Uncharted 4: Dev Sheds Light On Stunning Visual Shaders

Nasyr Dec 18, 2014

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    Naughty Dog’s Yibing Jiang has spilled some tantalizing tidbits on the shader work that goes into creating the stunning visuals seen in its hotly anticipated action-adventure sequel, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End.​
    As the game’s Shading Artist, Jiang is instrumental in creating Nathan Drake’s dashing next-generation looks, and shared some comments on how the studio was able to overhaul his chiselled features for PS4.​
    "Real-time rendered in game. This is not CGI or pre-render, which means all the shading features for skin, hair, eyes need to be written in code.​
    Using Disney Diffuse model, GGX Brdf model and Screen Space Subsurface.​
    Hair is using Kajiya-kay Brdf model.​
    Frank Tzeng did the sculpting and texturing for his face and arms."​
    It’s not just Drake’s boyish good looks that have seen a considerable improvement for his PS4 debut. The cheeky fortune hunter’s clothing has also received just as much attention, which Jiang further explains:​
    “Real-time rendered in game. This is not CGI or pre-render, built the fabric shader package for all the main characters and npc characters as well.​
    Using Disney Diffuse Model, recreated Brdf model just for the fabric, also added special cheap Sub-surface Scatter.​
    All the fabric details, stitches, small wrinkles, wear and tears were built in shader.​
    Colin Thomas did modeling and texturing part for the outfit.”​
    Uncharted 4 received its first gameplay video at the PlayStation Experience a few weeks ago. Naughty Dog soon begun drip-feeding us a number of facts about its upcoming sequel, including the fact Drake will support 800 facial animations and fully-animated gun straps.​
    The developer also released a high-res comparison shot of Drake’s Uncharted 4 model alongside his Uncharted 3 counterpart. ​
    Uncharted 4 is due for release in 2015.​
    Source: PSU
     

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