A New Dimension

摘要

As if Uncharted 3 weren't filled with cutting-edge CG technology already, the team decided to take things even further by crafting the game in stereo to run on 3D televisions. "That was a big change for us and posed an interesting challenge for all the departments concerned," says Keith Guerrette, lead visual effects artist. One big concern was producing two rendered views of the scenes. "We questioned what we would have to sacrifice in order to maintain frame rates over 30 fps for both left- and right-eye renders," Guerrette says. The programmers came up with solutions and optimizations so that certain images were processed just once rather than multiple times. For instance, each eye view was rendered at only half-resolution, so the same number of pixels were present but on screen there was double the number of polygons.