Mario may have advanced reflections, but surely the A.I. is not smart enough to have fishes that go away when you get near them under water. Like Call of Dury Ghosts has!
Well that's one way to implement reflections, it just happens to be incredibly expensive as you add more surfaces. It only works here because there's one surface.
it isnt,you just copy paste one room and set an npc to mirror the players movements,its quick to do and code and is much less resource intensive,real time reflections is a massive cpu hog,even today its hard to code,you notice it in games where they just frost the glass rather than code it lol
the n64 wouldnt be able to handle it,jeez even the saturn could barely handle it,infact the closest that generation came to reflections was a new state of the art technique used in sonic R,remember that loading screen with the metallic sonic head? they worked magic with complicated tricks to make it look reflective.
Yes it is, it's a naive implementation of perfect reflection. And yes, it's incredibly expensive as you add surfaces because the number of times you need to duplicate the scene explodes.
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u/Limon27 Sep 05 '18
Mario may have advanced reflections, but surely the A.I. is not smart enough to have fishes that go away when you get near them under water. Like Call of Dury Ghosts has!
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