>>73890 https://archive.vn/rvSGS

EA Patent Could Create Video Game Characters From Photos, Videos >Electronic Arts is still going strong as ever, as the company has six upcoming games to keep its loyal fans excited. As the developers have been busy, they've been developing the techniques they have to make the games EA publishes bigger and better than the last. >As research into how to build upon the expansive media that is video games continues, the company has filed a patent that may lead to faster character creation on the developers' side of things. >It's common knowledge that 3D modeling and character design is something that takes a fair deal of time when it comes to video game development. >Artists in dev teams everywhere spend months making sure even NPCs in games like Final Fantasy 7 Remake look just as intended. With the help of EA's new patent, that may take considerably less time. >Electronic Arts has filed a relatively simple patent that describes using an image of a real-life person and a standard 3D polygon map mesh for modeling to allow an algorithm to study the photo and adjust the wireframe to match. The resulting product is a completely customized 3D character model based on the person seen in the image, ready to be placed in the video game world they're needed for. >The patent also reveals that the technology used for this would also be able to separate clothing from the rest of the picture, also crafting personalized 3D character costume items based on what the subject in the photo is wearing, which may lead to some neat in-game customized character items in the future. >With this technology, game development would not only more streamlined, but would also take a gigantic step forward for artists and modelers alike. >The time needed to model characters would be cut a fair bit, even if the model needs to be edited for any adjustments after the process is complete. >There is something to be said over whether or not this patent may have consequences later, though, as to whether or not the models in these photos consent to having their bodies and faces in games remains to be seen. While companies like EA can negate any chance of issues by simply hiring models to be used for their likenesses, some may not be pleased with what results come out of it. The technology is also still in development. What exactly will happen with this patent remains to be seen, but Electronic Arts' latest technology definitely holds potential. https://archive.md/wTq04 Pretty sure this technology already exist in Japanese arcades but oh well. KOTOR Remake doesn’t seem to be involving EA or original devs BioWare >When Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic – Remake was announced on Thursday – and was confirmed later that it is definitely coming to PC – fans noticed that the only companies mentioned in the trailer were Aspyr Media, Lucasfilm Games, and PlayStation/Sony Interactive Entertainment. >Completely excluded from the trailer and even the press release was any mention of KOTOR’s original developer BioWare or EA. >Other than the fact that BioWare created the original Knights of the Old Republic – and that BioWare/EA is still supporting MMO sequel The Old Republic – neither BioWare nor EA seem involved in the remake in any way. >BioWare stated its support for the project on Twitter, while giving detached phrases like how it “will watch with great interest” and calling it “Aspyr’s Remake”. >Game Awards host Geoff Keighley actually reached out to EA to confirm whether it or BioWare had anything to do with the KOTOR remake and received the slightly ambiguous response below – with EA stating how proud it was of its own Star Wars projects and saying how its collaboration with Lucasfilm would “continue for years to come”, but with no mention of KOTOR or Aspyr. >While none of this is outright confirmation, it certainly seems that BioWare isn’t helping out with the remake of one of its most popular games. >However, between KOTOR and Ubisoft’s upcoming open-world game it certainly looks like EA no longer has the exclusive licence to produce Star Wars games anymore – despite producing some of the best Star Wars games ever made. https://archive.md/DKAvH I wouldn’t be surprised if (((Disney))) remove HK-47 from Star Wars canon for being too problematic. Disney already censoring Jessica rabbit from the Roger rabbit ride.

>>73951 I wished that comics follow similar ways manga is being created that mangakas have some control of their works, instead of squeezing a series into oblivion that no longer has its luster.

>>73948 You're replying to niggerpill. However your statement is correct. Dystopias can only get so bad before they collapse under their own weight or reform from within or are incapable of of matching an outside power, because of their internal rot, and are crushed. Retardation and stupidity at a national level has consequences.

>>73955 Comics should be like manga to the extent of creators owning their work, yes. But just having a story structure isn't something unique to manga. Capeshit games like the Arkham series work because they're stories that begin & end. They don't endlessly go on forever with endless retcons & resurrections. Basically I'm trying to say that comics should be like actual stories. They begin, they end, they follow a linear progression path, & have permanency to the events. Shouldn't be so hard to do.

>>73890 Russia and Eastern Europe have lots of pig farms, I guess because it's cheaper then raising chickens, you could feed a pig slob aka vegetable waste and it will be happy but chickens you need to buy grains to feed it.

