Comment on efficiency

MrJameGumb@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Dabundis@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The monkey’s paw curls. New AAA games now feature thousands of individual rock models, among other labor- and space-saving measures being forgone in favor of realism. The game is 400 GB and the devs have worked 110 hours per week for the last 3 months

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  • FinalRemix@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    All you did was describe the current sad trajectory of AAA games anyway.

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    • Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thought he was describing CoD lol

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  • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There was a game that came out a few years ago that scanned in most of its rocks for photorealism. I can’t recall the name. EA was the publisher, I think?

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    • doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Tons of games do that now. Usually they get scans and models from other companies, like Quixel Mega scans. It makes for a relatively fast workflow. Pretty much any photo-real game is doing something like this, it’s just more affordable than paying people to digitally sculpt rocks by hand.

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    • Vee4@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think the newer Star Wars Battlefront games did that.

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    • c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      UE5 uses mega scans of real world assets.

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  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why did the finger curl? Nothing changed

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    • Dabundis@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I should have specified. This finger curled 15 years ago

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And all the 5GB worth of rocks were generated using a single Houdini script.

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  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    docs.unrealengine.com/…/nanite-virtualized-geomet…

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• Pothetato@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s one more rock, Michael. What could it cost, ten dollars?

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• doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Setting aside that asset production is genuinely one of the most expensive parts of game dev, if they’re smart they can use some clever GPU instancing to improve performance by reusing assets

  No clue if that’s happening here, though

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