Reminds me on how they had a single person (I think?) doing Batman’s cape for the Arkham games. That was their position, the person who makes the cape seem like a real piece of cloth.
I still think about how good the cape looked when flowing or in movement. They did an amazing job either way!
I love the capes in Helldivers 2 for some reason. That thing gets blown around, there must be some serious draft on the Super Destroyer. Best is when it gets blown over your head and you can’t wiggle it off. You can also wiggle it over your arm and walk around like an ancient roman diplomat.
I find cloth physics so fascinating. It’s either really good or garbage. They never got it in destiny or destiny 2, it was always just a mess and they would’ve rather ditched it.
allegedly, Helldiver’s armor has small fans that keep the cape flowing at all times.
This one is of course outdated now that AI can do the thing
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I still remember how much of a game changer it was when they had that glass of milk poured in Shrek.
I have also since accepted that “flowy” textures are really hard and that’s the reason every character in every video game ever sleeps without a blanket or a duvet. It always annoy me, even though I understand that having a separate object move with the character is fucked. I get it. Completely. But my brain still goes: how are any of these characters healthy enough to go running around town when they should have severe pneumonia by now???
Don’t forget the magnificent scarf in Shinobi (PS2)
Everyone wants a demon bursting through the ground in an explosion of lava. There are classes for that. Nobody has ever asked for a scarf in our game, and our code doesn’t even know what a neck is.
More people want scarves than they considered. Doesn’t mean no one wants it, means they didn’t consider their audience.
I was answering this as a dev and designer. That’s why this is more work.
The difference is: the demon wants to be summoned.
Consent should matter, you know!
My head canon is that this comic made people work harder on image recognition.
Now try a classy giant demon with a scarf
As part of the “climbing out of the ground” cutscene, the demon roars with firey breath… Which burns off the scarf.
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