Sniper Elite 5: Maps
The team had specific goals in mind when creating the maps for 'Sniper Elite 5':
- To procedurally generate the maps and reduce artist time, needing only a few touches to be finalised assets.
- To create maps with greater terrain fidelity than previous 'Sniper Elite' titles.
The "aerial photography" of the time was both a reference and an inspiration to create the map treatment, which was later taken by a material artist to proceed with the map generation in Substance Designer for their final treatment and implementation.
The first version of the concept, originally intended to be black and white to look like 1940's aerial photography.
Using initial masks to iterate on the map treatment.
On later versions, some colour was brought back along with dark clouds to soften the edges of the map.
In-game.