Environment Rendering Screenshots

Here are a few screenshots of environment rendering in XLE. I don't have a lot of art I can take screenshots of, so I can't show a very polished scene... But you can see some of the rendering features.

Look for:

• shallow water surface animation
• order independent blending for foliage
• volumetric fog (& related effects)
• dynamic imposters for distant trees
• high res terrain geometry
• terrain decoration spawn
• "contact hardening" shadows
• infinite terrain shadows

(see older screenshots here)

Here's a shot of a turbulent ocean (though the indoor environment reflections are weird!). The ocean animation is dynamically calculated on the GPU, and can simulate both small waves on a calm ocean surface and turbulant large waves.

(some of the sky textures in these screenshots are from sIBL Archive)