SMU Guildhall Graduate Catalog Spring 2017 — Cohort 25 | Page 6

Devanshu Bishnoi Art Creation « Seasonal Environment Changes in Unreal Engine 4 Environments play a significant role in them, developers can use seasonal games. Game developers use different realism. affecting player experience in video techniques and methodologies to achieve immersive environments, such as location This artifact aims at developing a quality environment colors to show the degree of variations by using different techniques shifts as the levels progress, altering difficulty, using surroundings to support the game narrative and so on. As technology has advanced, so has the art in games. Environments have become more dynamic, and developers are now able to induce realistic rain, wind and snow effects in games. With games now becoming open world realms and players spending upwards of 40 hours playing 6 changes for higher immersion and ART CREATION forest environment with all four seasonal such as shader transformation, mesh degradation, and particle effects.