This is especially useful for the zone visualizations. The new rendering pipeline allows us to use decals, so we can nicely project graphics on top of 3D geometry now. See below for higher resolution comparison shots! As usual there are graphics settings for these new effects so you can adjust them to better fit your preferences. We’ve also enabled a slight bit of tilt shift by default. We also gave the camera a bit more perspective and overhauled the lighting and color balance. This one is nearly free and very stable and high quality. It works very well with Parkitects clean art style and is something we wanted from the beginning, but previous versions we tried were very performance heavy and flickery. To begin, we’ve added Ambient Occlusion which adds some shadows to occluded areas, giving the entire scene more depth.

We have switched rendering pipelines from a forward renderer to a deferred render over the past few weeks, which completely changes how the game is being rendered and allows us to use some nice modern graphics features with very little performance cost.

While last month was focused on maintenance work, March will be all about visuals.

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