Shortly before the release of Fallout 4, while Bethesda Game Studios began development of Starfield and downloadable content for Fallout 4, what is currently Bethesda Game Studios Austin (at the time BattleCry Studios) was tasked with modifying the Creation Engine to support multiplayer content in preparation for the development of Fallout 76. Additionally the updated version of the Creation Engine powering Bethesda's Fallout 4 offers more advanced character generation.
Bethesda worked with technology company Nvidia to implement volumetric lighting through a technique that makes use of hardware tesselation. After using the Gamebryo engine to create The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and Fallout 3, Bethesda decided that Gamebryo's capabilities were becoming too outdated and began work on Creation Engine for their next game, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, by forking the codebase used for Fallout 3.įollowing the completion of Skyrim, Bethesda set out to enhance the graphical core of the Creation engine by first adding a physically based deferred renderer to allow for more dynamic lighting and to paint materials object surfaces with realistic materials.
