Is there an evaluation version of Cipher available?
If you are interested in evaluating Cipher, there are some demos and movies that you can download to see what Cipher is capable of. The demos include Crazy Car Championship (a playable demo of a racing game) and Temple, a first person style technology demo. There are movies of the temple demo and a number of shader effects and animation demos. In addition, there is a sample from the on-line documentation from the programmer’s manual and artist’s manual, to help give you an idea of the kind of documentation that is available for Cipher.