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Lighting effects should not go through guns/items/environments any more, especially not in promotional shots. Technology has long since advanced past that, or it should have, and they certainly shouldn't be using that crap in promo shots.

Joke post?

What game is that from?

ITS CREATORS MUST BE CLAPPED IN IRONS. :evil:

Or not.

It's from the upcoming Wolfenstein, and Echarin, whenever I see these things I get really annoyed but haven't ever been annoyed enough to bother posting any more.

I can think of worse things. Like charging 55 quid for a game that will no doubt be completed in under 6 hours

Looks horribly generic whatever it is.

Neo Cortex wrote:I can think of worse things. Like charging 55 quid for a game that will no doubt be completed in under 6 hours

As long as it's a AAA title that's fine.

Memento Mori wrote:
Neo Cortex wrote:I can think of worse things. Like charging 55 quid for a game that will no doubt be completed in under 6 hours

As long as it's a AAA title that's fine.

Not for me it aint, the game would have to come with a free blowjob from Elisha Cuthbert to even be considered value for money.

Alvin Flummux wrote:

Lighting effects should not go through guns/items/environments any more, especially not in promotional shots. Technology has long since advanced past that, or it should have, and they certainly shouldn't be using that crap in promo shots.

I think that's actually a particle effect as opposed to dynamic lighting, not really much you could do with todays tech to stop that cutting through other geometry, you could apply collision volumes to all the particles which might prevent this, but to be honest even Havok screws up when stuffs moving as fast as these particles will be.

It'll have been a toss up between having dynamic lighting on the muzzle flash (which would be very expensive on the processor if there's several on screen) and far more important things like enemy AI or number of enemies on screen these all have to come from the same budget.

Like Shadow mentioned, particles in most games are largely controlled volumetrically to remedy such issues... Possibly just a bug that some numpty in marketing neglected to spot though.

SuperFinal wrote:Like Shadow mentioned, particles in most games are largely controlled volumetrically to remedy such issues... Possibly just a bug that some numpty in marketing neglected to spot though.

So, basically, they strawberry floated up but we accept that because it's less of a strawberry float up than normal.

I've literally just shat myself out of pure anger at this.

Well, I'm not gonna loose any sleep over it. At least not until I see it in another shot. Then I'll be writing letters.

It's Wolfenstein it will still be awesome :wub:

MCN wrote:
SuperFinal wrote:Like Shadow mentioned, particles in most games are largely controlled volumetrically to remedy such issues... Possibly just a bug that some numpty in marketing neglected to spot though.

So, basically, they strawberry floated up but we accept that because it's less of a strawberry float up than normal.

Or they didn't strawberry float up and the decision was made to save processing power here to use elsewhere, you know, the kind of decisions that have to be made with every single game ever been made ever.

CONGRATULATIONS ALVIN

YOU'VE MADE A COMPLETELY UNREASONABLE AND VITRIOLIC SLIGHT ON GAME DEVELOPERS EVERYWHERE. WELL DONE! AS A REWARD FOR THIS MOST NOBLE OF ACHIEVEMENTS, YOU ARE BEING PRESENTED WITH AN OFFICIAL EIGHTHOURS-ENDORSED "KARLPROF CHALLENGE"!

YOUR CHALLENGE IS AS FOLLOWS

You're absolutely right. Particle effects in games, geometry-tied light-emulating effects in particular, are EASY AS strawberry float and could only be messed up by some kind of COMPLETE RETARD. Anyone in complete control of his cerebelum could code something as DOG gooseberry fool SIMPLE.

However, clearly the FUCKSHITS in the games development industry need to be shown HOW THIS STUFF WORKS, and I think of no-one better to do it than our resident GENIUS ALVIN FLUMMIX, YES THAT'S YOU!

>>> YOU HAVE TWO WEEKS TO COMPLETE YOUR BUGLESS PARTICLE EFFECTS MODULE FOR ANY WELL-KNOWN GAMES ENGINE. I suggest Source because of its inherent moddability. YOU MUST KEEP A DEVELOPMENT LOG ("DEVBLOG") AND DOCUMENT YOUR EFFORTS. This can be a thread in Creative Corner or a proper website. IF YOU FIND YOUR WORK IS IMPEDED BY BUGS IN THE ENGINE, YOU MUST FIX THESE BUGS, AS ANY HALF-WIT WITHOUT A 2-INCH THICK SKULL COULD OF COURSE DO. <<<

At the end of the two weeks a series of unit tests will be carried out by the forum's coders.

FAILURE TO COMPLETE THE EIGHTHOURS-ENDORSED "KARLPROF CHALLENGE" WILL RESULT IN A PERMENANT BAN FROM THE GRCADE FORUMS.

Hop to it!

Oh my.

Jimmy Shedders wrote:I've literally just shat myself out of pure anger at this.

Dynamic lighting of that intensity combined with volumetric particles is quite expensive on the CPU especially when the effect has to travel so fast once it is "fired". So a single polygon with an alpha texture is used because it very inexpensive in comparison. This is the case most of the time.

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It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

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