Ran Across An Interesting Comparision: DOA4 with and without Self-shadowing
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Florin said:
They'll need some serious organic soft-material physics for the kind of detail required.... Boobs bouncing is elementary stuff compared to... other things that should err... move and deform properly is a shagging game...
Florin said:
Uhm stuff that i really shouldn't have seen cause it's gross and obscene!!!
london-boy said:Uhm stuff that i really shouldn't have seen cause it's gross and obscene!!!
What are you talking about! Its the best part of waking up! Wait..what?
On a related note...
As a graphics programmer I always said that although I generally didn't like the genre as a player, working on a beat-em-up would be almost a dream job. It's got such well defined constraints that it ought to be possible to really go to town on the engine and squeeze every last ounce of power from a machine.
I mean, you've got a generally fairly fixed and small number of main characters on screen, the environments are fairly well contained, even in the cases where there are different areas to explore they're not exactly free-roaming... It ought to be fairly easy.
So far although I've seen some nice looking games, I've not seen much that's really technically amazed me (on the current gen - some PS1 titles were quite impressive, as were some on other platforms).
I wonder why that is?
As a graphics programmer I always said that although I generally didn't like the genre as a player, working on a beat-em-up would be almost a dream job. It's got such well defined constraints that it ought to be possible to really go to town on the engine and squeeze every last ounce of power from a machine.
I mean, you've got a generally fairly fixed and small number of main characters on screen, the environments are fairly well contained, even in the cases where there are different areas to explore they're not exactly free-roaming... It ought to be fairly easy.
So far although I've seen some nice looking games, I've not seen much that's really technically amazed me (on the current gen - some PS1 titles were quite impressive, as were some on other platforms).
I wonder why that is?
Alstrong said:
Perhaps, but even so - most games would have one or two coders on the engine for a fair amount of time while others work on the gameplay. If the same coders also have to do something more time-consuming or have to finish their bit of the game very quickly and move on to something else then I could understand it. But if they're on the game for 18 months along with everyone else.... what are they doing all that time?
MrWibble said:
That is a good question.
The only example I can think of right now is John Carmack when he pretty much finished the engine for Doom 3's release a long time before actual release; he moved onto the next engine. My guess would be that the coders move on to research for the next game or keep on optimizing.!eVo!-X Ant UK
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thie first pic just look's like sum1 has altered some of the contrast/brightness level's