The blog post details how the team has gone about creating certain objects for The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, using photogrammetry to capture its scenery - this technique involves taking tons of photos of objects and locations to get a full 360-degree look at them, and then processing them with 3D rendering software that will help craft it into a realistic-looking in-game model.
You can take a gander at how the remade version looks in the trailer below, but I'd recommend refraining from that if you've not yet played the game as this ad spoils some of its best surprises.Developer The Astronauts shared a new blog post today detailing the studio's methods for crafting hyper-realistic environments for its upcoming horror exploration game, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter. Story-wise, both versions of the game are identical.įor a more detailed account of the differences between versions, check out Digital Foundry's Ethan Carter breakdown. "As soon as there's the final release, we will add this feature to the game." "The current version of UE4 has an experimental support for DX12, and it really is experimental and thus too risky for a public release for us," creative director Adrian Chmielarz explained on the studio's blog. There's still no Direct X 12 support, but developer The Astronauts is working on adding this. Previously it had a checkpoint system that would set you back to the beginning of each section upon reloading. There's a new save system too, where the game remembers every action you've done before plopping you back into its world. Having to manually backtrack to pick up on missed content was one of former Eurogamer editor Tom Bramwell's few gripes about the game that he otherwise loved. For one, you can now fast travel back to earlier sections. The original release was developed in Unreal Engine 3.įurthermore, it adds a few nifty features. This remastered edition was built from the ground up in Unreal Engine 4.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux, the remade version of the game released on PS4 in July, is now available on Steam as a free upgrade to the core game.
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