Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[ClothedMac]

[quote="benji" pid='62834' dateline='1719954329']
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?  

Nepenthe would argue that Toy Story 4 looks worse than ToyStory 1 because . . .  it was harder to make? it has more "feeling," and "soul?"