• Wheaties [he/him]
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    871 year ago

    Are gamers really surprised by this?

    Suddenly, a lot of the gullibility around “AI” is starting to make more sense.

    • SoloboiNanook [comrade/them]
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      341 year ago

      Lmao right?

      I literally feel like chatgpt-like AI is basically just a thing rewording google searches to sound human

      Ehich i guess is a thing for making it make sentences that sound human, but not " intelligent"

    • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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      161 year ago

      We’re talking about people who would willingly not only play but pay a game from a game developer whose last good game is over two decades old at this point. Of course they’ll be the rubiest of rubes.

      • TheCaconym [any]
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        1 year ago

        who would willingly not only play but pay a game from a game developer whose last good game is over two decades old at this point

        Not just that, pay for it and then fellate the game publisher publicly in a bajillion reddit/twitter posts

    • SkingradGuard [he/him]
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      291 year ago

      If they don’t let me simulate every single molecule of water in that rain on my $2 million supercomputer I’m going to [redacted] so hard that Todd Howard will feel my disappointment. pronounjak-rage

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    441 year ago

    I figured out games have a “rain box” when I was eight years old and playing Need For Speed Underground 2. Like come on, it’s clear they don’t render rain throughout the entire game world.

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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        131 year ago

        It’s bad, but usually a result of really aggressive culling and the likes. Quite a few older games have a really small rain box not attached to the camera for performance reasons, and if you play the game in widescreen you can see it.

        But yeah it’s really weird to see a modern game using a set rain box not attached to the camera, I agree

  • buh [any]
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    391 year ago

    I wouldn’t mind this if the rain was only coming from clouds with frowny faces while all the other clouds were smiling

    • @emptyother
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      331 year ago

      Would love rain that made one see the water roll of the roofs in a dynamic way, even at a bit of distance or while under cover. Not necessarily simulated or volumetric, I dont mind cheats and cardboard tricks to make it look good and performant.

      • NoisyOwl [he/him]
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        241 year ago

        That sounds really neat actually. I don’t think it’d be very hard to add, either, it’s just some hidden assets that show themselves a bit after it starts raining. Roughly the same as river and waterfall effects, just at funny scales. It’d be a rather large amount of work to place all of them if it’s a big game with a lot of roofs and gutters, but still a good use of time compared to some of the crap AAA games throw artists at.

        Sounds terrifying to try to do in a procedural game though.

        • @[email protected]
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          121 year ago

          Well, crytek managed to do it with Hunt Showdown this past event and it looked amazing. Not sure how different creation and cryengine are, though it was my understanding implementing rain into Hunt was considered impossible before.

    • NoisyOwl [he/him]
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      301 year ago

      I don’t think I’ve ever seen a game do that. I’ll add it to my scope creep list.

  • grazing7264 [they/them, comrade/them]
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    211 year ago

    I think Halo: Reach for Xbox 360 actually doesn’t do this, in theater mode you can pause and fly around to see individual droplets rendered based on distance but frozen in place.

    They’re actually little dots too, they only turn into blurry lines when in motion.

    • Abracadaniel [he/him]
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      141 year ago

      Halo: Reach was a really impressive use of the hardware. Surely the drops are cenntered around the camera in the example you describe?

      • grazing7264 [they/them, comrade/them]
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        71 year ago

        Probably but when you paused the theater mode the droplets were fixed in space and you could move them around very slowly by playing the clip at 0.1x-0.9% and everything in between.

        They were dynamic enough and tied to the physical space enough that I can’t tell if they were some kind of camera trick.

    • git [he/him, comrade/them]
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      91 year ago

      Project Gotham Racing 4 also had very impressive rain and weather effects for the time, it was a headline feature. I’m still hoping Microsoft revives the IP, but they seem to view Forza Horizon as their arcade racer for now.

  • axont [comrade/them, they/them]
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    171 year ago

    The one that gets me sometimes is that in a lot of first person shooters the gun is rendered on a separate layer than the rest of the graphics. It’s not actually there. It’s just an animation.

    Some games use that to their advantage by making the gun huge to block the rest of the scene so less gets rendered.

    • ScrewdriverFactoryFactoryProvider [they/them]
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      Conway’s Law: A system’s design structure mirrors the communication structure of the people who built it.

      So if Bethesda has dysfunctional communication practices such as excessive meetings, slow feedback loops, or pipelines that don’t allow their workers to work independently, their software is also going to suffer from the artifacts of that dysfunction.