I guess in-game they also textured every surface so should have details/research on what all the materials were
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Using AC Unity to restore the Notre Dame after severe fire damage.
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Dammit I was gonna make a joke about how it was gonna run at a lower framerate but this is better
Are you serious? The hysteria around this whole thing has been utterly ridiculous.
Fewer people cried over actual massacres than over this thing...
Uhhhh, it's literally a 1 to 1 recreation of the building:
only the smallest changes to some bits of the interior for copyright reasons.
I'm really not sure what Allforce was referring to, as no one was banned for that, but it's not just a "fucking building". It's a part of peoples history and culture, an icon of a city. It's a tremendous loss and people may be quite upset, and they have a right to be.
This is the only correct answer.
Also, that video is reminiscent of early prototypes of ray-tracing demos.
I know right? Why try to help, let's just assume and sit back.
This is all based on a good intention and people are so fucking quick on the trigger to turn this into a bad thing, astonishing.
To be fair his tweet saved Notre Dame. After it they were absolutely certain that it's a stupid idea to use fire-fighting planes. ;-)
The laser scans will also include this. At high resolutions point cloud data can be used to determine material. The image posted by Yiazmat earlier should give some kind of idea of how good these scans are.
I think it's an understandable mistake. The model of Notre Dame in AC: Unity is probably the most detailed model of anything that most people will have had the chance to encounter. People might not imagine how much of a jump above that other modelling techniques can provide. (What's not understandable is taking that mistaken assumption and then writing an article based on it without doing any research, because "notre dame 3d model" pulls back lots of results showing how many good models exist).
Even people who hated the game (and still hate it) should be able to acknowledge that the recreation of Paris has always been really good, both as a virtual environment and as a mass-market historical recreation.
I agree that there are better references but Unity's version is a literal 1:1 replica rendered with extreme attention to detail. Multiple articles have been published since yesterday discussing the value AC Unity will have to restoration efforts.
So the Notre Dame burning down is the catalyst for Ubisoft to remaster AC:Unity to give us the true polished version of the game.
Everyone: Laments loss of history on this tragic day
Gamers: But what if... video games. That'll validate everything.
Gamers: But what if... video games. That'll validate everything.
What's the point of a post like this? That's not remotely what people are doing. The thread mourning the damage to the cathedral is several times larger than this one. Most people are capable of talking about more than one thing at a time, which includes expressing sadness at this grave loss while also pointing out potential sources for restoration as well as ways to appreciate the cathedral's wonder for those who were unable to visit it in person before the fire.
You honestly think that AC Unity is the best possible reference material for one of the most famous and visited sites in the world?
Nowhere have I ever stated that. In fact, I have stated multiple times in this very thread that it isn't:
Notre Dame is one of the most perserved monuments in the world and they don't need Ubisoft's help to rebuild it. It just comes across as another attempt to validate video games because we're still in this mindset that video games still need validation.
Lol "another attempt to validate video games"? What are you even talking about man? People are just trying to say that it's a faithful replica and an interesting alternative way to appreciate the cathedral. That's it - everyone, myself included, acknowledges that there are far better resources.
I mean, why would you get bent out of shape about this? Lol you would think pointing out a neat historical model of Notre Dame wouldn't be met with such hostility but man I never cease to be amazed.
