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Sandweed posted:As a non native English speaker and non gun owning plz Explain what is wrong. Handling is the right word.
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plz stop spreading fud everyone, it's obvious all watermarks will be removed in jesus's patch
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 12:30 |
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Also, that entire sign is dumb. Why would you show a helmet? Eyes and ears are the important safety items, while helmet is secondary. Why the hell does "trigger discipline" have a bullseye? Can your artist seriously not just draw a loving trigger gua... oh, right, they probably can't. No food, drink, or drugs. *NOT SHOWN HERE*
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a cyberpunk goose posted:This depends entirely on your ability to make good gameplay programming architecture decisions, which often are at odds with your goals when trying to poo poo out tech demos built on older tech demos.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 12:41 |
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Sandweed posted:As a non native English speaker and non gun owning plz Explain what is wrong. They can't spell. Also the guy who made that either stole it from a place that doesn't know how to spell or spent hours and hours making a sign that's spelled wrong. And no one cared/noticed enough to fix it.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 12:51 |
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Star Citizen is in good handes imo
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 12:52 |
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This is funny, but also sad. Warning lights always go off in Borrax's noggin when someone makes a reasonable, intelligent post with issues about a major game mechanic.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 12:53 |
I am the picture of a helmet from 500 years ago back when we didn't have all of these cool space helmets.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 12:53 |
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But yea the constant art theft is my favorite part of the project. And its not just simple stuff like that watermarked sign that an unscrupulous peon could get away with, but stuff like ship design that requires collusion with the directors and leads.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 12:59 |
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I just figured out what bothers me so much about the name of the player-friendly faction from sq42 uee~ chris-senpai also, tax
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 13:10 |
CIG - *Puts another $600 spaceship picture on sale and screams "Buy now buy now!"* - "Well their artists can't work on code or anything, what do you want them to do, get paid for nothing?" CIG - *Puts out a game with stolen art assets all over the place and gets called out every time someone finds them* - "Well the artists are too busy to deal with little stuff like that! If you didn't want it stolen and rolled into the BDSSE then why did you put it on the internet?!"
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 13:10 |
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I can't wait for Lethality to get word of this Intellectual Property Theft
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 13:11 |
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Beet Wagon posted:CIG - *Puts another $600 spaceship picture on sale and screams "Buy now buy now!"* There's some dude called a lot of numbers saying it should be reported to the "proper channels" by which he somehow means the issue council
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 13:13 |
between these developments and the honesty knob, it feels like the artists just don't give a poo poo or are actively making stuff look bad
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 13:19 |
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Milky Moor posted:between these developments and the honesty knob, it feels like the artists just don't give a poo poo or are actively making stuff look bad Yea and that letter the leaver artist made too. Things are toxic over there.
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TrustmeImLegit posted:Yea and that letter the leaver artist made too. Things are toxic over there. what letter?
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 13:27 |
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Milky Moor posted:what letter? David Jennison, former lead character artist in Austin, tells why he left CIG. self.starcitizen submitted 1 year ago * by [deleted] Allegedly from David Jennison, his linkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-jennison/1/837/812 Why I’m Leaving CIG Based on the quality bar that has been set for this project, a Star Citizen character takes me anywhere from 3-6 weeks to get in game. I have been working at CIG for 17 months. In that time I have completed exactly 5 characters. That’s 24 weeks at most. So why is this? •Ingredients for Success There are three main ingredients that are needed to produce quality characters for a project. These are concept, budget, and time. To say it simply, a character is usually only as good as its concept, since it is the concept that defines the parameters of the execution of the character. There can certainly be bad models created from good concepts, but rarely do bad concepts produce good models. Since the concept is the biggest influence of the model, then it is of utmost importance that the concept doesn’t change once the model has been started. Rob and Megan are two very talented artists that have produced great concepts for us since I have been here. It’s when either these concepts are changed during model creation, or after model completion, that causes problems. This is when direction wants changes to the design of the character rather than the implementation of the concept. There is an important distinction to be made about asset feedback. Different stages in the process require different types of feedback. If a concept gets approved, then the only feedback for the completed model