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[ParaSeoul]

Hi there, UE4 developer with 5 years of experience here... might I ask what the hell you’re talking about mate?

Do you think you need to write shaders from scratch to render a mesh in a modern engine?
Lol, have you even used an engine? Unreal comes with a default shader class, you can literally drag and drop your textures, drop them into a default material, and apply them to your mesh and bam rendered in engine. Heck UE4 even automatically does that for you when you import a new mesh with textures pre applied in the modelling software, you only gotta fix them up in case you have textures woth transparency like hair textures since it makes all material opaque by default (opaque means no transparency channel because a shader with transparency is more expensive so you want to limit their number).

So please help me understand what are you talking about, because maybe I don’t have the keen eye of an artist, but when I look at that teaser I really don’t see anything more complex than a default material with textures applied.

 

[jigglet]

It's funny cause I remember back when SH came out it was considered a B tier game. Obviously history has been very kind on it.

I've only ever played one. I enjoyed it. I think it was #1 or 2.

I'd play a new one sure. I'm not great with horror though, I'm chicken shit.

 

[Hugare]

Yeah

And I remember seeing an interview where he says that he was surprised how quickly people completed P.T. and found out about SH

So if he was going to do that stunt again, he would step up his game

 

[onesvenus]

Because streaming in mega textures is impressive tech.

1. We don't know which resolution those textures are to call them mega
2. I'm sure textures are not being streamed at all in that scene, there's no way it doesn't load all things it need before starting

It's amazing how you ask for proof of other games doing something similar but you don't give any to back your claims

 

[IntentionalPun]

Streaming textures for a static scene? Wut

 

[IlGialloMondadori]

Because streaming in mega textures is impressive tech.

Streaming mega textures.

I don’t think it’s “streaming” anything. It’s literally a floor and half a body. That’s it.

 

[bitbydeath]

1. We don't know which resolution those textures are to call them mega
2. I'm sure textures are not being streamed at all in that scene, there's no way it doesn't load all things it need before starting

It's amazing how you ask for proof of other games doing something similar but you don't give any to back your claims

1. It shows signs of infinite detail by not blurring when zoomed in unlike other 4K titles.
2. If greater than 4K it would be streamed.

 

[bitbydeath]

Streaming textures for a static scene? Wut

It’s part of a game.

 

[bitbydeath]

Streaming mega textures.

I don’t think it’s “streaming” anything. It’s literally a floor and half a body. That’s it.

Greater than 4K textures will need to be streamed.

 

[rofif]

Maybe abandoned app is actually the new playstation home
Cuz I remember sony renewed playstation home trademark back on April I think
And also the abandoned trailer got released back on April too

This is the stupidest theory ever lol.
Does not make any sense

 

[baphomet]

1. It shows signs of infinite detail by not blurring when zoomed in unlike other 4K titles.
2. If greater than 4K it would be streamed.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

 

[bitbydeath]

You have no idea what you're talking about.

Please enlighten us.

 

[baphomet]

Please enlighten us.

What program are you opening the textures in to zoom in? Because you couldn't possibly be thinking that zooming in on a captured photo is telling you anything about the resolvable resolution of a texture.

 

[GuinGuin]

It's funny cause I remember back when SH came out it was considered a B tier game. Obviously history has been very kind on it.

I've only ever played one. I enjoyed it. I think it was #1 or 2.

I'd play a new one sure. I'm not great with horror though, I'm chicken shit.

That isn't true. Everything about it was superior to the RE games at the time. Story, graphics, music, and especially the controls. No tank controls in SH, baby. And SH2 and SH3 were some of the absolute a best looking games on PS2 as well.

 

[IlGialloMondadori]

Maybe abandoned app is actually the new playstation home
Cuz I remember sony renewed playstation home trademark back on April I think
And also the abandoned trailer got released back on April too

This makes zero sense. Think about it. What have we seen that looks anything like PlayStation home?
why, why, why would Sony ever reveal a virtual environment in this idiotic way?

 

[GrayChild]

It's funny cause I remember back when SH came out it was considered a B tier game. Obviously history has been very kind on it.

I've only ever played one. I enjoyed it. I think it was #1 or 2.

I'd play a new one sure. I'm not great with horror though, I'm chicken shit.

That was never the case, unless for the Resident Evil diehards.

Between Resident Evil becoming more and more action oriented and the infamous Capcom 5 which made the series GameCube exclusive for several years there was a period where Silent Hill was just as big as RE itself.

 

[jigglet]

That was never the case, unless for the Resident Evil diehards.

