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[[File:Runetek 5 sd screen.jpg|thumb|right|A screenshot of the RT5 Standard Detail engine.]]
[[File:Runetek 5 hd screen.jpg|thumb|right|A screenshot of the RT5 High Detail engine.]]
'''RuneTek''' is the game engine used for ''[[RuneScape]]''. RuneTek 5 is the current version of the engine which replaced RuneTek 4 on [[2 September]] [[2009]]. RuneTek 5 combines [[Standard detail|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]], [[Jagex Moderator|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]]''.

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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|[[Update:Blog - Game Engine: RuneTek 5|Game Engine: RuneTek 5]]{{CiteDevBlog |author=Mod Chris E |url=http://services.runescape.com/m=devblog/view_post.ws?post_id=27&project_id=8 |title=RuneTek 5 |blogdate=26 August 2009 |date=15:53, July 8, 2011 (UTC)}}}}

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.

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'''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.
|[[Update:Blog - Q&A: Andrew Gower's Answers|Q&A: Andrew Gower's Answers]]{{CiteDevBlog |author=Andrew Gower |url=http://services.runescape.com/m=devblog/view_post.ws?post_id=29&project_id=14 |title=Andrew Gower's Answers |blogdate=3 September 2009 |date=15:53, July 8, 2011 (UTC) }}}}
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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.

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'''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{{CiteDevBlog |author=RuneScape Svenska |url=http://www.facebook.com/#!/RuneScape.Svenska/posts/178954565465251 |title=Ny trailer för RuneScape. |blogdate=22 December 2010 |date=15:53, July 8, 2011 (UTC)|name=devblogpost1}}}}

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

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'''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{{NamedRef|devblogpost1}}}}

==History==
{| class="wikitable"
! RuneTek Version
! Date
! Revision No
! Major Milestone
|-
| RuneTek 1
| 1998–2000
| n/a
| Devious MUD
|-
| RuneTek 2
| 2000–2003*
| 1-193
| [[RuneScape Classic]]
|-
| RuneTek 3
| 2003–2007
| 194-502
| [[RuneScape 2]]
|-
| RuneTek 4
| 2007–2009
| 503-554
| [[RuneScape HD]]
|-
| RuneTek 5
| 2009–present
| 555+
| Cross-platform engine with both SD and HD
|-
| RuneTek 7
| TBA
|
|[[RuneScape 3]]
|}
<nowiki>*</nowiki> While the RuneTek 2 engine is no longer used by RuneScape 2, it is still used by RuneScape Classic.

==Gallery==
<div align="center"><gallery captionalign="left">
File:Runetek_1_screen.jpg|A screenshot of RT1.
File:Runetek_2_screen.jpg|A screenshot of RT2.
File:Runetek_3_screen.jpg|A screenshot of RT3.
</gallery></div>

==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.
[[File:RuneTek engine hint.png|right|thumb|Mod Mark hinting that RuneTek might be publicly available some day.]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Mechanics}}
[[Category:Mechanics]]

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