should be about how well the concept was realized and the quality of the model (sculpt, textures). When the feedback on the model is about the design (“I don’t like the leg straps”) then the problem is with the concept, not the model. I have been doing this long enough to know that sometimes problems don’t come to the surface until after the model is created, sometimes things just don’t translate to 3D the way you expected. But this should be the exception, not the rule. This was a perpetual problem in my time here, a concept gets approved, and then unapproved after the model is created- concept level feedback on models. In looking over the models of the FPS Marines and Pirates, it should be clear that some are better than others. The difference in quality? Concept. The Heavy Marine and Heavy Pirate had completed concepts that did not change through the building of the model. They are a balanced and polished piece of art as intended by the concept artist. The others? Their concepts changed repeatedly during the model building. They crawled to the finish line as Frankenstein assets, cobbled together by different artists. The next important factor is budget. Anyone who has worked in game art knows that quality is not measured in a vacuum. Quality only exists relative to the available budget- tris and pixels. You plan and build your character based on the budget you expect to have. When I started here, I was astounded to learn that no one was able to tell me the budget for character assets. People seemed to be operating under the mantra “It’s CryEngine, the budget is irrelevant” This attitude for game art production is suicide in a bottle. This apparently is still a difficult question to answer. In the absence of budget, Roberts judges all game assets against his own imagination or an asset in another game. Time is the last ingredient. When an artist is moved off and on an asset, the asset suffers. Staying in the “zone” on a character keeps the motivation high, the excitement stays constant and keeps the momentum constant for moving through the difficulties encountered. Your energy tends not to stall when you can go at an asset full bore through the life of the process. Very rarely did anything I worked on enjoy unbroken attention from me. I know there are always times when the project demands you to hop on something, put out a fire, but this has been a chronic problem during my time here. The Sataball Suit, the last asset we made, was met with satisfaction and praise. What was different? We started with a clear, approved concept, a clear budget, and were given the time to build the model. The methods for creating this model were completely traditional, no new pipeline. The pipeline was never the problem. The problem was not getting the three required ingredients. When we get what we need, we can shine. •Completion and Unapproval The simple feeling of completing a task is something that we all take for granted. Whether it’s graduating with a degree or emptying the sink of dirty dishes, the feeling that you have actually done something (especially if it is difficult) gives your day, your week, or your life a sense of progression. You are moving forward and hopefully bettering your situation. We all thrive on the satisfaction of completing a task. This is why redoing a task over and over again is so draining to the psyche. Now, to be clear- I expect to have to redo things at times. Sometimes the circumstances change, the asset becomes problematic, or the bar has been greatly raised by adjacent assets within the context of the game. Redoing something more than once? Repeatedly? Every asset? Repeatedly? It is clearly not about the asset or the artist. Several times since I have been here, I have had an asset approved by CR only to learn weeks or months later that he had decided that it wasn’t good enough. One production phenomenon that has become familiar to anyone working under Roberts is ‘Unapproval.’ That is, when something that was previously approved becomes unacceptable later on in production for reasons known to Roberts only. It is usually based on whim or a nebulous quality bar that has shifted. When you get approval only to have it revoked later on, repeatedly, approval becomes meaningless. It is no longer a metric of progression. It does not energize or motivate you. It is met with apathy or cynicism. Redoing the same asset over and over again kills the spirit, and I suspect this was largely the reason the UK character team collapsed. •Ownership It is essential that artists take ownership of their assets. It is what drives an artist, draws forth the best of their abilities, and makes them stick through the difficult points in the process of creation. There is nothing more satisfying for an artist than to look at a completed work and saying “I made that”. Ownership also makes it easy to know who is accountable for problems with the asset and forces artists to work in a clean and efficient manner that minimizes future problems because they know that they alone will be held responsible if their asset breaks something or looks bad. When assets are perpetually passed from artist to artist, especially if they are “ducktaping” work done by other artists, there is zero sense of ownership. You are the clean-up crew instead of the creator and this very quickly saps your motivation to do your best. Why? Well because you can’t really claim ownership. It wasn’t your asset. Authority and Responsibility When someone is hired for a position there is a direct ratio of the authority that they can expect to have, and the amount of responsibility that they will be expected to have. A junior level artist doesn’t expect to be able to make any real decisions on how things are done, but no one would hold them responsible if the pipeline or character art as a whole is sub-par. Conversely, a Lead should expect to have most of the control on pipeline and asset review, and for that privilege and trust they trade accountability for the pipeline efficiency and asset quality as a whole. Because they make larger scale decisions on the system, they a held accountable for what that system produces. It became clear within a matter of weeks of working at CIG, that all the decisions