Dinaroozie

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   by Dinaroozie 13y ago

   That is pretty much correct, except we are creating normal maps, depth maps, and ambient occlusion maps (and anisotropy maps but I haven't talked much about that yet). The diffuse map is something the artist will have to paint. And, th
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   by Dinaroozie 13y ago

   I'm new here so I don't really know the etiquette. Would I be out of line posting a link to the Kickstarter campaign here when it happens? It's in four days. I don't yet have a feel for how Hacker News feels about self-p
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   by Dinaroozie 13y ago

   Thanks! And, that javascript canvas demo is relevant to my interest - thanks for the link! You're right in your suspicion that depth map generation in Sprite Lamp is not a silver bullet for stuff like that. Images with big discontinuit
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   by Dinaroozie 13y ago

   My girlfriend (who is responsible for most of the art in the examples) and I pretty much reacted the same way when we first got the algorithm working. It was one of those things that went from 'not working at all' to 'suddenl
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   by Dinaroozie 13y ago

   If only! I'm Australian, and Kickstarter only opens to our projects on November 13th (which, assuming it gets approved in a timely fashion, is when Sprite Lamp is going live).
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   by Dinaroozie 13y ago

   Holy moly. I'm the guy that's working on Sprite Lamp, and I just woke up to this thread (and a giant spike in my web traffic). Thanks everyone for the enthusiasm and support! I guess I don't have anything general to say - the