Powering the future of Bohemia's games

Enfusion has taken some of the concepts and ideas that made the RV/Enforce engines unique and built upon them using up-to-date technology. More specifically, Enfusion was inspired by RV's ability to simulate large open worlds and support user moddability and has incorporated both of these key strengths.

Compared to RV, however, Enfusion is a lot more flexible and significantly more user-friendly for both developers and users – characteristics it’s inherited from the Enforce engine.

Unlike RV and Enforce, Enfusion is a fully multiplatform engine with an extensive online backend. As a result, it can make games run smoothly and look great across PCs and consoles, online or off.

DayZ was indeed the first game we built with parts of the Enfusion engine - specifically with earlier versions of the Enfusion renderer (the software that draws all the graphics), as well as the Enfusion animation system and the Enforce scripting language.

At the time of DayZ's launch out of Early Access, however, many things were still missing to make the engine package complete, particularly some of the tools necessary for building game worlds and creating game assets. That’s why DayZ remained a hybrid of old and new technology.

Games created with Enfusion in the future will not contain any legacy technology modules and will be built on a standalone branch of the new and significantly more developed Enfusion Engine.

They don’t have to but they can as the engine runs on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox. Enfusion-built games don't have to be "ported" and can be developed for all three platforms at the same time while sharing a common code base and assets.

We built our own engine to make sure we could develop our games exactly the way we want to. For example, we want to work with technology that allows us to create incredibly authentic open world terrains and nothing available at the moment satisfies our needs.

Another reason is because most of our current games share a very distinct platform approach compared to a more standard "closed product" approach. In other words, we want to give our players and creators an open platform that offers them the same set of powerful tools that our developers use.

The team working on the core technology is comprised of roughly 30 engineers and programmers of various specializations. While we’ve intentionally kept the team lean, we're always looking for skilled reinforcements. Check out our current job openings!

The entire Enfusion toolset in its current shape and form is now available as part of Arma Reforger, and has entered Early Access on Steam on May 17, 2022. Arma Reforger is a first glimpse at the future of Enfusion games, and the first step on our road to Arma 4.

Developing the Enfusion engine with the aim to deliver Arma 4 is Bohemia's top priority at the moment. Stay tuned to our social media channels and subscribe to the Bohemia Newsletter to stay up to date!

The Enfusion Workbench is a set of integrated development tools used to create games or game modifications in Enfusion. It's now available to every community creator on Windows PC, as part of the Arma Reforger Tools package. It's the same set of tools that our own developers use to create Enfusion games. It currently consists of the following editors:

• World Editor
• Particle Editor
• Animation Editor
• Script Editor
• Audio Editor
• Behavior Editor
• Procedural Animation Editor
• String Editor

The Enfusion Workbench also connects to our backend systems, including our own multiplatform workshop solution. Combined with this workshop, the Workbench also serves as a fully integrated environment for developing, packing, and publishing mods for Enfusion games.

Yes, it is currently possible to create fully compatible mods for PC and Xbox, and this functionality is available now in Arma Reforger. Our goal is to also include PlayStation in this ecosystem later on, but this will require further coordination with the platform holder.

There are very few limits as pretty much everything can be modded or extended.

For Arma modders, it's safe to say that pretty much everything has changed. That’s definitely a good thing though because you will now have a complete and integrated toolset for development at your disposal that covers all aspects of modding. You’ll have to learn a new scripting language, but you’ll be rewarded for your efforts with better performances and better access to various engine modules. Creating animation, assets, or game worlds will now be more streamlined and closer to the industry standard set by "mainstream" game engines.

As a DayZ modder, you'll recognize a few familiar concepts thanks to your knowledge of the Enforce script, but your possibilities will now be expanded. For example, the Workbench toolset will provide some critical abilities that will enable you to go deeper with your mods. Perhaps most importantly, you'll be able to create new worlds and assets significantly faster.

We want to have a workflow ready that will allow you to "port" your previous 3D models to Enfusion. It’ll require a bit of effort, but for simpler assets like weapons or vehicles, it should be much faster than creating new assets from scratch.

Some of your DayZ scripts, particles, and animations may be transferable to future Enfusion games. You will likely need to make a lot of adjustments, however, and it might just be easier to start over.

Anything scripted in SQF (or depending on the RV code) will have to be developed from scratch.

Yes. For Arma Reforger, we've provided modding samples, and we're going to be continually adding guides and documentation for the Enfusion Workbench to our Wiki.

We're not considering this option at the moment (beyond our current Creator DLC initiative), but we'll be making that decision in the future on a case by case basis.

Technically speaking, developing a full, standalone game will be possible using Enfusion’s tools, but we currently do not plan to license the engine for standalone 3rd party projects.

Enfusion is programmed in C++ and uses HLSL shaders for rendering. The core of the engine is extended by a high-level scripting language called Enforce, which is a standard OOP scripting language with very familiar syntax.