Dizzydent
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- Oct 22, 2016
By alpha blades I think John's just trying to jargon up like 3d characters that have separate pieces of waving hair. For example final fantasy games where it looks like everyones hair is made up of seperate clumps that move independently. Sounds like some rètarded thing someone pushing the newest jrpg at a conference saying something like "check out the detail we've added to his hair, see those alpha blades?"I'm guessing I know the answer, but can any 3d artists confirm?...
I tried searching: 3d art "alpha blades," 3d modeling "alpha blades," 3d rendering "alpha blades," 3d graphics "alpha blades."
Each search returned five or less pages of results. The ONLY two out of any of them that referenced "alpha blades" in the actual context of a 3d rendering principle, were, totally shockingly, 1) a 2014 Debug podcast interview with... Brianna Wu, and 2) a 2014 Cult of Mac guest post on the Metal API, submitted by... Brianna Wu.
Is the term "alpha blades" a thing? I'm guessing "no."
ETA: Here's a high-res pic of RE2M Ada. Yeah, that totally egregious faceting is just disgusting. How could they not cram a Pixar rendering farm inside a PS4 case? Sony are fucking amateurs.