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[ProgramGamer]

Am I the only one who thinks that the face motion of Half-Life 2 is better than most of the face motion capture technology of today?

[gimymblert]

Why the fuck I wrote "women" specifically I meant actors, I may have multiple stream of thought at the same time when I wrote that and they collided

[J-Snake]

Am I the only one who thinks that the face motion of Half-Life 2 is better than most of the face motion capture technology of today?

Half-Life 2 is pretty flat compared to Crysis 3, for example.

[J-Snake]

Why the fuck I wrote "women" specifically I meant actors, I may have multiple stream of thought at the same time when I wrote that and they collided

You act as if it is your first time people try to decode your message. Be focused.

[gimymblert]

And people shouldn't underestimate the rapid cost spiraling down of CGI. There are more and more tools and power to achieve that, soon it will be in your laptop and you won't bat an eyes. Cost of real life capture have cheapen greatly (photogramettry + physically based lighting + HDR probes + real time Global illumination), animation's techniques and best practices also spread down.

[Alevice]

Am I the only one who thinks that the face motion of Half-Life 2 is better than most of the face motion capture technology of today?

yeah i still remeber the first time i saw alyx. i shat bricks when she smiled at me so naturally. it was such a leap in technology for me.

[J-Snake]

And people shouldn't underestimate the rapid cost spiraling down of CGI. There are more and more tools and power to achieve that, soon it will be in your laptop and you won't bat an eyes. Cost of real life capture have cheapen greatly (photogramettry + physically based lighting + HDR probes + real time Global illumination), animation's techniques and best practices also spread down.

Hey, just a question. If you could teleport once in time, which year would you choose? I guess you want to see some break through in technology and habits, so maybe a future point in time?

[gimymblert]

http://www.openculture.com/2015/05/animation-inspired-by-moebius-syd-mead-hayao-miyazaki.html

[Alevice]

and for some reason cheap microphones remain terrible

[s0]

hm? you can get a lot out of a cheap mic if you use it right. you can even get acceptable quality out of smartphone mics these days.

[Alevice]

a year ago i bought one and while it was not like the worst ever, the quality was still quite subpar IMO, at least for voice acting (not that I have a great voice, but I need a moderate quality placeholder for a project of mine).

In truth it was mostly a joke regarding that the costs for quality stuff is reducing so dramatically (at least for us third worlders it isnt quite yet)

[Torchkas]

We're talking about the cost of digital goods, not analog goods.
Analog hardware in regards to things like sound will probably always remain as expensive as it is today. Simply because it's usually sheer materials you're paying for, not so much technology.

[Alevice]

ah, fair enough then

[J-Snake]

In that regard I feel joypads got even worse over time. It feels like a rare catch to get a decently working one. There is always something flawed, often the 8-way directionals.

[airman4]

http://i.imgur.com/UPcmC7b.gif

For cgi use , some french board noticed the whip girl disappearence and appearence
Look carefully the gif , it's insane
I thought the whipp were real XD
No need to mock the girl in the right , at this point nothing can't be saved (seriously they can't pay for real combattant to make great fighting scenes ? )

[Netsu]

Ye it's a pity most fight scenes in GoT is just people swinging like mad and a lot of cuts.
It's actually a sad trend in movies, where LOL SUPER DYNAMIC EDITING substitutes for martial artists and stuntmen.

[gimymblert]

Ha! Animation trick!

@Streaming stuf
http://www.geek.com/games/microsoft-cuts-cloud-game-streaming-bandwidth-by-over-80-1623534/

M$ cut down remote game streaming (think onlive) by 80%.

I have been thinking a lot about how to reduce the load myself, precisely like them, on sharing process between the client and the cloud.

1- You send a single rendered texture 60 times per second (that's how it works now)
2- you pre compute stuff on cloud and let the client finish the jobs. (m$ ways)

The problem with 2 is that what does you pre compute?

1- You could pre compute positions (physics and ai) and let the client only do graphism, doesn't exactly remove the load from the client given modern graphism.
2- You precompute lighting, you don't need frame dependant update and the update frequency is lower, but still is a big data and still heavy load on the clients and bandwidth.
3- You precompute vertex matrices, LOD, occlusions (baszed on overdraw) and send the polygon soup, not sure the gain is significant, although you could run further optimization on the mesh that can hide camera dependent feature.
4- you stream textures, but hdd and bd are magnitude order faster than the internet and we still have pops.

My problem is that demoing doom3 isn't exactly the best case to showcase this tech as it's low requirement by today standard and a lot of mobile can run it locals without sweating at all.

@netsu

[s0]

a year ago i bought one and while it was not like the worst ever, the quality was still quite subpar IMO, at least for voice acting (not that I have a great voice, but I need a moderate quality placeholder for a project of mine).

In truth it was mostly a joke regarding that the costs for quality stuff is reducing so dramatically (at least for us third worlders it isnt quite yet)

ya but things like recording technique, production and the actual physical room you're in are very important in audio recording. a mic alone doesn't make your recordings sound professional. i did a voice recording in a state of the art radio studio once and even then i had to do a lot of post production and editing on it to make it sound good.

[gimymblert]

a year ago i bought one and while it was not like the worst ever, the quality was still quite subpar IMO, at least for voice acting (not that I have a great voice, but I need a moderate quality placeholder for a project of mine).

In truth it was mostly a joke regarding that the costs for quality stuff is reducing so dramatically (at least for us third worlders it isnt quite yet)

ya but things like recording technique, production and the actual physical room you're in are very important in audio recording. a mic alone doesn't make your recordings sound professional. i did a voice recording in a state of the art radio studio once and even then i had to do a lot of post production and editing on it to make it sound good.

https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome-psyapi2&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8&q=diy%20sound%20booth&oq=diy%20sound%20&aqs=chrome.3.69i57j0l5.5111j0j7

[Netsu]

@netsu

Oh yeah, I know that one, very relevant