2023-12-11 12:48:46
The first teaser for GTA 6 still hides more secrets waiting to be revealed, and it seems that we will not be able to reveal them all soon. While watching the ad several times, we noticed that Rockstar has showcased the capabilities of the updated RAGE engine by showcasing some advanced technologies, and you may not have noticed them, so we decided to take a simple overview of the most important of these technologies in our article.
Ray tracing – the pride of GTA 6 technology
It is not easy to notice ray tracing from a short teaser that is no more than a minute and a half in length, but repeating the video a few times reveals support for this technology. The presence of ray tracing is evident in all close-up scenes, whether shiny surfaces such as water and metals or matte surfaces such as roads and plants. These scenes include the psychologist’s conversation with Lucia, the flamingos flying, and the robbery of Jason and Lucia at the end of the commercial.
If we focus on these scenes, we will find that GTA 6 supports two advanced types of ray tracing for reflections and shadows, namely Global Illumination, which simulates the interaction of light with the entire environment, and ray tracing reflections, which simulates the reflection of light on one or some elements of the environment. We’re not sure if the ray tracing is entirely hardware-generated or algorithm-generated, but the developers seem to have combined the two methods, and overall the level of ray tracing is great.
Dynamic weather – the rumors are true
The first teaser for GTA 6 confirmed to us the previous rumors regarding the game’s support for dynamic weather, and this technology makes weather conditions change automatically regardless of the place and time, just like reality. The dynamic weather can be seen in a few scenes, including the scene of Lucia at the beginning of the ad, the Vice City sign, the city bridge, the swamp, and the police pursuit of a person, showing different periods of the day such as dawn and sunset and weather conditions such as fog and rain.
Water Physics – A significant evolution of the RAGE engine
pointed out Serious leak Dating back to the beginning of this year from Aleix Venturas, a leaker with sources inside Rockstar Studios, the developers of GTA 6 intend to revolutionize water physics, by developing realistic water physics inspired by Nvidia Wave Works technology and integrating it with a new version of the RAGE engine, given that Nvidia technology Very expensive, so Rockstar had better come up with their own water physics.
There are two scenes that showcase water physics in the GTA 6 trailer; The first is the tourist marine vehicles and the flying birds of the ocean that Vice Beach overlooks at the beginning of the advertisement, and the second is the scene of the two boats traveling at high speed next to the cargo ship adjacent to the seaport pier, and through them it appears the extent of the great improvement of the water physics over Red Dead Redemption 2, which was already great. This confirms the authenticity of the leak.
Animating characters – GTA 6 teaches developers the basics of the craft
Rockstar surprised us with the level of legendary character animation in GTA 6 throughout the duration of the teaser, as if it wanted to teach the developers a lesson in animation, and this is clearly evident with the scenes of Jason and Lucia, whether when they were inside the cell and turned around following the psychologist called her, or as they were escaping in their car from the police following they were stolen. Some money, or while they were carrying out a robbery in a store at the end of the ad.
We are not talking here regarding moving the characters’ bodies only, but rather we mean moving the head and hair, which happens smoothly and with complete realism. What is impressive is that the interest in animation is not limited to playable characters only, but also to NPCs and animals. It is enough to mention the scene in which 50 NPCs gather on Vice Beach and move at the same moment, as well as the amount of details!
Artificial Intelligence – Red Dead Redemption 2 makes its mark
Before publishing the first teaser for GTA 6, a user posted via Reddit He posted that he found new details regarding the huge leak of 2022, including the interaction of NPCs with the player and the development of the police system. Indeed, the advertisement included implicit confirmation of the previously mentioned details in a few scenes, including two non-playable characters shaking hands with each other, as well as the scene of the police passing by Jason and Lucia as they escape following committing a robbery.
- Read also: GTA 6: Here are 5 details you missed from the first trailer
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