[twinsen]

[ThousandKnives]

There's actually a good reason why the companies that make stuff like that are huge. If you tried to do anything that complex with just a handful of people, it would take many many years.

Think about a company of 100 people working full-time on a project like that, say it takes them one year. For a video game comparison, thats about what it took to make FF7.

Thats 50weeks x 40hours x 100people = 20,000 man-hours of work

For a single person working says 20 hours a week as a part-time thing, you're talking about 200 years to finish that project. With 10 people, it's still 20 years. Your technology standard is so out-of-date at completion that the product is pretty much laughed at. Or, you can constantly re-do things to keep up to date and never finish.

[twinsen]

Thats one of the reasons I'm glad that I'm a programmer and not an artist. It can takes tens of thousands of man hours to develop the graphical assets for a game. But by comparison actually developing the engine for a game is much faster. Look at the credit of any game, there will be heaps of artists and modellers and CG people, but there will be one lead programmer, a couple of tools programmers and some assistants.

While developing the story and content of a huge game may be beyond the scope of an individual. Developing the game engine (while taking a little longer) is definitely not unachievable.
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[BigManJones]

Well, I'm still trying to figure out how to project one infinitally thin, solid triangle into the middle of my room. Thats all you need for a holodeck, just one little solid triangle....

[twinsen]

glBegin(GL_TRIANGLES);

glVertex3f( 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(-1.0f,-1.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f( 1.0f,-1.0f, 0.0f);

glEnd();

TA-DA! Triangle :) I love OpenGL
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[ThousandKnives]

[twinsen]

[[Neodog] Solar]

The time is worth it, though
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[Mobius]

Nothing (yet) comes close to the amout of detail the human eye/brain has for determing if movemet of a character is right.
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[twinsen]

YAY I'm not a wandering minstrel anymore :) But umm yeah, I agree nothing does come close to realistic animation yet. I suppose the FF movie was about the closest I think 3D has come to realistic in terms of animation (the characters still looked like they were made of plastic though).
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[ThousandKnives]

Ranting time.

[twinsen]

[Mobius]

perhapse this discussion doesn't only involve what "spells" do but also what the charaters do (hence the insane amout of conversation oabout it) duing the spell such as gestures and such....making it most assuadly ligimate.
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