GBA has working mirrors without gaytracing
>>736974694Why is it showing the same perspective instead of a mirrored on? Shouldn't his back be shown in the mirror?
>>736974694They just put a second character object behind the mirror
>doesn't show a reflection of his backyeah that's one well working mirror
>>736974832LMAO dead
>>736974860That's how real mirror's work, do they not?
>>736975170Do you see the back of your head when you look in a mirror?
>>736975245Do you not?
He's not turned towards it with his back, but with a side.
>>736975538No. If you do your mirror might be cursed.
>>736974832because the sprite doesn't have a back
soma is literally dracula, he wouldnt have a reflection. thats just the kyoma demon stalking him.
>>736974832>>736974860>>736974908You guys DO realize that some people are dumb as fuck?:https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pujI37HxANs
>>736974694MGS2 does that too when Raiden goes to the women's bathroom to spray his stuff all over
>No longer down for maintenance>site is slow as fuckshit job, do it again and do it righr
>programmers back then were able to create environment shadows on fucking SNESwhat happened
>>736975698>the mirror doesn't know anything>trust me bro
>NOOO, YOU CAN'T JUST HAVE AN APOXIMATION OF REFLECTIONS FOR BASICALLY NO PERFORMANCE COST, IT NEEDS TO BE A TRUE (BLURRY DENOISED) GAYTRACED REFLECTION OR A DOGSHIT LOOKING SCREEN SPACE REFLECTION WITH HALO EVECTS AND GRAPHICAL GLITCHES EVERYWHERE!!>BECAUSE... IT JUST HAS TO, OK??
>>736974832even if they actually cared, this would have been trivial despite the limited size of the gba cart
>>736976292Tales of Phantasia even had faux dynamic ones for the player in that one snow town near the end.
>>736976292>devs on SNES could figure out how to make ray tracing work>modern devs can't do it even though it's fucking automatic these days
>>736974832it's a uhhh demon mirror
C64 had working reflectionshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDLpMp-mQZU
>>736977993turns out 3D was simply keeping up the tradition
>>736975698I still don't understand how the mirror can show things that are blocked like that...
>>736978181mirrors always show two things because humans have two eyesthey don't work if you only have one
Perhaps one day the developers will rediscover this lost art
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>>736979124>fog without expensive volumetric meme techhow is that possible??
>>736978181If you threw a superball against the wall, it would bounce and hit that person from behind, correct? Now imagine light as a bunch of really tiny superballs that bounce off walls and enter your eye. Mirrors are just a bounce pad for light.
>>736978558But what if I close one eye??? The image is still there! This doesn't make any sense!?!
>>736978181Because the light is reflecting off of the object, then off of the mirror, then into your eyes. The mirror doesn't "know" shit. It is a surface that light reflects off of.That is how seeing things works, you're welcome.
Which Game Boy Advance games would be ideal for me?>Only franchises that everyone associates with Xbox and PlayStation>Games that resemble typical PlayStation and Xbox games>No Nintendo games>No Nintendo franchises>Games with the aesthetic of typical PlayStation and Xbox games>I want my GBA collection to be as identical as possible to the PlayStation and Xbox game collections> I hate Pokémon
>>736979209kek
>>736978181Your eyes see the mirror at an angle, and thus reflect light that is at an angle. You can only see what light reflect off. So a ray of light hit the object in front of the paper, radiate all around and hit the mirror in an angle. That ray of light bounce from the mirror at an angle and then hit your eyes. The mirror is a flat surface, it has no depth.
GBA games were the absolute peak of video gaming fun.
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>>736974694Hitman and the Glacier Engine have amazing reflections without RT also. one of the things that gives me hope for 007 is how good their engine usually is for optimization
>>736978181pic related should help understand it
>>736975698of all the things to use, why did he take an egg into his bathroom? did he not have a toothbrush or anything that normally stays in the room? he had to go to his kitchen for an egg?
>>736978181the mirror reflects what you see anon, it reflects the light your eyes use to see thingsit's just a surface, there's nothing to see in it if there's no-one looking at it
>>736974860i doubt they even did that for the GBA, it's probably just hardcoded animation
>>736980028oeuf miroir
>>736979953Beat me to it
>>736978004This but unironically
>>736974694>recently played Dawn of Sorrow>Julius mode>mirror shows Julius>mirror shows Yoko>swap to Alucard>mirror doesn't show himI miss when devs put effort into games.
