Ubisoft Gives Peek Into Snowdrop Engine Development

Ubisoft Gives Peek into Snowdrop engine development

Snowdrop started as a side project at Massive Entertainment back in 2009, when the team wanted tools that could handle super-detailed city environments. They built everything in C++, breaking the engine into bite-sized parts so different squads could tweak rendering, audio, or physics without stepping on each other ...

Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment use the Snowdrop engine. But did you know how it started with the engine? In a new behind-the-scenes video, Ubisoft takes us behind the scenes. From The Division to Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and Star Wars Outlaws, we see some excerpts from the development time with the company's own tool in these five minutes. Read more