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[FoxMcChief]

How much does it bother you, 1-10, 10 being the most bothered. There are times where I won’t even equip certain gear that has much better stats, but that shit fucking clips.

 

[Spyxos]

A bit, i notice it and then forget it shortly after.

 

[Bartski]

pisses me off to no end but it's very expensive to properly solve

 

[Zacfoldor]

Clipping just solves a lot of issues and makes games easier to make. This is the perfect job for AI enhanced tools.

 

[Mossybrew]

Yah, it bugs me. Mainly because, how long has this shit been happening? Like forever. You'd think they would have solved this by now.

 

[drotahorror]

I notice it and move on. Unless it's when I'm fuckin with mods

 

[LectureMaster]

Well, it really depends on who's wearing it.

 

[cormack12]

One of those things that is super annoying and super noticeable but you also understand the extremes it would take to properly solve.

At this point I tend to look more at the designers when they allow clothes with long hair that clips through them, or cloaks etc. Or swords clipping through long clothes.

 

[BouncyFrag]

It’s a deal breaker for me. Character creators that allow short or no hair are ideal. Hair clipping can be prevented. Weapons clipping with capes and such must also be avoided. Souls games are complete shit at this.

 

[chakadave]

it is more annyoing for weapons and stuff. I think they have gotten around it with closthing by just removing clothing. See Stellar Blade and First Decent.

 

[consoul]

Yeah, it's not easy to solve for, but it surprises me this hasn't been high on the priority list after this many generations.

Where is the industry standard toolset (like Speedtree or better yet, dedicated hardware) to assist with this?

How many games feature a character mid screen who wears clothes and has hair? Maybe tackle this challenge instead of working out how to get one thousand shadow casting lights in frame.

 

[Magic Carpet]

I wear the mantis armor to in game job interviews in Starfield. I guess I rate it a 1 if it’s 1st person. And a 3 if it’s 3rd.

 

[LordOfChaos]

It can be distracting. Like HFW has a mostly amazing presentation but Alloy's hair is always doing whack things like being antigrav or clipping through her outfit.

 

[ReBurn]

It doesn't bother me.

 

[Skifi28]

I notice it, but I don't mind that much if it means extravagant cloth physics and tons of dangling bits. On the other hand, I can't stand modern games with zero cloth physics like Valhalla.

 

[RagnarokIV]

Fucks my fucken head right fucken up man. I voted 9.

 

[Kacho]

Couldn’t care less

 

[Saturn Dragon]

Clipping clothing graphics on Ps6 at 8k 120fps...

 

[Chuck Berry]

Been used to it since the 90s. Doesn't bother me at all. If anything I always get a chuckle out of it.

 

[saintjules]

I was thinking about it when playing Space Marine 2 on how good of a job the capes behind the characters don't clip. At least from how I've seen it.

 

[Hookshot]

Only really bothers me in promotional stuff, like the trailer ends on a shot of something clipping through a shoulder. Just looks cheap even if I know why it happens.

 

[timothet]

Not too much during gameplay, but it really bothers me when it's visible in cinematics/cutscenes.

 

[delfrickintree]

Its like the spinning top in Inception, the only indicator its not reality!!

 

[PatientGamer]

Pisses me off the most in Horizon. How on earth can her red free-flowing hair not get knotted and pulled to shit, with all her bows and trinkets hanging around?

 

[Crayon]

I always notice it but it's expected after all these years so I don't mind too much.

 

[poppabk]

It sucks, because it is usually on something that is supposed to look cool. It's hard for your new cloak to look cool when your legs clip through the back of it.

 

[Fbh]

I notice it from time to time but I don't really give a shit.
Now sure if you have a solution that uses next to no resources and can fix it then yeah I guess devs should use it, but if it's going to take more than like a 1% performance hit then no thx.

 

[Loomy]

Very low on the list of simulations I want/need to be flawless in a game.

 

[rm082e]

Playing Diablo IV last night.
I entered a room and one of the NPCs was slowly walking his way out of the room to the door I just came in.
I walked up to him and he walked right through my character.
I turned around and ran back through him, stopped, and he walked through me again.

 

[RoboFu]

Doesn't bother me at all but I've done slot of 3d programming so I have a better idea of what's going on. It's not that every polygon has its own collision. That would never work today. Some games use collision box's and some uses point systems where they only calculate a point for a cloth " bend "

 

[Rockman33]

Love the poll results. Never seen every option picked about the same amount of times

 

[Wildebeest]

This is a bad and fallen world. Some things you just have to live with and not wear yourself down getting angry about, no matter how much they break your heart.

 

[Ev1L AuRoN]

Vote 5, in game does bother me at all. In cinematic cutscenes I find It awful

 

[Mr Hyde]

Voted a 9. Extremely annoying and breaks immersion for me. I don't use armor if the cape or hair clips through the shield or sword, no matter how cool the armor looks. Very noticeable in Souls games.

 

[Danjin44]

Not really, if did I wouldn't able play 99% of games I play.

 

[Topher]

Seen it so much that I don't even bat an eye at it.

 

[GudOlRub]

Depends on the situation, one game I distinctly remember annoying the shit out of me was AC3 while riding horses as Haytham. Shit like that is really annoying...
Whenever they manage to physicalize every flexible asset individually and realistically in gaming will be a good day. Seems like the next step will be hair going by Dragon Age and GTA 6's trailers.

 

[Closer]

I hate it but I'm used to it by now. That's partly why I hate photorealistic presentation. Most games never get it right.

 

[FoxMcChief]

Seen it so much that I don't even bat an eye at it.

Checks out, being a huge Horizon defender.

 

[mitch1971]

It's the worse part of any game for me.

 

[Lorianus]

Depends on the budget of the game.
AAA 200 mil production ?, yasuke's katana clipping through the sheath is wtf.

Clipping hair and clothing in a Falcom jrpg thats technically a AA production ?, i dont care.

 

[Warnen]

Can’t stand it, will use worse shit just not to have it happen. 10+

 

[Topher]

Checks out, being a huge Horizon defender.

Remember that time you posted something intelligent?

Me either.

 

[FoxMcChief]

Remember that time you posted something intelligent?

Me either.

The irony from the one guy on the planet that likes both Starfield and Horizon.

 

[Topher]

The irony from the one guy on the planet that likes both Starfield and Horizon.

You better hope the dumbest guy on the planet never dies.

 

[Puscifer]

Yah, it bugs me. Mainly because, how long has this shit been happening? Like forever. You'd think they would have solved this by now.

Full physics systems are a bitch

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

Hate it. Can't stand seeing a characters hair or sword/gun disappear into their body.

 

[Bombolone]

I put it at an 8.
Proper simulation (cloth, water, hair, physics) was the direction I wanted the industry to go in around the ps3 era.
The game can look like an ue5 showcase. Gamey animation will always ruin that immersion.
Give me ps4 level graphics but make it feel alive.
As a kid I dreamed of playing a game that looked like Cowboy Bebop, GiTS, Akira.
Realistic graphics bore me. I’m aware and impressed because I know it’s a technical feat but once the cracks show the illusion is over… and there are, atm, many cracks.

 

[Esca]

Don't like but I get why it is there.

I really hate it with hair. Some games are getting better now about the hair not clipping. I tend to choose hairstyles that didn't go below certain lengths due to it

 

[M1chl]

A lot personally, but on such uneven and dynamic surface collision sucks a lot of resources