A new 3D engine to set the world on fire !
Hi Commanders!
I hope you had a great Christmas!
(you know that one do you ?)
At Eugen, we are obviously in the process of preparing for the new year: prepare the foie gras, the Sauternes, the oysters with of course, some Champagne.
We would like to share with you some information about the IRIS Zoom Engine, Eugen Systems' Engine, since RUSE.
[h2]Part 1 : Engine enhancements[/h2]
We upgraded our deferred engine with full PBR (Physically Based Rendering) support to match current industry standards. We specifically put efforts on our terrain rendering tech, solving the typical "PBR-specular explosion from far" issue gracefully.
Thanks to this upgrade, we also improved our asset production pipeline with a state-of-the-art metallic/roughness/ambient occlusion workflow, replacing the oldschool specular/glossiness one.
We took this opportunity to make brand-new 3D & textures assets for all units : 4K PBR textures, finer modelling & skinning. For instance, there is more variety in infantry modeling.
New tone mapping algorithm now use typical photographic settings for more realism.
Even if the engine is graphically improved, our goal is to always keep it efficient for minimal configurations. Warno will not require a higher configuration than Steel Division 2!
[h2]Part 2 : Improvements to the damage and destruction system for military units [/h2]
To better represent damage, units now lose pieces of armor, equipment....
.... and when they get destroyed, can explode in a realistic and impressive way, for example by projecting their turret after the ammo-rack explosion...
...or lose helicopter blades, turbines and even airplane wings!
The unit textures display their damage with much more realism to better reflect their state of decay.
As for the carcasses, smoke and impact craters, they have also been reworked, giving the impression of a real battlefield, realistic and persistent.
[h2]2022![/h2]
Now it's time to wish you the best for 2022 and Thursday 20th of January is going to arrive soon!
Keep a track of WARNO and join the community. You can check the latest news on the Steam News page or visit the Steam Forums. Join the excellent Discord server and the new Reddit page.
A l'année prochaine (as we say in French)!
I hope you had a great Christmas!
(you know that one do you ?)
At Eugen, we are obviously in the process of preparing for the new year: prepare the foie gras, the Sauternes, the oysters with of course, some Champagne.
We would like to share with you some information about the IRIS Zoom Engine, Eugen Systems' Engine, since RUSE.
[h2]Part 1 : Engine enhancements[/h2]
We upgraded our deferred engine with full PBR (Physically Based Rendering) support to match current industry standards. We specifically put efforts on our terrain rendering tech, solving the typical "PBR-specular explosion from far" issue gracefully.
Thanks to this upgrade, we also improved our asset production pipeline with a state-of-the-art metallic/roughness/ambient occlusion workflow, replacing the oldschool specular/glossiness one.
We took this opportunity to make brand-new 3D & textures assets for all units : 4K PBR textures, finer modelling & skinning. For instance, there is more variety in infantry modeling.
New tone mapping algorithm now use typical photographic settings for more realism.
Even if the engine is graphically improved, our goal is to always keep it efficient for minimal configurations. Warno will not require a higher configuration than Steel Division 2!
[h2]Part 2 : Improvements to the damage and destruction system for military units [/h2]
To better represent damage, units now lose pieces of armor, equipment....
.... and when they get destroyed, can explode in a realistic and impressive way, for example by projecting their turret after the ammo-rack explosion...
...or lose helicopter blades, turbines and even airplane wings!
The unit textures display their damage with much more realism to better reflect their state of decay.
As for the carcasses, smoke and impact craters, they have also been reworked, giving the impression of a real battlefield, realistic and persistent.
[h2]2022![/h2]
Now it's time to wish you the best for 2022 and Thursday 20th of January is going to arrive soon!
Keep a track of WARNO and join the community. You can check the latest news on the Steam News page or visit the Steam Forums. Join the excellent Discord server and the new Reddit page.
A l'année prochaine (as we say in French)!