for the character pipeline and approach had been made- by Roberts. It became clear that this was a company-wide pattern- CR dictates all. Instead of articulating the standard for approval and allowing the team to develop the best methods to meet this bar, Roberts dictates what the method is, usually with a fraction of the knowledge that the employee has over their particular field. Then, when the plan or method fails to produce the results CR wants, the employee inevitable takes the blame, after all they are responsible for their corner of the game. •The Bus When you have someone at the top who wants to make every decision but is accountable for no decisions he makes and is keen on publicly blaming those beneath him for those bad decisions, it creates an environment of people desperate to avoid that blame. Since no one can hold CR accountable, and they certainly don’t want to be made out at fault, they point fingers at anyone else. This breeds distrust and resentment among coworkers. I have been a victim of undue blame at times and am sure that I have thrown others under the bus as well. •Forrest Stephan (Remark: CG Supervisour at CIG, was before a Lead Technical Artist) Forrest became involved in the character pipeline when it was decided to redo the FPS characters. I like Forrest on a personal level. I think he is a good guy at heart and is doing the best job he can with the experience and personality he has. His mandate from CR was to improve the look of the characters. So what is the problem? Experience and attitude. Forrest came into the character pipeline full force. He had already decided what was lacking for characters. Namely- the ship art pipeline and techniques. He was not concerned with budget and memory. He was not concerned with time. He wanted what CR wanted- great looking screenshots. He dismissed my concerns about the time it will take to do characters like ships, tri count, and memory. He told me that I didn’t know how to model characters (after eight years of doing this). Forrest is very green, but more importantly it is obvious that he does not know how to deal with conflict or even disagreement. Putting someone with so little experience in games and no experience with characters in charge of the character team was frankly insulting. Billy and I spent a month undoing many of the ship techniques that Forrest had insisted on- mostly multiple materials and how the UVs were laid out. I wouldn’t expect someone at Forrest’s experience level to know what is common sense to anyone who has shipped a title. That is-plan for the game, not for screenshots and know that you will have less memory than you think. Forrest made every rookie mistake in the book in his charge, but what was worse is that he mowed down anyone who challenged his naive assumptions with insults and dismissal. With CR at his back, he stomped around like a child wearing his Father’s boots. Convincing Forrest that he might be wrong about something is a campaign in itself. Forrest might have value from his contributions to other areas of the art, but his involvement with characters was wasteful in time and effort, and absolutely corrosive to moral. He is simply the wrong man for the job and is one of my biggest reasons for leaving. •The Elephant in the room Visions are cheap. Ideas are cheap. A good leader is not simply someone with a vision or a great idea. A good leader not only has the vision, but they can communicate that visionto the team, and more importantly they inspire and energize the team members with that vision. Chris Roberts might have a vision but he can’t communicate it. And therefore, no one on the team knows what it is. This is known to every team member, certainly of the art team. Roberts is not an artist and it is clear he is not a visual communicator. The basic understanding of macro vs micro, what is essential to the piece and what is not, completely escapes him. Everything is of equal importance- the laces on the boot are just as important as the overall value pallet and silhouette, in many cases more. This is indicative of Robert’s extreme lack of understanding of the most basic of artistic principals. That level of ignorance and lack of visual depth for an artist would be problematic, but for someone at a director level, it is absolutely crippling to a project. Robert’s deficit wouldn’t be much of a problem if he trusted the vision of the art directors, people who are actually artist and have directed other artists. But he doesn’t, insisting that he is the only one who can direct the artists. I suspect this is an issue of ego, a man intent on appearing like a visionary. But regardless, the results so far have been disastrous, rife with perpetual rework, wasted time, and mass frustration. No one can buy into CR’s artistic vision because no one, including CR, seems to know what it is. So the one thing that no one discusses is the biggest problem. Roberts is someone who on a company- wide level is always feared, but never respected. His direction is met with nervous compliance to his face, and rolled-eyed resentment behind his back. When his orders are articulated later to the rest of the team, and basic questions of logic and practicality are inevitable asked, they are met not with an explanation of why CR’s idea is a good one, but the importance of his happiness. The explanation is always the same- “I know it makes no sense, but that’s what CR wants”. This team is filled with people who have experience publishing other titles. Lots. We all know how it is “supposed” to be done. But everyone is faced with the same repeated dilemma, a choice- make CR happy or do what works for the game? Short term survival vs long term wins. And unfortunately it’s the survival option that wins out, mainly because turning away from a directive of CR is a recipe for unemployment. I am only speaking from one corner of this project, but I know that the micro managerial frustration experience is an epidemic at CIG. Everyone seems to be unhappy for the exact same reason. I don’t foresee anything changing at CIG if Roberts doesn’t change himself. And this is a shame because the company has all the ingredients to do something truly great, if only they would be allowed to do it.
