In this 2022 GDC session, Ubisoft Montreal’s Emily Zhou and Ubisoft Toronto’s Colin Weick describe the techniques and systems implemented to simulate tropical weather in Far Cry 6 as well as the challenges faced orchestrating these systems to produce dynamic weather transitions.
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I can't believe that as a man in his 30s, I get excited listening to a GDC presentation on grass, weather, sound design, horses, and I could keep going.
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A dynamic weather system isn't new to Far Cry (Far Cry 2 and Far Cry 3).
Great talk both, thank you.
game is still shit
Sorry, but everything looks worse in Far Cry 6 than Far Cry 5. The light is just.. off. Everything is way too yellow, the weather is not realistic ( rains simply appears) and everything feels fake and basically like a giant fake playground, rather than a real island. But it's also down to the tone of the game and the cardboard characters, that simply are caricatures – including our main character. Every time I play this, I wish I could change the lighting and get that extra immersion, but no. And I'm running this on a big rig, with everything set to ultra