Horizon Zero Dawn - Official SCREENSHOTS Thread.

[Poojipoo]

John2290 said:

Poojipoo said:
Woah, neat. When he was changing the time of day, the direction the light was hitting the clouds actually changed... That's actually pretty impressive, not something you usually see in games. I wonder how they're rendering those clouds?

Poojippoo? Are you new? ....to games? It is epic tech alright that we get a day night cycle in the photo mode but I'm feeling like I wann

Day/night cycle isn't anything new (still neat in photo mode), but I'm specifically talking about the clouds. Often times clouds in games are pretty basic, sometimes just straight up photos they slap on a sky map and cheat it when the time of day changes, but these clouds actually at least have the appearance of volume, soft light and shadow changing based on the sun's position, and even having a "halo" effect when the sun is behind them. There's a number of ways they could be achieving this effect, but it is impressive and some nice attention to detail.