One of the make or break features of such heavily stylized games is lighting.
As you have seen in the trailer we are utilising a lot of volumetric lights to create rich, dense, and high quality atmosphere.
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That said, we had to rely on a lot of plugins last year to get to a level of quality we were after. That approach was at the very least… inefficient. In the real world it just runs badly. It is very conflict-spreading with other 3rd party assets and in some cases just plain outdated.
As we had moved to our custom rendering tech at the end of last year -- we have been slowly crawling towards our goal of implementing back all the features we wanted to be done our way and one of those features is finally available for me to test -- custom made, state of the art volumetric lighting and density volumes.
It looks far better than things we used before, it is made in-house and is tailored to compliment the game perfectly.
It allows us to flexibly add things such as:
Dust
Fog
Mist
Light Shafts
etc.
This all contributes to cinematic lighting and composition to enable us to create the desired atmosphere. Once again an amazing feat by our graphics engineer!
GIFs shown are not final but can give you some idea of what to expect, as well as some new amazing assets by our team.
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