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Mans Isaksson (Game Programmer, Embark Studios)
Location: Room 2016, West Hall
Date: Thursday, March 21
Time: 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass - Get your pass now!
Topic: Programming
Format: Session
Vault Recording: Video
Audience Level: Intermediate
THE FINALS is a fast-paced, competitive first person shooter with a focus on emergent gameplay and dynamic systems. Front and center of these systems is the destruction system which enables most of the environment to be destroyed, buildings to collapse, and debris from buildings to re-shape the play-space, all while being physically simulated.
In this session, Måns Isaksson (Game Engineer at Embark Studios) walks through the technical challenges the team at Embark had to overcome to enable this level of destruction in THE FINALS. He walks you through the workflow – from constructing and fracturing structures to integrating them into the playable environment, and explore technical aspects such as replication, simulation performance, rendering, and structural analysis calculations.
Attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of how the team at Embark went about solving the technical challenges presented while crafting a large and fully dynamic destruction system for THE FINALS.
This presentation is primarily intended for mid- to senior level programmers. It covers several technical aspects of a larger system and as such many implementation details will be omitted, prior experience will be helpful to infer these details. However, effort will be made to make it comprehensible and valuable to more novice programmers and designers as well.
