The Number One Educational Resource for the Game Industry
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Overview:
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The main game production challenge is more than ever about the artist's ability to produce a massive amount of quality content. Julien Keable, Team Lead for Frostbite Terrain Tools at Electronic Arts, presents the Frostbite Terrain Procedural Framework, currently used by five EA titles as varied as Battlefield 2042 and EA Sports PGA Tour. With it, world artists create interdependent data layers that drive various aspects of the environment: material selection and its attributes, topology, seamless integration of objects with terrain, object scattering and more. Leveraging Frostbite runtime rendering technology, our tools implement an advanced non-destructive GPU-based layer compositing system with data driven behaviors that let game entities affect terrain. With these automated workflows in the editor, artists iterate faster and save hours of mind-numbing manual steps that can be reinvested where it matters.
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