Video: Omgeving van Uncharted 4 in beeld

Op GDC waren diverse ontwikkelaars en uitgevers aanwezig. Eerder berichtten wij al over Hanger 13 van Mafia III en EA Dice van Mirror's Edge: Catalyst. Ook Bradford Smith, Rogelio Olquin en Andrew Maximov van Naughty Dog betraden het podium.

Uiteraard spraken zij over Uncharted 4: A Thief's End. Smith en Olquin presenteerden over de technische elementen en de invloed op de omgevingen. Daarnaast sprak Maximov over de ontwikkeling van Uncharted 4: A Thief's End.

- The system that governs hair and gravity is a cheap hack which is literally just three lines of shader code.
- Individual plans moving under Drake's feet is also a shader trick, and couldn't have been done otherwise.
- Particles in Uncharted 4's engine freely interact with materials. This allows effects like dynamic damage.
- When you throw a grenade, it spawns a particles that moves the foliage.
- Dirt and mud effects on characters is procedural. If Drake gets muddy and then steps in the water, then the mud will be washed away.
- When Drake is tired a fatigue system changes the animations to make him actually look tired. This actually communicates with the shaders, making him also look sweaty.
- There's dust all over the game's environments. When a character walks through it, a particle is created, removing the dust in that particular location, creating a footprint.
- Maximov remembers waking up a texture artist at 3 AM when he was sleeping with his face on his Cintiq tablet. He was just napping for an hour before he'd keep working. And they can do that kind of thing for a month.
- A couple of months before starting to crunch really hard, Maximov implemented a button that brings up random quotes taken from social media by players of the Uncharted 4 multiplayer bèta. They're not the ass kissy kind of quotes, but they're there to remember developers what they're doing it for. It's not just about making the most polished and most beautiful game ever created. Developers aren't just making polygons and animations. They're making memories for people. They're allowing people to experience things together that maybe they'll remember and cherish for the rest of their lives.
- A similar system was then implemented in the script compiler, ending up amusing developers because one of the quote was you guys should do a dinosaur game.

In onderstaande video zie je componenten als het windsysteem en de interactie tussen deeltjes en materialen. De beelden zijn niet representatief voor het eindresultaat, want het geheel is nog een work-in-progress. Verder vind je onderaan dit bericht meerdere screenshots van diverse omgevingen.

Uncharted 4: A Thief's End is vanaf 10 mei exclusief verkrijgbaar voor de PlayStation 4. Wat is jouw indruk van al het beeldmateriaal? Laat het ons weten!