Update 1.5.0!

Update 1.5.0 has been released for the RU server!

 

Changes / Fixes:

 

- General rendering has been redesigned and now supports PBR (Physically Based Rendering), which in turn allows you to display objects and materials more faithfully, simulating the flow of light in the real world.

 

- Reworked water rendering.

 

- Improved rendering of particles, now they convey the "glow effect" and "softness effect".

 

- Improved vegetation rendering, added subsurface scattering.

 

- Improved landscape rendering, added normal maps, shading, roughness, height maps.

 

- Added wet effect (objects, characters, landscape), now puddles appear when it rains.

 

- Added drops and waves for puddles.

 

- Fixed some bugs causing the client to crash.

 

- The fog has been redesigned from scratch, now it is more voluminous.

 

- Reworked general lighting of scenes (clouds, sun, moon, stars), change of time of day, atmospheric effects.

 

- Redesigned screen effects, now all screen effects have HDR support (now the overall picture will be transmitted to the user in full color palette).

 

- Added SMAA anti-aliasing.

 

- Reworked sunburst effect.

 

- Improved/redesigned general color correction.

 

- Added "Autoexposure" (adapting the overall brightness depending on the brightness of the scene).

 

- Temporarily cut screen shading effect (will be reworked in future patches).

 

- Improved reflections.

 

- Redesigned object glow effect.

 

- Optimized the rendering of planar reflections.

 

- Reworked / added shaders (Fabric, Metals, Wood, Plastic, Rubber, etc.) / (Glass, Snow).

 

- Added ice shader (or glass with refraction effect).

 

- Added microshadows for object materials.

 

- Added "dirty lens" effect from light sources.

 

- Optimized texture memory.

 

- All locations received new lighting and were rebuilt.

 

- Added the ability to turn on / off / adjust in the game settings: anti-aliasing, sun rays, glow, gamma correction, interface sounds volume.

 

- Changed the appearance of the location "Terra Nova".

 

- Fixed a bug with the disappearance of the cursor on the location "Market".

 

- Changed/improved equipment/weapon textures.

 

- Optimized grenade explosion effects.

 

- Optimized smoke effects.

 

- Other improvements and fixes.