War Thunder Boasts Best Rendition of Sky In Games, Introduces Historic Naval Combat

War Thunder has been one of the virtually successful online games for a few years now, but that doesn't hateful programmer Gaijin Games is resting on its laurels.

A couple of days agone, they've introduced a new technology for heaven and cloud rendering that will be added to War Thunder. According to Gaijin, this is "probably" the best rendition of sky in games yet and it won't even tax your performance whatever further.

Today nosotros would like to show you what is probably the best rendition of the sky that has always been recreated in video games and that will be implemented soon in War Thunder.

The showtime thing we'd like to emphasize - with the same sky quality settings it volition non affect the game's operation on your gaming machine.

This is a custom developed engineering, since the studio wasn't satisfied with whatever existing solution. You can appreciate it in the video and images below, followed by a description of the tech.

Withal nosotros take spent a lot of time developing our own approach and we managed to recreate photorealistic imagery that has 5x better operation than any of its counterparts. Also that, we render the clouds up to a distance of 300 virtual kilometres - all the fashion to the horizon (with curvature of the globe) in example a thespian is flying at an distance of seven,000 metres.

Also every bit this, the new organization will make it possible to enable dynamic changes in the fourth dimension of day for light weather condition in sure game modes.

Also sky in the Dagor Engine 4 is astronomically right which ways that both the lord's day and the stars are correctly positioned in the sky co-ordinate to latitude, time and the engagement (including polar nights and days) fifty-fifty the moon and constellations are positioned co-ordinate to year, calendar month, date and hour.

The new skies characteristic volition be implemented in 1 of the nearest updates.

The last part about the sky being astronomically right will be relevant for the other big update revealed today past Gaijin: historical naval combat.

This volition brand utilise of NVIDIA'southward WaveWorks applied science, already introduced alongside devastation and PBR nigh six months agone.

Currently the sailing fleet is available in the "events" tab in Arcade fashion. Later on testing this type of boxing we plan to introduce an "open earth" that, dissimilar the existing i will be run direct past players and volition exist more often than not PvE oriented. The players will have to cooperate against pirates that will appear randomly on the map, protecting their merchant vessels and caravans; attack the ships that carry gilded, perform amphibious assaults, assault forts. Nonetheless joining a armada is not necessary - a thespian may keep all rewards to himself in one case he completes the task alone.

Confrontation of the nations that laid claim to the "Mistress of the seas" championship lasted for centuries and recreating this is a new interesting challenge for us. We created the first step in that direction in the previous year when we added seawater simulation based on NVIDIA Waveworks that not only looks natural but also has realistic moving ridge physics. The other of import upshot for a sailing ship is the "air", or weather. Our new implementation allows the states to recreate a detailed cloud layer up to the horizon, ascertain several types of clouds, create dynamic conditions changes and profoundly improve available weather atmospheric condition: from calm seatoheavy storm.

Add this to the already accurate representation of the night sky and astronomical recreation allows real sailors to truly navigate by the stars and sun. Also that, our detailed impairment model volition allow us to recreate all the nuances of the ship armouring that have non still been implemented in the other games. The impairment model will be particularly interesting when the sailing ships will run across other vessel types such equally fireboats (branders).

War Thunder 's latest update will introduce British fighting ships from the get-go of the Eighteenth Century; more than ships of the Royal Navy and other nations will be added later.