Shamus Young's Reset Button is back

[Akratus]

I assume a lot of you don't know who this is, but he's got a successful blog and does some good analysis of games. My personal favorite is his insightful video on the constraints and possibilities of the sizes of digital worlds in games:

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If I get around to it I'll post his coming videos here too.

 

[Shinji]

Nice, It's great to have him back.

His video on megatextures was also pretty good

 

[thesoup]

Nice. Shame he stopped doing videos before.

 

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[Nutria]

He's one of those rare people who knows what they're talking about but also knows how to explain to a layman what we want to know about this stuff.

 

[passerby]

The raytracing is a very informative one. High quality static lighting and shadows are the reasons why we get much less destructible environment and dynamic objects.
And the industry for marketing purposes will sacrifice everything, for pretty screenshots, case in point 30fps ( and below ) framerates on consoles being the norm.
For now it's just adds realistic reflections and slightly more dynamic shadows, but when it'll become the default way of doing all lighting, all lighting related things will be fully dynamic and physically interactive environment will be possible without sacrificing visual fidelity.

 

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[Gerrard]

Literally brainlet level coverage, zero real research done into anything he talked about.
>all mirrors in old games were fake rooms


>completely omitting like 10 years of technology evolution

>with raytracing, everything is free!!!!11
No it fucking isn't. Every additional feature increases the cost because it requires additional rays.

 

[YldriE]

To be fair, for someone with a background in computer programming, he's often spectacularly retarded with basic technology, like grandma's-first-AOL-mailbox retarded. The dissonance is such that the most sensible hypothesis is that he's faking it for clicks, people getting angry or incredulous and calling him out in the comments are simply more traffic.

 

[Akratus]