Between Resident Evil becoming more and more action oriented and the infamous Capcom 5 which made the series GameCube exclusive for several years there was a period where Silent Hill was just as big as RE itself.

Yeah but you're comparing it to RE. I'm talking about in general. I don't remember it being regarded as a top tier sort of franchise up there with the very best.

Maybe it was though. I'm not really in a position to argue this strongly as I've only played one.

 

[VN1X]

Anyone else here play XCOM Legends on mobile? It's a stupid gacha but I like it when the numbers go up.

 

[bitbydeath]

What program are you opening the textures in to zoom in? Because you couldn't possibly be thinking that zooming in on a captured photo is telling you anything about the resolvable resolution of a texture.

Krita. It says a lot about texture density. What are you using?

 

[Badlucktroll]

That was never the case, unless for the Resident Evil diehards.

Between Resident Evil becoming more and more action oriented and the infamous Capcom 5 which made the series GameCube exclusive for several years there was a period where Silent Hill was just as big as RE itself.

I hope we return to those years.

 

[onesvenus]

1. It shows signs of infinite detail by not blurring when zoomed in unlike other 4K titles.
2. If greater than 4K it would be streamed.

1. There's no such thing as infinite detail unless it's a procedural texture. We won't know until we play it
2. A 4k texture is less than 64MB, can you tell me why you'd need to stream textures bigger than that when consoles have multiple GB available? We are only seeing a model and simple floor geometry, I don't think that adds up to multiple GBs of data.

 

[TonyK]

1. It shows signs of infinite detail

Suddenly a floor has become the new benchmark in graphics.

Naughty Dog at this moment feeling surpassed because of that infinite detail floor:

 

[ParaSeoul]

All this armchair technical analysis is making me hope Digital Foundry actually look at it on their streams,someone here who can submit it maybe through their backer stuff make that happen please.

 

[GuinGuin]

Yeah but you're comparing it to RE. I'm talking about in general. I don't remember it being regarded as a top tier sort of franchise up there with the very best.

Maybe it was though. I'm not really in a position to argue this strongly as I've only played one.

It's all subjective of course but the Japanese made SH games 1-4 I think are still the best ever made. Akira Yamaoka is an absolute musical genius and they take the idea of horror seriously and philosophically.

 

[MastaKiiLA]

All this armchair technical analysis is making me hope Digital Foundry actually look at it on their streams,someone here who can submit it maybe through their backer stuff make that happen please.

While it would be an incredibly quick video to make, seems like an immense waste of time for such a short clip. There should be a longer trailer not far around the corner. Might as well wait for that, and then maybe do a breakdown of the short teaser as well. I don't know if there's much they can do with the teaser that doesn't involve gamma correction, which would just thrash what little visual data there is.

 

[GuinGuin]

Do they both really love fake Danish ice cream this much or is there something else going on?

 

[SJRB]

I like how this thread is turning from a "Team Real vs Team Fake" situation to a "Game Dev vs Armchair Game Dev" situation.

 

[ParaSeoul]

While it would be an incredibly quick video to make, seems like an immense waste of time for such a short clip. There should be a longer trailer not far around the corner. Might as well wait for that, and then maybe do a breakdown of the short teaser as well. I don't know if there's much they can do with the teaser that doesn't involve gamma correction, which would just thrash what little visual data there is.

You don't seem to understand. They wouldn't make a vid on it,it would just be a part of their stream. They do that for smaller things sometimes.

 

[ParaSeoul]

You don't seem to understand. They wouldn't make a vid on it,it would just be a part of their stream. They do that for smaller things sometimes.

I also doubt we're going to see another trailer before the end of next week.

 

[Kdad]

Do they both really love fake Danish ice cream this much or is there something else going on?

Fake foreign names eh? Hasan K might be a fake name for someone....
Translating Haagen Das to the Garden Outhouse....how many outhouses do we come across in SH?

SH confirmed...#teamreal

 

[GrayChild]

Another point for Team Real:

#204863 Color Hex

#204863 color hex, #204863 color chart,rgb,hsl,hsv color number values, html css color codes and html code samples.

www.color-hex.com

 

[GrayChild]

Also, earlier today some guys at the Blue box conspiracy Reddit posted this screenshot from Mass Effect:

Of course, this was seen as quite the stretch. But just a couple of minutes ago Kojima tweeted this:

 

[GuinGuin]

Another point for Team Real:

#204863 Color Hex

#204863 color hex, #204863 color chart,rgb,hsl,hsv color number values, html css color codes and html code samples.

www.color-hex.com

What is the significance of this?

