Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[benji]

Is Nepenthe against dynamic lighting in video games? How about real time physics? Or are routines only bad when they mimic human decision making?

That's a good point - how do you extricate the output of something like tessellation shaders from the output of the artist who comes up with a polygonal model that uses these shaders, their creation is a function of each other.  And it feeds into itself too - the textures the artist creates then influences the tessellation.   The technology is baked into the artistic process itself.   But then, the artist sets up control parameters and guides the overall look, while the shader automates the process of generating additional geometry and procedural elements not explicitly modeled by the artist.  How does she reconcile this?  

Tessellation is perfect, it was exactly the kind of thing I was trying to think of. There's all kinds of shit like this in modern engines, they used to be things companies would come out and promote because they could do a few of them. Now so much of it is just automated and ARTISTS WANT THIS THEY DO NOT WANT TO SIT THERE DRAWING EVERY FUCKING PIXEL WHEN IT CAN BE PREDICTED.

Yet this sends Nepenthe, a person with one (1) video game or anything else credit, into a blind rage at how it's devaluing art. Sorry, you're too late!

And what's this shit about "value"? That sounds pretty fucking capitalist!