Tire Tracks in Snow - A Graphics class Project
1. Introduction Cars and vehicles are becoming popular in Open World games. They play a very important role for the player to navigate through a level or map easily and quickly. Racing games have a different genre altogether. But do all games provide a complete experience of driving the car in the virtual world? The answer to this depends on the attention to detail given to the graphics while creating it. Factors such as the reaction of the vehicle to the environment really matter when developing such an experience for the player. Games such as Forza Horizon series, Gran Tourismo, Dirt Rally, the world famous Need For Speed series have given close attention to creating a breathtaking experience for the players. With increasing hardware development in GPU rendering of graphics, it has become possible for implementing a tiny level of details in games. In this blog post, I present a project which is built in Unreal Engine 4 to implement a simple technique to defor...