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alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 年前

A Valve engineer fixed 3D lighting so hard he had to tell all the graphics card manufacturers their math was wrong, and the reaction was: 'I hate you'

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A Valve engineer fixed 3D lighting so hard he had to tell all the graphics card manufacturers their math was wrong, and the reaction was: 'I hate you'

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alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 年前
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Ken Birdwell was all about "getting the lighting right."
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    Shouldnt ray tracing fix that?

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      Yes, but it’s exponentially expensive compared to cheating.

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        Well they built entire video cards series to address that, I hope they were worth it.

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          We haven’t had decent GPU pricing since we started ramming that onto cards, although I will openly admit we’ve also had a lifetime of wacky fucking shit go on since then.

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          and it’s still incredibly computationally expensive

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