Screenshots: Schitterende screenshots van Mirror's Edge: Catalyst

Naast ontwikkelaar Hanger 13 was ook EA DICE van de partij op de Game Developers Conference. Fabien Christin, senior lighting arts, sprak uitvoerig over het lichtgebruik in Mirror's Edge: Catalyst en bijbehorende uitdagingen. Ook werden andere elementen van het spel besproken zoals het levendig neerzetten van de karakters.

Hieronder een korte samenvatting van de presentatie:

- Mirror's Edge: Catalyst has a day/night cycle.
- The game has a strong narration revolving around the history of the City of Glass and the rise of Faith.
- There were four major challenges: creating a Time of Day system, dynamic lightning, believable characters for cinematics and creating stylized images with Physically Based rendering.
- The team gathered references for the City of Glass in Tokyo.
- The team created a physically based sky for the game, with precomputed atmospheric scattering, sun intensity that actually illuminates the sky and realistic sun elevation. Sun and moon can be used at the same time as light sources.
- The team wanted deeper blues than a physically correct sky, so they added a Add Rayleigh Scattering Multiplier, with a more dramatic effect.
- The day/night cycle lasts 48 minutes. Sunrise is at 6 AM, and sunset is at 6 PM.
- Sun shadows are connected to player movement to hide jittery shadows.
- The city divided in hierarchized zones for streaming: 17 Ground level zones, 83 Buildings zones and 391 Props zones.
- A lot of work has gone into getting the right white for the game.
- Characters were created with face scanning, but they were modified because characters are stylized.
- Eyes have their own shader with parallax for refraction and normal map for iris concavity.

Tevens toonde Christin diverse screenshots. Uiteraard stond het lichtgebruik centraal, maar het levert in ieder geval erg mooie platen op. Daarnaast zijn er diverse screenshots van de karakters. We hebben de hoogtepunten voor jullie geselecteerd. De hele lijst vind je bij Dual Shockers.

Mirror's Edge Catalyst is vanaf 26 mei verkrijgbaar voor de pc, PlayStation 4 en Xbox One. Wat vind jij van onderstaande screenshots? Laat het ons weten!