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Anonymous Mon 07 Sep 02:36:41 2020 No.12093494 View Reply Original Report

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What is /sci thoughts on "indie" game/applied computer graphics developers:
No, I am not talking about Unity,Unreal, or other public engine users. I am talking about those people who want to "do from scratch"
>Casey Muratori: handmadehero. He makes games from scratch
>Johnathan blow: developer of braid. he makes games from scratch.
>javidx9 : makes games from scratch.
>Erwin Cowmans: developer of physics simulation library bullet physics

Their work requires a lot of hard work. They are above average programmer. Their main expertise in maths are linear algebra, goemetry and some calculus. Computer graphics is an interestingly useful intersection of maths, science and computation. Any SIGGRAPH author here? How would you describe them?

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Anonymous Mon 07 Sep 2020 09:01:38 No.12094235 Report

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Computer graphics is really nice. I fell in love with it over the last 2 years. Now working towards my master in game technology. But because there is so much to learn and it requires a lot of knowledge about math, graphics, physics and low level programming. So not that many people go for this field. I personally have great respect to all those people you mentioned OP. It would be hard for me to actually finish something. Hopefully you will see my work on real-time watercolor shit research on Siggraph in a few years. If you post a discord I will contact you if you want.

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Anonymous Mon 07 Sep 2020 10:52:02 No.12094443 Report

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>>12093494
bump
I also want to know...

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Anonymous Mon 07 Sep 2020 23:17:12 No.12096193 Report

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Another bump

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Anonymous Mon 07 Sep 2020 23:32:39 No.12096244 Report

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>>12093494

yes, CG is a field. what about it?

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Anonymous Tue 08 Sep 2020 11:44:37 No.12097504 Report

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>>12093494
I think most people that make their own 3d game engine are extremely skilled but wasting a shitload of time on reinventing the wheel.
I get the financial motive for not wanting to give a cut of sales to Unity or Unreal but unless you have worked in engine design it's going to take a lot of time.
The only exception I can think of is Shining Rock Software (Banished) as the solo dev had been building engines for console games for years so could get a basic 3d engine working in just a couple of months.

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Anonymous Tue 08 Sep 2020 16:22:58 No.12098120 Report

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>>12097504
>I think most people that make their own 3d game engine are extremely skilled but wasting a shitload of time on reinventing the wheel.
this 100%. It's equivalent to saying "I'm not going to use python/c++, I'm going to handmake my own programming language from scratch and then program with it" or "I'm just gonna do it in assembly"
It's already an incredible amount of work to make games which is why game engines are built in the first place.
>>12093494
Personally, I love stories of old game coding; just an incredible amount of ingenuity was needed to make everything work on such limited systems (the fast inverse square root is just such an ingenious method). masters of doom got me into the whole concept, and I just bought the black book on Doom; also the one procedural generated maze that no one knows how it was created, but it works (Entombed).

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Anonymous Tue 08 Sep 2020 16:34:44 No.12098154 Report

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>>12098120
>Personally, I love stories of old game coding; just an incredible amount of ingenuity was needed to make everything work on such limited systems (the fast inverse square root is just such an ingenious method).
Yeah, I love those hacks where they come up with something "good enough" and stupid fast out of necessity.

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Anonymous Tue 08 Sep 2020 16:39:59 No.12098161 Report

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>>12093494
I'm really jealous of people who get to study/research it properly.
>one professor in my department does graphics
>he's an insufferable old coot who hasn't learned anything since 1970 and refuses to believe the ways he learned aren't still the best way
>teaches an intro class where half the students drop and not because it's difficult
>other professors think he's a god of graphics and insist we need his input on a project that has any visual component

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Anonymous Tue 08 Sep 2020 16:54:47 No.12098197 Report

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>>12098161
>I'm really jealous of people who get to study/research it properly.
Pick a job where you don't need to be working 24/7 and learn it in your free time.
I'm a self-taught coder in a non-coding field of science, and I recently got hired for a coding job. In my free time I've been making random things here and there.
Its possible to get to a pretty professional-ish level of study/coding if you tap into it. Internet has just as good if not better resources to learn (for example, I got really good at machine learning, which I've published with now, from just diving straight into different kaggle competitions and lots of machine learning guides/explanations).

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Anonymous Tue 08 Sep 2020 17:01:29 No.12098215 Report

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>>12098197
That's where the "properly" comes in, it would be awesome to get to learn from an expert as my main thing instead of learning a little occasionally on the side. The gap from intermediate to expert is the hardest to traverse alone.

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