>>73955 Many times you can just consider the final issue made by the creator you like to be the final issue. If you only want to read Superman stories written by Jerry Seigel, you can. There are cases like Marvel not letting Jack Kirby do his intended version of his Ragnarok story in Thor, and then DC not letting him do the actual ending of his Fourth World saga either (and Fourth World was just him trying to do Thor again but with more control), but then there are good Thor and Fourth World stories even after Kirby got completely fucked over, so there is still stuff to enjoy. Most stories until the '70s were relatively standalone, and most of the time, when a creator left to get replaced by another, said creator would wrap up his story as he left. Yeah, Steve Ditko got fucked by Marvel and quit without revealing a cliffhanger ending mystery, making it so John Romita Sr. had to just guess who the Green Goblin's secret identity was (Ditko would decades later confirm Romita guessed correctly), but Romita's run was great too, and he didn't get fucked over and did get to do an ending. And so did the people after him for the next several decades. Sure, it's shit now, and I have little hope it will ever get better, but I just consider the ending to be the end of the last run that I actually liked, and that works fine. So far I've only read up to Amazing Spider-Man 200. It's Peter's graduation from college. It's a good ending. If I never read any more, it would be fine. And later stuff is a new creator anyway, so fuck it. But maybe I'll read it eventually, and I've heard it's good, so there's no need to deprive myself from it. >>73957 That's precisely what happens. However, there are sequels. But you don't have to like Arkham Knight to say Arkham Asylum was good. You don't have to like Action Comics #1050 to say Action Comics #1 was good. Action Comics #1 was a standalone story (or rather a collection of standalone stories, because it was an anthology series), and Action Comics #2 featured a sequel (or rather, a collection of sequels and some original stories).

>>73958 meant for >>73717

>>73957 But what about those shounen that drag on almost to the infinite? I like my stories with a beginning and end but when it gets too long it becomes a slog to read or even boring.

>>73958 what do pig farms have to do with white pakistanis?

>>73962 I replied to wrong person >>73717

>>73782 Mind you I'm by no means an Ethno-Nat, in fact I'm just an Amerimutt so I don't need to worry about such things, our simple somewhat retarded culture is what homogenizes people who immigrate here. That said all you can do to preserve your culture and heritage is move out of the city and learn to be self reliant find a like minded girl and have many children of whom you must also teach to be self reliant and refuse any government aid simply on principle so basically don't be a stereotypical apathetic Americunt dead beat dad. Whether Krautland's government can be reformed or not is irrelevant in the now, all you can do is try to starve the beast as best as possible, I mean sure you should still vote and be civically involved but don't count on it to save your ass every in it's current form. As for the EU;SSR and reforming that just let the Polish handle it and give your support when possible I guess. >>73789 >being an old boomer ass hat while disrupting Congress and taking Instagram photo's is now an act of terrorism worse than than a massacre committed by Saudi religious fanatics I really hope at least one of them is just pretending to be retarded..... >>73768 > and Germany help kickstart the EU Technically they were reluctant to join and fought against the Euro currency thing to. Blame the US, France, and Kalergi for that one. Shame to because aspects of the EU;SSR aren't bad idea's like free trade and movement between culturally similarly countries and people. >>73766 I like this meme >>416094 I don't like this meme's origins however.... >>73946 Half of the homophobia you hear on the news is from the occupied Chechnya emirate that the Federal government pretends to have control over and in exchange for Chechen oil and fertile soil the local warlords get discounts on Russian arms. Imagine if Saudi Arabia was sort of White/Turkic/Whatever, poor, rural, and actually competent on raging war and the USA basically annex White Saudi Arabia and turned them into a weird hybrid between a State and an over seas territory, That's basically Chechnya is.

>>73961 Probably a bit of publisher desire, and authors hanging on to the gravy train. I assume the authors have somewhat control over when to end it, look at Kimetsu no Yaiba, wildly successful but ended at 207 chapters. Then there is Detective Conan and One Piece, which will never end.

>>73858 >>73964 >pics I just watched a movie about this chick

>>73912 Can you link me something? The only incorporation into DNA I've read about is from those infected by the coof.

>>73942 Dude, you know, like, we are talking about China, you know, that country that imports foreign money and exports lies, where it´s own citizens devour each other metaphorically for now. I hate fags and troons like the most but did you really expect China to do something good without second intentions? FUCKING CHINA?! Where the hell have you been all this time?

