Grand Theft Auto VI Wiki

The Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE) powers Grand Theft Auto VI with its latest iteration, informally called RAGE 9. Key technologies include ray-traced global illumination, strand-based hair rendering, procedural object generation, high-quality water simulation, and detailed vegetation systems.

Technical details of GTA VI's engine, rendering, physics, and confirmed visual features based on official PS5 footage.

An overview of Grand Theft Auto VI's next-generation procedural breakable glass system, which calculates glass damage in real time rather than relying on pre-built shatter animations. A dedicated Rockstar Games graphics programmer spent over three years developing the technology.

Technical7/12/2026 4 min readDarkwhispers

An overview of the procedural animation technology behind Grand Theft Auto VI, based on Take-Two Interactive's patented Virtual Character Locomotion system. The technology breaks character movement into small reusable motion segments that are stitched together dynamically, potentially enabling more lifelike NPC behavior with fewer resources.

Technical7/12/2026 4 min readghostpetal