>>736974694its not reflecting though or it would be showing his back
>>736974832He's a vampire, it's not a real reflection
>>736974832Clearly a double reflection of the image bouncing off your eyes into the mirror
>>736980028Monkey see monkey do
>>736974908why would the mirror know what his back looks like?
>>736974860How they achieved the effect is irrelevant. What matters is it didn't require UE5, lumen, ray tracing, or DLSS 5.
>>736984441How they achieved the effect is relevant. There is a general distaste for specialized solutions in all areas of modern programming. Devs want to be able to do something once and have it work everywhere, with no additional work required. This is why so many of the tricks have fallen out of fashion in favor of obscenely heavy generalized solutions that produce mediocre results.So the question is, why?I think the answer is because all software has gotten so big and complicated that developers can't cope with keeping things "correct" where there are so many discrete parts. So they generalize. Make one big complicated thing that you just need to make sure it works and is well defined and then just assume it'll work in all the cases you use it that fit the pre-requisites. Fewer permutations than 999 small specialized things interacting.
>>736978181boy you're going to have a wild time when you find out that holograms are real
>>736974832>look at mirror>see myself looking back>look away from mirror>assume its showing my backBut is it really?
>>736984916useasecondmirror
>>736984740This. The cost of gaming has exploded as people's expectations for AAA game graphics have increased with each console generation.One interesting consequence of generalization is that a lot of the lower cost 3D games all feel very samey, with a different variation depending on the game engine they're basing themselves on.
>>736974832The mirror is facing the wall. You're seeing the back side of it.
>>736984978>as people's expectations for AAA game graphics have increased with each console generationMore like we hit the limit of what games could look like in 2008 and since then, grafix cards companies have invented more and more retarded shit that grafixfags just HAVE to enable because it's the hot new feature, while not making the game look any different
>>736985065You can't possibly believe a 2008 AAA game looks the same as 2026 one.The 2000s was also full of graphic card manufacturers selling shit like PhysX.
I cannot comprehend how you guys can fuck up how mirror works.how bad is education where you live?
>>736984972Don't fucking do that!That's how they get you.
>>736985140>In 2008, Ageia was itself acquired by graphics technology manufacturer Nvidia.[5] Nvidia started enabling PhysX hardware acceleration on its line of GeForce graphics cards[6] and eventually dropped support for Ageia PPUs.[7]Well wouild you look at that. It's also hilarious that you zoomers think "oh yeah? but they pushed more interactivity back then!" is a counterargumentEnjoy your reflective puddles that look the same as they did 20 years ago
>>736985196>mirrorlet pretending he's ever seen more than a reflecting poolwhy don't you just let the grown ups talk about their silver backed looking glasses kid?
>>736978181the thing isn't blocked retard
>>736984972And fall into an infinity loop? No thanks.
>>736985584bɒd oƨ Ɉon ƨɈiits not so bad
>>736984916My cats never went crazy when looking at mirrors. They always understood it was their reflection. Why are some cats so dumb compared to others?
Impossible... you need RTX for working mirrors.
>>736981331If Julius Mode let you play as Hammer, made him able to climb on walls, and somehow justified his never-before-seen wall-climbing ability, then it would have been perfect.
>>736985696It knew
how come mirrors flip shit horizontally but not vertically?I actually know but it's a fun question to pose
>>736979659how about you game boy advance forward off a cliff
>>736978181you only start to see the object behind the magazine once the light bounces off the area around the magazine. lamp -> bottle object-> surface not obscured by magazine ->eye
>>736978181I really hope this is bait
>>736986314>and somehow justified his never-before-seen wall-climbing abilityAll you gotta do is have him pull out some anachronistic ninja gear, have him say something along the lines of "It's about time I got to show Yoko what I learned in the Marines.", and then he plays exactly like Grant but with an AK-47 and some 'nades. The mystery of why or how he learned this would simply be part of the fun.Still kinda sad he never ended up being a long-lost Danasty, it would've been funny more than anything, but him just being some marine who wound up at Drac's is also pretty great.
>>736985415How are you looking through the mirror as if it's a window, retard? There's literally a straight sight line in your image>>736986798Earth gravity
>>736974832demon mirror, please understand
>>736984972Don't do this, my buddy reflected a mirror with another mirror and now he refuses to come to my house unless I cover up all the mirrors.
>>736986873So, which portable console/handheld console would be right for me?
>>736987423PS Vitameatavegamin
