So if peole make a cgi video of waves, does the programer make each ripple?
that seems like a staggering amount of work
So if peole make a cgi video of waves, does the programer make each ripple?
Chase Ramirez
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Easton Long
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Oliver Moore
someone help
Asher Gutierrez
no, it's procedurally generated
Jonathan Collins
so someone else made it? like unreal engine has premade water?
Blake Sanchez
No, a programmer made a script that automatically creates waves for you
Hunter Cook
no you just program the water physics and let the engine generate it based on the algorithm
Oliver Allen
oh is everything like that?
John Diaz
what do you mean by that?
generally, no. Only water is.
David Sullivan
people are like that?
Jordan Thomas
It's a custom shader, usually involves a texture moving around, different maths for different things happening
Leo Sanchez
I work in the industry as a water graphics specialist. I'd say it takes anywhere between 6-9 months to make a full body of water depending on how big it is. I dread when a game is set on the coast because I know I've got months and months of crafting individual ripples and waves
Thomas Sanchez
grass, mountains, clouds
Jose Martin
so you program how the water acts? its hard for me to wrap my brain around it.
Aiden Powell
he's baiting you
Juan Parker
Is this thread real
Jacob Scott
What IS real, user? How can you say something is real?
Mason Hernandez
Programming and artwork. Every wave, every ripple, every bubble has to be designed. Some games it will be just a copy/paste effort, which is why a lot of games insta-kill you if you fall in water, and for big AAA games like GTA everything has to be individually handcrafted and flow like real water
Nathan Kelly
I really hate this thread being an actual programmer. Fuck all of you.
Charles Morris
No, you have to pour actual water into the disk drive and copy it.
Luis Johnson
Cameron Phillips
Explain to the guy then.
Samuel Perez
Dude, you got to keep this shit magical. Programming is going to be the next "McEntry" tier job, the longer we can scare people away the longer job security lasts.
Luke Torres
They pour the water into the graphics card but the higher resolution games are becoming is requiring more and more water to make it look good, hence why California is in trouble
Kevin Jenkins
You tell the software you have a substance filling up x amount of space. After inputting variables that effect the substance (texture, light reflection, bounciness, how it responds to collision), you then let the scene render. This can take a long time.
Robert Gray
Fluid dynamics simulate the hydrostatic movememnt of water across a solid surface sphere then duplicated into the code and rendered with a render farm to bring it into the game
That was how they did it with Ass Creed 4 black flag