Spider-Man IG-impostors
Xray Halperin, David Santiago, Abdul Bezrati · 2018
Spider-Man's traversal though Manhattan in the video game Marvel's Spider-Man (2018) for Sony's PS4 platform allows the player to climb any building and jump off any structure while rotating the view 360 degrees at 30 frames per second and displayed at 4k resolution. Flat card "billboard" style impostor systems could not represent the city environment at the desired quality so Insomniac Games developed the 3D IG-Impostor system to represent the mid to distant cityscape for Marvel's Manhattan in an efficient and persistent cache. This environment data cache was then available for multi-view rendering used by other systems within the Insomniac Engine. There are no 2D impostors in Marvel's Spider-Man.