New Video Shows off Horizon: Zero Dawn’s Amazing Landscape Effects
David Gelmini
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The PS4 exclusive Horizon: Zero Dawn, from Killzone developer Guerrilla Games, has been getting a lot of buzz for it’s amazing graphics, but what’s even more interesting is the dynamic weather system.
As shown in a new video at the SIGGRAPH 2015 presentation, the weather and the sky will change constantly in the open world game – just like in real life – to make the player feel as though they are in a real, living breathing world where they can travel long distances and everything can change at any given time.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjDuvCifC2A]
Wow. Just wow. If I didn’t already know that it was from a game, I’d swear that I was watching a live-action video. We may still be a long way off from complete photo-realism in games, but still, just look at it!
The games principal VFX artist Andrew Schneider had the following to say about how this system differs from the studio’s Killzone games:
“FPS usually restrict the player to a predefined track, which means that we could hand place elements like clouds using billboards and highly detailed sky domes to create a heavily art directed sky.”
The game has been in development for four years and follows Aloy, a woman trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world overrun with giant mechanical monstrosities.
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