Hi! I'm a bay area expat that now lives in Saint Louis. I play tennis, D&D, and board games, and I work as a data scientist.
I was formerly @M_L_G on twitter, now I'm @ftl@wandering.shop on mastodon, savfan104 at dreamwidth, and my name on facebook.
i suggested that this photo i took near my house was a screenshot out of unreal engine 5, and many people believed me and were amazed, or didn't but were unsure, or recognised it as a troll but thought it was a troll on people thinking it was a photo (which it was), or just got confused and annoyed, it was pretty great
but then: somebody spent 3 weeks recreating the photo in unreal engine 5
pretty great
Did you accidentally make the new Cornell box or Sponza atrium?
wow, i guess i didnt realize just how accurate the lighting is in UE5
Why are there such an obscene amount of polygons on the ground, the building to the right, and the molding on the right foreground wall (??????) ? There's no way this is to facilitate lighting.
It's because they're photogrammetry results (quixel megascans in this case). Polys being cheap these days, the count there isn't enough that it would be an issue even though they might as well be a plane, but also this is rendered with Nanite, which lets you have a billion billion tris and doesn't even care
I always love the genre of Internet humour where you spite someone by flawlessly taking a joke seriously just because you can.
super good. definitely the kind of bullshit i'd get up to if i were a hard surface modeler.
curious as to why lumen thinks that yellow pole is getting noticeably more bounce than its real world counterpart.
I’m imagining a Pierre Menard-ish situation where the guy turns out to have taken another photo at the same place/weather/time of day
