A Valve engineer fixed 3D lighting so hard he had to tell all the graphics card manufacturers their math was wrong, and the reaction was: ‘I hate you’

@baatliwala@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

A Valve engineer fixed 3D lighting so hard he had to tell all the graphics card manufacturers their math was wrong, and the reaction was: ‘I hate you’

Ephera · 5 months ago

Reminds me of how frequently folks get color blending wrong (using linear blending results in darker colors). Or also volume sliders (using a linear scale results in much stronger volume changes near supposedly-silent volumes).

It just looks/sounds vaguely right and then no one ever questions it…