CGI-Quality said:
WereKitten said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
CGI-Quality said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
It's already possible. It's just too expensive. So they found a shortcut. Big deal. Sounds like every other pretty game out there. |
Really? Most "pretty games" aren't even in the same league as Uncharted 2 when referencing animations, which is what their point was.
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They raised the bar with procedural shortcuts. That's awesome. But it can definitely be reproduced with animation alone. It would just take tons of time and money and patience and probably cost too much money to be worth it. Procedural generation and animation is the future. Believe.
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And a cow can jump to the moon. It's not impossible, only very unlikely. So unlikely that I can say that you won't see that in your lifetime because the expected time for such even to happen is extremely big when compared to the age of the universe, and you would be right in saying it is for all practical purposes impossible.
Same here: if it takes ten thousand men-years to animate manually a character to the same effect, then it won't happen in any videogame and it is by all practical purposes impossible. Making it possible in practice won't change the life of anybody, but is a big deal for a developer who works on animations and is interviewed about his work.
Why so hasty to dismiss the hard work of talented people?
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A question that should be addressed to many people, as this seems to happen often.
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I'm not dismissing their hard work. I'm dismissing their boasting.
I even called that type of animation "awesome" and "the future" in my posts, and wasn't being sarcastic at all.