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incredible
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TrustmeImLegit posted:David Jennison, former lead character artist in Austin, tells why he left CIG. self.starcitizen
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Also, that entire sign is dumb. every time i ride the bus i use a helmet. therefore when i shoot guns i use a helmet.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 13:51 |
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amazing
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 14:04 |
This is hilarious.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 14:24 |
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Jobbo_Fett posted:How will reddit react? The worm turns.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 14:25 |
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TrustmeImLegit posted:David Jennison, former lead character artist in Austin, tells why he left CIG. self.starcitizen Who is this monster? What a piece of poo poo. His art is poo poo. He should have been weeded out long ago. It is good he left. He should be sued for saying these words. He is jealous. He was unprofessional. He was toxic. Some people can't handle fidelity. Some people aren't up to the high water mark of CIG. He was paid to work there? He should have been the one paying for the privilege of working there. Star Citizen is not harmed by his rhetoric. Chris is a visionary. This is good for Star Citizen.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 14:31 |
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AP posted:The sandworm turns.
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Sillybones posted:Who is this monster? What a piece of poo poo. His art is poo poo. He should have been weeded out long ago. It is good he left. He should be sued for saying these words. He is jealous. He was unprofessional. He was toxic. Some people can't handle fidelity. Some people aren't up to the high water mark of CIG. He was paid to work there? He should have been the one paying for the privilege of working there. Star Citizen is not harmed by his rhetoric. Chris is a visionary. This is good for Star Citizen. Yea that was the jist of the reddit thread I pulled it from. That, and its all fake possibly written by DS.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 14:41 |
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TrustmeImLegit posted:Yea that was the jist of the reddit thread I pulled it from. That, and its all fake possibly written by DS. gently caress! I knew I was forgetting an obvious one.
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a cyberpunk goose posted:Let me give a practical example: in a modern engine it's not a big deal to have an NPC find a path from point A to point B. The work is simplified by the fact that most games have one idea of gravity and one coordinate space to think about, and usually pretty limited in total space. It's *relatively* straight forward to avoid worse case scenarios of your path finding taking too long... Now consider Star Citizen: each station and ship has its own coordinate system, planets too in theory while also modeling the astrophysics somehow. The AI will have to be extremely well thought out to handle all the different spacial systems to find a path to its destination if we assume CiG will promise unique NPCs that travel freely. If they ever actually released a game (They won't) I can guarantee you would have more than one NPC, decide it would walk from the planet's donut shop to the space station's armor shop, and just float off the ground in a stroll animation till it clipped through the walls of the space station.
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Even crazier theory: if you buy the asset, you replace the previous placeholder and rebuild the asset library automatically on the next build as it gets pushed live.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 14:53 |
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 14:54 |
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This person does not understand anything. Total amount pledged: $12,105
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 14:55 |
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I'm cutting myself now in anticipation.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 14:58 |
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quote:their business is to make everything worse for everyone ..and business is booming. Oops, forget to read to the end. Of course people would loving play it. They gave CIG money at some point to do so! Because they are dumb.
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Gradis posted:typical neighbour that bombs my shed Sorry friend! As you can tell when I get into "Workd War 2 bomber mode" my office, made of aircraft stuff, becomes my B-52 and I just sometimes take it too far. Already thinking I should just replace my office door with a hatch from an old bomber too. I bet I can find the parts just laying around in a buddy's garage and have it cobbled together by volunteer employees.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 15:01 |
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It's a shame the plan to get everyone to refund so we'd have the biggest remaining fleet is already compromised.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 15:04 |
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This isn't how it works and this is something I deal with all the time. I have a 123rf account, I use it all the time. I buy extended licenses for imagery that I intend for commercial use, I buy unique licenses if I see something that I could use in a logo, this stuff builds up and costs money but the time it saves sometimes makes it worth it now and again. Before you buy an image you get a lovely watermarked version which is plainly a preview only, you have to actively be on the page that invites you to buy and and steal it. There is no reason to do this as it is counter productive, you end up with an image called 2432424214.jpg so good luck ever finding that image again unless you logged in and saved it to your lightbox, in which case wtf why are you even doing this you have millions of dollars you fuckwits
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 15:04 |
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TrustmeImLegit posted:Yea that was the jist of the reddit thread I pulled it from. That, and its all fake possibly written by DS. It reminds me of the claim that came out that Forrest went to quit and Chris Roberts chased him out into the rain to convince him to come back. You can't really vouch for the validity of it but man if that isn't hilarious and romantic. Hey Tark, game's not coming out man. Photoshop yourself a refund.
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peter gabriel posted:This isn't how it works and this is something I deal with all the time. you don't understand image licence development
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