Frostbite is a game engine developed by DICE, designed for cross-platform use on Microsoft Windows, seventh generation game consoles PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and eighth generation game consoles PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Frostbite (game engine) - WikiMili, The Free Encyclopedia - WikiMili, The F. “The first generation of Frostbite was designed and built in conjunction with the game Battlefield Bad Company. Based on DICE’s experience with the large-scale open world Battlefield series, Frostbite was an ambitious game engine that enabled large scale multiplayer interactions in dynamic destructible environments.

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Frostbite is a powerful game engine developed by DICE Company in 2008. This Game Engine is written in C++ and C#. It develops games for PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox one. It exclusively develops games for electronic Arts and specializes for FPS (First Person Shooter) games.

The first release of the engine was called Frostbite 1 and its first game was, Battlefield: Bad Company. It used HDR (High Dynamic Range) Audio for better sound perception and Destruction 1.0 for destroying object in the games. The improved version called Frostbite 1.5 was used in Battlefield: 1943 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

Frostbite 2 was first employed in Battlefield 3 in 2011 that used Destruction 3.0. Using the same engine, EA Black Box developed Need For Speed: The Run, that was a racing game. This engine was also employed to develop Army of Two, a Third Person Shooter Game.

Frostbite was employed in Battlefield 4 in 2013, which used more dynamic environment for players and Destruction 4.0. It also used Mental API to utilize CPU and GPU more efficiently. The remaining 5 games of NEED For Speed series were also developed using this engine. The first support game developed in this engine was Rory Mclory PGA Tour. The engine was also employed in whole series of FIFA games, Star wars, Madden and Planets Vs. Zombies.

It is an immensely powerful engine that provides specialized tasks. But it requires technical support and training to use it. There is not much online assistance (videos etc) available for developers so in case of any error, user will have to contact a technician.

Features

New Level Of FPS(First Person Shooter) Realism
Huge Detailed Landscapes
Dense Urban Areas
Large Forests With Destructible Foliage
High Density Vegetation And Debris
Dynamic Lighting And Shadows
Award Winning Immersion And Audio
Demolishes Building
Dynamic Ocean Combat
Dynamic Skies
Networked Water Simulation
More Immersive Storytelling

Games Developed in Frostbite

Useful Resources

Company Homepage: https://www.dice.se/
Official Homepage: https://www.ea.com/frostbite
Game Documentation: Rendering Architecture and Real-time Procedural Shading & Texturing Techniques
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frostbite_(game_engine)
List of Games built with Frostbite: https://www.ea.com/frostbite/games

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'EA dropped mod support from their games almost a decade ago,long before they adopted the Frostbite Engine as their main developmenttool.For years modders have been asking for access to gain the ability toadd to the Battlefield games.Well, rather than gain access to the engine, one coder’s madetheir own engine that can edit Frostbite-compiled levels.CaptainSpleXx has made an engine we can load in data from Frostbitemaps.Within his editor he can then make alterations, moving and deletingbuildings,changing textures, and, most importantly, recompiles the maps so theycan be played in Battlefield 4.His engine tricks Battlefield into receiving the altered map files,making the game think it’s an official patch. From there, onprivate servers,CaptainSpleXx is free to play his modded maps.'

~PCGamesN 2015

What does that mean ?
This means the project is ~~not done~~discontinued. The Core layout is done and extracting data works 99% at the time. Smashing all the extracted (modified) data back together works as well. This means all data can be modified in some way and applied to the Game you are working with. The principle of modding.
Data can be modified in some way ?
Changing Images (Textures) with Photoshop or Creating Geometry (Mesh) inside Blender is not a big deal, but this is far away from the extracted data.
The Frostbite Engine is not simply storing information in common Filetypes, No! The guys at DICE invented more efficient ways to store data by creating their own.
This means data needs to be analysed and converted. A proccess that can take days or months. Generally that's not the problem. The problem is: not one, two ... dozens of data, nobody really knows what it is and its takes time to find out.
What can it be ?
The Frostbite Engine is used by multiple Games, so the modding community (without modding tools) is big.
We have Experts out there and they have contributed:
- Textures @dainiuxxx - Mesh -> (Geometry like Players, Objects...) @dainiuxxx & @shakotay2 - Sounds - EBX -> (Health, Position Of Objects, Rate of Fire, Events...) @Frankelstner ...this is cool but not much. We don't really know how the terrain or animation tracks work.

Latest changelog:
-Simple External EBX Tool (20-Aug-16)
-EventGraph-Viewer Core-Implementation (25-Apr-16)
Progress March (YT

Frostbite Game Engine