authoring tool that lets artists edit ProFX textures, which are then saved to tiny *.pfx files. Those *.pfx files are then read by the ProFX runtime API and rendered into textures.

• Design your textures and shaders within MaP Zone and save your files in a compact procedural format as a .pfx file.
• This .pfx file contains the procedural description of the textures maps used to define the shader that is applied onto your 3D mesh.
• Then, while executing the game, the .pfx file is rasterized by the ProFX engine as bitmaps, to be used in the shader.
• From then on, the textures in your GPU’s texture memory are like any other DXT-compressed texture, and your game treats them no differently.


Tools and middleware programs
Allegorithmic is currently member of the Tools and Middleware Programs for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 (since 2005) and Sony Computer Entertainment’s Playstation 3.


Hardware Compatibility
As of now, ProFX2 is available for XBox360 and PCs.

On PC, In order to run with full hardware acceleration on the GPU, ProFX requires a shader model 3 compatible card with floating point blending mode. ProFX2 will also run on a computer equipped with a graphics card with lower specifications, but the texture rendering will be done using the CPU engine (which is also used in MapZone2). Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 is required to link against the ProFX2 library (Multithread DLL common runtime version).


Game Engine Compatibility
While ProFX is a stand-alone library that can be pluged in any engine, it has been successfully used and deeply integrated within EPIC’s Unreal Engine 3 and Emergent’s Gamebryo.