Simplygon and Konami Digital today announced that Simplygon has been used in the creation of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Over the course of production, Simplygon was used to process assets for all 42 levels including test data while delivering Level of Detail (LoD) models that optimized the polygon counts to help deliver a great visual experience.
Konami said:
“We used Simplygon to merge 100-400 assets into a single asset and we used those features to create assets displayed at mid-range from the player. Because we built the automated mid-range asset generation workflow using Simplygon, when we changed the assets layout, we were able to re-create mid-range assets with very low cost.
Simplygon saved the labor equivalent of 10 man months. The benefits are clear as we used the tool to reduce polygons as much as tenfold in models ranging from 5,000 to 100,000 polygons. The best result is that players can’t see the reduction because the models keep their fidelity at all distances which keeps the players immersed.”
Martin Ekdal, Co-founder and Vice President of Business Development at Simplygon, added:
“Konami are legends in the games industry and over the past three decades have been at the forefront of high quality games that truly excite players through their gameplay and visuals. With Simplygon we’re enabling creators to focus more on the creative parts of development while we automate multiple production processes and improve the performance.”
According to the press release, Simplygon is popular amongst developers of mobile games; AAA PC and console games; and large MMOs, and is applicable to any medium where 3D art assets are created or utilized.
By automatically generating lower-polygon models that are required for different levels of detail (LOD), an optimization process for making games and visual scenes run smoother, at higher frame-rates, and requiring less data, Simplygon helps digital content creators save important resources where artists would otherwise need to manually re-create large amounts of content.
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That’s pretty awesome, so they don’t have to manually make multiple models for lod and mid-lod. Definitely can save a lot of work.
On a side note, I wish people would start making custom maps and scenarios for this game, the stealth is so good and I don’t really give a bull about the story, I don’t even use Jack or his double or whatev. The best stealth game I’ve ever played, I need more scenarios. It’s so good.
Wasn’t it supposed to have a mission editor?
Is there? Can we make custom maps and custom objectives?
It’s definitely not in the game, I completed it 100% and there is no mission editor, but I think I recall hearing something about user-created missions in an old interview. Add it to the pile of cut content I guess.
Damn, it would have given so much more life to this game.
So what,
Simplygon is used in almost every modern game, and its integrated by default in UE3, UDK, UE4,Unity…and other popular engines
its hardly a news…
+1
First time I’ve read of this tech. Interesting stuff. Also, great info from you as well.
it’s still behind in terms of graphics , couldn’t beat Crysis3 that came out in 2013 let alone the games of 2015
It’s a console game after all ,60fps so it looks like junk.
who the f’ mentioned consoles ??
it sucks a monkey’s a*s on PC with graphics mods , it’s like MGS4 with better lighting+AA
Well, it is basically a last-gen game made to run at higher resolution, framerate, with better textures, higher rez shadows, higher LOD levels and using Subsurface scattering for main characters.
So it’s no wonder.
The game looks best on PC and all but it’s still a Unfinished game thanks to Konami.