Shin’en Multimedia: Wii U Is Most Definitely A Next-Generation Console

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dahuman said:

freebs2 said:
About the tessellator...
I've seen tech demos with flames being procedurally generated using tesselation, compared to "standard" flames made with 2D animations they look much better of course and more three-dimentional.
Now I've just seen some videos of Mario Kart 8, and I do think flames coming out form exhaust pipes cold be made using tessellation. Do you agree?

doubtful, you don't need tessellation to make nice looking flames, the tech demo was prolly just showing a possibility.

ok, I asked because normailly flames looks very fake. In mario kart propbaly they are just using a good looking 2D animation.