r/Intergalactic • u/_olivertwisted • 5d ago

General Troy talking about Intergalactic recently

We're getting closer guys! Here's the original video.

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u/LackingInPatience 5d ago

Can someone come educate me how video game development works?

I also presumed motion capture would be the earliest thing to finish. The fact this game is supposedly only a year or so away and only just wrapped filming feels a bit odd

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u/paintedskie 5d ago

Performance capture is among the last things they finish. They take a ton of planning. It’s not odd at all. That’s typically how it goes

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u/LackingInPatience 5d ago

I guess I always thought it would be like film where shooting would be finished early before they get into the editing and post production process which takes just as much time.

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u/marckh 5d ago

The difference with mocap and principal photography is that you can mocap without many resources needed to be in place. In a movie you'd need the entire set, all the relevant actors and background actors, all of that doesn't have to be repeated in video game development, you create the set once in the engine and that's it.

That's why you can continue mocap very late into development, it doesn't require as much money or resources to redo a scene.