PC Gamer just released an interesting article which recaps a talk at GDC on Friday. The title of the lecture was "How to Craft Unique Scenes Using Generic Assets on a Massive Scale." I'll attach the link to this post, but I was wondering if anyone has video of the actual event? PC Gamer does a decent job of summarizing the major points, but I have a feeling that it would make more sense if I could see a few of the cinematic conversations in action.
Source: http://www.pcgamer.com/most-of-the-witcher-3s-dialogue-scenes-was-animated-by-an-algorithm/
Nice, I was waiting for this talk. The facial animations during dialogues were probably the thing I found most impressive about TW3 tech-wise. But yeah, hopefully they'll add the full presentation to the DGC vault some time down the line.
This article went from "we do have this ability to generate first pass of everything, for speed and usability sake" to "MOST OF THE DIALOGUES IN W3 ARE GENERATED BY ROBOTS!!!!!".
God damn it, PCGamer.
One of the REDS on Reddit had this to say about the PCGamer article.
"God damn it, PCGamer". Put that one on the back of the box.
Ugh, PCGamer isn't what it used to be. When I was reading that article, I thought to myself, "My god, that's amazing! The entirety of the game's facial animations and cut-scenes were created by clicking 'generate' and then sitting back and having a cup of coffee." Turn out, no, that's not exactly the case. Kind of a disservice to the animators at CDPR.
Just the title's misleading, really.
Thanks for sharing that. It's always fascinating to learn a bit about the actors behind the characters, and the challenges and limitations they face while voicing them.Interesting interview with Jo Wyatt, english voice actress of Ciri in Witcher 3.
Interesting interview with Jo Wyatt, english voice actress of Ciri in Witcher 3.
'The Witcher 3’s Expansion Blood And Wine Will Include a New Gwent Faction: Skellige'
From left to right: Mushroom, Drakkar, Madman Lugos, and the Golden Cockerel.
A summary of the details, revealed at the recent PAX East, may be read here: http://www.dualshockers.com/2016/04...ne-will-include-a-new-gwent-faction-skellige/
I'm also quite curious to see if she'll be amongst the crew. I'd imagine so.Oooh I hope Cerys is a good card.
If I recall @Rafal_Jaki 's response at PAX correctly, I don't think these will be available as a physical deck. However, again, according to Rafal, new physical copies of the Nilfgaardian and Northern Realms factions will be made available, and that's something at least:Also I hope we will be able to get a physical copy of the Skellige cards too.
an updated version will be available with BaW or via reedemgwent
I'm also quite curious to see if she'll be amongst the crew. I'd imagine so.
If I recall @Rafal_Jaki 's response at PAX correctly, I don't think these will be available as a physical deck. However, again, according to Rafal, new physical copies of the Nilfgaardian and Northern Realms factions will be made available, and that's something at least:
Many thanks for confirming this, Rafal! I've no doubt these updated decks will prove extremely popular.Correct - no plans for Skellige to be a physical one. But we will have Nilf and NR in BaW limited Edition.
Anyone knows what are they saying? Something interesting?
https://www.facebook.com/GameStar.de/videos/10153522444394109/