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• bleistift2@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    SMB had game file size limitations in the dozens of kilobytes range.

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    • Jerkface@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      For comparison, that screenshot is 342kb, and Super Mario Bros is 40kb. The screenshot is more than 8.5 times bigger than the game it comes from.

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    • bruhduh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Modern AAA games need optimisations too

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    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What I would give to have modern devs work that hard to reduce file sizes

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• Rhaedas@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I've seen this same suggestion years ago on Blender tutorials. Generating a scene isn't about making it realistic, it's about fooling the audience into thinking it's real without making it too hard to create. Look at videos from Ian Hubert on how to fake it well.

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  • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Halo came out 17 years ago. I learned this today (and still don’t really see it…), so I say they did amazingly well!

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    • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fuck I’m old

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My partner compares video game design to stage theatre.

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    • 200ok@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Good analogy! Anything in particular they’ve used as examples?

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  • BoiLudens@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • FinalRemix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They did this in the Hitman 1>2>3 progression and got H3 down to like… 36 gigs… they reused doors when posssible, fruits in bowls, etc. Instead of bespoke items for each game in the series, they compressed and repeated stuff, and got the entire trilogy game down to the size of one of the individual games.

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Welcome to gamedev. Its all smoke, mirrors, and magic tricks. Come intervene in our fancy electric rock dreams.

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• MrJameGumb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You want them to pay to design TWO ROCKS??? What are they, billionaires???

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  • Dabundis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Why did the finger curl? Nothing changed

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    • Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • Pothetato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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• SilverShark@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I honestly don’t see the similarity. So nice rotating, scaling, moving skills I guess.

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• Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Generally more than half of the rock is underground, so while it might be only one rock, you see many distinct sides of it…

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  • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Most rocks are one sided actually.

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• WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The desks in Skyrim are just clouds embedded in the ground and recoloured.

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  • Cris_Color@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The desks are clouds…? How would clouds even remotely look like desks??

    Was this supposed to say rocks? I’m so confused 😅

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    • CodexArcanum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think the joke here is that in Super Mario Bros (NES), the bushes are recolored clouds, with their bottoms hidden by the ground. By changing the reference to Skyrim, you get a surrealist joke.

      Anyway, that’s what I thought the reference was and it made me heartily lol!

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• ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And we had to share the rock

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  • ace_garp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Our rock.

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• MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is this halo?

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  • funkajunk@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s minecraft

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    • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Mario

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• sebinspace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is literally every game with rocks, since fucking forever…

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• Xanthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lmao, done that before. You do have to worry about the resolution of the textures when changing the model’s size, though.

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  • EvokerKing@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Maybe not polycam in specific, since they too believe that you need lidar to get high quality scans, which isn’t true at all.

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