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Advanced Graphics Summit: Advanced Weather System for Mobile Game: 'Dark Area'

Ka Ming Chan  (Principal Engine Programmer, MoreFun Studios of Tencent Games)

Ruochen Ying  (Engine Programmer, MoreFun Studios of Tencent Games)

Location: Room 2005, West Hall

Date: Monday, March 21

Time: 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass - Get your pass now!

Topic: Programming

Format: Session

Viewing Experience: In-Person

Vault Recording: Video

Audience Level: No

This lecture focus on sharing experiences when implementing a dynamic weather system for our mobile game: Project: Dark, which is a realistic military FPS game. Our game features console-grade graphics and realistic game-play experiences such as time-of-day and weather changes inside a single session. Although our solution focused on mobile devices, these optimisation techniques also applies to PC / VR titles which require high performance sky rendering and dynamic weather effects.

Takeaway

Details on an artist-friendly and extensible weather system in Unreal Engine 4
Details on an efficient physically-based dynamic sky rendering
Details on an efficient volumetric cloud rendering
LOD strategy across different mobile devices
Related dynamic weather effects

Intended Audience

Graphics Programmer, Engine Programmer