+Michael Green Dragon (MKCoolKid) Mirror mapping with multiple iterations and massive culling and clipping

TheBanannaPanda I'd love to, but I also need to make sure I'm as accurate as possible. At the moment a definitive answer (avoiding too much guess work) is hard to come by!

+ClassicGameJunkie I've heard they're Decals

They look like normal (or another type of) map

TiberiousNeruda +

Basically they are using screen buffer (or part of it in the case of Smash) as texture for a in-game object (large screen)

Filipe Patriani Indeed it is! As for Tooie I'm not 100% sure, but I would imagine so.

Liam Rudge No worries, glad to be of service!

wielkus Well whoops! When I watched the rendered video back I got another call, and I assumed the interference in the video was caused by that one! I think I'll turn my phone off next time I edit!

+ClassicGameJunkie When is the next video coming out?

Expand Dong Sorry it's been a while, I've been knuckling down on my own game development over the last couple of weeks. Rest assured though, there is another in production, so watch this space!

Oki

Oxycominum I do plan on doing one in the future, although bear in mind there are a fair few different ways it can be done. Which is kind of the reason some look better than others. Yes I am! An indie working on a 3D platformer called Clive 'n' Wrench!

ZabaTV Hehe, my voice does seem to divide people, but thank you! I am striving to improve on delivery!

+DjWindmaster97 plz discuss: www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/48frhu/i_was_playing_one_of_my_favorites_games_crash/

+IamAnthonological Most likely by using cubemapped reflections. There should be articles on the internet about how those work, as it's a technique used in modern games today.

Vashar This is a great suggestion, I will have to look into it!

Vashar There is no such thing as a unpredictable physics engine. I think what you mean is that if I have a piece of code that adds 2 Floating-Point numbers together I might not get the same result on all computers but on any given computer I will always get the same result. That is the reason why you just need to record player inputs with timestamps to replay a scene. As for multiplayer games where there is a possibility for different math results because not every player has the same hardware, like RTS games, they simply dont use floating point numbers. They use fixed point numbers which are guarantied to give the exact same result for any math operation on any computer.

Dragonmaster047 I believe you when you say fixed point numbers are always the same when using them for mathematics calculations, but is it really impossible to fail to account for every possibility when dealing with a physics engine? let's say, for example, that i create a bot for a game like Halo 3, and the bot basically performs a macro where it will repeatedly start a game, turn to the left an exact amount, toss a grenade at a large crate, let the grenade explode next to the crate, and then end the game. and I let the bot repeat this macro something like 100 times. Assuming Halo 3 uses fixed point numbers to handle the calculations for the physics engine, it's completely reasonable to assume that the box will respond to the explosion the same exact way all 100 times without even slight deviation? (assuming no external factors interfere like a hitch in the framerate or other unpredictable errors that would effect the bot) because that's what I meant when I was talking about an unpredictable physics engine.

If the game is using fixed point math and as you said has no external factors and most importantly the game wants to get the same result every time (I exclude jamming random numbers in the physics engine just to get a "random" behavior with this point, but even here you would get the same result if you start your random number generator in every try with the same start value) you would get the exact same result. Halo3 theater mode is using this to keep replay files small so that a 20 minute match is still just a few kb in size. Most RTS games will use fixed point math because sending 500mb+ in game state data over the network every time a floating point rounding difference occurs to sync the game state for every player would kill the fun of the game just a little bit :D

VarietyGamer Well not quite, it's moreso that you could program a mirror to work as it does in real life, but that would only work if you were rendering everything behind the camera at the same time as everything in front!

SolarMoth You mean like in Luigi's Mansion? They're using sprites and images instead of 3D models, I believe.

FierceRagnar I think you are mostly correct, but it may well me a mixture of the two.

lmao you've also blocked me on Steam xD

Jacky of Hyperion Not at all, it's a combination of a change (and I think improvement) in content and a popular post in the games subreddit!

Jacky of Hyperion I don't think I've ever had you on Steam?

nevermind. I had a full list. I still re-added you in any case. since I have DinosaurBytes in my friends,I also wanted you. I was a sub back when you had your Medievil vids up and tours and also that second channel with the GTA vid. you should reupload the Medieval vids. (2, I think) had a funny intro and was a good "review".

Dan Cattell Lugi's Mansions mirrors work slightly differently. Having said that, I love the game and would love to do an episode including it at some point for sure!

+uchiha clannie Hey, glad you think so. I would love to do newer games too; the problem with that is older games tend to have been stripped back and tinkered with, meaning picking something apart to see how it works is easier. With more modern games that isn't quite so easy!

ClassicGameJunkie Yea,i agree, i also thought that in the back of my mind. but maybe you guys had you'r ways of getting shit out :P ill be glad to provide some of my 3d works for next gen games if you wan't to explain a high-poly and advanced material work flow.

+Link The Love Yes I am, albeit an independent one!

Aaron Luedemann thank you. i understood the two maps thing. i wasnt clear how they reversed the animations. how is it possible to have the avatar in two rooms simultaneously?

Aaron Luedemann alright. got it :) (but i must admit that game development is somehow gimmicky. full of compromises. its like a puzzle or tinkering. game development feels like a workaround solution, rather than clean code)

Aaron Luedemann yeah thats the thing. your water example. everything is modeled (tinkering) instead of systems that just allow the display of it. it sounds very limiting and people have to find creative solutions. heres a very interesting link, where a game dev explains how chaotic the methods are: www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/3cg2hc/repost_as_a_former_developer_theres_a_lot_of/