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- Memory: 4 GB
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- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Hard Drive: 17 GB
- OS: Ubuntu 20.04 64bit
- Processor: Intel Core i7
- Memory: 16 GB
- Video Card: NVIDIA 1060 with latest proprietary drivers (not older than 6 months) / similar AMD (Radeon RX 570) with latest proprietary drivers (not older than 6 months) with Vulkan support.
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Hard Drive: 95 GB
Continuing the highlighting of some of the new features in our Dagor Engine 5.0 graphical engine, that we are planning to present to War Thunder players in update 1.77. In today's devblog in connection with the new Dagor Engine 5.0, we would like to talk about two visual features: weather and environmental effects.
Rain effects
We have improved rain and rain water effects. Now raindrops will leave ripples on puddles and water surfaces. As well as that, streams of rain water will now flow down and across surfaces - stones, pavement, roofs and walls:
Layered fog
In update 1.77, our new graphical engine Dagor Engine 5.0 will bring fog and smoke effects to the game. Depending on the weather, fog can appear over rivers and lakes, and in valleys and fields. We have tried to make the fog effect as photo realistic as possible, the fog itself looks three-dimensional, has layers and a visual depth – in other words, it’s very similar to real fog.
Incidentally, in the future fog may influence gameplay – for example, by hiding the advance of an assault group of tank
Dynamic clouds and sun
Clouds and sun in our game now have their own life. Clouds move across the sky and don’t just hang in place. The sun also moves from East to West in an astronomically correct way, according to the date and time of a battle and geographical latitude of a location.
We plan to implement these changes after update 1.77 is released.
Check our previous DevBlogs:
The War Thunder Team
Comments (130)
Does this mean we're closer to seeing accurate reflection effect on aircraft while they're in clouds? It's always bothered me that theres still a blinding reflection off of aircraft even though they may be in an extremely thick rain cloud for example, doesn't look particularly realistic at all.
Gaijin headquarters: "Ya know there's a lot of huge bugs and gameplay issues that we need to fi-" "OMG REALISTIC WEATHER STOP EVERYTHING"
Will this change effect gameplay performance on my or any of our computers?
After seeing this I've finally decided to make the switch to a PC.... I'm moving up in the world guys! Great job Gaijin keep it coming and if you'll read this can you try and work on the spotting mechanic in SB bombers 2km away look like fighters unless you zoom in! -_-
If you need help getting into the pc ecosystem just send me a message in game. I can help you look for what parts to buy for your budget
I didn't even know rain was in the game, besides for planes...
Will this work with old video card support? if it doesn't make it wrk please! or send me a good video card
will this affect the players on low- end graphic cards? thank you in advance
Gaijin , water looks great but where are all the ducks /
Will this affect players who play on ultra low quality? Will they get worse framerate?
Just one question: How will this affect the performance? I really don't want to suffer a hit to my FPS, which is low enough already... Thanks!
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