The Evolution of the Powerful Snowdrop Game Engine and the Future of Gaming at Massive Entertainment

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Discover how our powerful game engine is shaping the future of gaming across genres and platforms! The Snowdrop game engine is a cornerstone of developing games here at Massive Entertainment and at Ubisoft. From the life-like cities in Tom Clancy’s The Division to the lush wilderness in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and the galaxy of Star Wars Outlaws – Snowdrop enables us to create breathtaking visuals and dynamic systems, while maintaining unmatched flexibility.  JOIN THE XBOXVIEWTV COMMUNITY Twitter ► https://twitter.com/xboxviewtv Facebook ► https://facebook.com/xboxviewtv YouTube ► http://www.youtube.com/xboxviewtv Dailymotion ► https://dailymotion.com/xboxviewtv Twitch ► https://twitch.tv/xboxviewtv Website ► https://xboxviewtv.com  Note: The Snowdrop Game Engine #Trailer is courtesy of Massive Entertainment - A Ubisoft Studio. All Rights Reserved. The https://amzo.in are with a purchase nothing changes for you, but you support our work. #XboxViewTV publishes game news and about Xbox and PC games and hardware.

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00:01Born at Massive Entertainment as a grassroots movement,

00:05Snowdrop as a groundbreaking engine created to redefine the art of gaming.

00:10Snowdrop's aim is to be more than just a tool.

00:13It's a revolution of creative freedom,

00:16ready to transform your art and release your vision.

00:20The journey began with a challenge.

00:30Crafting a lifelike New York City for Tom Clancy's The Division.

00:36Enter a new era of game development.

00:39A groundbreaking use of node graphs,

00:42an inward 3D UI system emerged, redefining past rules.

00:50The main focus of Division 1 was the attention to detail

00:54and make the world feel real.

00:56We worked on the environment with volumetric fog

00:59and particles which reacted to light and wind.

01:02We had snow particles.

01:04This helped to create the mood of the world

01:06which was loved by millions around the world.

01:12The destruction system was a big feature.

01:15For example, a car was a huge node graph system

01:18with different parts that behaved differently according to their materials.

01:22If you shoot the tires, then the suspension would react

01:25and the whole car would wobble.

01:27You could shoot the glass in the windscreens and the car lights

01:31and individual fragments would fall down simulated with physics.

01:35All of this helped us to modernize the Tom Clancy brand.

01:39The Division 2 takes the saga to new heights.

01:42Offering an intricately crafted Washington DC

01:46where industry-leading audio intensifies the realism.

01:51Of the two innovations that I think really stand out in Division 2,

01:56the outdoor reflections and the indoor diffuse reflections,

01:59as well as sounding very good,

02:01I think it really helped the sound designers.

02:03It reduced their manual labor so they could really focus on other things

02:06and really put their time and effort into the stuff that had to be handcrafted.

02:13Through the years, Snowdrop has been utilized to power a wide range of games,

02:18from realistic open-world shooters

02:21to turn-based tactical RPGs on various platforms.

02:25This highlights Snowdrop's versatility and adaptability

02:29to diverse game genres and hardware.

02:32Snowdrop is a node-based engine.

02:35Developers can easily add or develop missing functionalities.

02:39One memorable moment was when we tried the first playable build.

02:43That's when the dev team realized that breaking from a linear progression

02:47was a good choice.

02:48It really brought more freedom to the players

02:51and spiced up the exploration aspect of the game.

02:57Snowdrop evolves not just in sophistication.

03:00From cityscapes, it transforms into a universe-crafting canvas.

03:08We really wanted to bring Pandora to life,

03:10from its wildlife in the jungles and forests

03:12to up in the sky overlooking the grand open vistas of Pandora.

03:19Ray tracing is a technology that allows us to simulate

03:22how lighting bounces off surfaces in real time.

03:25We use it, for example, when the canopy blocks sunlight,

03:28but there is still light that bounces off from underneath it

03:31in the vegetation and light the canopy from below.

03:36Snowdrop's ray tracing pipeline helps give a more realistic

03:39and grounded lighting to the scenes.

03:41We give a lot of freedom to our artists.

03:43They can basically do whatever they want

03:45and realize their creative ambition without much restrictions.

03:48Snowdrop is not merely a game engine.

03:58It's a vessel that propels you on a journey to the stars.

04:04A challenge for us was to fill up the vast emptiness of space

04:07with something that doesn't look uncanny.

04:09For that we have Space Dust and Nebula.

04:12Space Dust simulates, on a very large scale,

04:15irregular space debris from rock and boulders

04:18and down to fine particles of dust.

04:21Nebula is based on the existing cloud system

04:24and altered to simulate much denser, larger

04:27and less transparent areas of space.

04:30But the story doesn't end here.

04:36As the gaming world transforms and evolves,

04:39so does Snowdrop,

04:41crafted by those who believe

04:43in the boundless power of imagination.

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