r/PS4 • u/cristi1990an cristi1990anRO • Sep 01 '18

[Video] [Video] BioWare Makes Fun of Marvel's Spider-Man's "PuddleGate" Controversy

https://youtu.be/yQph-_imtDY
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u/DividendGamer Dividend-Gamer Sep 02 '18

Except the reflection of all the other stuff isn't really a reflection at all. It's more like a painting of of the building.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '18

it is a reflection, but they aren't made in real time. it's called light baking; if you have geometry you know isn't gonna move in a scene you can generate a map of these things with the expected reflections "baked" into the texture. Kind of like a painting, but you can use some tricks to make it look a bit more dynamic than that on top of it.

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u/DividendGamer Dividend-Gamer Sep 02 '18

Yeah I was reading about it from another post yesterday. Pretty cool trick, which is why the fact that real time reflection is so difficult.