Playground Games wants to make Forza Horizon 5 the most realistic and vivid title in the entire series. The British Xbox Game Studios team traveled to Mexico with several members of the studio to Record more than 400 hours from the sky of the American country through photographs taken every 30 seconds; then reconverted into images in 12K resolution. The result is none other than more than 2000 predefined sky settings.
For its part, Forza Horizon 4 featured 300 presets for the UK sky. This was explained by Lukas Koelz, head of animation in the artistic lighting department of Playground Games, in the second episode of Forza Horizon 5: Let’s ¡Go! (via VGC). In fact, those 400 hours of photos weighed so much that it was not possible to upload them through cloud backups from Mexico. They therefore opted for local storage with hard drives distributed for those 75 TB.
A heaven of 75 TB of weight; the result of more than 400 hours of recording
“In comparison with [Forza] Horizon 4, the best way to explain it is with the meteorological presets we have ”, explained artist Lukas Koelz. “When the user creates a custom run, they can choose to run at noon when it rains, for example, or during a clear evening. In Forza Horizon 4, the system would pick a preset from our skies to give them their pick, and we had around 300 of them. This time we have more than 2000, so there is much more variety, and in free mode, of course, you can also experience it, “he adds.
As we learned days ago, the weather in Forza Horizon 5 will be dynamic and regional, not total for the entire map of Mexico. Said scenario, which will be 1.5 times bigger than the one in Forza Horizon 4, it will have points where a sandstorm may be taking place; while elsewhere there may be a tropical storm. And so on constantly. “It’s something we’ve never done in a game of [Forza] Horizon ”, argues Don Arceta, art director.
Volcanoes, mountains, waterfalls, storms, sand, water, asphalt … Forza Horizon 5 is presented as the most varied title – also in content, with new game modes – of the entire series. Game will launch on Xbox Series X | S, Xbox One, Windows 10 PC, and Xbox Game Pass this November 9, 2021.
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