#Reddit todd gamebryo engine full
#Reddit todd gamebryo engine software

There's another thing to consider in the 'new engine or GTFO' debate for Elder Scrolls 6. And that's only what Bethesda has talked about publicly. While Elder Scrolls 6 might be using the same engine in name as Skyrim in name, it's the same engine with an all new renderer, new lighting, new landscape system, new animation system and photogrammetry. We're also fairly sure from a recent ' 25 Years of Elder Scrolls' video that Elder Scrolls 6 will be making use of photogrammetry, enabling the use of high resolution photo scanning for both people and places.Īround the 8 minute and 30 second mark into the video – Matt Carofano, art director on Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim and more – explains how 'we're using photogrammetry to scan in all these real world assets and push out future tech for games to levels we've never done before,' adding that it's 'building the technology now that is going to fuel our future games.'

#Reddit todd gamebryo engine full

Whereas the one in full production is using the old one'.Īs far as we know right now the project in full production is Starfield, which means the 'project in pre-production getting a new animation system' is Elder Scrolls 6. Usually what's happening – take an animation system change that were we're doing right now, we're finishing, for one of our projects, a project in pre-production getting a new animation system. In a podcast last year, Howard seemingly alluded to what these changes could mean for Elder Scrolls 6: 'There's always one project that's in pre-production, maybe for years, and another one we have in full production. Then when you go to Starfield, even more of it changes, and then Elder Scrolls 6, which is really out on the horizon, even more of it changes.' 'For Fallout 76 we changed a lot of it,' Howard explains, from the same interview: 'All new renderer, new lighting model, new landscape system. For Skyrim the graphical capabilities were changed, after that a physically based deferred renderer (which improves lighting) and so on. Every time the the studio makes a game it adds and adapts the engine to suit new demands. After that Bethesda created the Creation Engine for Skyrim by developing its own version of the Gamebryo engine. It originally started life as the Gamebryo engine, which was used from Morrowind to Oblivion, as well as Fallout 3. So, over the years, the Creation Engine which Bethesda uses for its Elder Scrolls and Fallout games has been changed piece by piece.

#Reddit todd gamebryo engine software

Whether it's the render, the animation system, the scripting, the AI, the controls some of it's middleware, Havok Animation.' (Middleware is third party software used by studios for specific jobs usually because it's cheaper/easier than building a custom solution.) Piece by piece

There are lots of pieces, and with every game parts of that change. Aaaanyway, let's give Todd Howard a chance to explain: 'I think most people who aren't making games confuse the word 'engine'.