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This is why we need to go back to PS2/Gamecube limits for game graphics We could be making this type of stuff with extremely short dev cycles because the art tools are so fucking good nowadays, but all the higher ups are interested in is making sure we can see Naked Snake's nose hairs

Consider these characters. I made 12 over roughly three months, and the vast majority of that time was spent just on R&D. Once I had the process down, I was knocking out two per week. That's literally impossible with current AAA specs. bsky.app/profile/xavi...

We're doing too much work with no payoff. Nobody cares if your characters have hair that's strands or hair that's alpha cards. Nobody gives a shit about muscle sims and ML deformers. Not a single goddamn person will tell you that an 8k facial pore occlusion map changed how they look at art.

I dunno, I think muscle sims and deformers are pretty cool on more muscular characters and monsters and make a pretty big impact. And in third person games, hair rendering does have a huge effect considering the head takes up like 10% of your screen at all times

When I started at my new studio I straight up asked "so do we have a rock library that we re-use between games" and they sorta laughed at me. Someone said the normal maps from the previous project wouldn't be good enough. I was trying to think of why on earth any players would care.