Burnout: Paradise - 3 New Screenshots
June 9, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Corporate, Development, Genre, Miscellaneous, Newsbits, Racing, Screenshots
Criterion Games has released 3 new screenshots for Burnout: Paradise. One screenshot also compares the in-game image quality with SSAO turned ON and OFF:
We’re just implementing Ambient Occlusion (AO).
If you’re not familiar with this term, it’s an effect that uses soft shadows to add extra depth. Enclosed spaces naturally receive less light than open spaces and look darker – that helps us to see how close objects are to each other.
Some games already use AO but most rely on artists to build this into the environment. For Burnout this would be a nightmare, because we like to smash things up and move them around a lot! For this reason, we’ve implemented a dynamic AO system that affects fast-moving and destructible objects!
Screenshots after the jump.
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