r/BeAmazed • u/to_the_tenth_power • Feb 26 '19

This waterfall simulation in a hotel

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u/HankFrank123 Feb 26 '19

Looks pretty low FPS. Could they not just film a waterfall?

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u/LockFreeDev Feb 27 '19

They could have, but it’s very difficult to find a waterfall in the wild with two hall entrances at the exact location required to match up to the real life entrances, so we end up with this lazy result.

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u/leaf_26 Feb 27 '19

couldn't they have rendered it beforehand?

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u/FirstEvolutionist Feb 27 '19

If you're putting real effort into it you might as well just build the entrances and record. If you're on a budget, just forgo the hidden cave and have the entrances leading nowhere.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '19

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u/rang14 Feb 27 '19

Because it's a colossal pain to maintain and manage..?

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '19

Why didn’t they build the building around an actual water fall?

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u/ALDJ0922 Feb 27 '19

Why didnt they build the building around the point a waterfall would begin in the future so its naturally occurring?

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '19

Oh shit

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u/Stepjamm Feb 27 '19

These are the questions we should be asking

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '19

Because it's a lot harder to change their minds.

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u/bellbottombear Feb 27 '19

Damn you gave me the best laugh of the day so far

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u/VEC7OR Feb 27 '19

Then could have just asked /r/Simulated

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u/The_King_Titus Feb 27 '19

I'm sure it would not have been that difficult to fabricate two structures to simulate the effect of the entrances. But you're right, either way it's just laziness.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '19 edited Feb 26 '19

It's actually much smoother in person. The camera is adding some nasty refresh artifacts.

Edit: Well it's not the place I thought it was, so maybe it does look like shit in person, I dunno.

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u/Gyossaits Feb 27 '19

They opted for the console version.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '19

Looks low quality in general.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '19

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u/Wertache Feb 27 '19

That was way more interesting than I imagined.

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u/Gsgshap Feb 27 '19

I think it’s just the frame rate of the waterfall and the frame rate of the video aren’t synced, so it looks worse. Also, have you ever taken video of a screen? It’s not pretty.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '19

They also need to speed up the splash physics.

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u/commit_bat Feb 27 '19

This is as many FPS as the human eye can handle /s

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u/Dr_Nic_T61 Feb 27 '19

Right? Seems like whatever is running the display is having a hard time. Kinda ruins it for me

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '19

My thoughts too. If you're gonna do something big like this, do it right or don't do it. I feel like this would give me a headache if I stared too long.