 

[GrayChild]

What is the significance of this?

The hex color code of 204863 (probably the most famous easter egg in P.T. referencing Kojima's birthday) is a dark shade of blue.

The process color (four color CMYK) of #204863 color hex is 0.68, 0.27, 0.00, 0.61. Web safe color of #204863 is #333366. Color #204863 contains mainly BLUE color.

 

[GuinGuin]

Also, earlier today some guys at the Blue box conspiracy Reddit posted this screenshot from Mass Effect:

Of course, this was seen as quite the stretch. But just a couple of minutes ago Kojima tweeted this:

Omfg

 

[baphomet]

Krita. It says a lot about texture density. What are you using?

Exactly, you have not the slightest clue what you're talking about.

 

[GuinGuin]

In 2021 the painting was exhibited from June through September with the trimmed-off sections recreated using convolutional neural networks, an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm, based on the copy by Lundens.[9] The recreation corrected for perspective (Lundens must have been sitting on the left side of the painting when he made his copy), and used colours and brush-strokes as used by Rembrandt. The trimming of the painting put the lieutenants in the centre, but the original placed them off-centre, marching towards an empty space now reinstated, creating a dynamic of the troops marching towards the left of the painting. The cutdown painting by Rembrandt with the AI recreation of the missing portions attached was placed on exhibition for three months. The augmented painting will not be on permanent display so as not to "trick" viewers into thinking they were seeing the full original; the augmentations are a scientific, rather than an artist's, interpretation


Lundens, Ludens...

 

[ParaSeoul]

In 2021 the painting was exhibited from June through September with the trimmed-off sections recreated using convolutional neural networks, an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm, based on the copy by Lundens.[9] The recreation corrected for perspective (Lundens must have been sitting on the left side of the painting when he made his copy), and used colours and brush-strokes as used by Rembrandt. The trimming of the painting put the lieutenants in the centre, but the original placed them off-centre, marching towards an empty space now reinstated, creating a dynamic of the troops marching towards the left of the painting. The cutdown painting by Rembrandt with the AI recreation of the missing portions attached was placed on exhibition for three months. The augmented painting will not be on permanent display so as not to "trick" viewers into thinking they were seeing the full original; the augmentations are a scientific, rather than an artist's, interpretation


Lundens, Ludens...

Stop.

 

[GuinGuin]

Stop.

 

[ParaSeoul]

You're making very little sense. Obviously two West Germanic languages are going to have similar looking words to an English speaker.

 

[GuinGuin]

You're making very little sense. Obviously two West Germanic languages are going to have similar looking words to an English speaker.

What two languages? They are both Dutch.

Gerrit Lundens - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Homo Ludens: our ability to play as foundation for a healthy society, 2020-2021 - Studiegids - Universiteit Leiden

studiegids.universiteitleiden.nl

 

[Spank_Magnet]

Kojima posted the original post aroun

Also, earlier today some guys at the Blue box conspiracy Reddit posted this screenshot from Mass Effect:

Of course, this was seen as quite the stretch. But just a couple of minutes ago Kojima tweeted this:

 

[Ramz87]

Hideo Kojima Might be Teasing Imminent Announcement Via Twitter Countdown

Hideo Kojima might be teasing a Silent Hill announcement for August 19

www.dualshockers.com

 

[ParaSeoul]

Hideo Kojima Might be Teasing Imminent Announcement Via Twitter Countdown

Hideo Kojima might be teasing a Silent Hill announcement for August 19

www.dualshockers.com

These guys are just as clueless as us lmao

 

[GuinGuin]

These guys are just as clueless as us lmao

How so? The countdown makes absolute sense.

 

[ParaSeoul]

How so? The countdown makes absolute sense.

The Future Games Show makes more sense

 

[GuinGuin]

The Future Games Show makes more sense

It's quite obvious at this point that there will be multiple reveals which slowly peel back the onion.

 

[ParaSeoul]

 

[GrayChild]

We're one step closer to the Kojima World Order:

 

[trikster40]

Also, earlier today some guys at the Blue box conspiracy Reddit posted this screenshot from Mass Effect:

Of course, this was seen as quite the stretch. But just a couple of minutes ago Kojima tweeted this:

Dude. What if Blue Box ends up being Sony’s solution to backwards compatability? They’ve got an AI that can go back and fix “abandoned” games? Better graphics, resolution, etc?

Is there any chance that there’s a scene in the original Silent Hill or SH2 that matches the scene in the teaser?
Just let me dream.