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• Lembot_0001@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Mirrors are complicated. In the old times of the Build engine (the first one where the mirrors were present as I know), they were emulated by a window and a similar room behind that window with a model of the player moving synchronously.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m sure that’s what’s happening here

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  • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I mean, that is a pretty reasonable way to do a mirror, or a very glossy reflective floor (just throw a transparency/alpha layer over it and render it on top of the floor texture) back before… shaders as we know them today really got invented, and model poly count/texture res is not very high.

    Like, I don’t think Deus Ex is on ‘the build engine’, but it certainly ultimately derives from it, and it does this.

    Then you get to HL2, and while, to my knowledge, HL2 doesn’t literally have ‘mirrors’ in it, you can basically do that by making a render target camera, the kind that displays in the game as a TV screen of some kind… well you could just point that camera right out of where the mirror is, and have the render quality/resolution be lower than the quality/resolution of the rest of the world.

    I am reasonably confident most modern games with mirrors … basically do that, just with an actual game settings slider to determine fidelity instead of all those settings that used to be baked into the map as it was with custom hl2/gmod/sourcemod maps.

    Water, window and world space reflections can/could also be set to just… render the whole world again in a lower quality… but prior to that, it was more common to bake a static ‘reflect map’ into your compiled map, as realtime duplicating the whole world can often be waaay too demanding.

    And of course now we have shifted over to the Real Time Ray Tracing paradigm, that is absurdly high fidelity but absurdly highly demanding, and that has neccessitated the development of frame upcaling and frame gen tech to balance out the performance losses from this absurdly inefficient lighting paradigm.

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    • glitchdx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Deus Ex was on Unreal Engine 1 or 2. Other than that, yeah.

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  • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    i think it wasn’t until far later than this that any engine was emulating reflections

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• ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Why is pepe censored

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  • archonet@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I choose to believe they did, in fact, just post a green canvas with white text saying “Frog wearing glasses”

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This is what I thought, too?

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    • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s not even glasses pepe

      Image

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    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah it’s meta humour

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  • Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Free him

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• makyo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The more I look at that room the less it makes sense

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  • boletus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Bad feng shui

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Wall mirror?

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• bstix@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  lemmy.world/c/mirrorsforsale

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  • clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Hey that’s fun. Thanks for the link

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• Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It literally looks like an image though. Got a frame and everything and is at a weird ass location for being a mirror.

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  • tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s an angled wall so it seems like a really good spot for a mirror.

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    • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      If you don’t notice the wall is angled, the picture didn’t make sense.

      That and the fact that the fan is perfectly framed and lit.

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• lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  this again. how often does it get posted?

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  • MxPikachu@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Was this posted here before? I crossposted it to other communities but I didn’t see it here.

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    • sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Admittedly it does get posted often but your account is literally two hours old so I don’t think you can be blamed lol

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    • lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I don’t even mind. I was just curious. After writing my comment, I thought about how it would be cool to check pic checksums and show a repost counter.

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  • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    this person STOLE my image that I LIBERATED from someone else!

    I Am Calling The Police.

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  • Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Its my first time seeing it.

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• JediMindTricks@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I don’t have a mirror - they are too bourgeois for proletarians like me

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