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Chris Messina@chrismessina · 🏆 PH Community Member of the Year!
Is it just me, or does the poly count in that video look super low?
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Jonathan Howard@staringispolite · Growth engineer & founder
@chrismessina It is in fact super low. Seems in keeping with the team's visual style from Monument Valley. It's almost as hard to play hi-res 3D as it is to create it though, so I suspect VR will be in low-poly stylized worlds like this for some time
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Chris Messina@chrismessina · 🏆 PH Community Member of the Year!
@staringispolite Monument Valley was low-poly count too, but this seems to take it, err, down a notch? Anyway, eager to try this in VR — might help the adjustment period!
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Jonathan Howard@staringispolite · Growth engineer & founder
@chrismessina I think it might be an artifact from the camera being right up in the environment models (eg, to my eyes, this view looks similar to Monument Valley) The video reminds me of N64. Games like Turok that tried to be photoreal felt so fake, but Mario 64 was just awesome (literally awe-inspiring in 12-year-old-me). To your point, I do think graphi… See more
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Alistair Coggins@alistaircoggins · Product Consultant and Director
@staringispolite Put way more elegantly than I did ;)
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Jonathan Howard@staringispolite · Growth engineer & founder
@alistaircoggins "By our powers combined..." :)
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