Le planning des conférences de la prochaine GDC (en mars 2011) contient une surprise : une conférence (technique) sur Battlefield 3, par Kenny Magnusson de DICE. Extraits du résumé présent sur le site :
This session presents a detailed overview of the new lighting system implemented in DICEs Frostbite 2 engine and how it enables us to stretch the boundaries of lighting in BATTLEFIELD 3 with its highly dynamic, varied and destructible environments.
BATTLEFIELD 3 goes beyond the lighting limitations found in our previous battlefield games, while avoiding costly and static prebaked lighting without compromising quality.
We discuss the technical implementation of the art direction in BATTLEFIELD 3, the workflows we created for it as well as how all the individual lighting components fit together: deferred rendering, HDR, dynamic radiosity and particle lighting.
* How we merged the two lighting systems for mirror’s edge and battlefield
* How does a real time radiosity architecture work for a Video Game
* How we manage the new authoring of meshes
* The advantages of a real time radiosity
* Lighting large environments
Avec un peu de chance, le jeu aura d’ici là eu droit à ses premières images, voire (soyons fous) à une vidéo de gameplay.