>>73958 >>73960 Neat >>73966 Also neat

>>73968 >for now >he doesn't know about the Battle of Suiyang

>>73965 >Then there is Detective Conan and One Piece, which will never end. And Gologo 13 too apparently.

>>73968 Probably the resident notable ESL newsposter.

>>73965 >Publisher desire That reminds me of Attack on Titan, the author wanted to go with the plot somewhere but after seeing how people liked some background characters, like potato muncher, he changed the script completely and then the publishers got their nose into and it turned a series about the human survival against all odds into a flesh mech series. Full Metal Alchemist was somewhat in the middle because it wasn´t too long or too short, but the author clearly got tired when the story reached the Briggs arc and it went downhill from there. >>73970 Decisive Tang Victory!

>>73959 >That's precisely what happens. No it's fucking not. You're the same faggot that acts like Nightwing existing means history matters. No. It doesn't. Because anything & everything is changed on a dime. The same elements existing after every reboot of a universe doesn't mean shit. >>73961 Even Naruto has progress. Characters change, age, & die.

Lol

>>73976 Ah yes ansn toothpaste, my favorite nigger brand.

>>73974 Was it not common knowledge since forever?

>>73976 >Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben's is racism Every time >>73978 It was.

Baker?! >>73957 >They don't endlessly go on forever with endless retcons & resurrections. I always find that to be unorthodox that they do this in order to churn more of their characters. One of the few things that I enjoyed from this fucking practice was the Batman: Animated Series, The Justice League cartoon, and (((Sam Raimi's))) Spider-Man, and those turn out to be fine and had decent conclusions. >>73959 Reboots are no my thing because they tend to screw a superhero's background and ideals in order have this "cool" deconstruction of favorite characters, like the Justice League going evil or some shit.

>>73954 >Pretty sure this technology already exist in Japanese arcades but oh well. Nintendo used it in Mii Maker on the 3DS.

>>73965 >I assume the authors have somewhat control over when to end it Dragon Ball, Bleach, and Death Note were all carried on for far longer than the author originally wanted.

>>73980 Yeah cartoons & SOME movies manage to actually do great things with the characters in respectful manners that tie up the stories in neat little bows without resorting to endless nonsense.

new thread when??

>>73941 I'll let you know after I get off my flight in at least 6 hours. >>73980 Seriously, no one put forth a revised OP? At least someone better do it for Norm. Don't make me use the old one half an hour before departure in the airport

>>73984 Never, this thread becomes a cyclical and you're stuck here forever.

>>73980 >>73984 Here: >>416814 >>416814 >>416814 >>416814 >>416814 >>416814

>>73975 >Because anything & everything is changed on a dime. It's really not. Even when they try to change things, it almost never sticks because the fans are too autistic and throw a fit. >The same elements existing after every reboot of a universe doesn't mean shit. They aren't reboots if you actually read the stories. They are stories that involve weird sci-fi time travel shit, but then the immediate sequel stories extensively refer to the events. You wouldn't call the ending of Back to the Future a reboot. History changed, but the story continues, and parts of the sequel are specifically about characters dealing with repercussions of things that happened in the previous story. This is exactly what happened after The Crisis on Infinite Earths and everything else that casuals think was a "reboot." The only real "reboots" happened in the 1950s, and were quickly retconned to not be reboots when they said the old series happened in a different universe and then the reboots and the old versions started crossing over. >Even Naruto has progress. Characters change, age, & die. >it counts when series I actually read does it, but it doesn't count when series I don't read do it! >>73980 >Reboots are no my thing because they tend to screw a superhero's background and ideals in order have this "cool" deconstruction of favorite characters, like the Justice League going evil or some shit. Those aren't reboots, they're alternate universes. The Justice League has never been rebooted to be evil. There are alternate universes where they're evil, though, and they're called the Crime Syndicate, and they fight the main universe. And actually that alternate universe where they're evil has been rebooted several times, but the overall continuity hasn't, so the regular Justice League remembers fighting like four different versions of the Crime Syndicate from three different alternate universes (and one of those alternate universes was rebooted, making four versions of the Crime Syndicate). And they're all canon and it's very autistic, because the fans and creators are too autistic to actually do reboots. Casuals think there have been a lot of reboots, but there haven't. And each event casuals think is a reboot doesn't start things fresh and make things easier to understand, it actually only makes things even more complicated.