GTA 6’s weather system adds hurricanes and rainbows as new details emerge
Rockstar Games has revealed that GTA 6 will feature a highly advanced, localized weather system. The new technology allows for dynamic cloudscapes, persistent weather effects like puddles, and localized storms that vary across the game's map.
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(Credit: Rockstar Games) ⛈️ Rockstar has provided more details on GTA 6’s clever revamped weather system
😲 A new Game Informer interview reveals everything from dynamic cloudscapes to clever localized and persistent weather with lasting effects
🌈 The game is also set to have everything from rainbows to hefty storms
🤔 We don’t know how this will affect the player just yet, though
Rockstar has lifted the lid on GTA 6’s revamped weather system, which reveals some mighty impressive details.
As per a new interview with Rockstar’s vice president of art for lighting and rendering, Owen Shepherd, in a new interview with Game Informer , the studio has explained that the weather system has been “re-engineered…to make everything much more localized and persistent, and really wanted the world to feel dynamically solid and achieve a sense of scale we haven’t felt before.”
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